Historicals

ASTERS OF WAR Mounted serjeants, the backbone of medieval cavalry, were skilled warriors who rode alongside their knights into battle. Unlike their noble counterparts, these men earned their place through loyalty and martial prowess rather than...

SERVANTS OF WAR"Serjeant" taken from the Latin "serviens" meaning to serve, were the lower-ranking warriors of a lord's army. Whereas knights typically came from a noble background, the serjeants rose up through the ranks. Professional soldiers, they...

TO ARMS!The peasant levy could make up a bulk of an army during this time period but were rarely the decisive element in a battle. They were raised in one of three ways, as members of a lord's household, as mercenaries, or levied from a town or the...

"The Great War, World War, War to End all Wars, the only true name it has is the Last War, for now remains not enough people to fight another. The War ended not with a bang but a cough and splutter. The disease that took hold spread far and wide. Few...

A CHARGE OF BRIGHT STEEL! Gunpowder cannon transformed the battlefields of Europe in the late 15th and into the 16th century and then those battlefields were transformed again as matchlock and wheel-lock firearms could be fielded by infantry…and cavalry...

SHATTERING THE SUN GOD! The Conquest of the New World almost died with Hernan Cortes at Otumba as Aztecs surrounded his small force and Tlaxcalan allies. In the heat of battle, he noticed a group of priests and leaders directing the Aztec army. He...

The chariot was the first mobile instrument of war. Appearing as far back as 6000 years ago when horses were first domesticated and the wheel was invented, the chariot quickly became a powerful weapons platform. This model is typical of the type used in...

It seems the Quar have always been at war. When the first wandering clans of insect gatherers built their low, mud-walled buildings, it was as much to keep out other Quar as the wild animals. As they first learned to make tools to get food, they quickly...

FROM OUT OF THE SHIMMERING HAZE A DEADLY SIGHT... These fearsome warriors used their cavalry to great advantage in stalking and launching attacks on the British and other invaders from their mountainous homeland. Often, Afghan cavalry units (regular...

THE IMMORTALS GO FORTH The mighty armies forged by Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for centuries until finally falling to Alexander. Led by the elite Immortals, Persian armies were built from the many kingdoms and...

THE DRAGON WAKES! China 1899. A populist movement secretly supported by the Empress Dowager has risen up to expel all foreigners from Chinese soil. Called the Yihequan (Fists of Harmony and Justice) but “Boxers” by foreigners because their members...