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Originally Posted by The Blind King of Bohemia

Yes they are good though I personally think Wayne Reynolds is Osprey's best artist after Angus. He has the action, though lacks realism.

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ARGH!!! You have got to be kidding me! Reynolds is awful... All those screaming heads with mouths more open than possible and teeth like needles. No thank you... It simply makes the otherwise quite inspiring action look silly and cartoonish.
The plates were a major letdown in Warrior Monks. Sure they let me see the action and how they looked, but as soon as it got closeup I didn't get that feeling of being there, becasue it was silly.

Actually Angus has made a mediocre performance. In Republican Roman Army 200-104 BC the figures look squat and a little blurry. They actually look like they were made for 4:3 format but in the real world it was widescreen. But even this is better than many others. And The Samurai is absolute perfection from him. He shows how facial expression should be presented there. and goes to extreme lengths to present details in the armour.

Don't know Graham or Dennis, could you point me towards some of their works?

Hey, lets not forget the female Osprey artists! I think Christa Hook does some top notch work, take a look at Late Roman Cavalryman amongst many others. I first noticed her for the plates in Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941-45. For me her characters are easily equal to, if not frequently better than, McBride's. Trouble with McBride's characters is that they always have that really chunky muscle bound and faintly cartoonish look to them. They look like they have all been pumping iron down the gymnasium and eating too much spinach.

My collection of Ospreys is about 12 years old now and covers all of the ancient stuff as well as some 17th c (mostly ECW stuff), Napoleonic (anything naval + Peninsular war) aviation and maritime/naval titles. Osprey have put a curse on my wallet and I wish they would slow down their publication rate of new titles :dizzy2: Future purchases will probably include Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries and Romano-Byzantine Armies

I think what people overlook with McBride is the essence of his drawings. He's not the most realistic, but he captures the action and feel of the period he's depicting like no other artist can. His pictures convery the most truest sense of realism in that they actually like like something that's come right out of the age in question. They're not just static characters; his work brings them to life. No other artist can touch him in that respect. It will be an extremely sad day when he decides to hang up his pencils. :cry:

Marcher Lord, I agree that his earlier stuff is far to muscelly. That's what I liked about what I now call his "Golden Age": both Russians, Late Byzantines, Attilla and the Nomad Hordes etc. Even his pre Golden Age stuff like the Parthian and Sassanian, Celts and other stuff is far more relistic. But when you look at say Early Byzantines...

First part of my 'Grand Delivery' has arrived on Thursday. ~:cheers:

Ukrainian Armies 1914-55 - not bad, it improved my knowledge about Polish history which is always a very good thing. The author doesn't try to explain complicated ethnic situation in western Ukraine, though ( no mention that Lviv was only 7% Ukrainian in 1918) and it is a mistake in my opinion - Polish Armies 1569-1696 were much better when it comes to such details.
Still good idea to buy it.


Ninja from Warrior series - honestly I left it for later - untill other 'japanese' books arrive.

Dunbar 1650 - very good choice.
It adds more historical heroes to my resources + one new unit as well.
The book convinced me to prepare Scots in bonnets animations as well.
And I thought that Montrose was a better commander - he loses 2 command stars as result of his performance in 1650. Shame. :book:

Lepanto 1571 - worse than Dungar, but still good.
It gives you a good idea about galleys at that time + several new heroes for Venice, Genoa, Spain, the Ottomans and Pope are always welcome.

Regards Cegorach ~:cheers:

Good news for me and congrats for Cegorach.

This week my second set will arrive and I cannot wait to buy another one. ~D'

I need the Byzantine books for the RTW and MTW mod.

This thread features a stunning amount of Osprey scans plus other pics including Angus' from the Warlords Blandford Press book. Well worth checking out if you don't have the books although it may spoil the surprise. ~;)

Who cares?!

I'll still buy the books. For the info.

Grand delivery part two

Campaign
The Armada Campaign 1588
Poland 1939


Essential Histories
The French Religious Wars 1562–1598
The Thirty Years' War 1618–1648
The French Wars 1667–1714


Men-at-Arms

Henry VIII's Army
The English Civil War Armies
The Wild Geese
New Model Army 1645–60
Louis XIV's Army
The Swiss at War 1300–1500
Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300–1774
The Venetian Empire 1200–1670


Warrior

Knight Hospitaller (2) -> for some reason I received volume 1 instead of this ~:confused:

Landsknecht Soldier


Overall great choice and mostly from my 'priority books'.

Now I will lock myself with these books and start doing perverted things i.e. read them all !!! ~:cheers: :book: :book: :book:

Ohhh I have to go to work tomorrow... damn it ~:handball:

Regards Cegorach ~;)

Lucky dawg!!!!!

Where are my Osprey books?! ~:mecry:

Thanks for the link BKB, that could help a lot, though I wish there was one with some Concord plates...

Oh, are there any good books about the Muslims around 600 AD?
Or really anyone around 600 AD... I'm thinking about a mod around that era, though focusing on the East.

~:mecry:

I have read the two New Vanguard books: German Pocket Battleships and German Destroyers. If you look back at the books I bought recently you will see I have bought several more in that style.
My sadness comes from the fact that the books are dogged with several faults in the info (such as Graf Spee dying at Coronel, noted twice in one book in fact) and the very impersonal and quite bland illustrations. They are done very crisply with a computer, but that takes away a lot of the life in the few 'live shots' there are. Most are just profile and plan shots of the ships, with a central twopage cutout. The best of the books is by far the absolutely beautiful photos of the ships, covering basically every page. Damn, even the rather boring pocket battleships are in fact beautiful in the photos.

The books contain a lot of nice info, but in the case ofthe desteroyers a lot of space goes into the constructionlines of ships (Z12 laid down this date and so on) and the line of commanders for each of the ships. Factual info is nice, but this should perhaps have been noted in another way. Certainly not in a line for each individual ships covering the entire pagewidth.

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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Oh, are there any good books about the Muslims around 600 AD?
Or really anyone around 600 AD... I'm thinking about a mod around that era, though focusing on the East.

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At best I can think of the Age of Charlemagne, or perhaps the Rome's enemies: the Germans... But neither fit well.
Yarmuk, might have a few nice illustrations of Arab armies of the time but since it is more about the battle it can't be perfect.

Steppe, try out Atilla and the Nomadic hordes. From what I've understood, it's not only about Atilla, and has info about all nomadic invasion until the Mongols.

There's also Armies of the Muslim Conquest, the Age of Charlemagne (a bit too late), and I'd say Rome's enemies : the Desert Frontier.

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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Oh, are there any good books about the Muslims around 600 AD?
Or really anyone around 600 AD... I'm thinking about a mod around that era, though focusing on the East.

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These are some I have that cover that era and are decent.

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 247, Romano-Byzantine Armies, 4th to 9th Centuries

Osprey Warrior Series no# 15, Late Roman Cavalryman 236-565 AD (good info on the influence of Parthian-Sassanid-nomadic cavalry technology)

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 125, The Armies of Islam 7th-11th Centuries

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 255, Armies of the Muslim Conquest

Osprey Essential Histories Byzantium at War AD 600-1453

Another book which is hard to find but similar to the Osprey series is published by "A Wargames Research Group Publication" by Ian Heath, the "Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066. It is 120+ pages covering a fair number of different groups with info and black and drawings of around a 150 troop types (no large colour plates like Osprey). It also covers army organization, tactics, strategy, dress, and weaponry.

Grand delivery part 3

ONLY Scots Armies of the English Civil Wars - very good, but only one book... Honestly it took me only three evenings to read 14 from the earlier part, still it is better than nothing :balloon2: ~:cheers:

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Steppe, try out Atilla and the Nomadic hordes. From what I've understood, it's not only about Atilla, and has info about all nomadic invasion until the Mongols.

There's also Armies of the Muslim Conquest, the Age of Charlemagne (a bit too late), and I'd say Rome's enemies : the Desert Frontier.

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Already got Atilla and Nomad Hordes, and it is quite excellent. Very good info, and pretty pictures.

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These are some I have that cover that era and are decent.

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 247, Romano-Byzantine Armies, 4th to 9th Centuries

Osprey Warrior Series no# 15, Late Roman Cavalryman 236-565 AD (good info on the influence of Parthian-Sassanid-nomadic cavalry technology)

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 125, The Armies of Islam 7th-11th Centuries

Osprey Men-At-Arms no# 255, Armies of the Muslim Conquest

Osprey Essential Histories Byzantium at War AD 600-1453

Another book which is hard to find but similar to the Osprey series is published by "A Wargames Research Group Publication" by Ian Heath, the "Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066. It is 120+ pages covering a fair number of different groups with info and black and drawings of around a 150 troop types (no large colour plates like Osprey). It also covers army organization, tactics, strategy, dress, and weaponry.

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Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into them. :bow:

Finally a new book is unveiled by Concord in the shape of Gunpowder Armies, which covers armies from the 16-18thC. If you've seen Warlord Armies this is very much in the same mold; a book with pieces by many artists, including Richard Hook and Angus McBride, and 2 of his are pictured here. It should be out soon.

http://www.concord-publications.com/6010/6010-cover.jpg

http://www.concord-publications.com/6010/6010-05.jpg

http://www.concord-publications.com/6010/6010-13.jpg

http://www.concord-publications.com/6010/6010-21.jpg

http://www.concord-publications.com/6010/6010-35.jpg

Looking over the Sassanian book, I wonder how much control the author has over the painter (in this case, McBride). In his comments on the plates, he is always pointing out mistakes, like "the sword would usually be longer and an inch thicker", "Romans would certaintly would have been using chainmail, not the lorica segmentata shown", "Most Kurds were lighter than the one shown", and things like that.
Were those mistakes, or what? What's the deal?

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)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/18...CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

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

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):

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_...rs/S8685AL.JPG

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. :furious3:

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.

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

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.

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.

Indeed.

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

Can someone please post the plates from Montvert THE ARMY OF TANG ?
I only know this plate
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y1...hinese/Sui.jpg

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

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.

Does anyone knows where are this 2 plates from?
http://www.satrapa1.archez.com/artic...aphia/fal1.gif and this one http://www.satrapa1.archez.com/artic...aphia/cab1.gif

Great plates. I really like that Mongolian plate. ~:)

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

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Does anyone knows where are this 2 plates from?
http://www.satrapa1.archez.com/artic...aphia/fal1.gif and this one http://www.satrapa1.archez.com/artic...aphia/cab1.gif

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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).

Let is face the truth... I am addicted :book: :book: :book:

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
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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 ? :embarassed:

Regards Cegorach ~:handball:

He!

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

Can someone post the plates covering the period from 400bc-60 ad from
CELTIC WARRIORS 400BC - AD1600 by TIM NEWARK.
http://i5.ebayimg.com/02/i/04/f1/f9/79_1_b.JPG

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He!

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

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Did you order Poltava 1709 as well ?

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


Anyway two more books arrived, so let's read :book: :book:

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

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 ~:) :balloon2: ). And is there anything I should know about Osprey books in general before I get them?

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..

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?

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).

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

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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...

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

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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.

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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...

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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? ~;)

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.

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 ??? ~:confused:

Now back to the BI ~;)

Regards Cegorach

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

No Spanish or Swedish... ~:confused: weird. ~:handball:

Sorry there is one of Gustavus Adolphus.

Only one...

Well in this thread you will find enormous number of pictures, osprey, concord and other plates:

http://www.totalwar.org.pl/board/vie...t=5249&start=0

Ah yes, some great ones from Imperial Rome at War. I think you guys can see why I go on about them so much now!

does anyone can post the plates from this three books?

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_...rs/S7131AL.JPGhttp://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_...rs/S8979AL.JPGhttp://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_...rs/S843XAL.JPG

A new poll is up. They have the Macedonian Infantry as a Warrior choice. Vote now for it, so we can have more good books and less damn guns!
It's a shame its such a widely covered topic, but it's better than another WW2 book!

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A new poll is up. They have the Macedonian Infantry as a Warrior choice. Vote now for it, so we can have more good books and less damn guns!
It's a shame its such a widely covered topic, but it's better than another WW2 book!

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YEAH!!!

I just had a look at the previous votes... I had to go all the way back to February to find another non-gun book (swiss pikemen).

And is it me but have the VC recipients not already won a poll? Why is it there for another round?

I know, its nuts. I mean come on, there are great topics they haven't covered, or barely touched on. I think an Avar book would be great. Or even Byzantine Heavy Horse, or something actually interesting.

We're totally on the same level here, I too think there are disproportionally few books dealing with the pre-gunpowder era. How many books on WW2 do we need really? Seems to be a boundless demand for them, despite the fact that modern warfare is so boring compared with medieval or ancient. ~;)

I voted for Macedonian infantryman, and suggested a Campaign book on the battle of Civitate 1053, where the Normans routed the Papal forces despite their inferior numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Civitate).

Anyone got the Mycenaeans yet? 4 weeks and it still hasn't arrived - thanks Osprey!

I must say I did like the Roman Military Clothing 3 book - much better than the old volumes, particularly as I found some of the soldiers a bit more interesting. Plate wise good, plus a solid read too.

[QUOTE=The Blind King of Bohemia]Anyone got the Mycenaeans yet? 4 weeks and it still hasn't arrived - thanks Osprey!

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4 weeks?! You're a junior my friend.

5 MONTHS!!! I ordered them on 11th July....Not even now...

Thanks very much Osprey!!!! ~:cheers:

:furious3:

Well The Mycenaeans arrived today funnily enough! Good book, plates are very good as usual (McBride). No big action pieces, but some small fights are present. I particularly like the one with the two Mycenaean Spearmen are standing over the dead Pylian Infantryman, and one has a hedgehog-spiked leather cap as a helmet. He also has a great looking ginger spiked beard to complement his image, which is pretty cool all round. If anyone has Spartan - Total Warrior, he really resembles one of the brothers in that. The artwork seems nicely muted and not too colourful - seems like Angus was going for an 'archaic' sort of feel.

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The artwork seems nicely muted and not too colourful - seems like Angus was going for an 'archaic' sort of feel.

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Ah, but the archaic period isn't until later. ~;)

How is The Myceneans book contentwise? I'm attending a course in ancient Greek history this semester, and I have my doubts regarding how much we can claim to know about the military aspects of the Myceneans. What sources are there, except Homer (whose credibility is quite contested in academic circles)?

Sorry by Archaic I just meant old I completely forgot about it in terms of Greek periods.

I haven't had too in depth a look but there are more methods used - of course scenic pottery and archaeology are the two main ones.

Can't wait to call Osprey to tell them how slow they are.... ~;)

Any good books on the Carthaginians?!
I'm preparing my 3rd order. ~:)

Damn I ordered 'Rome and her Enemies' without actually realising that it was a compilation of other books! I thought Osprey and done that before with 'Rome and the Barbarians'. Oh well, lets just hope there's some new stuff in it at least.

http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/fo...e=post&id=1373

http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/fo...e=post&id=1380

Could someone point me to the books from which these two wonderful plates come from?

Thanks ~:)

Wiz, where have you been?! It looks like you posted a year ago!!! ~;) ~:)

Also, I'm interested to find out, especially about the first one. It looks like a Varangian Guard. ~:)

Hey man, I was gone, life got in the way -- still is I suppose ~D

The first one is actually a Norman knight. I bought "Norman Knight" from the Warrior series because it looks like Christa Hook (who did the art for that book; it was dissapointing really) but it does not contain that plate, so now I wanna know which book it is from. The second one looks similiar to the first, too. Maybe it's Outremer Knight?

Life got in the way.... ~D

The second one can't be an Outremer Knight...
It's advanced. For me, it looks like an Italian Halberdier or a Condottieri.
The armour is clearly Italian type.

Looks more like a knight from Antioch to me.

You see -- this one is from the same book obviously:

http://www.stratcommandcenter.com/fo...e=post&id=1374

Well that last one is definitely from Outremer, and I think the other 2 are as well.

It appears you're right BKB:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1855...=1#reader-page

The inset on the back of the book (Knight of Outremer) is obviously from the second plate I posted. Thanks guys! :)

Hey it looks like Osprey were merely doing the poll to tease us - Macedonian Warrior is coming as a Warrior title in April next year! Check it out:

Macedonian Warrior - Alexander's Elite Infantryman

Shame its not McBride but should be a cracking title nonetheless!~:cheers:

And another great Warrior title, Tudor Knight in May, illustrated by Graham Turner!

Tudor Knight

And a Fortress title, Roman Legionary Fortresses 27BC-378AD:

Roman Legionary Fortresses

Plus another one, not quite as exciting, a new entry in the Fortress series - The Vauban Fortifications of France.

The Vauban Fortifications of France

Other titles like Otterburn and Flodden are coming in the Campaign series but I won't repeat things I've already told you about.

Christa Hook > McBride for me anyways... Well, except when she does static stuff, because that's the only part of McBride that I like. McBride sucks at motion though, IMO...

But motion (action) is what makes McBride so good! Hooks are ok but nothing to get excited about. Sorry to go on again about this - I must sound like a broken record!

I think next year promises to be much better in the way of Ancient - 16th century books. Last year all we had was:

Roman Military Clothing 3
Sassanian Elite Cavalry
The Mycenaeans
Ancient Siege Warfare
Roman Siege Warfare
Rome's Northern Frontier
Rome and her Enemies (Compilation)
Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 2
Japanese Fortified Monasteries
Carolingian Cavalryman
Samurai Commanders 1
Samurai Commanders 2
Acre
Third Crusade
Warriors of Medieval Japan (Compilation)
God's Warriors (Compilation)
Aztecs and Conquistadors (Compilation)
Rome at War (Compilation)

Pretty paltry really. In the first half of next year we're already promised:

Roman Auxiliary Cavalryman
Bronze Age War Chariots
Russian Fortresses
Ancient Greek Fortifications
Armies of Ivan the Terrible
Otterburn
Flodden
Roman Legionary Fortresses
Macedonian Warrior
Tudor Knight
Polish Winged Hussar
Tower houses and Castles of the Scottish Clans

And there may well be more besides. Perhaps Osprey are finally listening to us!

Armies of Ivan the Terrible certainly sounds delightful. ~D

The Ancient Greek Fortifications are my bell. ~:)

Though, I really want those Sassanids.... :embarassed:

For those interested, I just found out that Wayne Reynolds will be illustrating one book for Osprey in 2006:

Campaign 170: Osaka 1615

I'd hoped he do something a little more interesting to be honest, or at least more than one book. Osprey have been wrong before though, so I'm also hoping that Angus does more than one in 2006.~;)

heyyyy!

Osprey is great,BUT ihave a complain:
not much about ancient history.(in comparison with the modern era)

I hope there will be published something about the Hellenistic Kingdoms!!!

I always wondered why Osprey haven't done some books about the sucessor states or say a Rome's enemies: The greek cities. They do seem to favour modern age books which bore me to tears to be honest~D