matmannen
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Recruitademt said:matmannen said:Recruitademt said:
So there we're some facts i was not aware of.
But coming the the latter statement the second great military reformation of sweden happend during the rule of Karl XI, that's when the carolinean army was founded, the blue and yellow army so to speak. Before that sweden had no major military reformation since Gustav II Adolf's reformations, so it was practically the same army, with a few adjustments i guess, as example the return of heavy cannons.
Now coming to the uniforms; Gustav II Adolf's army consisted of (according to my undestanding of facts read) four brigades: the red brigade, the yellow brigade, the green brigade and the blue. Soldiers could differantiate who belonged to which regiment through the color of mantle they had bound either from hip to shoulder or around the waist. So those are the only fact in writing i have found, but looking at paintings done during the era swedish soldiers usually had black with yellow, or metal over yellow. But this can also just be a way the painter tried to make them look "cool" since it does.
Now coming to the Hakkapelittat all cav did not have the same equipment; Adolf's reformations organized regiments into more unique regiments. Also true the fins didn't call themselfes hakkapelitta in the beginning, it was given about 20 years before the deluge by german catholics. The Hakkapelittat or finnsh light horse as it can be called were still present in Karl X's army.
I'm sorry.. I wrote that post under time pressure. But actually, the Hakkapelittas (finish soldiers) were just a ordginary regiment based in the what is nowdays finland :p, they were trained and raised the same as the other medium-weight cavalry in Sweden, why they got famous is because they didn't talk Swedish, they weared poorer armor (since finland was much poorer then), so adding this unit would not be accurate with the name "hakkapellitas" but instead the regiments name, but then, adding regiment names would be a lot of work.
I find military uniforms from different time periods very interesting, and if you would, could you please find me the source of this, that would be very kind =)
PS. Hur tyckte du matchen mellan Sverige - Ryssland var?
What you are saying is true. The hakkapälitta where normal cav, just as other swedish cav. But one diffrence which enabled them to become succesful chock cav was the finnhorses, the special horse race which was breeded in finland.
As you say using one of the four regiment names would be most correct, but maybe since WFaS already has the soldier finnsh arquibusier it could be added as finnsh light cavalry or finnsh raiders (since this was a normal activity for them along with recon) or something like that.
It will be difficult to find the source since the are many which i had to piece together. There is almost no info, also i have used painting of soldiers from the era, but as i stated, we can't trust them fully 'couse it can be propaganda from the painters par (tride to make them look cool)
Jag tittade tyvärr inte på matchen
Hur gick det? 
