Reply To: TYW: Imperialist Catholic League infantry

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Exactly. It is even used today for the Spanish Legion that was formed 1920 as Tercio de Extranjeros / Tercio of the foreigners. The official name today is Legión Española but many Spaniards still say The tercio.

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We tend to think that Imperials had more pikes than others but that is not true. It was sometimes very different.

Duke Adolph of Holstein’s regiment was raised in 1626 and formed 7 companies instead of the usual 15. It was very active in the campaigns. Serving in the storm of Magdeburg and Actions like Breitenfeld.
We have an exact list from the march through Stettin in November 1627 . There it had 1361 musketeers, 327 pikemen and 897 women.

So you have enough pikes. But never enough miniatures. 😉