[4.50] Palaiologan Byzantine 1261 AD – 1384 AD Chaud 1 Arable

Climat : Agressivité : Zone topographique :

Terrain obligatoire : Terrains facultatifs :

(aucun) WW, Rv, H(S), H(G), Wd, O, V, E, M, RGo, Rd, BUA

Avertissements Les troupes irrégulières sont en rouge, les troupes obligatoires en gras.

Liste principale Désignation C-in-C Sub-general Vardariotai guards Tzakones, Catalans or similar guards Kavallarioi Stratiotai Kontaratoi Archers Upgrade archers to Mourtatoi or Gianitzaroi guards Peasants or town militia: • 1/2 • 1/2 Tzakones, Gazmouloi or similar marines Byzantine ghaleia [Ax (S)] Genoese: • up to 1/4 • rest Genoese galleys [Bd or Bw] Turkish allies: • if before 1348 • otherwise

Type Reg Cv (O) Reg Cv (O) Reg LH (F) Reg Ax (S) Reg Kn (O) Reg Cv (O) Reg Sp (I) Reg Ps (O) Reg Bw (I) Reg Bw (O)

Coût 28 28 4 5 12 8 4 2 4 5

200 pts

Irr Ps (O) Irr Ax (I) Reg Ax (S) Reg Gal (F)

2 2 5 2

Reg Bd (S) Reg Bw (O) Reg Gal (F)

9 5 2

250 pts

300 pts

400 pts

1 1-2 *1-3 *1-3 1-2 4-6 0-4

*1-4 *1-4 1-2 5-8 0-5

*1-5 *1-5 2 6-9 0-6

*1-6 *1-6 2-3 8-12 0-8

4-12

5-15

6-18

8-24

0-4

0-5

0-6

0-8

0-4

0-5

0-6

0-8

0-1

1 per Byzantine Gal 0-1 0-2

0-2

1 per Genoese Gal 0-2

0-3

0-3

0-4

List: Anatolian Turkoman (Bk 4) List: Ottoman (Bk 4)

Only before 1292 AD Désignation Cumans

Type Irr LH (F)

Coût 4

200 pts 4-9

250 pts 5-11

300 pts 6-14

400 pts 8-18

Coût 7

200 pts 1-3

250 pts 1-4

300 pts 1-5

400 pts 1-6

Type Coût 200 pts 250 pts List: Golden Horde and Successors (Bk 4)

300 pts

400 pts

300 pts

400 pts

Only before 1306 AD Désignation Tourkopouloi

Type Reg LH (S)

Only from 1282 AD to 1283 AD Désignation Golden Horde Mongol allies

Only from 1301 AD to 1305 AD Désignation Alan allies

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Type Coût List: Alan (Bk 2)

200 pts

250 pts

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[4.50] Palaiologan Byzantine 1261 AD – 1384 AD Only from 1327 AD to 1352 AD Désignation Serbian allies Bulgar allies

Type Coût 200 pts List: Serbian Empire (Bk 4) List: Later Bulgar 0-6 (Bk 4)

250 pts

300 pts

400 pts

0-8

0-9

0-12

This list starts with Mikhail VIII Palaiologos’s reorganisation of the Byzantine army and ends with the defeat at Chortiates in 1384 of the last field army outside the Morea. It does not cover the sieges ending with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Varangians no longer took the field, but the Vardariotai still did at least as late as 1272. They were supplemented by light armed infantry, firstly Tzakones from the Morea, then a succession of similar troops. The supply of Franks had dried up with the fall of the Latin Empire, leaving only the Tourkopouloi as permanent mercenary troops. Armoured cavalry were now mostly reservists holding individual pronoiai, grants not of land but of its rents. Most were called stratiotai, rode small horses, wore moderate armour and fought with lance, sword or mace and a long triangular shield if from western provinces, more often a round shield if from Asia, Thessaloniki or Constantinople. About a fifth were instead called kavallarioi, added the prefix “Syr” to their name and are assumed to be the descendents of Frankish knights. We also assume them to be the minority attested by Conrad of Montferrat with large destriers and heavier armour and to be the men Kantakouzenos calls “kataphraktoi”. Other troops served unpaid in return for land grants, usually settled in groups by the government. These included soldier-farmers working their own plots, such as the Tzakones that provided most of the marines and the native Thelematarioi, and nomad horsemen allocated tribal tracts in return for military service, such as Cumans or Alans. Remaining sources of men included supplementary infantry such as peasants or shepherds conscripted to chase raiders like those under Ioannis Choiroboskos “John the swineherd” in 1304 and town dwellers holding walls, temporary mercenaries, and allied contingents such as the Turks that were increasingly relied on and who served only under their own leaders. Fortress garrisons were permanent paid troops responsible to the governors of their themes and did not serve in field armies. Most infantry were now lightly equipped archers, but some archers are depicted wearing armour and shooting from inside a shield in Turkish fashion. These may have been based on the Mourtatoi Turkish foot guards. “Gianitzaroi” is so similar to “Janissary” (“Yeniceri”) as to also imply an archer guard. Minima marked * apply only if the C-in-C is the Emperor. Since the Catalan Company (1302 - 1305) and Amadeus of Savoy (1366 - 1367) fought independently, they are not included here as allies. Phil Barker et Richard Bodley Scott, Listes d’armées DBM – Livre 4, 2e édition, mars 1999

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