Pics of Great Warriors!

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To answer everyones question the wings on the Polish hussars are not just decoration, nor does the appearance of them scare men or horse. But don't get me wrong, they do scare men and horses!

When travelling at a high speed, such as a gallaop, the wind passing throught the feathers of the wings produces a loud whistling noise. When you have hundreds of Polish hussars charging at you, the noise would have been impressive if you were on the Poles side, and terrifing if you were not.

PS
hmm, ataman, I just read your post in the other thread where you say it wasn't the noise but the appearance. I have to say that I highly doubt that appearance would work, while I'm pretty sure sound would.
Firstly, appearance will frighten men, but not as much as sound,
Secondly, if 'all' horses are afraid of the hussars, then so would the hussar horse be.
Thirdly, if the hussars' horses were not afraid of another hussar, then they can be trained. Making the wings far far less effective.


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 28-Feb-2007 at 03:32

Good point Top Gun, other noises (gallops, gunshots, shouting) may drown out the 'whistle' of the Hussars. I would really like to see this tested out (live would be good ). If the wings have no effect and make no noise, it would still look cool, if they do, then wow!

Omar, Knights, everyone interested in winged hussars,

These warriors are Carthaginians. Though these warriors are not my favorite, these pictures are little more tricky to find... anyone got any pictures of Carthaginian military? These were the only ones I could find...

Carthage has fallen after a several sea battles , right ?

Originally posted by Mordoth Carthage has fallen after a several sea battles , right ? However Hannibal was a pretty smart commander , he even could not stand against rome .

Originally posted by Mordoth Hm , who is about to put the pictures of Leonidas of Sparta ? :) Or Xerxes of Persia :D

yes but there's no shade when they turn you're electricity off ,only dark

Originally posted by Seko Huns

Awesome figs, Zagros. Are these 15mm or 28mm? Can't quite tell. Are you into wargaming?

Originally posted by xi_tujue Well don't want to be rude but. The men in the pictures don't look anything like the ones in the drawing. I think the evzones are th least manly greek soldier well at least there uniform is. The uniform of a hoplite will strike fear in the hearts of there enimies but these don't. What gives?

They're not evzones, they're Cretans from the Cretan Rebellion of 1866(?). They're wearing a traditional Cretan kind of wide pants called "vraka"(vrakes, plural). These pants help with the hot summer weather on the island. It's not a battle dress, just what they wear locally.