The LC in soft caps are probably OK for later 'medieval' Alan but for the C13th/C14th heavier Alan HC I am using armoured Georgian lance & bow armed cavalry...
... would do well. They also both make nice unarmoured bow gigres. Isn't the reference to Alan armour by Fr Plano Carpini to mail armor. One presumes its for...
Hi, I am currently researching Ancient Greek shield blazons to use to distinguish different DBA armies that I am painting for a Peloponnesian campaign I wish...
Try here http://www.ne.jp/asahi/luke/ueda-sarson/Greek_shield_patterns_1.html I think the author is a member of this group, so maybe he will answer directly,...
... http://tinyurl.com/667aej mentions blazons on votive terracotta shields found at Corinth. If you want a single uniform blazon, the Pegasus mentioned also...
Not sure I should mention it, but went with daughter to Sedburgh yesterday for a bit of a run out and discovered Sedburgh is now Englands 'Book town'. At the...
... http://www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/ Nik Gaukroger "Sacrificing minions: Is there any problem it can't solve?" - Xykon "Remember, there’s a big difference...
yes, that's the one, the other shops weren't really up to its standard, but they often specialised in stuff I didn't care about ;-) Jim ... From: "Nik...
I suppose....in their defence....they did work for peanuts!   Mal Wright Non-torsii subligarium (Dont get your knickers in a twist) ... From: falcodemats...
Ya cheeky young bugger! I am NOT well upholstered. I'm just cuddly! Besides...I'd be the bloke in the chariot!!!! But at least you got the female attendants...
Having spent far too much time at the rear end of horses during the period
1960-63, I can confirm that the amount of time spent learning to ride, carry
out...
Wall encircling Jerusalem 2,100 years ago uncovered on Mt. Zion September 3, 2008, 6:50 PM (GMT+02:00) The discovery of large sections of the city's southern...
... Nope they didn't, they might have done so... but peanuts were unknown in those parts of the world at that time. That's probably why they are commonly...
Oh well, I suppose working for peanuts is better employment terms than the incendiary pigs get. Poor Babe (the pig)! :-) Luke In a message dated 03/09/2008...
... From: <LUCASWILLEN05@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [ancmed] In defence of Elephants Oh...
And don't forget all that Egyptian hemp they ate. That's why they got out of
control and didn't care which side they crushed! It was a case of "Whooops....was...
Not forgetting of course the occasional helping of roast pork (a little charred perhaps) On a more serious note incendiary pigs, as we all know did not work...
"It's a little known fact that Elephants in those days were carnivorous, And subsisted solely on a diet of Satrapal levies." /hdan SEE? Now that is a typical...
ARCHAEOLOGY: EGYPT; ANCIENT CITY RELICS FOUND IN SINAI (ANSAmed) - CAIRO, MAY 28 - The relics of an Ancient Egyptian city dating back to the New Kingdom era...
MIDEAST: GAZA, LIGHT OF THE PAST TO DEFEAT TODAY'S DARKNESS La statua di Afrodite (by Safwat al-Kahlout) (ANSAmed) - GAZA, SEPTEMBER 3 - The inhabitants of...
That is a truly awful pun! And I thought some oif mine were bad. Time to put the elephants (pink and otherwise) back in the trunk :-) Luke In a message dated...
I looked up Talamone on Google Maps (ancient Telamon) on the Etrurian coast. It is on a small promontory at teh southern end of what appears to be a wooded...