Let's play a game chaps.

[Cadwalader]

It's called "find the EB unit". I used to love those light-weight history books with lots of pictures when I was younger. Now I can read without pictures alltogether, though it still helps..

I sometimes revisit them, and while I was reading a book called "The Dorling Kindersley History of the World", when some of the soldiers depicted in an illustration of the battle of Zama looked very familiar. Watch:


Coincidence? Or synchronicity..

If you guys have seen anything similar, could you upload that as well?

[Tartaros]

Yeah looks like some Hastati and Principes, Neitos, Elephantes Hulaioi Liboukoi, Iberian Milites, Caetratii and Scutarii, African Pikeman, Botroas (rights side?) and some numidian cav.

Ok, when i first play getai i was really shooked - because i knew this shields and units from this book!

[Celtic_Punk]

in the foreground the one on the right trying to kill what looks like a camillian soldier - he looks like not the galatian shortswordsmen... you know the aftermath of a battle loading screen? looks like one of those galatian mercs.

[machinor]

I'd say more like they Neitos, those Gallic heavy swordsmen. But either Galatian or Gallic, he sure does look Celtic. The guy he's about to chop into pieces looks more like a Polybian hastatus (considering it's a depiction of the Battle of Zama) than a Camillan unit, though.

[Celtic_Punk]

regardless the fuzzyness of the picture gives me headaches

[Cadwalader]

Sorry, I only had my sister's cheap camera and my own unsteady hands.

[Celtic_Punk]

Well since you're not a welshman you are forgiven!

[Tartaros]

regardless the fuzzyness of the picture gives me headaches

Yeah, i tried listen the text...

[Cadwalader]

It's in Norwegian, so you couldn't understand it anyway. It says that Hannibal lost at Zama in 202bc, and that Carthage had to accept harsh terms afterwards.

It also says that the Carthaginian army was mostly composed of mercenaries, elephants were trained for battle, cavalry were brought from Numidia, and that warriors like the one striking at the crouching hastatus in red were brought from Gaul.

Below it says that Hannibal was a great general and leader, and took 30,000 men and elephants over the Alps.

[Tartaros]

AHH!!
Thank you

[Ibrahim]

I see:

1-Iberi scurtari
2-hastati (polybian era)
3-numidian cavalry
4-african elephant with rider-no howdah
5-gallic neitos or curoas
6-african pikemen/infantry

in the second post:

1-Orditon
2-komatai
3-drapanai.

[Cadwalader]

And I used to think that EB was a shining beacon of accuracy in a world where everybody got everything wrong. Now CA really have no excuse.

[Ibrahim]

And I used to think that EB was a shining beacon of accuracy in a world where everybody got everything wrong. Now CA really have no excuse.

they got Osprey...

[Aemilius Paulus]

they got Osprey...

Don't even start it. The last thread with that was locked, and I would not want the same fate to befall on this excellent thread.

[Ibrahim]

Don't even start it. The last thread with that was locked, and I would want the same fate to befall on this excellent thread.

you want the same fate to fall on this?
JK

but yes, It is amazing how some books outside acadamia proper can get it right. then again, this is Dorling Kindersly-those guys make excellent books. The more interesting point is that they deliver very good results for their size too, usually under 200 pages if you are talking about the yewitness account series.

I had quite a collection at my old home in Kuwait-the one on the American revolution got me a job at kronoskaf (they had a coat of a british officer in the seven years war.

[Aemilius Paulus]

you want the same fate to fall on this?

, sorry, a typo! What I meant to say was that I do not want the same fate to befall on this thread. I will have to edit that mistake. Thanks for pointing out!