WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

FREEDOM HE'LL BRING
LION AND KING
LION AND KING

In Polish army It was common name for Polish infantry trained like Hungarian infantry.
Equipped with firearms(main weapon) and sidearms like sabers, warhammers, etc. Polish infantry since very early 17thC didn't use any pikes.

they promptly fell into a fucking lake thanks to ALEXANDER NEVSKY

"Hussar" has become a catch-all term for central/eastern European light cavalry.

>Hakkapeliitta
literally who

These were the Teutons

It's it funny how the heroes of one story can just as easily be cannon fodder in other person's story.

Well Nevsky fought teutonic knights and they seem like a universal European enemy.

In the PLC context hussars were the heaviest class of cavalry, with several lighter types around.

Did they wore those wings in combat ?

WAR
SAW
CITY AT WAR

Yes but smaller ones. Bigger when used during ceremonies.

>Age of Empires lied to me

>Polish force

Polish-Lithuanian.

And Poles wonder why Liets dislike them...

>winded hussars
kek

hey you try carrying all that equipment all day

cultural appropriation is not daijobu

...

Dominant culture gets the naming rights.
Nobody know what's Lithuania's problem. NOBODY.

cannon fodder

HUSSARS LOOKED LIKE THAT?

Which one?

>Polish-Lithuanian.

Actually the Lithuanian part of the army didn't make it to Vienna in time (they were around modern Slovakia when the battle happened), it really was just the Polish forces taking part.

Though the Lithuanian army did take part in the later campaign.

It's far more than Vienna.

Yeah but the post was talking about Vienna specifically and took issue with the forces being called Polish.

It really were just the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland military forces at Vienna. They were mustered separately and had a separate command structure. Sobieski left without the Lithuanians because he was getting reports and letters from the Emperor and Pope that the situation in Austria was getting desperate.

>he was getting reports and letters from the Emperor and Pope that the situation in Austria was getting desperate.
b-but I thought germans would do just fine without the Poles. They had more army!

Even if you can do it alone why not get some Polacks to die for you instead? Three birds with one stone, you waste fewer men, the enemy gets beaten, and the Polacks get weakened so you can partition them later.

Historical literacy: the post.

2. the expansion pack has hussars as the top upgrade to your light cav

>hakkapeliitta
trip dubs wew lad

Well that was the general meaning outside the PLC.

>universal european
Nobody gives a fuck about them outside of the baltic area. Unless you count their proddie evolution: Prussia.

Everybody called the whole place just Poland and everyone polish. Except maybe poles who had the benevolence of calling it rzechkopolita or whatever is the weird slavic name for commonwealth.

Well they did just fine without poles the other two times (against Suleiman no less). Let's be honest, we will never know. But of fucking course they're gonna ask for help if the Ottomans are reaching Vienna, you don't stop calling a potential ally against such a powerful threat and risk defeat.

Res Publica essentially.

Riders of Rohan got all the glory during the siege of Minas Tirith

>croats
you mean Serbs

>you mean Serbs
No.

Shut up reddit

Am I the only one who finds it rad that the Commonwealth never really fielded massed pike formations like pretty much everyone else on the continent and instead just screened their musketeers and artillery with shitloads of cavalry?

You're right
>the term derives from the cavalry of late medieval Hungary, under Matthias Corvinus
> Sarnecki, Witold (February 2008). Medieval Polish Armies 966-1500. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-84603-014-7.