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#21
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Duncan Head - February 18, 2025, 01:55:49 PM
Possibly this one - https://greekreporter.com/2025/01/20/places-odysseus-journey-homer-odyssey/ - which is actually linked to from the latest article.
#22
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Imperial Dave - February 18, 2025, 01:23:34 PM
yep, same here. I was trying to search for it before posting this one!
#23
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Erpingham - February 18, 2025, 11:06:45 AM
Curiously, I'm sure we had a slightly more detailed version of an article on this on the forum only a couple of weeks ago.  Unfortunately, because the search is still not working for me, I can't find the link  :(

The basic bones of the Odyssey story seemed quite plausible to me given the era.  A man goes off to a distant war.  War ends and he sets off home.  He has a series of mishaps which delay his progress but eventually he makes it back home to discover he has been given up for dead and ne'er-do-wells have taken advantage of the situation. He sorts it and everyone lives happily ever after.  Unfortunately, this doesn't make much of an epic poem and some elaboration is required.
#24
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Justin Swanton - February 18, 2025, 10:34:46 AM
An' 'e 'ad another adventure 'fore that. Can you believe it?
#25
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Keraunos - February 18, 2025, 10:04:48 AM
How odd. I see.  ::)
#26
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Imperial Dave - February 18, 2025, 07:37:36 AM
 ::)
#27
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: The Odyssey - pure fiction...
Last post by Justin Swanton - February 18, 2025, 06:12:21 AM
I have a lot of Doubt about the Odyssey, a lot of Doubt about Homer, a lot of Doubt about me - do I really exist or am I merely a projection of the Cosmic Mind?  :o
#28
Battle Reports / Re: Rome vs Carthage - I get s...
Last post by Imperial Dave - February 18, 2025, 05:54:41 AM
I'll await the results with interest  :)
#29
Battle Reports / Re: Rome vs Carthage - I get s...
Last post by Justin Swanton - February 18, 2025, 05:42:30 AM
Going over the game afterwards, I realised that the legions were a bit underpowered in missile fire. In the game they scored one missile hit per shot against the Poeni and Warband, meaning they had no chance of scoring the 4 missile hits necessary to knock off a morale interval before the Poeni and Warband closed with them.

In previous games however they would score 2 missile hits per shot against Warband, meaning they can score the 4 missile hits before contact: 2 during the Carthaginian move when the Carthaginian HI move adjacent to the legions, another 2 during their own move, and another 2 just before the Carthaginians charge them = 6 hits. With one missile hit you get only 1 + 1 + 1 = 3. Details matter.

Pila were pretty devastating against inadequately protected targets so I'm giving the legions those Warband-blasting missile hits in our next game. Let's see what Peter can devise against them.