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Is it just me or do some of the sculpts for the new Redbox heavy landsknechts seemed to be very strangely equipped? I've never seen landsknechts in fully skirted armour and fully enclosed bascinets - to me they look more like they are dismounted gendarmes than landsknecht infantry. Anyone seen contemporary source material depicting landsknechts so equipped?
Is it just me or do some of the sculpts for the new Redbox heavy landsknechts seemed to be very strangely equipped? I've never seen landsknechts in fully skirted armour and fully enclosed bascinets - to me they look more like they are dismounted gendarmes than landsknecht infantry. Anyone seen contemporary source material depicting landsknechts so equipped?
You are right. More exact to call them dismounted gendarmes
The armour they are wearing is called tonlet, basically tournament armour. The boxart is taken from a painting "The Battle of Orsha" (poland/Lithuania versus Moscow
In this Thesis on the painting
http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2014/2014-jul-sep/hucul-orsha-en
it´s suggested that while this type of armour would be unlikely it could of possibly be used on a battlefield..but Landsknechts in such armour???