"Conquistador Falconet and Crew" Topic

Artillery support for the Conquistadores!

1519 style…

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Love those Falconets.

Your Aztecs are terrific, hate to say it but I am rooting for them to beat up your Conquistadores.

Nice work.

Nice looking figures ready for a rumble in the jungle. Your painting really makes them stand out.

Just a heads up. Eureka has some nice Conquistadores, including one guarding Aztec prisoners. They also have La Malinche, and a nice little artillery piece.

Good one.
By happenstance I just have a TAG Conquistadore Falconet on my painting table, too, though for usage with the Trastamara Spaniards. Next week perhaps…

A fire-spitting tube will surely intimidate even the bravest Eagle and Jaguar Knights!

Thanks all. I did see Eureka's stuff after I had already bought all the others. My crossbowmen are from Eureka, as are some war dogs and the dead horses. As I have gone through the project I have been lucky to have others like you kindly suggest sources and that has been great for future needs (which I may have of course). And yes, a cannon was intimidating to the Aztecs, but I did read that eventually they did adapt a tactic of hitting the ground to avoid incoming solid shot – don't know how effective that was – and certainly langridge at close range would have been devastating.

I also have read that the Aztecs were notably unaffected by the psychological effects of gun and arquebus.

Puster, they were indeed Psychologically affected as they considered them magic and gunpowder was totally alien to their previous experience, as were horses and large war dogs. Later on that effect did diminish, but that was after a significant time.