"Change in Blog Title" Topic

Hi everybody. I am just posting to make known that my blogs name has changed to PhD Leadhead and Principality of Morea. The adress is the same: phdleadhead.blogspot.com

enjoy

KTravlos

Right now, none. I think I will go for Zvezda Russian and Swedish infantry. Cheap and good:) I don't think I am going to build a WAS/SYW army yet. Other projects before that.

I love blogs – the way forward.

David
tabletopreview.com

I am very.very tempted to get one 40mm and see how it paints up.

Not for Wargaming..God no! But for display and Imagination reasons:)

How to depict the Morean army by mid-18th C.? The question is so interesting that I can't refrain from forwarding (totally unsollicited) comments / suggestions.

Princess Theophila being an enlightened 18th C. monarch, most of her army would be by now dressed, organized and trained along Western European lines. Russian influence (because of shared Orthodox faith) may appear, and uniforms of GNW cut would provide / suggest a touch of ‘exoticism'?
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As for really ‘exotic' types (Guard in traditional dress? Light troops?) the most typical would be in ‘Greek' costume with the Foustanella (Tsolias). Such are mainly available for the Crimean War
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and as later Evzones
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but the dress is already too short for the 18th C. –and the shoulder weapon would require some conversion?
The US Marines who went to Tripoli in 1804
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were accompanied by mercenaries who, at least according to Hollywood, were dressed as ‘Greeks': they would far better fit the bill, but do they exist as wargame minis? The same for ‘freedom fighters' of the Greek_War_of_Independence
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(and the similarly dressed locally recruited Bashi-Bozouks in Turkish service?)
As ‘erzatz' or alternative / complements, may be some
Albanian link and
‘Balkanic' link types?

Then, given the long-lasting contacts with the Turks –and the mixed nature of the Princess' subjects- what about the Nizam~Cedit, the early 19th C. ‘modern' Ottoman infantry
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Cheers,
Jean-Louis

Continued (and concluded!)
Napoleonic Spanish guerillas in short breeches and alpargatas, if with *cap*, could be used as proxies of Southern Italian 'generic Mediterranean' types.
For 'typical' (light or guard) cavalry, given that 'turkeries' were so fashionable, Napoleonic Mameluckes may have a 'right' look -provided their plume, if any, is removed (high plumes are characteristic of early 19th C. shakos &c… and spoil a '18th C.' look).
Frederician Bosniaks in *turban* would be adequate, but do they exist in 28mm?
Late 18th C. Bosniaks in Danish service picture and Napoleonic Lithuanians link (without the high 'shako' could be inspirational; Front Rank Bosniaks, Irregular Miniatures Uhlan/Bosniak Lancers, Crusader Miniatures Bosniak Lancers, Foundry Frei Korps Von Kleist Uhlans &c… could provide bases for conversions, if the 'fez' is filed down and a greenstuff turban added?

End of unsollicited suggestions!
Jean-Louis

The history of your fictitious Morea and of its army are simply excellent: full of depth and character, a good combination of likelihood and originality – fantastic detail and imagination.
Obviously a work of love and dedication, and totally successful: rich and the army's 'profile' so consistent with the nature and history of the country.

Nice writeup very realistic and sounds as well-researched as an exemplary academic work. From a very personal p.o.v. I feel like carried back some 30 years, when fully discovering the histories and armies of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empires in Phil Barker's WRG books… thanks! Then I really appreciate the occasional 'tongue in cheek' tone – a tradition among Old School wargamers and specially Lace Wars Imagi-Nation creators since 'Charge!' and 'The War Game'.

Can't wait to discover the individual unit's 'profiles' and uniforms.
Jean-Louis

Konstantinos,

I believe that if you write Sash & Saber and politely ask for a sample figure, I believe that they'll send you one (of their choice of course) -- but specify the range (presumably a SYW figure in tricorn).

sashandsaber.com

-- Jeff

Thanks everyone. I think that my terretorial infantry will propably have Russian GNW uniforms so I can use Zvezda Russians, my foreign Swedish cut so I can use Zvezda Swedes. Dragoons will have Swedish dragoon uniforms. The Jannisaries will be Zvezda Jannisaries. Sipahi Lancers will either be Zvezda Ottomans or Napoleonic Mameluke. The hardest will be the Greek Lancers, that will require conversions, and the Hungarian Cuirassiers. You will see why, once I get the uniform plates on the blog. But generally I choose uniforms that will let me get the army cheap:)

Mouth-watering!
Suspicion: The Morean Hussars look more like the extra-heavy Polish type than the light Hungarian ones?
Cuirassiers… 3/4 armour?