17th Century Forces
This period of warfare had 3 basic branches in military land forces: infantry, cavalry, and artillery. They had a relative balance, with the cavalry having much greater strength offensively than defensively and the infantry the opposite. Mostly, artillery was a supporting branch, delivering a slow rate of fire at very long range, and highly immobile.
Read more about this topic: Battle Of Breitenfeld (1631)
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