To me there is a curious conditions that afflicts wargamers, often they come to believe that the base their imaginary soldiers occupy represents a space that...
Time and ground scale (movement rates) are important in giving a good wargaming simulation and the presence of these scales is often a good guide to how ...
I've always looked on it in the same way as watching a good SciFi or Horror movie. In other words, it invokes 'suspension of reality'. We know it isn't real,...
Hi Rocky The points I'd differ with you is I'm not sure how much hunting your urbanised Babylonian and cananite farmer actually did. I would suggest what you...
Replying to myself, I say that chances are that blue would be considered 'wrong' for orcs, etc, then find a TMP thread leading to a blog that makes it sort of...
... However: the Ramesside records illustrate the Libyans fighting with bows and bronze swords, not "pointy sticks" (or even spears). The booty-records from...
... All good points, but I don't think that they detract from my point: Dapur doesn't support two-man Anatolian-Hittite chariots post-Kadesh. ... I think that...
Duncan, The Hittites had a manual for training archers for chariots, there is a quotation from it in Beal, plus there is a part Hittite relief showing a...
Hi "african bees defeat brits"...since the rules don't have this unique event, then we cannot do sims. Curiously, several of us have done sims that work at...
Hi Jim, ole' buddy, I have caught a lot of flak by suggesting the idea that armies might have a standard bow. I did a bit of energy analsys (after a mig 21,...
UCHRONIA Uchronia is a term coined by the French writer, Charles Renouvier in a study which came out in 1857 in which he gave an apocryphal description of the...
2008-07-17 12:14 Hong Kong sees ancient Roman resort Show recreates final night before eruption of Vesuvius (ANSA) - Naples, July 17 - Hong Kong is enjoying a...
On thing to bear in mind is that in the ANE, at least, there were two types of troops. Those maintained and equipped by the king as a standing force and...
By contrast, of course, (pics: Yadin p200-201) we see the Egyptian practising their archery. The target is thought to be copper, the big arrows go right...
Remember that most of these images are of the pharaoh. The bottom image is from the tomb of a noble, so either his family, or a personal retainer. Not evidence...
If I'd been in that discussion you wouldn't have stood alone ;-)) Certainly in the earlier bronze age I think there is evidence for the issue of weapons....
... Do we know that conscripts did not practice for say a week or two every year?? or that they did not have parade days like the Tudor musters? I just suspect...
... Fine, but of what date? I entirely accept two-man Hittte chariots - they are on Seti I's reliefs after all - but the point I am making is that this may...
After reading through the "light infantry" debate and the chariots/bow type debate (good to see the reference to arrow flexing) I thought I'd start another...
I had a bit of a look when there was a discussion on the DBMM site about when Carthos adopted the thureos. Like you say, it is difficult to see the actual grip...
My suspicion is that the tactical role of ancient light infantry is often conflated with their operational role (or one of them). From an operational...
Looking at ACW or?ECW militia units (or even modern American National Guard) at times there may have been more training reported than actually done. Lloyd ... ...
Ancient Greek skirmishers, by which I mean people who chuck things and run away, seem to have achieved their best results when harassing formed troops trying...
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