... From: "omnicrondelicious" <snuh@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:12 AM Subject: [ancmed] Re: Roman D20 ... yes,...
My dad told me about this a week ago- a Saxon King buried a mile from where I was born, would you believe! Supposed to be contemporaneous with the Sutton Hoo...
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In response: I'm reviving a long-neglected 'Flodden' period Scots army, currently based for 7th ed. WRG rules - 5 X 10 element pike units, split into EHI/HI in...
The Saltire was (I believe) originally the banner of the Edinburgh Baxter's guild (bakers) and possibly of a few others, such as fishmongers, and used in...
... powerful; ... Yes. Ideally a command-system must be somehow capable of adding in frictions and introducing an element of chaos. Otherwise the player's...
dear ancmed, I have been trying to upload pictures into the Darcie file of the Zvezda Elephants that have been done but i am having no luck. i was able to up...
... Spot on. ... Yes - although I'm open to other ideas which is why I'm thinking of trying the "bottom-up" unit initiative you mentioned instead. ... a...
... do in a ... flanking ... in ... various ... wargaming ... I'm sorry I lack the eloquence to make that point. For this is what I was trying to get to. The...
The Lion is the royal standard, so you don't get many of them... Any Government army will have loads of saltires. For DBA you are looking at a late Medieval...
Gentlemen, thank you for your informative replies on my question about Scottish replies! Uel McAdorey...
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Mar 2, 2004 5:23 pm
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... counter ... Michael if ... will not be ... provided they do ... That I don't mind at all. I have no ambition in that regard. On the issue of example, this...
... This is a very inaccurate summary. Alp Arslan had an army of 15,000 men in Northern Syria preparing an attack on the Fatamids- a truce prevailing between...
... 15,000 ... rapid ... enemy ... After a brief read of other accounts of Manzikert, (e.g. http://www.ozturkler.com/data_english/0002/0002_12_21_4.htm) the ...
... Hi Michael ... I took care to hunt down and read some of the contemporary accounts of this battle a while back. I'm afraid you are indulging in some ...
... Wouldn't be the first time. ... him ... So the C-in-C did try to issue orders and they failed. ... far ... It could be an occupational habit on my part to...
Hello all. I am painting Assyrians, and am intersted in the use of the two metals for equipping my infantry. I have one source that suggests the better units...
... I suspect this depends on your date. "Assyrians" covers a period from all-bronze to mostly-iron, surely. "Urartian conical helmets varied in their...
patrickstoddart wrote on 3/04/04 7:54 AM ... My understanding was that until mid Imperial Roman times the total cost of iron materials was higher than that of...
... issue ... If you give me the full reference I can try to track it down. Massey only subscribed to MH for one year I'm afraid so it will take a little...
Hi, I've just seen the extended DVD version of "The Two Towers". It's fabulous. Disk 3 has a lot of information about the swords they made for the film, and...
Walter Emil Kaegi, Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 359. ISBN 0-521-81459-6. $70.00. Reviewed by Vadim B....
... Qurubuti) ... I ... equip ... early ... working ... Considering that iron helmets were frequently inlaid with bronze decorative elements (of very high...
Has anyone seen I. Shatzman, "The Armies of the Hasmonaeans and Herod: From Hellenistic to Roman Frameworks" (Tübingen 1991)? Any comments? cheers, Duncan...
... ... and then I tracked down a copy via abebooks and ordered it anyway, so if you've read it and it's cr*p I don't want to know, OK? cheers, Duncan...
... From: "Duncan Head" <Duncan.Head@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: [ancmed] Judaean army book Has...
