As I assemble a small army for my 17th century Muscovite army, I'm running into some challenges. The Baccus Great Northern War Russians offer early "modern" pike and shot and streltsy infantry. For Commanders, cavalry and artillery, I have to borrow from other Baccus ranges for proxies.
For the reiters, I plan to use WEC16 (horse in continental pot, as seen abve) and I think that's a good match despite that they aren't in kaftans (in 6mm, you can fudge things a bit).
I had planned to use GNC01 (cossack cavalry) as boyars but I think they are better served to represent dragoons. These sculpts have muskets (or arquebus) and just don't look boyar to me. It seems that dragoons would probably be the most common mounted unit present for the Swedish deluge. Originally the dragoons were really just mounted infantry but as they received carbines, they operated more from horseback. I'm thinking that the dragoons should probably be based as small units, while they seemed prolific, they weren't really battlefield cavalry and shouldn't be based as full units.
Another potentially useful code for Muscovite horse would be some of the poses from the Polish black light cavalry pack (GNP05), I'm just not sure what I will use them for.
I still don't know what to use for boyars and I'm not sure if it's even worth it since I will have reiters and dragoons present. OTT17 (Ottoman armored cavalry) could be used to portray Moscow dvorians since they have armor and lances. Polish Pancerni GNP7) are another option...perhaps a mix of both?
Artillery and Commanders will be addressed by using Cossack artillery (GNC03) and Polish generals (GNP09) respectively.
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