Swedish Infantry Regiment boxed set 0326 Bismarck was pursued by a

Bismarck was pursued by a Royal Navy set on retribution for the sinking of HMS Hood

and a chieftain on foot

the Landsknecht tactics adapted far more than the Swiss and the use of firearms in conjunction with the pike would give them the edge

2 meters of barbed wire

Armed with a 2-pdr main gun and later upgraded to a 6-pdr

Swedish Infantry Regiment boxed set 0326 Bismarck was pursued by aThe army of Gustavus Adolphus was a truly awesome foe. Tough hard hitting cavalry, mobile artillery and a solid fearsome core of infantry, the Swedish army of the Thirty Years War was arguably the best in the world at the time. Never a populous nation, the Swedes padded out their forces with allies and mercenaries where they could, but their native born infantry earned a reputation as hard fighting stoic men, who rarely ran away from often greater