Vienna 1683 15mm - Ottoman Turk Commanders

 

The two armies are nearing completion....... will I add more to these armies of course I will!!!

Essex's selection of Ottoman figures isn't that vast so I bought some Lancashire figures and also some Venexia , also sold by Lancashire, to make up some command stands. I already painted up the top dog  Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Commander in Chief of the entire Ottoman army, here. But I still needed the other brigade commanders.

After finding some historical Turkish commanders names I tried to chose the ones that matched the brigades set out by Mr Hilton in his scenario, now they don't all match unfortunately, but they were all real people who fought in the Vienna campaign. 

I was wondering why they were all named Pasha at first, so I asked Mr Google who said Pasha isn't their actual name its a high-ranking historical title in Turkish meaning a commander, governor, or high-level official, roughly equivalent to a British lord or a general/admiral.

Also the word Beylerbeyi is a a high-ranking provincial governor-general in the Ottoman Empire, so you learn something new everyday, or so they say???

Ibrahim Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Buda and Chyzyr Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Bosnia Eyalet

Abaza Sari Husetin Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Damascus and Kucek Hasan Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Rumelia

Celebi Huseyin Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Janowan, Ahmed Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Anatolia & Binamaz Halil Pasha, Beylerbeyi of Sivas

Ottoman Army under Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha

1st Line (Independent Commands)

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

2nd Line indie command

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs 

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6figs

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs 

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6figs

(Already painted before the Challenge)

3rd Line indie commands 

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs 

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs 

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs 

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs 

Janissary Brigade & Brigadier

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12
Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12

Reserve & Brigadier

Sipahis of the Porte Blade, Lance Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Sipahis of the Porte Blade, Lance Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Vizier's Guard All Musket, Flintlock Guard 6 

Great Gun Drilled 1 model 

Great Gun Drilled 1 model 

Holy League under King Jan III Sobieski

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs 

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs 

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs 

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs 

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Imperial Cavalry Brigade 

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Veteran-Elite 12 figs

Bavarian Cav Brig

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 12 figs

Saxons Cav Brigade 

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 6 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 18 figs

Field gun 1 model

Re-Play Wargames Festival - The Rejects on Tour

 

Now I know what some of you will be saying, "What? Another show????"

Yep I'm afraid so, another show, Although this time we'll be putting on a game.

We'll be running through the Campaign, set out in this fab book, 

"1812 The Retreat From Moscow, A Battle Chronicle"

written by three fine fellows by the names of Paul Brook, Lee Hadley and Ray Rousell.

As you may well be aware if you've visited this blog Lee and myself helped Paul write the book!!!

So if you're coming to the show, you can expect to see some action like in these photo's

Please come and say hello.

Hopefully we'll see a few of you there?

The RE-Play 2026 Wargaming Festival takes place on Saturday, 24th October 2026, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, Kent ME7 1UR.

And if any of that takes your fancy you could if you so wish, purchase the rules themselves, click this picture in the top right of my blog and it'll take you straight to the Pazoot site, and use the code RAY10, to get 10% off!

Loot From Rainham Wargames Club's Tabletop Sale

 

I just about broke even on the Posties Rejects table, selling some stuff and buying some too.

I needed some 15mm roads and some appeared before my eyes. Now I need more of the same!!!

Some rough ground terrain pieces, with a 25mm figure for scale. always kinda handy for many periods.

Lastly a box of 2mm Irregular Miniatures 18th century figures, I quite fancy some Austrians for the WSS to go with my Almansa project, you know that one I've not had a game with yet???

Lee, Postie and especially Dan managed to sell a lot of their stuff, unfortunately for me, I didn't, so I plan to take a few photo's and advertise my ware's here on my blog, then onto ebay, so I'm looking forward to the millions coming in soon?!?

As for the Tabletop sale as a whole, we we're a little disappointed in the footfall, I'd have expected a lot more support for the guys who run the show. 

Will we go again? Yes of course and I hope more bods turn up to sell and buy. Well done to the Rainham guys on a great little event.