Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel's Wargames World: 15mm Serbian Empire & Later Hungarians

Thursday, 15 July 2021

15mm Serbian Empire & Later Hungarians

Finally Completing Some Serbians & Hungarians

After purchasing two Hungarian armies back in 2018 & 2019 I decided that that they were better utilised as Serbian Empire so ended up splitting them up disposing of a few bits & adding the rest into my collection. I of course decided that since I had some missing elements preventing me using them as Serbians that I would have to buy more metal to paint which ended up sitting in the Lead Mountain until this week.

The Serbian Empire had a fearsome reputation when fighting against the Turkish Empire & it has always been a fairly popular choice in themed tournaments.

First up to complete some of the missing elements are their Serbian Spearmen classed as Irr Sp O. I found it very difficult to find suitable decoration for their shields so ended up creating paper Serbian Empire heraldic shields to affix to their shields. I rationalised this by saying that the state issued them with their spears and shields after calling them out to serve.

"Serbia Surrenders Only To God!"

The castings are Essex EMED71 Serbian Empire Spearmen.

Essex EMED71 Serbian Empire Spearmen

The list also allows the Serbians to have a large number of low quality levies. I purchased a large mix of codes from Essex, XMED3 Generic Eastern European Peasants, EMED18 Polish 1350-1480 Foot Axemen, REN117 Renaissance Spearmen in Fur Cap [Haduks] & RUS20 Streltsi or Solider Two Handed Axemen then mixed & matched them up to get the desired figure variety to clearly distinguish between the two types of Hordes.

The Zamanitchka Voyska Levies are classed as Irr Hd F & I decided that I wanted them to be armed with mostly bladed weapons.

The Serbian Vlach Baggage Guards are classed as Irr Hd O & I used a mix of spearmen, swordsmen & clubmen to create that low quality peasant levy look.

Last up for this blog post are eight elements of Hungarian Levy Spearmen classed as Irr Sp I & used in the Later Hungarian list before the Black Army turned into a more regular trained army. The castings are marketed as EMED58 Byzantine 1300-1480 Albanian Javelinmen but the shield style & clothing are also suitable for other Eastern European heavy infantry.