DBA Armies

IV/51 MOREAN BYZANTINE 1262 AD - 1460 AD

This list covers the Byzantine armies of southern Greece from their first regaining a foothold from the Romanian Franks until the Ottoman conquest. After 1349, it represents the semi-independent Despotate of the Morea, which continued to field substantial armies after the rest of the empire had shrunk to a 20-mile radius around Constantinople. The bulk of the army consisted of pronoia cavalry and peasant infantry. References: Armies and Enemies of the Crusades 1. Heath, Armies of the Middle Ages Vol 2 1. Heath The Late Byzantine Army M.C. Bartusis.

IV/51a — Morean Byzantine Army 1262 AD - 1346 AD

List: 1 x General (Cv), 2 x stratiotai (Cv), 1 x garrison spearmen (Sp) or hillmen (3Ax), 2 x garrison archers (4Bw), 5 x peasant archers (Ps), 1 x hillmen (3Ax or Ps)
Terrain: Hilly
Aggression: 1
Enemies:
Allies: IV/49 or IV/50

IV/51b — Morean Byzantine Army 1347 AD - 1460 AD

List: 1 x General (Cv), 1 x stratiotai (Cv), 2 x Albanian stradiots (LH), 1 x garrison spearmen (Sp) or hillmen (3Ax) or Burgundians or Italians (3Kn), 1 x Italians (4/8Cb) or Albanian archers (Ps), 1 x Albanian javelinmen (3Ax), 5 x peasant archers (Ps)
Terrain: Hilly
Aggression: 1
Enemies:
Allies: IV/55b