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[gie]

Does any one has this book?
Roman Army: Wars of the Empire (Brassey's History of Uniforms)
by Graham Sumner
Roman Army: Wars of the Empire (Brassey's History of Uniforms)

[Steppe Merc]

Huh. It looks like an Osprey Montvert or Concord sort of book...

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Just ordered The Mycenaeans, its by McBride so of course it should be good. Osprey have also updated their site with a new cover for the Third Crusade book (due in November):



Early 2006 books have already gone up (we knew about them already), but its good to see that in January alone there are FIVE Ancient/Medieval books - Roman Auxiliary Cavalryman, Armies of Ivan the Terrible (McBride!), Bronze Age War Chariots, Russian Fortresses 1480-1682 and Ancient Greek Fortifications 500-336BC. Nice mix there, so it should be a good year for more books from these interesting periods. Otterburn, Flodden and Castles and Tower Castles of the Scottish Clans are also promised in Spring, so its a positive start.

The bad news is that it looks like the prices are going up slightly from January - its seems as though each series is going up by 50p, which is about $0.90. MAA are now £9.50, Fortresses are now £11.50, Elite £11.50, and so forth. Thing is, with the lack of plates in Warrior and Elite titles nowadays, and can't help but feel they should be going down if anything.

[Steppe Merc]

I got Armies of Islam 7th to 11th century. Looks good so far.

Roman Auxillary and Chariots in particular look interesting, far more so than all those damn gun era ones.

[Meneldil]

Steppe, if you don't have it already, have a look at Attilla and the Nomadic Hordes, it's awesome.

[Steppe Merc]

Yeah, I've got it. Deffinetly my favorite Osprey book. I do wish they had mabye split it into two books, say Huns to the defeat of the Eastern and Western Khagnates, then from there to the invasion of the Mongols. But it is still excellent.

[Meneldil]

Yeah well, it covers a whole lot of people, and thus, isn't really detailled. I wish there would be more historical infos about the Turkish Khaganates and other unknown asian people.

[edyzmedieval]

Indeed.

They kinda neglijated this part of history. The Khazar Khaganate especially.

[gie]

Can someone please post the plates from Montvert THE ARMY OF TANG ?
I only know this plate

[Meneldil]

Wow, it looks awesome. Who's the artist ?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Who do you think? Its from Montvert's Army of Tang China as Gie said. My digital camera went bust, I've been meaning to get a new one for a while but haven't got round to it yet, and my scanner's pretty crappy to be honest. Could be difficult.

[gie]

Does anyone knows where are this 2 plates from?
and this one

[edyzmedieval]

Great plates. I really like that Mongolian plate.

From the other plate, I guess they are from some book regarding the English colonial empire.

[Kraxis]

Does anyone knows where are this 2 plates from?
and this one

Hmmm... Well the looks are rather eastern (pants and cloak) but the equipment and style are decidedly Macedonian.
I would say either Seleucid or Bactrian, but primarely the first (the latter used more bronzecuirasses if I'm not entirely wrong).

[cegorach]

Let is face the truth... I am addicted

I will extend my grand delivery with the following:

Men-at-arms
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Peter the Great's Army (1)
Infantry

Peter the Great's Army (2)
Cavalry

Marlborough's Army 1702–11

The Russian Army of the Crimean War 1854–56

The Russo-Turkish War 1877

The Austrian Army 1836–66 (1)
Infantry

The Austrian Army 1836–66 (2)
Cavalry

Medieval Scandinavian Armies (2)
1300–1500

The Conquistadores

The Border Reivers

Aztec, Mixtec and Zapotec Armies

French Army 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War (1)

Campaign
-------------------

Blenheim 1704
The Duke of Marlborough’s masterpiece

Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870
End of the Second Empire

Arnhem 1944

Bagration 1944

Berlin 1945

Falaise 1944



Is there a way to overcome the addiction BKB, anyone ?

Regards Cegorach

[SwordsMaster]

He!

I'm getting Peter the Great's infantry and cavalry too!

[gie]

Can someone post the plates covering the period from 400bc-60 ad from
CELTIC WARRIORS 400BC - AD1600 by TIM NEWARK.

[cegorach]

He!

I'm getting Peter the Great's infantry and cavalry too!

Did you order Poltava 1709 as well ?

I did quite a long time ago, but I am still waiting


Anyway two more books arrived, so let's read

[SwordsMaster]

Nope, I didn't get Poltava. I'll start with those 2 and then see if time, college and interest allow for more...

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Right, with BI coming out soon, and my English Lit course doing Beowulf, I have an interest in Anglo-Saxons.

I also want to get some Osprey books.

Any comments on these three:

Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD

Saxon, Viking and Norman

Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars

I can get two of them for free (birthday gift certificates ). And is there anything I should know about Osprey books in general before I get them?

[King of Atlantis]

By suggestion of BKB, dont get the vikings,normans, anglo-saxons.


I have the singular vikings and norman ones and am loving them...

Unfortunalty there is no seperate saxon one..

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Aww. That one sounded the most informative.

Does it have bad "plates"? (Though I'm not quite sure what those are...)

I'm sure I can find another one, though. Know of any good related kinda ones? Or maybe Franks or something?

[Meneldil]

Yeah, Viking, Saxon and Norman is not that good, both plate and information wise. Unhappilly, that's the only Osprey with specific infos about the Saxons.

If you're interested by the High Middle Age, get either Elite the Vikings or Elite the Normans. Another very good choice is The Age of Charlemagne (MAA).

[Steppe Merc]

Right, with BI coming out soon, and my English Lit course doing Beowulf, I have an interest in Anglo-Saxons.

You also are going to read Beowulf? I can't wait... though my English teacher was incorrect on much of what he was talking about with the general history of the time period...

Does it have bad "plates"? (Though I'm not quite sure what those are...)

Those are the big, pretty pictures.

Elite Vikings is quite good, and I'm thinking of evantually gettign the Elite Normans (deserves a place on my Christmas list, at least). I have the Arthur and the Anglo Saxon wars, and it's one of my least favorite ones... not really sure why, but it is.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

You also are going to read Beowulf? I can't wait... though my English teacher was incorrect on much of what he was talking about with the general history of the time period...

My English teacher had everyone do research on English history and background. Guess who got the Anglo-Saxons?

That's disappointing that they don't have anything great on Anglo-Saxons, though.

And maybe you don't like them because they don't have horses?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Concord's Gunpowder Armies arrived this week and its very disappointing. The 2 pics we've seen, plus just 2 more, one of two guys from the Highlanders and one of African Women Dahomey warriors. None are anything exceptional, and the 2 you've seen are probably his best. The rest is dominated by Richard Hook and some guy called Ed Dovey, while there is one picture by this other guy whose name I forget and its quite bad. A real letdown from what frankly comes across as a cheap cobbled-together book.

[cegorach]

BTW are there any more armies shown in this book - from the plates you have presented I can only say - what the hell ?! with all those British soldiers - I dare say that neither England nor Scotland were so important during XVIth and XVIIth centuries, rather second or third-rate armies in less important battlefields of this period, are there any French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Ottoman or Polish plates ???

Now back to the BI

Regards Cegorach

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Mostly English, but Scottish, French, African, Muslim and Colonial Troops also feature. It goes from the 16th to 19th century.

[cegorach]

No Spanish or Swedish... weird.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Sorry there is one of Gustavus Adolphus.