The logistics of armies at war!

As we announced it before, this years main theme in our hobby will be "Middle Ages" (combined with Fantasy!)

At the moment I am graduating MA in Ottoman history and my term papers theme is

"Food for the ottoman army in a campaign!"

So you can imagine why we have choosen this theme!

By pre-modern armies the whole organisation of logistics was based on transport over vast distances and pack animals were the key element.

One of them was the "horse".

There were two kinds of it.

One, as we all know, "warhorse" and the other, so-called "baygir" ("beygir" in turkish) as pack animal.

The "horse" was actually not a typical pack animal, more "warhorse".

But I addded two pack - horses to our wagon trail.


Yes, maybe some of you recognised that the horse is from the legendary set of Airfix, which isn't (maybe couldn't because of the lost molds!?) reproduced since many decades:

German mountain troops!

The other "baygir" is from Esci italian mountain troops:

All the figures can be chanced depending which army will be provisioned!

Chuck wagon and prairie schooner from İMEX!

İf you want to build a wagon trail you have not so much choices in 1/72 scale.

İMEX is one of them, with 2 sets!


The set is released in 1997, with 2 wagons, 2 horses, 2 oxen and 2 figures.

The plastic is medium!

The release date is old but not the mold and sculpting!

Yesterday I posted the chuck wagon.

Todays item is a prairie schooner, which is pulled by oxen. The wagon in the set is for american history in the 19th century. But you need to change only the figure, then you can use the wagon for each period.


The figure on the photo is from a medieval Europe set.