BBDBA Polish (1576-1660)

Triple the fun for BBDBA, here's 36 elements for a Polish Army.

The Right Wing - loadsa Cavalry,Knights & Light Horse

The Centre - Artillery, Foot & War Wagons


The Left Wing - More Cavalry, Knights. Dragoons at the front.


The complete Army from above.

DBA 1500-1900 54b.Polish(1576-1670)

The mighty Polish army that rose to greatness in the 16th & 17th centuries. They fought Austrian Habsburgs, Swedish, Imperialist, Prot.German, Danish, Muscovite, Cossack, Ottoman & Tartar foes. In fact all their neighbours then!

Pan Zagloba!
Quite a varied list full of options but always destined to be Cavalry Heavy. We collected the vast majority of this army from Bring & Buy sales. Out came the paints & a little work to bring it up to scratch. Finished off with Miracle Dip, flags are from Warflag.

54b Polish, 1576-1670.
1x3Kn, 2x3Cv, 1x2LH or 3Dr, 2x2LH or WWg, 1x2LH or Art, 2x4Sh or 1x3Kn + 1x3Cv,
1x4Sh or 4Pk, 1x4Pk/4Sh or 2Ps, 1x4Bd or 4Pk.

The Army arrayed with all options

The Light Horse

Polish Pike

Polish Shot

Pike & Shot Combo

Blades & Psiloi

Polish Hetman with Winged Hussars, General element.

Knights in the form of Winged Hussars & the General

Polish Cavalry, Cossacks & Pancerni

Polish War Wagons

Polish Dragoons

Polish Artillery

DBA III/25 Arab Conquest

The Army that exploded out of the Saudi desert in the 7th Century.
This rag tag bunch went on to conquer many foes including the Sassanid Persians!
The DBA list fizzles out at 660AD to be replaced by the Umayyad Arabs. With a few extra
Bow elements we could morph this army into Umayads as well.

We have enough elements to cover both the A & B Lists

(a) 622AD-638AD
1x3Cv or 4wb(Gen), 2x2Lh, 7x4Wb, 2x3Bw or 2Ps




The WarBands!


Light Horse


Psiloi


Bows


The General - Cavalry or WarBand


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(b) 639AD-660AD
1x3Cv(Gen), 4x3Cv, 1x2Lh, 4x4Wb, 2x3Bw or 2Ps

The Army now has a greater mounted element giving it great mobility.






The Cavalry


The rest of the army

DBA III/69 Tuareg

Ah..smell those Tuareg campfires!
An enemy for the Fanatic Berbers, but a real tough nut to crack.
The Tuaregs are very heavy on the Camels. In the Desert
environment they treat Dunes & Oasis rough terrain as good going.

1000AD - 1075AD
1x3Cm(Gen), 8x3Cm, 1x2/3Cm, 2x3Wb or 3Cm or 2Ps or 3Ax






Psiloi elements & the Warband double as Auxiliary

DBA III/74 Fanatic Berber

A few 'Desert Dweller' Armies that we have collected. Firstly the brilliantly
named FANATIC Berbers. These fellas fought everyone from Egypt, to North
Africa & onto El Cids Spanish Armies.

1039AD - 1529AD
1x3Cv or 2LH (Gen), 3x2Lh, 3x4Sp, 3x2Ps, 2cx2Lh or 3Cm or (1x3Kn + 1x3Cb)

The army arrayed with all options (we subbed a Bow for the Xbows)

The Light Horse

The General, Cav or Lh option

Black Guard in the form of Spears

The Camel riders

The Knight & Bow option

Desert rabble, the Psiloi

DBA 1500-1900 ECW. Royalist vs Parliament

English Civil War clash, turned out to be a right bloodbath (for me......)
Jack was for the King being the Royalists & I the forces of Parliament.

English Royalist, 1620-1660.
1x3Kn or 4Sh, 3x3Kn or 3Cv, 1x3Kn or 3xCv or 4Pk, 1x3Cv or 3Dr or 4Sh, 3x4Pk, 2x4Sh or 2Ps, 1xArt.

English Parliamentarian, 1641-1645.
3x4Pi or 3Cv, 1x4Pi or 3Cv or 4Kn or 4Sh, 1x3Cv or 3Dr or 4Pk, 2x4Pk, 3x4Sh, 1x4Sh or 2Ps, 1xArt.

Initial Setup – Parliament on the Left, Royalists the Right

The Parliament troops (me)

The Royalist Troops (General Jack)

Prince Rupert waves his big floppy hat

The lines advance

The Royalist cavalry have the high ground

Clash of Cavalry…advantage to the high ground

Oh dear the Roundhead cavalry is smashed…

the flank is open (tut.. tut.. I shake my head)

Not looking good for Parliament

My casualties…yes half the 12 element army!

Final Positions.. I don’t think I won one single combat.

General Jack whoops his Dad again.