Another excellent web site on Rome is
http://www.roman-empire.net
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Another excellent web site on Rome is
http://www.roman-empire.net
i dont know if u saw this site but i can tell u all that is exceptionally and woth a look:
http://history.about.com
Link to the battle of Crecy on my 100 years war web site
crecy
BTW there is a very good account on the battle in Bernard Cornwell's HARLEQUIN (The Grail Quest) - ISBN 0-00-651384-0
The story picks up with the battle for the city of Caen and then the march south and finishes with the battle. The book is fiction but the battles are based on historical fact.
For Japan and the far East one could arguably say it was at the battle of Nagashino (June 28, 1575). There Oda Nobunaga employed 3000 arquebusiers in his relief force of 30,000 against the forces of Takeda Katsuyori (12,000), who was laying siege to a castle of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The renowned attacks by the Takeda cavalry were stopped cold by Nobunaga's force of arquebusiers, who were waiting behind prepared defenses. Takeda Katsuyori lost up to 80% of his army (10,000 men), and the Takeda were done for a long time...
Page about Japanese history related to battles fought with samurai troops (brilliant site)
As far as I know, there has not realy been a battle in Europe that stands out as the turning point. It looks more as a gradual process which took place from the beginning of the 16th century (ie. battle of Pavia, 1525) or around that time, to the late 17th century... In the armies of the English Civil war, pikemen still made up a high percentage of both armies IIRC...
Publishers site of decent to good books dealing with battles/campaigns/equipment
History channel Message Board. There are also some knowledgable posters on that board....
here ye go enjoy
nice reference......
ps. click on the fire....
(Medieval Weapons and Armour)
OK, I'll reply - I found that link before and it is quite interesting, particularly to see the equipment being discussed.
Another good link I found is on the War of the Roses; a little after the MTW period but presumably not a bad insight into warfare in the "late" period:
http://www.medievalfortress.com/book..._eng_cont.html
Maybe we should use this thread to post other good links too?
OK, here's another good link:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/matthaywo...an_Battles.htm
It goes into a lot of detail on various Eastern European armies of the period from a wargamers perspective, but also clearly a bona fide student of medieval warfare. I read it and was frankly very impressed with how historically accurate MTW is.
William Marshall (or more accurately Mareschal), Earl of Pembroke and Striguil was actually advisor to 4 English Kings.
Two good articles -
http://www.castlewales.com/marshall.html
http://www.times1190.freeserve.co.uk/william.htm
His family geneology -
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/Datab...002/I3476.html
Mentioned in the Magna Carta (1st in the list of names of "noble persons") -
http://www.webmesh.co.uk/magnacarta.htm
Welly
A couple more links:
http://www.regia.org
These are re-enactors and have some good stuff on Saxon warfare, relevant to the early period of MTW.
A more scholarly source is:
http://www.deremilitari.org
I'd welcome any other people posting threads, although after a week of internet trawling, I'm starting to think I have to start reading books... a revolutionary thought
Hey everyone I found this website and thought I would share it. I found it helpfull . http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medresource.htm
JS,
I found a site that deals with the teachings of Sun Tzu. It has a forum that features interpretations and discussions on every point of The Art of War. It has some excellent strategic discussions. Check it out
Sonshi
Hope this helps Click Here i always visit this site for info,but i rely mostly on books.
(Roman-Empire.Net)
With all the anticipation for Rome:Total War, I thought I'd post links to some good sites dealing with Roman history.
The 1st deals with the life and times of Rome's greatest general, and one of its greatest statesmen. His life is far more interesting than any work of fiction.
Julius Caesar:The Last Dictator
Two sites dealing with the most poweful Army of the ancient world:
The Roman Army
More on the Roman Army
Makes an interesting read.
"Deeds of Augustus"
A couple of days ago I browsed the 'net for information about armour. Could some knowledgeable history man (Hakonarson comes to mind... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif) take a glance at this site and comment on its credibility?
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/arms1.htm
Good armouring site:
http://www.arador.com/main/index.html
try here
Tattoes
Hellasnet - pretty much anything Greek
Luke Ueda-Sarson - a friend of mine with a wargaming bent and bucketloads of information on ancient military history including some good academic-style works, wargames scenarios and army lists, and Greek shield patterns.
Regia Anglorium - things Anglo-Saxon
Roman Empire.net-Good site on history of rome.
Roman Legions-Posted this in another thread eariler. Lots of information on the Roman Legions.
Balkan Military History-Breifly goes over the military history of the balkans.
Fall of Constantinople-Tells of the fall of Constanitnople, done sorta of like a story. Pro Greek
Prehistoric Britain-Fairly good site on prehistoric Britain
Manzikert-Storylike telling of Battle of Manzikert, Pro Greek
History of Austria-History of Austria, prehistoric to present.
History of Georgia-History of Georgia. NOT the state, the country.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
thats pretty cool for art
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
thats badass for everything
I'll pin this, when I get a little more time (perhaps when HOF is completely over) I'll start merging it with posts with other links in them too.
Feel free to add more. And to keep adding more.
Jomsvikings (Org Thread)
Roman Army Site
Viking Invasions (post by Kurjan)
Medieval Architecture (thread by Sinan, contributed to by others)
Hey I know a great developing site about misc ancient battles; Ancient-Archives.com
the site is made by.... MOI http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
How about this one:
All Empires
Great site about Persia, from the Elamites to ayatollah Khomeini:
History of Persia
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~Wiz
Iran community site eh... Ive got a couple of good friends who would like to see their history
www.rickard.karoo.net/battleframe.html - list of historical battles + a description
Ancient Archives, a great history site thats just starting out, but I believe will develop nicely. Also it has 3 battle write ups and Roman Weapons and Armour http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
Here are 2 really great sites. The first is a Samurai site and the 2nd is a Medieval History site covering a whole plethora of different topics. Enjoy
SAMURAI ARCHIVES
ODINS CASTLE
Try them now. Sorry http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/gc-oops.gif
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Great sites BTW, Rockhammer http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...c-thumbsup.gif