discuss about POLISH WINGED HUSSARS

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Oh yes! I have drooled over your hoplite skins for a while now but this is something else again. Polish winged hussars are IMHO the coolest cav unit of all time pretty much anywhere in the world and now King Louise himself decided to make skins for it, moreover - your work looks fantastic mate (as always).

I hope they will be included in ETW, hussars were the only cav formation I know of that happily charged pike units head-on and tore them apart (thanks to monstrous 15 - 18 ft hollow lances, much too long for infantry to wield). Polish hussars employed top-notch discipline and tactics, approaching enemy lines slowly and widely dispersed, only to gather speed after enemy's first musket salvo and close ranks very tight (some say knee-to-knee hmmm...) just before making contact with first line of the enemy.

Hussars' charge was utterly devastating and often led to general rout, battle at Kircholm 1605 is probably the best example of their clout - Polish army dealt the Swedes a crushing blow butchering ~6000 with minimal casaulties (around 100 men). Only took them half an hour too!!Beat that in M2TW! Even Swedish royal guard defending Charles IX himself lasted less than 5 minutes toe to toe with hussars.

You can gather from KLA's work just how amazingly cool those guys looked, leopard skins and all. It would be an ideal ceremonial unit today and I simply cannot fathom why the Polish army makes no use of this icon! I say they look far better than the Life Guards or 1st Dragoons (who make a close second tho - you've gotta love Queen's Guard.)

If this unit makes it into ETW it should be what it historically was - best armed and trained cavalry unit in Europe at the time. Can't bloody wait!

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