Landsknecht missile troops transports-tows English Civil Wars Royalists: King

English Civil Wars Royalists: King Charles I

Hired on the hope of plunder and pay

A selection of metal figureheads and backplates for famous US Navy Ships:

12 plastic British Household Brigade heavy cavalry

Laser-cut MDF Snake fences

Landsknecht missile troops transports-tows English Civil Wars Royalists: KingThe late 15th and early 16th centuries in Europe were defined by near constant warfare. National standing armies were unheard of and the ambitions of empires were reliant on the mercenaries they could afford to hire. Landsknechts were instigated by the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximillian I, as a reaction to the Swiss mercenary pikemen that had dominated battlefields for decades before the Italian Wars (1494 1559). They would be found in most armies in