I think the authors point is that there were so many defensive dykes and ditches that armies made us of these to meet enemy armies. Plus some were built for battles or to interfere with the movement of enemy armies.

These are cool. I was unaware of these. The javalin skirmishers would make great slavs.

Hey Chris, how goes the first bulgar empire project. Cool army, I just played a game with them last week.

Hey Rod, the ones mentioned by Storr are definitely post roman pre Alfred. The are in addition to pre Roman fortifications. Many such fortifications were reused in later generations.

Jim Storr in 'King Arthur's wars' discusses the hundreds of fortified dykes/ditches in Britian during the time period some of which were built by the Saxons. Would this justify an addition to the army lists of fortified camps and ditches for the early Saxons in England and the sub Roman British? Gra...

Thanks.

We are looking for up to 3 additional players for an epic fantasy Triumph game in Bowling green ky Sunday may 15.

These look great Chris.

Nah, not that difficult. Thistle and Rose has a real nice 15mm crow standing on a helmet near the feet of a viking chieftain. Perfect size. I have even cut a few off to use elsewhere. My current go to is to cut the neck off of a 15mm goose and leaving a little neck stub to fashion into a crop head w...

usable crows and ravens for use in 15mm are indeed hard to come by. I have paid big bucks for model railroad pieces that seem to be way over priced or settled with 25mm scale figs that are just to big. I would like crows/ravens standing, fluttering their wings and ones bending over and picking at th...