Bill Hupp wrote: I think you will see more and more of this type of activity from people taking their old armies or buying used ones and adapting them to Triumph!

What type of activity?

Just double checking on the Dacian list which says it is Ready. No allies? Legacy and other rule systems seem to indicate Sarmatian allies, other neighbor Germans and Celts. Some legacy systems do; some do not; and sometimes they disagree. For example, I think DBA 2.2 had Sarmatian allies, but none...

One interpretation I've seen is that it's something like this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-fa215104abbaabe0b77f68cb40b0d469 Nice! People have fought in stupider, but not often. I sure wouldn't want to march far in that (with regular armor underneath), and I wouldn't want to fight in it ag...

Interesting. However, a covering "like a board" seems more like a mantlet or perhaps a pavise than armor, so "put it on" doesn't fit. Whether or not there are wheels isn't the issue. "Put it on" (in the "wear it" sense) also doesn't fit with a thick raw hide like a board covered both sides thickly w...

(I note that the troop type definitions list "some Chinese armies" as a 3rd example of long lance users classed as Chariots - or rather a 2nd as Sumerians aren't there mentioned. I have no idea if that's accurate or not but I can't help but notice they're not among your two cases here.) IIRC, some ...

In the Battle Card system coming soon (nearly complete and ready for release) we have a battle card called "Plaustrella" which is used for a variety of troop types that had a mobile, multi-man-portable, cart-like fortification-thing. The word Plaustrella comes from the examples in three or four batt...

Is, BTW, Chariots the appropriate classification for Sumerian battle-carts? The troop definitions suggest that javelin-chucking chariots should be Battle Taxis. (I'm incidentally somewhat puzzled that javelins should make you BT but a lance make you Ch: Surely the latter is even more short-ranged.)...

For a Gilgamesh Era Sumerian army you need: 1-2 Chariots (4 wheeled battle cars) 0-2 Raiders (household axemen -- only for the army of Kish) 1 Bow Levy (household bowmen) 8-13 Pike 1-2 Rabble (Nomad javelinmen) 1-6 Skirmishers (Nomad slingers and skirmishing bowmen That's 6 packs of Pikemen (assumin...

Remember seeing a display at the Smithsonian few years ago of arms and armor from the Mali, Benin, Kanem/Bornu, Songhai and other west African kingdoms associated with the ascendancy of Timbuktu. There were very elaborate and highly decorated weapons, helmets and body armor and horse tack in partic...

Andreas Johansson wrote:The only DBX list for the region between Kanem-Bornu and Nubia is the DBR list for "Funj Empire" (also known as the Sultanate of Sennar).

Right, that starts at 1502, outside the Triumph timeframe. (Date based on Wikipedia -- no idea what the DBR list looks like, as I don't have that)