From JezT - 28mm Hungarian Hussars circa 1526 (91 points)

 Hi All 

Exciting second post as this is creating a new Basic Impetus army option for me - Hungarian Renaissance, specifically aiming for basing this around the Battle of Mohacs 1526 when they took on the Ottomans and got totally wiped out. 

My brother Matt is taking up with the Ottomans and bought figures from TAG (we might see some this Challenge - no pressure Matt but stop painting fantasy and get on with these). I get to be the mad impetuous Hungarians, but was quite pleased as I already had suitable Landsknecht type infantry and Men at Arms cavalry, so really just needed the specialist Hungarian Hussar light cavalry options. 

After searching I eventually decided upon Warlord figures and bizarrely these are actually sold as Ottoman Turks.  I personally think they looked more European and critically for me they had the "signature" shooting bow pose, with curved shields and plums that I wanted. So I ended up with 3 packs and a total of 9 mounted to paint up to create 3 light cavalry bases. 

First up is the Hussar light cavalry (in Basic Impetus parlance VBU 4/1), these can shoot and also charge in with lance. 

Then I have two more bases of light cavalry bowmen, as these are more specifically skirmish cavalry shooting only (in Basic Impetus VBU 3/0), I decided on two figures per base and added on extra bows, so every model looks like an archer. 

With the final two figures, I knew a definitely need a Hungarian themed commander figure.

There are weapons and a horse swap here - think the horse is an old Redoubt sculpt

As I got rid of the original sword, for accuracy felt needed to add in a new sword pommel

Think red and white are key Hungarian colours 

Finally for the last figure I decided to base them on a sabot base as a standard bearer so they can mix with my existing Gendarmes and make a fully Hungarian Men At Arms unit. 

Pleased with sabot base in action and now touching up more of my my older Gendarme figures.

So in total 9 mounted should be 90 points. 

All the best Jez

Nice looking Hungarians here Jez! Good idea to sabot-base these models as it'll let you use them fir skirmish games as well. Good work on the flags and shield also - I'll chuck in another point for those. Ninety-one for your tally!

Dallas