Muscovites vs. Swedes AAR

With the cavalry the Russian troops reached a higher level and are now able to be deployed against a larger size opponent, so it was time for some gaming. The Muscovites are defending the village and the Swedes have to capture the regimental gun on the church hill.

Cavalry clashes on the Swedish left flank.

Nolisium vs. Fjördstir Raiders

More Christmas-time medieval slaughter occured on the 25th, behold the report:

The Golden Prince of Nolisium was informed of a large Fjördstiri raiding party landing near the border. He took what he could of the army and marched to meet them.

The siege of Szabács (Шабац / Sabac / Šabac), 1476

As the press exquisitely asked not to publish the story written for the anthology (sadly for me and my fellow readers), I thought I would at least share the historical background to it.

Reconstruction drawing of the fort from 1790 by Imperial engineers

The siege of Szabács in 1476 was part of the propaganda King Mathias I Hunyadi of Hungary tried to convince the Western courts with, in terms of taking the Ottoman threat seriously. However, during all his reign, Mathias had the idea of Western conquest, and despite two sieges (Jajca in 1465 and Szabács in 1476) and destroying the invasion at Kenyérmező in 1479, he did not take any actions against the Turk territories on the Balkan: how wrong even the idea to attack was had been proven in the campaigns led by his father, János Hunyadi and King Vladislaus I of House Jagiello who lost his life at Varna in 1444, but we can also take the earlier example of King Sigismund of Luxembourg who, despite having an allied Crusader army of French and German knights, still lost the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 (although mostly due to his lack of military skill and not being informed how the French fight, but that is another story).