"28mm Turkish/Saracen corsairs?" Topic

I just got some inspiration by watching a trailer for "Barbarossa and the towers of Italy"

YouTube link

to make a wargames setting around one of those towers would be fun. Another avenue would be the Barbarossa brothers vs Spanish in North Africa early 16th century (finally get some use for all those conquistador miniatures laying around…).

I know of the Redoubt range but can anyone recommend other 28mm miniatures representing the Barbarossa corsairs?

Dumb idea--what of some corsairs from LOTR range?

At one time I was considering this period for 25/28mm gaming and came up with this list of possible figures:

Potential Figures for Mediterranean Arab-Style Pirates

Old Glory

OXT-26 Balkan Frontier Infantry with Command, 18th Century
OXT-27 Palestinian Auxiliary Infantry with Command, 18th Century
OXT-28 Cairo Janissaries with Command, 18th-19th Centuries
OXT-35 Albanian Infantry, 18th-19th Centuries
OXT-36 Egyptian Fellaheen Infantry
OXT-37 Ottoman Artillery Crews
OXT-18 Ilayar Fanatics charging with sword
OXT-20 North African Marines with crossbows
RPM-06 Middle Eastern Peasant Mob
SOD-05 Arabs Attacking with Swords
SOD-06 Arabs Attacking with Spears
CSD-04 Ansar Spearmen Attacking
CSD-05 Ansar Swordsmen Attacking
CSD-10 Dervish Command
DAC-16 Muslim Infantry Spearmen

Eureka

100PIR40 Turkish pirate captain
100PIR41 Turkish pirate first mate
100PIR44 Turkish pirate with musket (5 variants)
100PIR42 Turkish pirate with polearms (4 variants)
100PIR43 Turkish pirate with scimitar (4 variants)
100COL26 Zanzabari Arab slaver, musket, sword, or spear (4 variants)

Foundry

Assorted Baluchi tribesmen from their Colonial line

Castaway Arts

Assorted Sudanese/Mahdist figures
Assorted Arab/Tuareg/Berber figures

Ral Partha

Assorted Afghan figures
Assorted Sudan figures

Perry Miniatures

MA20 Arab foot command, advancing (6)
MA23 Arab militia spearmen, advancing (6)
MA24 Azerbaijani swordsmen (6)
SA20 Nile Arab infantry command (6)
SA22 Nile Arab spearmen, advancing/attacking (6)
SA23 Nile Arab swordsmen, advancing/attacking (6)

Others such as Gripping Beast, etc. who make Renaissance or later Moslem figures for Spanish Reconquista, Crusades, Ottoman Empire, etc.

Many of these may be too late for prototypical Renaissance era figures but some may work for you. Of course all of these will be much smaller than Redoubt's "monsters."

Jim

Thanks for your help!

That´s a great list – problem solved

Are there any Renaissance Ottomans in the Ral Partha renaissance range? i don't remember.

Yes, there are, though my recollection is that the heavy cavalry figures were smaller than the others.
Grelber

I think Minifigs makes a few, but they will not work with Redoubt…even in separate units.