Introducing Rakosz Miniatures and No Prayers for Tsar Herod 15mm range

Hello and welcome! This is Denis from the self-ptoclaimed Rakosz Miniatures.

Let's start this blog with the first preview of the upcoming 15mm range: "No prayers for Tsar Herod"

It is a XVII-century so-called Eastern Renaissance range. I've decided to start from an almost uncovered topic so let me present you a set of armed orthodox monks. While I was inspired by certain events - like defence of Troitsk monastery in 1608-1610 or defence of Solovetsky monastery in 1668-1676, this set of 15mm monks can be used for most part of XVI-XVII centuries. Some models (the ones without bardiches or muskets) can easily and quite precisely represent medieval orthodox monks.

They can be used in the armies of Moskovite Tsardom, as well as represent armed clergy, supporting cossacks of Zaporozhian Host, or even represent the self-defence forces of Polish-Lituanian orthodox monasteries or rebelling monks (as it was in the case of Solovetsky monastery). After all, it was a time when clergy used to participate in armed conflicts quite often.

At the time of the publication this set consists of the following miniatures:

1. 6 monks with various melee weapons - axes, bardiches, clubs and spears. 

One figure wears chainmail and the other one - XVI's century russian helmet with added mail protection. As you can see - old monk with small altar cross has 2 versions - more and less armed.

2. 6 monks with muskets. 

As in the previous case one figure is armored, while the other one has an old helmet from monastery armory. I haven't added bandoliers to any of the miniatures so their use isn't limited to the second half of the XVII-th century.

3. Headquarters - 3 monks with relics and "igumen" (abbot of the orthodox monastery).

Here we have a singing monk with a holy book, young monk carrying holy icon and a standard bearer. Icon bearer has alternative version with empty icon (if you want to use decals or paint something different). Igumen also has armed (with a heavy XVII-century saber) and unarmed versions. 

4. 2 casualties.

These are just two dead or wounded (or just drunk....) bodies of orthodox monks, that you can use as markers or add them to the unit bases.

So, that's all for now, stay tuned - later Rakosz Miniatures will return with more teasers and releases, as well as photos of the painted miniatures!