Fall/Siege of Constantinople

**Watchman** · 04-13-2006, 21:14

Originally Posted by Kagemusha

Its Mikael Angelos in the original language its written.

I could swear it's "Johannes Angelos" (I've seen the English translation titled "Dark Angel", incidentally) - you sure you're not confusing it with the Mikael Karvajalka books ? Mind you, I thought those were better too...

As for Urban the artillerist (or cannonsmith, or whatever he now technically speaking was), who cares ? There's never been any shortage of mercenaries and disgruntled professionals leaving for greener pastures anywhere, was there ? The man had marketable skills, so it is only natural he sought the best money he could get for them. Regardless of what the official dogma and propaganda was, people on both sides had the pesky habit of quite often being rather flexible in these things too. Just look at the strange love-hate soap opera relationship the Venetians and Ottomans had...