Hi all Can you suggest any figures / tents for a sassanian baggage train. I have just done my arab one thanks to essex /baueda The bauda persian tent looks ok...
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Asses and human porters are mentioned IIRC. Camels too I expect. You could add a late Roman type of chariot and a couple of Roman emperors, they always seemed...
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... Hi Steve I'm assuming you're doing 15mm? For my Sassanid supply train I used some Essex baggage camels being lead by my extra Essex Sassanid artillerists...
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One killed (Gordion III in 243 at the battle of Misiche, though Roman sources claim otherwise). Perhaps best represented under Shapur's horse. One parlayed...
... Add the possibility that Carus was killed by Persians as well and the event passed of as "struck by lightning" ... And of course the numpty Julian may have...
... Just to break into this feast of Persophilia ;-) I'm not sure "numpty" covers the philosopher-emperor who's only fault seems to have been to burn a river...
... A Marcus wannabe at best ;-) ... The whole invasion was a bloody stupid idea. When it did happen it was run OK - although the strategic plan was a failure...
... A more accomplished academic philosopher than Marcus - though Julian's his Neo-Platonism was, by its nature, more academically based than Marcus' Stoicism....
BTW I wouldn't want to portray Julian or Ammianus as Realists in any sense. Ammianus was constantly citing auguries and other guff. Julian at least had the...
Johns got a good point here - mercury was a parsee and that is a zoroastrian so 'camp sassanians ' are not out of place. Maybe i should look for 15 mm bikers...
... A missed opportunity ;-) Nik Gaukroger "Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does, he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" -...
... However, until Khusrau II they showed very little inclination to actually occupy much - even Sapor I didn't occupy when he had the opportinity following...
... Roman sources do not mention this battle, indicating instead that Imperator Caesar M. Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus died near Circesium, along the...
... Roman ... Zaitha. ... causing ... that ... I know they do ... Shapur's inscription at Naqsh-i Rustam says Gordion invaded Babylonia with a huge army...
... This was the point I've tried to make. :-) Apparently there are two strings of historical evidence not really reconciliable, and at least one (if not both)...
Not at all. Actually there are numerous Romano-Byzantine accounts for the outcome of Gordion III's expedition in four main traditions. None of them agree, and...
There is a lot there that I have never seen softcopy before (and much never published in English, and some I've never seen!) Tom.. ... and ... [Non-text...
Salutations, gentlefolk ! Having read: Peers' _Imperial Chinese Armies (1)_ Mazzatenta's article in the Oct 1996 _National Geographic_ Cotterell's _First...
... I did have a piece on the _old_ S of A Guardrom Online - probably not available online now, but has anyone got an electronic copy? I _may_ have at home. I...
Details of the colours used are on-line http://www.bmy.com.cn/english/dxww/L98.htm (including painted reconstructions), but there is some debate as to how...
I have a Chinese publication on the terracotta army I picked up when I visited Xian in '99, if I remember it included an illustration showing their original...
