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Got my Battle of Vienna book yesterday, thought it might help things. 
While it unfortunately does not contain pictures of what the Ottoman vassals' troops (such as those of Wallachia or Moldavia) or the troops of Emperor's non-Polish allies look like
, it's a good read (I guess) and gave me a lot of information which will be put to good use when I get around to coding the Battle of Vienna events.
Also, from what I've read it looks like I'll definitely have to have some Hungarian units, both infantry and cavalry. I could use the Haiduk and (non-Polish) Hussar units from fairline's ToT Carolus compilation, but I'm not sure. Any pics of Thököly's Hungarian rebels would be wonderful, as well as pics of the Imperial Hungarian forces of this time. (And should I do separate Imperial and Ottoman/rebel Hungarians, or go the sprite-coloring route? I am not sure.)
Attached below are some unit pics I made when inspired by the pictures in the book.
The first guy is an Imperial Dragoon. I decided to do this unit upon reading that the Imperial army did have dragoons (although such a unit seems to have been new for them) and I think I saw a picture of them in a lithograph of the Battle of Párkány. In the bottom right front of the picture there is a number of horseman carrying some sort of weapon held over their shoulders. From the way they are holding these nondescript weapons, and the length of said armaments, I reckoned these troops were dragoons and somewhat modeled them after that. (Basing my model on the dragoons from Casus Belli, that is.
) Also, since the lithograph is black-and-white, I decided to go with the colors of the Austrian infantry (since the dragoons at this time were presumably mounted infantry).
The second guy is an Imperial Curiasser. This unit is taken from depictions of some Imperial cavalry (I think) from a depiction of the Battle of Pressburg in the Vienna book. Realizing that the guys with the tricorner hats were officers . I decided to look at the incomplete depictions of "enlisted" cuirassers in the reference pics (hey, there were wearing curiasses...) and did some conjectures from there. As you can see, he is largely derived from his TYW predecessor, with modifications to the helmet and the arms.
The third guy is non other than Kara Mustafa Pasha himself. As can be plainly seen, he's a modification of fairline's Suleiman the Magnificent, and his look is based on a depiction of him outside Vienna in the aforementioned Osprey book. It took a lot of work to rework and remodel the unit, and I think the turban might be a pixed row too high, but still...
While it unfortunately does not contain pictures of what the Ottoman vassals' troops (such as those of Wallachia or Moldavia) or the troops of Emperor's non-Polish allies look like
, it's a good read (I guess) and gave me a lot of information which will be put to good use when I get around to coding the Battle of Vienna events. Also, from what I've read it looks like I'll definitely have to have some Hungarian units, both infantry and cavalry. I could use the Haiduk and (non-Polish) Hussar units from fairline's ToT Carolus compilation, but I'm not sure. Any pics of Thököly's Hungarian rebels would be wonderful, as well as pics of the Imperial Hungarian forces of this time. (And should I do separate Imperial and Ottoman/rebel Hungarians, or go the sprite-coloring route? I am not sure.)
Attached below are some unit pics I made when inspired by the pictures in the book.
The first guy is an Imperial Dragoon. I decided to do this unit upon reading that the Imperial army did have dragoons (although such a unit seems to have been new for them) and I think I saw a picture of them in a lithograph of the Battle of Párkány. In the bottom right front of the picture there is a number of horseman carrying some sort of weapon held over their shoulders. From the way they are holding these nondescript weapons, and the length of said armaments, I reckoned these troops were dragoons and somewhat modeled them after that. (Basing my model on the dragoons from Casus Belli, that is.
) Also, since the lithograph is black-and-white, I decided to go with the colors of the Austrian infantry (since the dragoons at this time were presumably mounted infantry).The second guy is an Imperial Curiasser. This unit is taken from depictions of some Imperial cavalry (I think) from a depiction of the Battle of Pressburg in the Vienna book. Realizing that the guys with the tricorner hats were officers
. I decided to look at the incomplete depictions of "enlisted" cuirassers in the reference pics (hey, there were wearing curiasses...) and did some conjectures from there. As you can see, he is largely derived from his TYW predecessor, with modifications to the helmet and the arms.The third guy is non other than Kara Mustafa Pasha himself. As can be plainly seen, he's a modification of fairline's Suleiman the Magnificent, and his look is based on a depiction of him outside Vienna in the aforementioned Osprey book. It took a lot of work to rework and remodel the unit, and I think the turban might be a pixed row too high, but still...
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