... You could do worse than follow Sekunda's "spear-bearer" reconstruction in the Osprey. Go to http://oznet.net/cyrus/page1.html and click on the "Darius...
... That sort of logic is going to play merry hell with a lot of ceramics typologies, to take only one example. If I find a pot on an Egyptian site then that...
"Soldiers also move about unclothed and barefoot. In the right hand is carried a lance, in the left a shield. They have no bows, no arrows, no slings, no...
Steven, ... Caesar is quite correct in saying that those who receive an enemy attack at a stand are at a disadvantage comparing to those who charge at full...
... margins ... read ... From my copy of Holpon v2...Yes. It looks as if a nativ English Speaker has been doing some editing. Nic himself speaks excellent ...
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... it is ... I was once trapped in a caravan with a swarm of archaeology students trying to tell me that their ceramic discoveries proved that Ipswich was the...
... I will now always picture you as an overweight Gaul in blue and white striped trousers who collects Roman helmets :-) Anyway why are you wittering on here?...
Along a similar line, reading Xenophon's description of Cunaxa, my translation refers to the loyalist Persian cavalry appearing through the murk in "white...
... No, I'm the one with the winged helmet :) AANE 2 is going to be delayed while I work on the Achaemenid exhibition (there will be a transport and warfare...
... ceramics ... Egyptian ... evidence that a pot has been made on an Egyptian site, it is likely that it is an Egyptian pot. ... Well, at the risk of...
... margins ... read ... Hi Doug, These issues are best dealt with by Amazon Miniatures; they have control over the pdf version of the rules, but read...
... Well, why not white? Nice colour... Somewhere in the sources, and I think it's Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes, you'll find it said that Cyrus' entire army...
... wargames rules. Any speculation on what the initiation ceremony would be for horses with elephants? ... I think they dumped the horses into a pit filled...
... What about "Gasgan craftsmen"? I think this site is earlier than the references to Gasgan troops who crop up (for reasons which escape me) in late NKE...
... Sept ... Excellent. I'll be there. ENGAGE RANT MODE OK. At the risk of impertinence (moi?) could you give the BM special exhibition people a kick up the...
... It does matter how wide bases are and how deep they are. If you have rules for wheeling the turning speed will be affected and even if both sides are...
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