Post your most interesting, cool or weird uniforms and kits. Pic related isBengal troops uniforms during colonial period.
>>64737614>Brown troopsI blasted them in Empire TW with canister shot when the Bri'ish decided to betray me when I was playing as the Dutch. Good times.
>>64737614Why are they wearing women's panties over beach shorts?
>>64738288They never missed leg day and they gotta show off their hard work.
>>64738288Nothing more manly than a codpiece.
Eritrean ascari fighting for fascist italy
>>64740853A bit of context would be nice
>>64738525These two guys fit your description very well hahaha
>>64737614The Karabinierkorps of the County of Schaumburg-Lippe in the middle of the 18th century was quite unusually heavily armored in comparison to the cavalry units of other states. Interestingly those cavalrymen were classified as light cavalry and as such operated in conjunction with foot Jäger (rifle armed skirmishers).They wore a musket-proof full cuirass, scale armor for the arms and an iron helmet with a visor that was adorned with bear pelt. In 1759 however the armor for the arms was abolished as those were unpopular with the troopers. Their weapons consisted of rifled carbines, a double-barrelled pistols and a mamluck style heavy sabre. During the Seven Years War this formation seldomly participated in the larger battles but was active in the small war operations of the time, where it often distinguisheditself due to its steadfastness.>>64740924NtA; those are the Louisiana Tigers - a Zouave stlye unit of the Confederate States of America. Zouaves itself originated as french light infantry that was raised in Algeria during the 1830s. Their style of dress and their name is derived from the algerian tribes that the french encountered during their conquest of Algeria. The dress style became very popular and Zouaves itself became a regular light infantry unit for the french army. This was then copied by many other states.
To the left a Karabiner without the armor for the arms. This picture is from 1765.
Here are the heavy sabres used by the Schaumburg-Lippe Karabiner.
Perhaps not the most unique but the newly formed demi-brigades of the 1st French Republic had a hodgepodge of different uniform pieces. This was mainly due as those formations consisted of three very different units that were merged together: firstly regular (formerly royal) army units that wore white uniforms with tarleton style helments (which were adopted by the royal army as the new standard headdress), secondly units of the national guard with blue uniforms and bicornes and thirdly volunteers with no uniform. The reason for this mixture was that the inexperienced and hastily raised mass levy soldiers needed some sort of "anchor" on the battlefield. This role was to be fulfilled by the regular soliders. So a demi-brigade consisted of one regular battalion and two "mass levy" battalions. The picture here really emphasises the non-standard uniforms of those formations.
>>64742320Pic rel would be an example of a late royal uniform.
>>64737614Not really unique, but its funny that Himmler wanted his Muslim SS troops to wear a special little fez
>>64742320>all of them are wearing rouge on their cheecksFrench fags.
for me it's Chinese cat warriors.
>>64740721>That old Ascari in Somalia in 1992>He gets to raise the flag>Viva Re!>Viva Duce!>Viva Italia!
>>64742471>furryism with chinese characteristics
>>64741276Why old worn out steel looks so good?
>>64737614wings. I can't think of anyone elese that did that to themselves
>>64742499It is interesting to see this as sort of an in-between of native American feathed headdress and Japanese calvery riding around with their banners. There were probably more people riding around with banners than we usually think of, I now need to do more digging.
>>64737614I like dragoons
>>64737614Belgian Army WW1, notice the maxim gun carts pulled by dogs
>>64737614Rogers Rangers One of the most practical uniforms for the American Frontier of the time period. Most notably since they wore leather/wool leggings as opposed to the little shitty spatterdashes issued to most regulars. Moccasins are also much more comfortable than the shoes of the period and your foot prints wouldn't immediately give away who you are. Tomahawks/hatchets are cool as fuck and much more useful tools outside of combat. Their tactics are still taught and relevant today.
>>64742369That's just the style of the artist, Richard Knötel.>>64742499Apparently the ottoman deli cavalrymen also wore wings. But on their hats and shield.>>64742568Cornets were those officers who carried the colors of the cavalry into battle. But usually on a lance.
>>64742763Light infantry is always cool. Some information about the prussian system of light infantry: during the First Silesian War Prussia encountered the austrian Pandur infantry - irregular soldiers sourced from the military border with the Ottoman Empire. Their skirmishing capability had a lasting impression on Friedrich II. the Great and as an answer he created the so called Freibataillon. As the name suggest those soldiers and cavalry troopers within such a formation were "free" to operate from the rigid linear tactics of their times and were mainly intended for skirmishing and the small war. Of note is that many of those free battalions were lead by nobles of huguenot origin. For the USAnons: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (the guy who was the inspector general of the Continental Army) served in such a free battalion and greatly internalized the methods of the light infantry and cavalry.
Pic rel are a Jäger and a Hussar of the Freibataillon Mayr, in which von Steuben served. During the Seven Years War the Freibataillon Mayr went on a large raid from prussian occupied Saxony all the way down to Franconia and due to their light tactics were able to travel fast and hit hard. They were able to take several cities with only 1500 men, 300 hussars and 5 light field guns - information warfare was also a key here as Mayr spread the deliberate rumor that his force was just the vanguard of a much larger prussian field army. During this time von Steuben was the personal adjutant to Mayr.
The Soviet gnome cap always me smirk.
>>64743315>austrian Pandur infantry>austrianAnon they were croats, serbs and the like. Whatever christians were willing to fight against the ottomans. The Austrians (germans) formed regular army units.
>>64743359Austrian as in the Habsburg Monarchy of which those territories were a part of.
>>64743347wtf is that face?
>>64743347Early Red Army was certainly a look. One I actually kind of like.
>>64743359Anyways, regarding the Panduren: here are some Slovaks
>>64744563Funny how that hat became the signature of the Chinese Red Guard while the Soviets' would be the ushanka.
Croats
Karlstädter Panduren - today this city is known as Karlovac in Croatia. Of note is that said city was modernised as a fortress in the 17th century and became one of the most important fortresses against the Ottomans.
>>64737614>>64740927Were jeets of old less degenerate and dirty?
Lastly, Panduren from Warasdin - modern day Varaždin in Croatia.
>>64741260What were the lads in the middle all about? I can't make out the letters.
>>64745171From left to right: Karabiner, Grenadier, Infantryman, Musketeer, Jäger, Artilleryman and finally Engineer. I speculate that the difference between the Musketeer and the Infantryman is about the date when the regiment in question was raised. In the Kingdom of Prussia all infantry regiments which were raised before 1740 were called Musketeers. Those regiments which were raised after 1740 were called Fusiliers. Perhaps it is something similar here.
>>64745162The warrior caste was an actual warrior caste back then, but they were a literal caste. Meaning they took all the same luxuries over the lesser castes that the Brits did over everyone. The issue here is that this led to those same guys hating the Anglos and being the point men on a lot of the rebellions because the Brits treated them as one homogenous group below them, when they didn't do that internally and consequently took tremendous offense to being treated that way. Frankly, the British retardation and arrogance caused them to lose India, and the other colonies. Think about an Empire that controlled half of the world but somehow couldn't make it solvent purely because they refused to understand you can't make a duck into a canary, and that no matter how many lines you draw on a map the people in those boxes will forever hate you for having done that. What they viewed as organization (peace) just caused more violence. Sure, you can't expect to be egalitarian and talk your way into perfect harmony, but they genuinely wanted no part in diplomacy due to their chauvinism. The "We have the Maxim Gun" motto is precisely what I mean. You can't pretend you're good at anything when your default position is just killing all the locals and being surprised they hate you, and then getting mad that they refuse to work with you because you killed them all.
