Всем доброго дня.
Я тож черкес, Savoy, WCB мои товарищи
Составлял линейку юнитов для Pike&Musket пана цегора, с кратким описанием и исторической справкой, думаю, может здесь ее выложить, може польза кака будет?
Просто если ее в Пайк&Маскет утвердят, хотелось бы, чтобы однотипные были юниты. Правда она англоязычная, но если надо я переведу.
Игру купил после того как узнал, что в модах Черкесия будет, т.к. перевод на русский там отвратительный поставил английскую версию, поэтому и линейку делал на английском. В скобках названия на черкесском. Вобщем, вот она:
Please remember, ALL units are armed with daggers in addition to their standart weapons.
1)
Пехота.
Circassian for infantery is лъэсыдзэ (tlesidze, tles - walking, dze - army)
Lhukotl (it means "commoner") Infantery therefore would be Lhukotl Tlesidze.
These were used to defend towns and villages, in large battle they were used as "cannon fodder". Possessing a weapon was a must for every Circassian, except for slaves (pshitl) and women. There was a special set of child weapons - smaller copies of real weapons. So even a commoner had to have som sort of weapons, mostly swords made at a local smithy and a round wooden shield. Those commoners that abandoned their peasanthood for search of glory and became wandering knights (see lhukosho raiders) had better weapons since their lives depended on it.
Repatriated Mamelukes (Qakozha Mamyloukher) - Circassians became a part of Middle Eastern Mameluke system as early as X cent. A.D. Since some of them managed to become sultans of Egypt during the Bahri period (1250-1389) they kept bringing in even more of their countrymen into the Mameluke ranks, "buying" them in batches as many as 5000-6000 men from Genoese and Venetian merchants which controlled the entire Black Sea trade until 1475. By 1389 they outnumbered Turkic Mamelukes and seized power in Egypt and Syria until 1517 when Egypt was conquered by Ottoman Turks. XV century authors descibe Circassians having absolute power in Egyptian sultanate, even call it "Circassian State on the banks of the Nile". Of course, the majority of the population being Arabic, hated self-centered Circassian rule and greeted Ottomans as liberators.
After the fall of Circassian Burji (Tower, since Circassian headquarters was situated in a tower of the Cairo citadel) dynasty and execution of the last Circassian sultan Tuman-bay II, some Circassian Mamelukes stayed in Egypt, and by mid-1600's Egypt was again semi-sovereign from Ottoman rule, although now there were all sorts of Mamelukes, Albanian, Georgian, Abazian, Greek, Circassian and even Slavic. Others repatriated to Circassia from Egypt and conteporary authors (Evliya Chelebi, a Turk whose mother was Circassian or Abaza) describe many settlements of repatriated Mamelukes in Circassia up until 1660's. They brought back the "fourussiya" - special Mameluke physical training system.
Repatriated Mamelukes should be armed with Circassian sabres, metal shileds and spears (Circassian - bzhi or pchi, depending on dialect). They also carry small hadcuffs for capturing prisoners. Effecrive against cavalry.
Abadzekh Shooters (Abazekhe Shabzawoher) - Circassia was divided in 12 larger provinces and 6 more smaller ones, which later merged with their larger neighbors. Each province spoke their own dialect of Circassian langauge. Abadzekhia was one of them. Circassians have a saying - "Shapsugh (see below) is a cutter, Abadzekh is a marksman". So Abadzekh Shooters are marksmen. One of their tactics was climbing trees in a dense forest and shoot at enemy troops from there. Several barricades in a row in the woods was their favorite tactics, by shooting at enemy and retreating from one barricade to another they'd exhuast the enemy. Also good at defending settlements since they shoot far with their bows (shabza), crossbows (sagyndak) and guns (foch or shkonch)
Shapsugh Infantery (Shapsugh Tlesidze)- Shapsughia is yet another province of Circassia. There was Greater and Lesser Shapsugia, Lesser being at the Black Sea coast from modern Tuapse (by the way it is an authentic Circassian name) to Novorossiisk and the Greater one was in the Transkuban region. Weapons were similar to those of Mamelukes. They were good at hand-to-hand combat so we can assume them being basic Circassian infantery unit with good stamina. "Shapsugh don't like to burn much gunpowder" - is another saying about them.
Psikhadze - "Water Dogs Army". (Psi - water, kha - dog, dze - army). I guess my friend Savoy's already answered your questions. I can add that their namee is said to be derived from their practice of using inflated wineskins (fend or shuent) to cross rivers at unexpected places (they didnt need a ford) and thus sneak up on enemy. Ambush and reconaissance is their specialty.
Ubykh Infantery - Ubykhia is yet another Black Sea coastal prvince of Circassia at the border of Abkhazia. Ubykh and Kabardian (another region, see below) leaders had absolute power over their troops in battles and unlike other Circassian tribes could punish even execute a soldier for lack of discipline or routing from battlefield. Living in mountaneous area, cavalry wasnt Ubykhs relied on in their warfare. On contrary, they managed to develop a strong infantery unit, called wunaru, which means "building demolishers". These were truly tireless, mountains taught them to walk far in any terrain, run real fast. Their weapons were usual daggers, sashkho's (Circassian sabres) and guns, since Turkish presence in the Black Sea region made it easy to acquire gunpowder. I'll try ro provide pictures to illustrate each type of unit.
2) Кавалерия
Cavalry in Circassian is shuudze, shu - horseman, dze - army.
Lhukosho Raiders - Lhukosho means peasant rider. Tejeley or tenjeley was a short jacket made of thick leather that protected from missile fire but could really help in a had-to-hand sword fight.
Beslen-Wark Cavalry - As I've already said, some Circassians (Ubykh, shapsygh, abadzekh) lived in the mountains. They had similar customs and closer related dialects. Since 1790's they also had a revolution and got rid of their nobles (wark) and lived under a "democratic" rule, electing their own leaders and judges. Other Circassians (Kabardian, Belseney, Temirgoy, Bjedough, Hatoukway and others) lived in plains. They had strictly aristocratic type of government, on top of which were the pshi (princes), the royal family, all of them being descendants of Yinal or Inal the Great, a Circassian prince who repatriated from Egypt and united all Circassians into one single state. He died in 1427. So the pshi of all Circassian provinces considered themselves to be relatives and they are referred to as the Inalids.
Then there were nobles (wark) of 4 ranks, tlakotlesh (most influential, only a few families belonged to this rank), dizhinugho(means silver-plated, they were second best), beslen-wark (these were vassals of pshi and formed the backbone of Circassian cavalry) and the wark-shaotlighusa (lowest in nobility, rarely owned a village, were most numerous, could be vassals to any other warks, some of them were ex-commoners).
Beslen-wark cavalry, as other Circassian cavalry, used their missiles before charge to soften the enemy. They had leather armor with metal stripes and better quality than lhukosho swords and sabres.
Bjedough (or Temirgoy) Wark Cavalry - Bjedoughia and Temirgoy were neighboring Circassian provinces ruled by Inalid princes. They had light chain armor and weapons similar to other wark cavalry.
Kabardian Armoured Wark Cavalry (Kabardey Afe-Jane Wark Shuudze) - these were the best of the best, coming from Eastern Circassian province of Kabardia (Kabardey). Rich plains of the Kuma and Terek River made these lands a desired prize for every invader since ancient times. With no natural defences, like high mountains, Kabardian Circassians had to develop the best military orgainzation, weaponry and ammunition in order to survive. That they did. They grew their own special Kabardian horse breed (See here
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As you can see, infantery was inmoprant to those Circassians who lived in the mountains, and was anly a cannon fodder and auxilia unit for Circassians of plains.
3) Осада - Sieges.
Circassians stormed Bakhchi-saray, the capital of Crimean Khanate in early 1500's. They captured Astrakhan from Astrakhan Horde Tatars twice - in 1532 and 1534. In 1574 they sacked Trabzon in Northern Turkey. during Russian-Circassian War 1763-1864 they captured Russian fortresses many times.
Early siege tactics were primitive - ladders, ropes, night attacks, spies who opened the gates. Later Circassians used a special device - a mantlet in Circassian called Shaipkhot (bullet-catcher), which was a large shield made of logs with dirt and stone between them, mounted on wooden wheels or a wheeled carriage and protected several approaching to the walls soldiers. Once at enemy walls, they used explosives to blow up enemy defences and then Wark cavalry would rush in and turn the place into a bloodbath.
Cannons were rarely used, since they werent too dependable and there wernt too amny people who could operate a cannon. For exmaple, in the later stages of Russian-Circassian War, from 1830's Polish soldiers who were sent to fight Circassians as a punishment for their participation in the Polish uprising of 1830 and then fled to Circassians to fight against Russians, manned the Circassian artillery. We have written reports of XVIII century princely strongholds with light cannons on the walls, though, used for defence.
4) Религия - Religion.
Circassians of the XIV-XV century were Pagans with some traces of Orthodox Christianity in the East and Catholicism in the West. Genoese and Venetian presence in the region until 1475 ensured intermarriages and Catholic proseletism. There even was a Circassian catholic Archbishop in 1330's called Joann de Zichi. On another hand, Emperor Justinian of Byzantia is said to bring Orthodox Christianity to Circassia as early as VI century AD. With mamelukes returning from Egypt and Turksish conquests Islam started to spread and by XVI century all pshi and nobles were converted to Islam, especially Eastern ones. Commoners remained mixed pagan-christian-muslim until XVIII century. Only at later stages of Russian-Circassian war, in 1840-1850's Western Circassians completely gave up their druidic practices and adopted Islam.
Since Circassians felt indifferent towards religion, preferring their own Adyghe Habze (Circassian Common Law), niether Orthodox, nor Catholicism, nor Islam (the latter - until Russian-Circassian war began in 1763) didnt play significant role in the region. Circassians were tolerant to any religion, since it was earthly deeds of knighthood and valor that occupied their minds, not the thoughts about the afterlife.
Hope the answers will be useful. Ask for more info if needed.
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ОООО!!!! Великолепно! Мне аж самому захотелось объеденить Черкессию и вообще потом Кавказ и Крым и т.д.!!!! 
) будете разрабатывать линейку юнитов, учитывайте что в первичной линейке должно быть не более 10 юнитов вообще, так сказать базовая линейка. 
