Wars of Religion Cuirassiers and Reiters

[Jagger]

I have been playing some of the Perfect Captains Spanish Fury Pistolado/Battles for the Wars of Religion.  I really enjoy the game but have been using a mixture of War of the Roses and English Civil War figures to play out the battles.  I need more period specific troops.

First I need Reiters/pistoliers and Cuirassiers/gendarmes fighting with sword and pistols.  I am assuming the best figure for Reiters will be the Thirty Years war figure YW3, Cavalry, pistol, bugonet or possibly the ELM34 SHC with pistol.  Although SHC w/pistol may be too heavily armored to work as a Reiter/Pistolier.  

For the Cuirassiers/Gendarmes with sword/pistol, I think the EC11 ECW Cuirassier will work best perhaps mixed with the ELM34 SHC w/pistol.

So does anyone have photos of the ELM34 SHC w/pistol and the YW3 Cavalry with pistol, burgonet?  I would like to see if they are really close enough to use for Wars of Religion.

Also if anyone is interested, here are a couple of good threads from TMP on Reiters/Cuirassiers and Wars of Religion Landsknechts:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=266148
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=266351

Looks like it is going to be hard to do Landsknechts for Wars of Religion.

[jchaos79]

Here is YW3 (you can click the image to see it in detail)

http://sg.tacticalwargames.net/forum/index.php?topic=4296.0

The links you had are superb!

[kingscarbine]

Hi,

I'm also looking for figures for late 16th and very early 17th century European wars. What figures are you using?

[Sandinista]

This is what I used for my Austrian Cavalry:

Reiters: EC11, YW3, ELM34     
         
Lancers: EL8, EL9, ER12, ELM28
           
Mounted Arquebus: YW4, P13, EC12   
         
Hungarians/Hussars: P2, P3, YW3, EL10, OT6   

[FierceKitty]

This is what I used for my Austrian Cavalry:

Reiters: EC11, YW3, ELM34     
         
Lancers: EL8, EL9, ER12, ELM28
           
Mounted Arquebus: YW4, P13, EC12   
         
Hungarians/Hussars: P2, P3, YW3, EL10, OT6   

Pictures, pretty please.

[Sandinista]

At the painters at moment, but will see if I can get him to take pics

[Leon]

There's quite a few of those codes photo'd here: http://warmaster-acolytes.mforos.com/1854818/9149890-indice-database/