Pike and Shotte Pike & Shotte Landsknecht Starter Army Slaves to Darkness Ideal for making jams

Ideal for making jams

They can be used to represent any unarmoured cavalry of the period from around 300AD to approx 800AD including Ostrogoths

Models supplied with 25mm round bases

Introduced in the Western Desert in 1940

Pike and Shotte Pike & Shotte Landsknecht Starter Army Slaves to Darkness Ideal for making jamsThe 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,