↓ Does not fire when an enemy is up close.Latest: News: huge patch, sale and many details Samuel, Dec 7, 2021. Announcements Announcements and release notes. Home Forums > Cossacks 3 Community Forum. ↑ Effective only when combined with infantry. Official GSC Game World’s Cossacks 3 RTS game community forum.Strelets regiments were abolished in Moscow in 1711 and vanished from the provinces after 1716. A brightly coloured outer caftan was belted with a sash. Their equipment comprised a fur cap, a long outer caftan, a zipun (a broadcloth camisole), porty (broad trousers) and gloves. Sometimes strelets units wore light chain mail. The heads (officers) could be armed with a sabre and a partisan. These fighters were armed with heavy fuse muskets or samopals (a Russian type of flint musket), sabres and pole-axes that they also used as musket props. The strelets strength was about 7,000 during the rule of John IV, while by the crowning of Theodore Ivanovich (John's son) in 1584, more than 20,000 soldiers were numbered among the streets regiments. A regiment officers comprised a head (colonel), a major, sotniks (lieutenants) and uryadniks (sergeants).
They were situated in Moscow, in Vorobyov sloboga (the outskirts of the city). The strelets history begins in 1550, when shooting units with pischals (a Russian type of fuse musket) were organized in 6 states (later called boards or regiments) with 500 soldiers each. Strelets were exempt from taxes, received a salary and could keep houses and learn a trade. One might say it was the first Russian regular army. Strelets regiments constituted the basic force of the Russian army before the reforms introduced by Tsar Peter I.