Talk:Russians/@comment-176.212.72.56-20180624121316

So much hating description, only negative, so lol. Especially, at "helping" with Napoleon:/

To the theme, actually, strelets were regular european tought army guys, with many different weapons (sabres, twohand axes, firearms, hi-caliber firearms, lances (then on mount), halberds and pikes (on foot, instead of axes, for fights in open), some armor (for sieges) - all optional, but was provided with. Like swissknife. Loyal and disciplined enough in times of Ivan 4 (became unstable element later, in time of Peter 1). Wearing no armor was already usual for their time, cause no reason (firearms), only burden, in all the world. So it's actually wrong to make them cheap, zerg-like, penalty batalion's meat shield. It'll be much better to replace with them halberdiers, even without range attack, cause they simillar to. And make such unit as we have here, called "Opolchenie", means militia, volunteer corps, cause they actually were used much thouse days (almost in every war) by Russia, and were just almost the same to strelets we have here, in AOE3.