How historically accurate are the military/navy uniforms in Assassin's Creed?

by NikKerk

Reposted question due to no definitive answers from the original post

For those who don't know what AC is, it's a historical fiction video game series in which a modern character uses a device to revisit the memories of his ancestors of an ancient Assassin Order.

Each title in the series visited a certain time period. The uniforms (specifically of the enemies you can fight and kill in the series) are something I'd like to find out about, so how accurate were they for the time periods they were in, in each game title? Here are several concept art images of the enemies' uniforms from several of the game titles you can see.

Assassin's Creed Revelations (set in 1510's Constantinople, Ottoman empire and Byzantine conflicts took place)

Ottoman Soldiers:

Ottoman Elite Soldiers with Ornate Armour

Ottoman Gunman

These Ottoman soldiers fight with daggers in game, this is concept art

Ottoman Janissary Captain

Byzantine Soldiers: Lowest ranked Byzantine guard

Byzantine Pikeman, known as Varangians in game

Byzantine Gunman

Byzantine Bombman, uses shrapnel grenades and daggers

Byzantine "Almogavar", though this one has a long sword, they use axes in game

Assassin's Creed: Liberation (set between 1765 - 1777, New Orleans Louisiana)

French Soldiers

Sharpshooters, left and middle, captain on right

Spanish Soldiers

Spanish Private

"Mariner", carried hatchets

Spanish Lieutenant

Spanish "Sergeant", carried axes

Spanish "Dragoon". I have no idea what in general, a "Dragoon" is

Spanish "Warlord", A.K.A bounty hunter

Assassin's Creed 3 (set during American Revolution, British and Patriot soldiers)

Patriots: Continental Officer on left, lowest ranked continental soldier on right

Patriot "Jaeger" Elite soldier rank

British: Grenadier with axe who also carried shrapnel grenades, Officer, and regular soldier. left to right

British Jaegers, Elite soldier rank, who were German Bounty Hunters with the British. This is AC's version of the real life 'Hessians'

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (set between 1715-21 during Golden age of Piracy, with British, Spanish, Portuguese, and Privateers A.K.A "Pirate Hunters")

Lowest ranked soldiers, Spanish, British, Portuguese, and Pirate Hunter/Privateer, left to right

Sharpshooters. Spanish, British, Portuguese, and Pirate Hunter/Privateer, left to right

Scouts, soldiers with daggers, Spanish, British, Portuguese, and Pirate Hunter/Privateer, left to right

Brutes, soldiers with axes and shrapnel grenades. Spanish, British, Portuguese, and Pirate Hunter/Privateer, left to right

Captains (below). They were called "officers" when a coastal fort was owned, and a maximum of five "officers" would be in a fort, in game

British Captain

Spanish Captain

Portuguese Captain---about this, was the Portuguese navy even present in the time and area the game took place in?

Pirate Hunter/Privateer Captain

Assassin's Creed: Rogue (set between 1752-60, Seven Years War, North Eastern North America, NYC, Appalachian River Valley, and the Canadian North Atlantic around Newfoundland, Anticosti Island QC, and Halifax, NS) note: in the game, these soldiers had the same uniforms on both land and on warships. btw ignore the Assassin ranks, as they're fictional (orange-green uniforms).

Lowest ranked guards/infantry

Gunners with muskets

There was a soldier rank that carried axes and shrapnel grenades in the both the French/British armies and navies, but couldn't find any concept art of them

Captains, though they were called "officers" when a fort was owned, and a maximum of about 3 "officers" would be in a fort, in game

These are called "Bounty Hunters", highest rank with cutlass and flintlock pistol

UPDATE: Here is a website showing concept art of every military/naval rank of each enemy type in AC Rogue! Top to bottom, note: ignore the Assassin ranks (orange-brown-green). The concept image second from the top are the ranks which carry daggers, and the concept image between the Bounty Hunters and Captains are the "Brutes" that carry axes and shrapnel grenades.

Assassin's Creed: Unity (set in Paris, France, throughout French Revolution)

"Extremists" (in the game, they were rebels in Paris who fought against French authorities), though they don't have any standard uniforms, would some (like the Extremists who carried spears or pikes) have so much armor on themselves in the real history of the French Revolution?

In fact, were there even extremists of such sort during that time period?:

Called "Seekers' in the game, carried short swords

Extremists that carried axes

Extremists who carried spears, or pikes

Extremist Sharpshooter, carried muskets

French Authorities:

Called "French National Guards" in the game

Extremist rebel on left. French Authority "Swiss Guard" on right, these Swiss guards in AC's Paris were the highest rank

It took me a long-ass time to copy and paste all the links, so I hope this re-post gets good replies. Thank you!

In case you have trouble accessing some of the links (for some reason I have too, when I posted another re-post of this. But was deleted afterwards). Here is an entire gallery of the renders and concept arts of the different types of enemies throughout every AC game. To let you know, not all of them are posted question. Only the ones from the games that I have played.

GeneralLeeBlount

One uniform I can answer is the British Grenadier which seems to be a 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot as the backpack says 42. While the mitre cap is accurate, the axe really isn't. They were usually equipped with musket, grenades, and maybe tomahawk. Grenadiers were the shock troops of early modern warfare.

The jacket is completely wrong, while Highland grenadier jackets were different they had different shoulder "wings" than depicted if at all. Most of the fringed epaulletes were for officers. They wouldn't have those type of gloves either that fit over the large cuffs of the jacket. In the north they were given mittens or wool gloves. The collar is too large and too red, the collar matched with the facings on the coat, which are missing. They had dark blue facings and collar.

The sporran is close, they were issued goat while some had plain leather. The 84th got raccoon sporrans for their duration. I assume they didn't even try to get the tartan correct as it's supposed to be black watch. Also, they wouldn't have been as tailored as they are depicted. Great plaids were issued early on but stopped after 1778 for the 42nd as it got too expensive. Many made them into trousers or breeches when they wore out. The kilt is missing the top "extra" that is usually brought to the shoulder and pinned with a brooch.

Boots? Hardly. They were issued buckled shoes and hose.

Gallery of re-enactors as Highland grenadier

The mitre cap made it easier to throw grenades as the tricorn was likely to impede a good throw. Even with bonnets, Highland grenadiers wore mitre caps to show they were part of the elite assault troops. Grenadiers were imposing and tough soldiers.

Source: I'm a re-enactor for a Highland Regiment for the Rev War.

Second_Mate

The French Revolutionary uniforms above have no relation to reality at all, apart from the outfits being clothes. French National Guards were like the picture below, especially in Paris, which subsequently formed the model for the French army as a whole. Here is a contemporary painting of a National Guard Officer (Lafayette) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Serment_de_La_Fayette_IMG_2377.JPG I'm not sure of what the "extremist rebels" are supposed to represent, and as the Sans Culottes didn't wear uniform I won't comment. The Swiss Guard wore conventional French infantry uniform, but in red. These are near contemporary paintings that shows them http://brattleborohistory.com/images/Jean%20Duplessis%20Bertaux,%20Detail,%20Prise%20Du%20Palais%20Des%20Tuileries.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Jacques_Bertaux_-Prise_du_palais_des_Tuileries-_1793.jpg The latter also shows National Guardsmen.

I'm afraid that I can't open the American Revolution links, so can't comment on them.

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Contemporary picture of Hessian Jager http://www.jaegerkorps.org/www.jaegerkorps.org/Images/Jaegerwatercolour.jpg They weren't "bounty hunters" but regularly trained and officered rifle armed light infantry.

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The British Revolutionary War Grenadier is actually a Sapper, hence the beard and large axe.

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The Byzantine Almogavars (various spellings) were Catalan mercenary light infantry, who used a variety of spears and javelins, usually wore no armour, and also had a longish knife. Contemporary picture here http://www.catalonian-airlines.cat/files/images/almogavers.jpg