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Corvinus Wargaming
United States
Приєднався 30 сер 2020
Wargaming the Ottoman Empire, Central Europe, and more.
Khurasan Miniatures Renaissance Russians
New Khurasan range I wanted to share news about
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Mamluk RPG Concept
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Sharing an idea I have for a role-playing game setting or standalone game based on the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria www.loc.gov/item/2021667392/
Ottoman Feudal Cavalry Organization c.1330-1500
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Pál Fodor, "Ottoman warfare, 1300-1453," in The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. I: Byzantium to Turkey, 1071-1453, ed. by Kate Fleet, 192-226. Pictures from the Süleymanname: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Süleymanname
Battle of Cecora Game Report
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Post-game analysis of my Battle of Cecora scenario using the Baroque ruleset
Timurid Heavy Cavalry and Italian Wars Miniatures
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Timurid Heavy Cavalry and Italian Wars Miniatures
Call of Cthulhu RPG Scenario Discussion
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Talking about some ideas for a Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario/investigation set in 1924-25 French Mandate Syria. Pictures of Alexandretta (today İskenderun) www.levantineheritage.com/alexandretta.htm
Armati: Missile Fire and Movement Rules
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Armati: Missile Fire and Movement Rules
First Timurids and Vallejo Game Washes
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First Timurids and Vallejo Game Washes
Armati: Army Lists and Deployment
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Going through the basics of setting up an Armati army and deploying it
First Squadron of Austrian Chevaulegers Done
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First Squadron of Austrian Chevaulegers Done
Honours of War: Wargames Rules for the Seven Years War Overview
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Honours of War: Wargames Rules for the Seven Years War Overview
would have been nice to see a turn sample or a firefight between 3 battalions to get an idea on how the game works.
@@matthewhyke this video is just an overview, I plan on doing a more detailed gameplay video when I get the miniatures together for it
I love Love LOVE Khurasan minis!
Always good to have more options. :)
👍👍
Wow streltsi look very good!
@@mamaymirza yes they have done a great job sculpting them
great news!
Saw these the other day on my (almost) daily visit to Khurasan, and wondered when you would do a video on them...
@@ZenMiniPainting when I can I think I’ll order one of the Cossack packs and do a review
These look great! Really like that elephant. Subbed!
Very interesting video on a obscure topic, would you mind telling us the accounts from which you got those qoutes?
The video is based off a chapter in a scholarly anthology, “The Military of the Crimean Tatars” in a book called War Technology and Society in the Middle East edited by Malcolm Yapp and VJ Parry
@Corvinuswargaming1444 Thank you
Grandparent's skills and culture to parent's skills and culture to youth training to coming of age training to adult training. As I sort of explained in Disco. :)
It is interesting. Game wise maybe over my pay grade. Not sure. I'm just an old guy. But always keep at it.
I love it!! As an academic historian, Muslim, and avid RPer, this game almost sounds like it's _made_ for me. Subscribing with updates. Eager to see if you develop this concept further. And if you turn it into a finished product -- from what I see so far, I'd love to buy it!
@@jazzy_786 Thank you ustad! The Mamluks are fascinating and unfortunately neglected in discussions of Islamic history
It’s an interesting concept. I don’t really have time to roleplay anymore, but I like the thought behind it
Dear, I have recently subscribed to your channel and have been going through some earlier videos and I have a question that, perhaps, would be more pertinent to the older videos but I want to ask it here if I may; I have read some other sources saying that the Janissaries did not wear their traditional Bork hats on campaign but instead used a small turban/slouch hat on the march and during battle they would wear “sipahi” armor and helmets. Is that erroneous?
@@MZeki-gw2xg I have not found an Ottoman depiction or mention of it in their own sources but that claim is repeated in a lot of the secondary sources
@ personally I like to believe they went on campaign wearing their Bork hats and flamboyant uniforms
@@MZeki-gw2xg yes all of the artwork shows them dressed like that
Avalon Hill published 3rd edition Runequest. The Players booklet in the box set had no fantasy setting. They used a European/Near East setting for all of their examples. They called it Cormac's Saga. Cormac was a Pict and he had companions from all around the Mediterranean. The character rules included cultural rules and the 4 main types were civilized, nomad, barbarian and primitive. The point is it would be easy to use it for a historical RPG set in that area of the world. I'm sure the book or PDF would be easy to acquire and cheap as chips. mmmmmm... chips... :) Your Pendragon example would be good too. They are supposed to be working on other settings for the Pendragon rules but they are molasses slow with releases.
@@tolemykus4805 thanks Tolemykus I will see if I can find a print or PDF copy of that RuneQuest book, it sounds super interesting
Sounds interesting... if you've got the patience for folks not having a clue about the actual history.
@@Hunrakku3 they wouldn’t really need to know that, at the core the idea is you are part of a military household and move up in the society (potentially). But it would probably be hard for people only exposed to high fantasy stuff to get into it
Afternoon.
@@charleslatora5750 hi Charles, hope you are having a good day
@@Corvinuswargaming1444as best I can, I had one solitaire game dog boat set. Too many charts and tables. I got lost and it's back on the shelf. I'm looking at another one North Africa 41 and I already see at least one thing that's giving me do I really want to do this feeling? It's saying x amount of turns but you could have two to three impulses AKA turns in each turn. We shall see...
Sounds interesting sir
@ Too many charts and tables definitely slows a game down
Wife made a good call, pink actually looks great on the elephant
Yes, it is a great contrast
I think the janissary in red is actually from the kapikulu cavalry, a silahtar, since their headgear was like the janissaries but it red. Great video nonetheless ❤
Really great, I’m amazed that you found such specific source material; I have read the book by Rhodes Murphy also but it doesn’t give this level of detail on the tactics
I usually have to go to the academic articles or translate from the Ottoman chronicles directly
The elephant and armor look really nice, i would put another coat or two of white on the howda. Agree the pink looks nice.
Most beautiful and impressive elephant, cracking job!👍👍🐘🐘
Dear, I have some questions; I build models myself but I focus on WW2 battleships, tanks&aircraft etc I am still a novice; I understand that there is a type of thin paint that can be used to highlight and accentuate the lines and crevices in the surface of the material-what do you call that? And if my paints are primarily acrylic airbrush then what type should I use? I paint pretty decent but I am missing on that detail especially for the hard to reach places; any help or advice would be much appreciated ❤
@@MZeki-gw2xg there are a few options, you can use the Vallejo game washes, Army Painter tone shades and washes, Citadel washes, or use inks thinned with water
@ thanks a lot
The Timurids are looking great!
@@mitchsminis thank you Mitch
Cracking work mate. Really great to see your progress and know that you are building towards that Battle of Ankara, which will no doubt look great.
@@ZenMiniPainting I am looking forward to painting the Balkan knights who were in the Ottoman army most, they will be a nice visual contrast to the other units
@Corvinuswargaming1444 which figures will you be using for those?
@ I’m not sure yet, early 14th century Europe isn’t a period I’ve looked closely. I’m going to see what options Khurasan and maybe Blue Moon has
Elephant came out wonderful. I'm sure they feed and polish his armor every day. :)
Zihirli; armored. Nisanci: messenger/equerry. Peyks; halberdiers, close protection guard/escort. The dog handlers-sekban, specialized orta of janissary, usually adept marksmen. Corbaci, orta commander (chief soup cook), that’s what I think these are. Usually janissary ranks are denoted by belt color if not by headgear and also boot color. Yellow/red are officers; black/brown boots for rank&file; if you have some other questions please ask-I will try to help based on my researches
@@MZeki-gw2xg What source explains the rank color thing? There aren’t documents in the Ottoman archives that detail these issues and the askeri tereke defterleri don’t list the colors of clothing usually
@ regarding uniform color there isn’t anything definitive but with regards to belt(sash) and boot color the book is Godfrey Goodwin; The Janissaries, nonfiction. He talks about uniform color/style but not in a clear manner, he mentions “at some point” they were wearing rose colored/pink outfits. He is clear, however, with regards to the belt and boot colors
@ unfortunately I don’t have primary sources, only tertiary
@ that book doesn’t really cite sources and is full of exaggerations
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 yes, most of these books are written in such a manner so as to attract via entertainment, unfortunately since I do not know Ottoman Turkish I cannot delve deeper into this fascinating subject beyond what is written in English, and I haven’t found any material dealing with this subject matter (Janissaries and kapikulu) exclusively except for this work by Godfrey. I have read Konstantin Mihailoviks account when he was a Janissary in the 15th century but, again, it probably was written afterwards and is also exaggerated so to make them look unfavorable to suit the European sentiments at that time. I have heard of Busbecqs travel writings of when he was in the Ottoman Empire as a foreign official but I could not find them, i think the best sources for the janissaries would be the war diaries of those who fought against them such as Eugene of Savoy, de la Valette of Malta, Raymundo Monteccucoli etc but I wouldn’t know the first thing about getting hold of them
Excellent! Good to get a project to fruition. Well done.
@@theDexMcHenry thank you!
Interesting subject. Thank you.
Good Friday evening
Useful info. Be careful. If you provide too much good information people will start using it. Then the more rare gaming armies will become more common. Then you will.... who am I kidding. Like that will happen, ha! :)
@@tolemykus4805 hah!
Great video for sharing this! I was actually reading up on the sipahis a couple weeks ago and it led to a question of the differences between squires and men-at-arms (roles mentioned when what I was reading describes the cebelu). Thanks for the video!
@@robertfisher8359 the book The Last Muslim Conquest by Gábor Ágoston has the best overview of military organization and has some more details
The table looks amazing! Please let us know what convention you end up running the game in, I’d love to sign up!
Great looking battle, superb units, impressive wagons and cavalry!👍👍
Looks like a smashing good time! :)
Looks great. Happy you got it to the table.
I actually really like the game color washes. Tamerlane was one of the great commanders of history.
@@rangerminiaturesandgaming3647 It took me a while to get used to them, but now I am liking the results a lot more with them. Tamerlane is really interesting and left a big legacy on the history of Persia and Central Asia. He was kind of like Alexander the Great, really skilled commander and conquerer but just did not have the time to consolidate his empire.
All sounds good. I have not done any RPG stuff since my younger misbegotten days in college where there are three of us that played D&D So I'm not sure I can really give you much advice but everything sounds good, at least to my old ears
You could rip off the mummy a bit and add a secret society that is aware of the artifact's power so it's trying to keep people away from discovering it (perhaps they disappeared the proffesor , who knows ?) Also adding more rival research teams would be interesting
Addendum: Start by looking at the video that the The Terrain Tutor did some time ago: “A Guide to Making Pro Terrain Washes” In that video, he shows how to manipulate acrylic paints properly, without risking breaking down the cohesion of the acrylic colors.
A heavy and beautiful looking cavalry, nice job on the Timourid unit!
Why not make your own washes, from acrylic ink, distilled water and acrylic medium? Some people use a tiny amount of JetDry to reduce the surface tension and prevent beading, I prefer a small amount of Liquitex Flow Improver. I would stay away from using isopropyl alcohol as a flow improver on figures. I personally haven’t had any problems, but I’ve talked to several figure painters who have. They say isopropyl doesn’t always react well to some paint brands. I believe I saw several people on UA-cam with their own formulas, equivalent to those Citadel washes (Nuln Oil, Agrax, etc). Let me see if I can find them again. Or just do a UA-cam search for make your own washes, or make your own Nuln Oil. “Italian Wars Miniatures” Wow, now you REALLY have my attention, Sir! I’ve always wanted to purchase and paint up figures for a Spanish mercenary company in the Italian Wars. Q- Any 15mm figure suggestions for such Spaniards? Thanks!!!
@@dartmart9263 Khurasan and Old Glory/Blue Moon have good ranges for the Italian Wars. Khurasan also has Spanish for the later 16th century as well
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 Are they compatible size-wise?
@ There is a slight size difference. The Blue Moon pikemen I show in this video have a little more bulk compared to Khurasan, but on the gaming table the size difference isn’t that extreme. I will do a size comparison with my Khurasan Knights of Malta musketeers in a future video to give you an idea of
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 That’s excellent! Thank you so much!
@ there is an exhibition right now of some tapestries depicting the Battle of Pavia in 1525, if you search Battle of Pavia tapestries you can find it. It can give you an idea of the colors of the clothing
I replaced all my pikes with the bristles from a broom (plastic type). Used a pair of pliers to fatten one end then cut it to a point. Looks good, are flexible, and won't stick into your hand when you go to pick them up.
@@regwirth3004 I have heard of that before just never tried it
@@Corvinuswargaming1444 Try it, you'll like it😁
Impressive looking little force there. I love a good set of pikemen
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Also my video for the Spanish imperials and papal state video shows my tercios. Using blue moon. Might give you some ideas
@@thekrausecollection15mmmin53 I will check those out!