"The relief of Vienna, 1683 " Topic

Good work here.

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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

Excellent find.

Thanks,

Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

A defining moment in European history, if it had gone the other way turkish could well have been the language spoken right up to the shores of France, also undying glory to the Polish and their winged hussars.

Zargon, hmmm, not so sure that France wouldn't have turned its attention Eastward and managed a European coalition to fight the Turks back though. The technology and battle smarts of the West were reaching a true high point by then. Imagine Marlborough and others against the Turks? I don't think the Turks would have fared well since their tactics and strategies were duplicated in almost every battle. Platoon firing would have made things very interesting too.

Glad you enjoyed it too my friend Berzerker73! (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

Imho in 1683 the "Turkish threat" was on its downswing anyway. The fall of Vienna would have perhaps have destroyed Austria the way it had taken Hungary from the scene before, and perhaps southern Poland would have suffered for a decade or two, but the development of the western military science and distance to its actual powerbase in Turkey would have stopped the Ottomans more sooner then later. The fall might even have unified southern Germany, and perhaps France would have swapped from support to fighting the Ottomans (or rather not, looking at France).

A more serious danger was already thwarted in the siege of 1529, at the start of Suleymans rule, when only bad weather had made him leave his siege train behind. The obsolete but still functional walls that stopped them where build some 400 years before with the money paid for the release of Richard Lionhard :-)

BTW: Impressive work, for 1/72 – I have seen 54mm dioramas that were painted far worse…