FrantzITA
01-02-2007, 23:16
How was the scottish warrior ? how was the scottish knight ?
we have some books that show them as normal knights or soldiers ( ospreys with mcbride ) , we have some sculptures that show them too as normal knights ( but you cant show an hero as a poor man , right ? ) , a couple of drawings showing them a poor standard soldiers , we have a movie that show them as barbarian/celts ( braveheart ) and we have a game that show them with armoured knights too ...
The tartan was presents with celts ...possible that was totally disappeared in McBride illustrations ? to return heavily in 1600 + ? ...
so how were the scottish ?? what you think ?
i personally tend to belive that knights were heavily chainmailed with use of boiled leather maybe , i belive no way we would see a plate ( the armoured/noble pikemen in mtw are a joke ) , they were imported in england lets figure how many were imported in scotland ( scottish museum had to import some from italy ) !! would be nice to see some tartan below them ... pikemens too , some leather and chainmail protection ( little standardization and quality ) while the poorest class would have been dressed in braveheart style ...they were dressed quite in the same way at Culloden more than 400 years later !!
classic units
the pikemen clan militia
the forced pikemen coscript
highland rabble
clan nobles
scottish archer ( short bow )
scottish knight ( mounted or not )
light scottish cavalry
we have some books that show them as normal knights or soldiers ( ospreys with mcbride ) , we have some sculptures that show them too as normal knights ( but you cant show an hero as a poor man , right ? ) , a couple of drawings showing them a poor standard soldiers , we have a movie that show them as barbarian/celts ( braveheart ) and we have a game that show them with armoured knights too ...
The tartan was presents with celts ...possible that was totally disappeared in McBride illustrations ? to return heavily in 1600 + ? ...
so how were the scottish ?? what you think ?
i personally tend to belive that knights were heavily chainmailed with use of boiled leather maybe , i belive no way we would see a plate ( the armoured/noble pikemen in mtw are a joke ) , they were imported in england lets figure how many were imported in scotland ( scottish museum had to import some from italy ) !! would be nice to see some tartan below them ... pikemens too , some leather and chainmail protection ( little standardization and quality ) while the poorest class would have been dressed in braveheart style ...they were dressed quite in the same way at Culloden more than 400 years later !!
classic units
the pikemen clan militia
the forced pikemen coscript
highland rabble
clan nobles
scottish archer ( short bow )
scottish knight ( mounted or not )
light scottish cavalry