Quote Originally Posted by master of the puppets
Quote Originally Posted by Didz
I think it wrong to classify wardogs as a fanatsy unit. There is no doubt that dogs were used in ancient warfare in fact its where we get the phrase 'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war'.
true but if this is historicly sound then why did the greek plato say that and not a roman who had a wardog?
To be honest I have no idea if the Roman's used wardogs and was as surprised as many others to find them included in the Roman OOB. My understanding was that they were used by some of the more eastern armies e.g. Syrian's, Hittites etc. However, it is equallly possible that many armies opened a battle by releasing wardogs in order to disrupt the enemy formations.

As for flaming pigs, I must admit I've never come across those in any of my reading and I am curious how a pig would be controlled once you had set fire to it. A more plausible option would be to have an animal pull a flaming incendary behind it, but even then i suspect panic would lead to it heading off in any direction but the one you wanted it to.

Has anyone got any historical references for flaming pigs???