I want to be an Ottoman Cavalryman early 16th century

Bake Nasty · Post by **Bake Nasty** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:23 pm

I want to be an Ottoman Cavalryman from the early 16th Century.

Kilij, mail-and-plate coat, ridiculously ornate firearms and all...

Hee hee hee... just realized this is my "first" post.

Rittmeister Frye · Post by **Rittmeister Frye** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:05 am

Rick Orli (who posts here occasionally, and may hopefully put his two cents in) put together this fine website devoted primarily to Polish Hussaria and their supports, but he has a great addition in the information he's added on the Ottoman Turks. Here's the page for Turkish Cavalry:

http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/Ottonan_Cavalry.htm

Explore the rest of the site, it's got a lot of great information in it!

Cheers!

Gordon

Baron Alejandro · Post by **Baron Alejandro** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:55 am

Search options are your friend.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=45720

DeCalmont · Post by **DeCalmont** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:15 pm

Actually my bad, I did a search and missed it myself...although some good information has already popped up.

Amaris10 · Post by **Amaris10** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:00 pm

But, at least you narrowed it down to Cavalry! Cus' if you said, Navy, you would be walking around with an interesting Party Hat!

Amaris

Ron · Post by **Ron** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:37 pm

Well, as Ottoman cavalry, you might have had a horn bow instead of a gun. Bows are easier to reload.

You'd also have a kalkan http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=54398

Bake Nasty · Post by **Bake Nasty** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:03 am

Sorry about the terrible picture, but it's from a book and I have no scanner, so I had to take it with the built-in camera on my mac..

Anyway here is a pretty interesting find

And this is the sort of chichak/helmet I'm looking for.

Rittmeister Frye · Post by **Rittmeister Frye** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:28 am

Liam;

For kit, you might check into Hussar Supply, which deals in lots of cool stuff for an Central/Eastern European impression. He has swords, bows, armour and accoutrements that from my unpracticed eye look pretty good. He even has a couple of chichak/szyszak/zischagge that appear very much like the photo you posted.

Those greaves and sabatons are VERY interesting! Besides, you don't get to see the bottoms of such things very often, either!

Cheers!

Gordon

Derian le Breton · Post by **Derian le Breton** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:36 pm

Check out my photos from Istanbul. I took a fair number of photos of 15th and 16th century Ottoman armour.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebr ... 245951449/

-Donasian.

Bake Nasty · Post by **Bake Nasty** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:07 am

Thank you for your input, those photos were very class. I liked the arm guards especially, the likes of which I have never seen before.

Amaris10 · Post by **Amaris10** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:33 am

Liam,

What's the name of the book?

Amaris

Bake Nasty · Post by **Bake Nasty** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:15 pm

The Book is "Warrior" by R.G. Grant, published by DK. http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Visual-Hi ... 075663203X

I would also recommend "Battle" as an excellent history book. They should both be on the Archive's Recommended Reading List (if such a thing indeed exists.)

Bake Nasty · Post by **Bake Nasty** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:22 pm

Norman · Post by **Norman** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:17 am

Dup - removed

Norman · Post by **Norman** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:18 am

Important NOTE -
[big]They put greaves on this guy's shoulders!!![/big]

Liam O'Donovan wrote: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rum073.jpg[/img]