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Another illustration done for Medieval Warfare Magazine a few months back.

This is the battle of Kutna Hora fought in a cold winter night between the Hussites, led by the famous commander, Jan Zizka, and the combined Hungarian and German coalition led by King Sigismund of Hungary (also soon to be Holy Roman Emperor). As you will notice the Hussites were a primarily infantry force based around the tactic of using war wagons as a bastion against enemy heavy cavalry assaults, a tactic Jan Zizka used to devastating effect and hence made popular among medieval armies of the European east. Here The Hungarians and Germans are caught off guard as Jan Zizka conducts an offensive push to break through the royalist forces which have surrounded his own.

You can read more about the battle here >> [link]

Its was also interesting to read about the Hussite heresy and how it came about and why the Church was adamantly against them. There was even a letter sent by Saint Jeanne d'Arc to the Hussites threatening them with extermination if they did not renounce their heresy and embrace Catholic orthodoxy. Of course in such wars there's also always a whole lot of local politics involved which drove the conflict.

Hope you guys enjoy this piece :)

And if any of you are interested you can check out the magazine here. Its a very interesting magazine if you're in to medieval history. >> [link]
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~Abhukir May 13, 2013  New member
That drawing is so EPIC COOL. Same as all of your pics. But I want ask you one thing...do you have drawings of soldiers/armies/battles between 1700-1950? The modern and contemporanean era.
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*IronwingKaiser777 Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Or is it a crossbow that I must be mistaking? XD
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~RoranHawkins Jan 29, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Gunpowder did exist in medieval times, and knight did exist past medieval times. In thic ase, it's the latter. The realist known guns were used in Europe as soonas in the 13th or 14th (not sure)) century already, but those handgonnes or hand cannons had as much chance to shoot as to explode. As times passed it was refined, but it only became a half-usable weapon in the 15th to 16th century, when the arquebuses and earliest muskets (not flintlocks, but with fuses). This is about the time of the discovery of America, and when the knight's decline really went down the slippery slope.

Guns evolved rapidly, and new tactics were made to be more effective counters to the only thing that could get arquebus armed units, cavalry. Their fast charges easily obliterated the gunnery units who only had a single shot before taking the charge, which had to be timed well for the most devastating effect.

In the West of Europe the Tercio pikesquare became used, where pikemen formed a square around the gunners while they delivered their payload without the need to worry for cavalry. In the East it was as Wraithdt explained a circle of war wagons packed with gunners.

Hope this helped!
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*IronwingKaiser777 Jan 29, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
I've known Muskets have been around for a long period of time. What about blunderbusses?

Yes, this helped.
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~RoranHawkins Jan 29, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
So, this results in: No, not crossbows, no shotguns (earliest ones where used in the 17th century if I'm not mistaken, known as blunderbuses, and highly inaccurate and less reliable)

They are probably using arquebuses.
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*Rau-Le-Creuset Mar 13, 2013
The first were called Dunderbuses, The Blunderbuses were a refinement of those.
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*IronwingKaiser777 Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Because what I see in the fortress, looks like a shotgun, hitting one of the knights in the torso.
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*IronwingKaiser777 Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Was there really gun powder in medieval times? I figured there would probably only be cannons.
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~AMELIANVS Jan 30, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
By 1400 the first "hand cannons" were deployed by some europian infantrymens, and the earliest small bore arquebuses, with burning "match locks" appeared on the battlefield in the later 15th century.Hussites also used hand cannons which they called píšťala in czech-this is one of the possible origins for internationaly used word pistol.
You could see some early hussite arquebuses type firearms:

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and here:

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*IronwingKaiser777 Jan 30, 2013  Hobbyist Artist
Weren't some of these, Combination Firearms?
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