Hi, I recently have been reading this book and found it fairly interesting, I won't really go into details just yet because its the initial post, but I was simply wondering if anyone on the forum or in the EB team has read the book and especially for the EB team if it has had any influence on the unit creation of especially Germanic units? (I know that may be a redundant question but the book covers consistent Indo European fighting styles almost as extensively as the example culture of the Germanic people).

I noticed that there were club warriors for example in the most recent versions of EB and right from the start large spear wielders.

Alternativly I would also be interested in any of the arguments people have against the claims and ideas of the book for example in some places it sort of asserts that the Italic and Hellanic people to some extent developed a significantly different fighting philosophy to that of the likes of the Dacians, Germans or Gauls etc who stuck to various IE warrior styles for a bit longer, whereas I feel myself that a lot of fighting, though obviously influenced by such things is also heavily effected by economics and materials, for example the lack of iron mentioned by Tacitus in the Germanic lands could account more for the lower tech equipment of the Germanic people especially in terms of metalwork.

So rather than a lack of armor based more on a deeply routed love of berserk and honorable combat that often it would simply be the case that mass producing high quality metal armor would have been out of the question for cetain cultures without the material resources for it often resulting in them having to compensate etc.

I'm starting to rant a little but in general, has anyone read this book?

P.S. I do actually think its quite good though I personally don't agree with everything in it.