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Interesting read thank you, I was only having a 'discussion' about this the other day and how classing Ktrene Chariots as Kn's if pure wargaming fantasy.

Let's start calling Las Vegas the Baiae of the American Empire and look forward to it being submerged!

Quote from: Ian61 on Today at 11:51:15 AMAnachronism and hyperbole.

Hyperbole certainly.  It doesn't say when "once" was - I'd guess it would be late 20th century, as Vegas isn't really Vegas until the 1960s. Whether it is an accurate comparison may be doubtful - more "playground of the rich and famous" (those of a certain age can put on an Alan Whicker accent here) than a corporate money machine.

I had to chuckle at the phrase

QuoteOnce known as the "Las Vegas of the Roman Empire," the ancient submerged Roman city of Baiae ...

Anachronism and hyperbole.

 

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/medieval-economy-revealed-through-timber-tales/?utm_source=gravitec&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=Push%20Notification

Clever stuff...

CarlL, thanks for the feedback and glad you, and the others, are enjoying the reports.

The hexes are from Kallistra and are 10cm across from flat edge to flat edge. There are 26 rows of them either 10 or 11 deep (i.e. across). The playing surface is about 2.3m x 1.1m.

I'm trying to investigate further options that would allow me to photograph the whole battlefield without distortion or trying to patch separate images together, but not much luck so far.

Yes, morale is tracked at various levels and impacts eagerness, or lack of, from senior commanders to individual units. I've bored on it in several threads but happy to provide more information if needed.

The thorny question about the Kyrenean army, I suppose, is whether they used two types of wheeled vehicle with distinct tactical roles, or just one. Xenophon in the Kyropaedia lists them as one of the nations who skirmish with their chariots in the old Trojan manner. Aeneas the Tactician describes them using two- and four-horse wagons to transport hoplites.

QuoteThe method of managing a chariot employed of old at Troy and that in vogue among the Cyrenaeans even unto this day he abolished; for in previous times people in Media and in Syria and in Arabia, and all the people in Asia used the chariot just as the Cyrenaeans now do. But it seemed to him that inasmuch as the best men were mounted on the chariots, that part which might have been the chief strength of the army acted only the part of skirmishers and did not contribute anything of importance to the victory.

QuoteOf the people of Cyrene and Barca and certain other cities the story runs that they made their rescue expeditions over long wagon-roads in four- and in two horse vehicles (ἐπὶ συνωρίδων καὶ ζευγῶν - there's a thread in the forum somewhere where we discuss the usage of συνωρίς); and when they had reached the appointed place, and the vehicles had been arranged in order, the heavy-armed troops (οἱ ὁπλῖται, obviously) alighted, and, forming at once in ranks, attacked the enemy with unimpaired strength.

Is this two types of vehicle, or one?

Diving in the Mediterranean!  That was the kind of archaeology I had in mind when I took up the subject.  What did I end up with?  Digging up Saxon grub huts on an exposed gravel pit outside Hertford in the middle of winter!  It is why I am now not an archaeologist and am living in Hong Kong 

https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/02/ancient-cities-submerged-mediterranean-greece-atlantis/

I'll get my snorkel...