A friend of mine, from Caucasus a member of Worldwide Circassian Brotherhood provided this valuable information to the game. His experties are high in history and weaponry, so please adjust the game accordingly so it is historically correct.
First of all, we need to get rid of this Dzhigit word. It is not an Adyghe word, has very little to do with Adyghe.
Prnce Inal is called Nehu of Nef, NOT Tegen, which is a Turkish word, please make sure it isnt in the part 2.
As I understand, we need to give a few names for units and their desciption.
Infantery.
Lhukotl Infantery - basic foot unit type, it is peasantry, with little training, armed with swords (jate) and shields (me'u). Little or no armour at all.
Repatriated Mamelukes - a lot of Circassian Mamelukes returned home in the 16th century. This type of unit could also be mounted on horses. Good training, better quality weapons.
Abadzekh Shooters - missile unit. Armed with (depending on era) bows, crossbows and rifles. Excellent accurate shooters.
Shapsugh Infantery - Shapsygh used to live in the woods and on mountain slopes, so they should have a bonus when fighting in forests.
Psikhadze - "Water Dogs Army". Battle axes, swords and small shields. Excellent when ambush.
Ubykh infantery - best infantery unit of all. Tireless, bonus when fighting in the woods and mountains, and especially in the night battles.
Cavalry Units.
Lhukosho Raiders (Лъхукъуэщо) - basic cavalry. These are lightly armoured (leather armour called tejeley) ex-peasants who preferred knightly life to agriculture. Small shields, sabres.
Beslen-Wark Cavalry - keep in mind, that Circassian nobles (warks) were the backbone of mostly mounted Circassian army. They didnt like much fighting dismounted. However, they made excellent cavalry, far superior to that of Tatars and Cossacks. Leather armour with metal, sashkho - Circassian sword you saw in pictures, bows (yes, they can shoot arrows, too, but they arent a missile unit), later rifles.
Bjedough (or Temirgoy) Wark Cavalry - advanced wark cavalry with metal chain armour. Sashkho, pistols, rifles. Bonus when fighting in forests.
Kabardian Armoured Wark Cavalry - best Circassian cavalry, armoured head to toe with special Circassian mail, that was almost impossible to peirce (afe-jane). Excellent weaponry, firearms as early as 1550's.
Keep in mind that Circassian sashkho was a deadly weapon of first strike. Swift and strong, sashkho's left little chances of surviving to those charged with them. Because of this fact, Circassian cavalry should have an extra bonus when charging.
Circassian weapons and mail was very popular in the middle ages in Europe and Russia. In fact, Polish king Zygmund II August welcomed 5 princes of Circassia and their wark warriors at his court and granted them rights of the Polish aristocracy. More on that see here:
http://www.circassianworld.com/kruszynski.html
Another Polish king Jan Sobesski brought several thousands of Circassian wark warriors to his army in 1682. The king liked Circassian style so much that he wore Circassian clothes and preferred to ride Circassian horses. Circassian regiments proved to be excellent fighters in the numerous Polish-Turkish Wars and remained in the Polish army as the "Petyhorski Horugvi" (Five mountains regiments) until 1795.
(This is from a Polish historian B. Baranovski's book called Caucasus and Poland in the XVIIth Century).
NOTE: Circassians were called Petyhorcy (from Five Mountains), because Circassians of Kabardia were called at that time Piatigorskie Cherkesi.
All units should be armed with Circassian daggers (kama). This weapon was simply a part of national dress and even boys had their own small daggers, which were equally lethal.
As for tactics, they were a lot of different kinds. One that I can remember now was called "Shou Chapse", "A Line of Riders". Enemy cavalry was being lured out of the battlefield by a false retreat so that they were made to break up their ranks and stretch themselves into a line and then the enemy was suddenly charged with sashkho's.
Circassian battle cries - Ewa! Marje!
As for Leaders and titles - i'll post some later.
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