Here's a post to simply familiarize You with the look of average Poles and polish soldiers from that period.
They look completely different from all of the Western European nations, having their own fashion for both civilians and military personel, somewhat similar to that of Transylvanians or Russians.
Unlike the Swedish, Dutch, English or Prussians, etc etc, most of the Poles don't wear cavalier hats on their heads but polish style kalpaks.
Uniforms/clothing are also a bit different, with Poles being loyal to their own traditional "kontusz", "zupan", "delia", but to simplify things, just scroll trough pictures to understand what that means ;)
Also, facial hair is different than that of the "civilized" western world as most of the Poles don's sport long hair, using "classical" shorter haircuts instead, sometimes very very short as shown on various pictures.
Beards, especially hispanic are uncommon, used mostly by the commanders.
A traditional moustache is extremely popular tho :)
As for their primary weapons, here they also differ from the western-europeans by using sabres, instead of rapiers or broadswords.
Some other bladed weapons are also quite popular, like various types of warhammers...
More about polish soldiers and polish formations in other posts, but since MOST of the our heroes and our corsair crew look exactly like those on pictures, this post will be pretty important to figuring out how to design certain polish characters.
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