This weekend Robin and I played a division game, his first ever and my first against the Ottoman army. Having only a small division we agreed on a 4 regiment limit. I found among the PDF armies for the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth an interesting force led by Hetman Jan Sobieski, later king of the commonwealth.This historical force was in real life fighting against cossacks and was made up of a lot of infantry and peasant support troops. It looked like a fun change of pace for the usually cavalry heavy Polish armies so I picked it.
Jan Sobieski's Division at Podhajce 1667
Hetman Jan Sobieski: 5 command points +1 additional that could only be used for cavalry and dragoons.
Sobieski's regiment: 10FSP
6 Winged hussars
4 elite cossack style cavalry
2 elite pancerni
Colonel: 3 Command points
New Type infantry regiment:
Colonel: 2 command points
8 Musketeers
3 Pikemen
1 Regimental gun
(Elite) Dragoon regiment:
Colonel: 2 command points
8 Dragoons
Peasant rabble regiment:
Warlord with 3 command points (lucky roll when determining his command)
4 hordes = 28 bases of peasant rabble)
Divisional artillery support:
2x light 3pdr guns
Total force value 30 FSP
Ottoman Army of European provinces 1648-76
Beylerbey with 4 command points
Sipahi Sanjak I: 5FSP
Bey with 3 Command points
3 Sipahi w lances & Shields
6 Sipahi
Sipahi Sanjak II: 5FSP
Bey with 3 Command points
3 Sipahi w lances & Shields
6 Sipahi
Provincial Force regiment: 6FSP
Aga with 3 command points
9 Besli
6 Segban
2 Deli
Janissary regiment: 7FSP
Foot Aga 3 command points
6 Elite Janissary
10 Janissary
Drabzen light gun
Divisional artillery support
1x Drabzen light gun
Total force value 28 FSP
Check my blog to read the full AAR and find out how the battle went:
link
looks at a fast-assembly naval kit for the Age of Sail.
