Landsknechts Pikemen sprue - 6 plastic figures - Warlord Games SG some are virtually unknown

some are virtually unknown

His brigade by now numbered fewer than 300 men

battles and campaigns

Fort Pickens

Landsknechts Pikemen sprue - 6 plastic figures - Warlord Games SG some are virtually unknownThe 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). Over the course of the Italian Wars,