517 results found for “pike & shotte book”

The Ottoman Empire was a serious threat to Christian Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The expansionist policies of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1500’s had seen a huge Empire carved from Eastern Europe, North Africa and east into Asia. The driving forces...

The Covenanter's armies most gifted and successful general. This Thirty Years War veteran was instrumental in the English Civil Wars. Contains single mounted metal character. Supplied unpainted and unassembled.

The Pikeman's pot, the morion was prescribed for all pikemen at least until the end of the 17th century. Indeed when armour was dropping out of fashion, it was only the helmet that seemed to stay on the infantry. This provides you with one...

The charismatic King of Sweden who changed seventeenth century warfare forever with his reforms. We depict him here in buffcoat and with drawn sword leaping his horse over an obstacle, once again leading from the front like all proper politicians should do...what a fantastic...

Orphaned at a young age, Ake Tott spent his youth duelling his fellow students at the university of Uppsalla, where he became better known for his skill with a sword than for his academic studies. At the age of fifteen, he left university to...

Net yourself a copy of the new Death and the Landsknecht book and each of the fantastic new characters to lead your armies to glory. Contents: Death & the Landsknecht book with Richard de la Pole book miniature Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Mercenary Captain Giovanni of...

Thundering across the field of battle, resplendent in their ornate plate armour and pistols held tightly in gauntleted hands the charge of a cuirassier regiment was something to behold! With luck the regiment would stop and perform their speciality – the ‘caracole’ - a...

Army Muster is a brand new set of bundles tailored to those all-important core units in our mass-battle historical wargames. An easy way to expand existing and new collections alike, each Army Muster bundle contains three copies of one of our plastic boxed sets,...

Pack contains 3 metal mounted figures on plastic horses. Models supplied unassembled and unpainted

When a fortification needed to be quickly breached a team carrying a petard – a wooden box filled with explosives – would be called on to blow open the defences. A petard team would be accompanied by other troops whose task it was to...

This is Warlord's take on perhaps the most dangerous man in the British Isles at the time...Alasdair MacColla "The Devastator", a man who went by many names, some rarely used out loud! This legendary Highland warrior came from the Isles and grew famous for...

Almost all senior commanders in the Thirty Years War were of noble birth but few could claim a higher status than the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain. The King of Spain’s intention was to guide his son into a church career rather than one made...

Christian IV is something of an enigma. He was a man of many personal flaws: excessive drinking and gambling, poor political acumen, and an unsavoury habit of burning witches, to name but a few. On the other hand, he was driven, ambitious, and was...

From the earliest days of Japanese rule, women were trained in the art of battle, becoming proficient with knives and pole weapons. When communities were short of male fighters, the women would step up to bolster the ranks, using their naginata and tanto to...

Serving as a soldier in the armies of Denmark and the Low Countries, Astley served in the Bishops’ Wars against Scotland. He fought at many of the major battles of the King’s Oxford Army, including Edgehill and the First and Second battles of Newbury...