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While looking at something else, I noted Bret Deveraux had recently compared historical and Hollywood shieldwall fighting.  In fact, this is mostly about Romans and Macedonians, not your good old Vikings but he is a classicist

Nothing there we haven't discussed, I don't think, but may be of interest.

That link still goes to the demography article - try https://acoup.blog/2023/12/15/collections-shield-walls-and-spacing-hollywood-mobs-and-ancient-tactics/

Interesting stuff. Could be an article for Slingshot in this

Quote from: Duncan Head on December 29, 2023, 11:15:04 PMThat link still goes to the demography article - try https://acoup.blog/2023/12/15/collections-shield-walls-and-spacing-hollywood-mobs-and-ancient-tactics/

Thanks Duncan.  I was juggling both links at the same time and I must have recopied the wrong one.  Apologies.

I commented on his blog, but there are few things Bret gets wrong abut hoplites when trying to fit all shield walls into one barrel. Somethings that hold true for archaic hoplites don't hold true for classical hoplites.