If bows are used that would often indicate Elite Cavalry instead (although a few exceptions exist). I don't think that's true, actually. The common wargamer assumption that Parthian cataphracts didn't have bows appears to be wrong*, and most other Asiatic horsmen classed in T! as Cataphracts (Tibet...

The Elite cavalry classification is a possibility, but this troop type I associate with using mobility with missile fire and then shock. We might be using different meanings for the same terms, or perhaps you think Elite Cavalry is something different than I do. Either way, that's a barrier to disc...

I assume by 'REALLY good' your taking a relaxed attitude towards word count, a liberal view towards punctuation and a " what the hell let's just add a dozen more lines of text for the sake of clarity ", approach? Could there even be pictures/ internal art work? I think you may have long-term emotio...

I suggested this in Vodnik's Cañari thread, but maybe it'll get more attention here: it would be nice if Cañari (with the tilde) found the relevant list - Meshwesh Americanizes the name as "Canari", and doesn't treat n and ñ as equivalent. So either add the Spanish version as a keyword, or get the ...

Thanks for your input and research, Mike. That's exactly the sort of material we want people to submit! We'll take a look at it. As a side note, though, recall that armored horses are often called cataphract by authors, but that armored horses are not the sole province of the Cataphract stand type i...

Not a Musasirian scholar, here, but when you say "Triumph treats them as allies to Urartu, but does not give them their own full army list" did you see the button for "Full Army List" below the Option 2: Musasirian Allies option? If someone was to ask me whether Musasir was represented in Triumph wi...

No problem, "Late is the hour." I hadn't seen any posted responses so I thought I'd offer to pitch in. We ask for GMs to open up the pool of talent and interest to new GMs; most of the established GMs from past events (Rod, Spencer, Scott, Brian, Larry) interact with us directly. We just want to be...

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Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:58 am

I am praying that my new job offer comes through. It would give me a 3 day work week. I might have some time and energy to game again.

Good luck on the job offer, Mike!

...there are not many facts of Alans as a Sarmatian tribe but there is for example Marcellinus Ammianus a late Roman soldier and history writer. There is also Lucius Flavius Arrianus; as in my earlier post: Sarmatian & Alan. An Alan contigent did fight in the battle of Adrianople 378. Vandals, Alan...

... migration era and medieval Alan use the same list except the home topography,why not a single list? The figures you would use for those two armies (representing their appearance) should be completely different. The enemies list is completely different. The thematic categories is completely diff...