Extra Army List PDFs
We’ve been without the army lists not taken up by Helion for some time now. Unfortunately, recent changes to taxes and duties on digital products have made it difficult for us to continue selling them directly. After careful consideration, we’ve decided to make these additional PDFs available free of charge.
A couple of points to clarify:
- This change does not affect any army lists published by Helion — those remain entirely unchanged.
- The free PDFs apply only to the supplementary lists that didn’t quite make the final selection.
We also want to take a moment to thank those of you who purchased these lists in 2022–23. Your support meant a great deal to us. However, since we can no longer sell them, new players would otherwise have no access. To help the game grow and to keep our community as inclusive as possible, we’ve chosen to make these additional lists freely available to everyone.
In the run-up to Christmas, we will publish a list a day~, think of it as your Renatio et Gloriam advent calendar.
Starting today with a list set that we get a lot of requests for – The Ottoman Empire.
Between 1494 and 1721, the Ottoman Empire experienced one of the most dynamic and transformative periods in its military history. This era encompassed both its greatest conquests and the beginnings of structural challenges that would reshape its armies. At the turn of the 16th century, the Ottomans expanded across the Balkans, Anatolia, and the eastern Mediterranean, driven by the disciplined Janissary corps and the timariot sipahi cavalry. Victories over the Mamluks in 1516–17 brought Syria and Egypt into the empire, securing control of vital trade routes and religious centres.
Under Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–66), Ottoman military power reached its zenith. Campaigns in Hungary culminated in the capture of Buda (1541), while naval forces under commanders like Barbarossa dominated the Mediterranean. The empire’s eastern frontier was marked by continuous conflict with Safavid Persia, leading to a series of long wars that demanded logistical sophistication and adaptable tactics.
The late 16th and 17th centuries introduced new pressures. The protracted conflict with the Habsburgs, including the Long War (1593–1606) and the failed siege of Vienna in 1683, exposed weaknesses in recruitment, finance, and battlefield organisation. Reform attempts, especially under Köprülü grand viziers, revitalised Ottoman armies temporarily, but by 1721 the empire faced a changed military landscape in which European rivals had adopted new technologies and centralised systems, prompting the Ottomans to reassess and gradually modernise their own forces.
The lists included are –
- Early 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the West
- Late 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the West
- Early 17th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the West
- Early 18th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the West
- Early 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the North
- Late 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the North
- Early 17th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the North
- Early 18th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the North
- Early 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the Middle East & Egypt
- Late 16th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the Middle East & Egypt
- Early 17th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the Middle East & Egypt
- Late 17th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the Middle East & Egypt
- Early 18th Century Ottoman Provincial Army in the Middle East & Egypt
- Early 16th Century Ottoman Sultans Army
- Late 16th Century Ottoman Sultans Army
- Early 17th Century Ottoman Sultans Army
- Early 18th Century Ottoman Sultans Army
You can find the PDF here
