Dismounted archers using longbows and rather good armour (sallets, breastplates and probably leg armour as well). The French Archers used the bow a lot longer than they get credit for in most army lists, indeed both the 1515 and 1526 Ordonnances still regard them as as armed with bows though the 152...

http://vial.jean.free.fr/new_npi/revues ... arsagl.htm has detailed information about the uniforms.

I've posted a list of the uniforms worn by the Native Swedish & Finnish infantry regiments in 1655 at my blog:
http://kriegsbuch.blogspot.com/2012/02/ ... -1655.html

The colour which is most often reported for the German protestants is yellow, a colour used as early as the Schmalkaldic War of the 1540's, secondary sources reference it's use by both the Saxons as well as Mansfeld's men. A 1620 portrait of Christian of Braunschweig-Lüneburg shows him with a yello...

Mansfeld led the same army in Bohemia and in the campaigns up to his disbanding the army in 1623-1624. (Though with numerous changes due to losses and the addition of new troops) With the main Bohemian army lost at White Mountain Mansfeld carried out a fighting withdrawal from Bohemia to the Upper P...

Based on the ideas of Johann von Nassau-Siegen (part of the team of reformers who worked with Maurice of Nassau) Georg Friedrich had added 70 "pike carts" to his army. Count Johann had first used such carts against the Poles in Livonia and had continued to tinker with the idea by improving...

The "Early Protestants" are a fairly large number of diffrent armies rolled into one army list. Because several of them were short lived and other were almost nomadic in their existence they have not left behind as much in the way of documents as the Bavarians (Leuagists) or Imperials. You...

The colours of the field signs varied somewhat over the years, nor are the field signs of all armies well document which together with 19th C and early 20th C myths (such as the Swedes using blue field signs) makes it a bit of a complex subject. The Imperial and Spanish armies used their traditional...

A sadly unused source for the flags & standards of the Imperial army of the TYW in the trophy collection housed in the Swedish Army Museum. Even though images of all surviving colours are available online for free the language barrier seem prevent it from being used. Which is a shame since the r...

A rather elusive and forgotten war were the information which do exist is hidden away in in old books. Very much overshadowed by the events of the TYW as far as historians have been concerned. I'll poke around in my database and see if can find any suggestions on where to look.

Late 16th Century figures are indeed a huge gap, in particular just about no one makes proper cavalry wearing the cassock which was typical of the period. Most of the few figs which do have it are sculpted with a garment based on the 17th infantry cassock which is the wrong size and shape. (Due to a...

Both are "large 15mm" and IMHO look good in separate units in the same army but I wouldn't mix them in the same unit. (But then I almost never mix figures from diffrent makers so YMMV)

Pieter Snayers was without a doubt one of the best 17th Century battle painters and some of his works are the finest produced by the school of "realistic" battle painters which evolved in the Netherlands. Unlike his teacher Vrancx who is best known for his paintings of skirmish & small...

Because the army of Flanders relied heavily on local makers for clothing and equipment even the Spanish & italian troops came to resemble "every one else" And of course many regiments were Walloon & German troops & equipped in the area to begin with. The main diffrences would b...

The common thing was for each regiment to have basic pattern which was repeated on all the flags, this could somethign very simple like all flags having the same basic colour such as red. Each company would in turn have it's own indivudal design. A good example of this system is Baner's regiment htt...

The Swiss would basicly look the same as everyone else, perhaps a little fashionable if they hadn't been issued clothes or been paid enough to get dressed up properly. Flags would be those provided by the army that hired them.

Just a short historical note on Piccolomini's fellows. Turns out the regiment was a mixed rather than a "pure" unit, already in it's Arkebusier days it had a couple of cuirassier companies and after being reclassified as a Kürassier regiment it kept that organisation. A 1635 offer to suppl...

Russian "Reiters" are truly a missing piece as no 15mm range I know accurately reproduces their apperance. While the Reiters made use of imported western firearms and armour this was mixed with Russian style equipment such as sabres and armour. The clothing was always in the traditional Ru...

Precisely which shade of blue was used by the Bavarians and when has been the subject of much debate. From what I can tell from the debate over at TMP and leswwhere "sky blue"/"himmelblau" is actually a misunderstanding which has lived on, the actual colour was supposedly "c...

Well there is http://www.uniformology.com/Blueking.html , if you read German there some very detailed sources to be found on google books. For example the official history of the army, the book covering 1682-1700 is 791 pages long(!)