I don't think I've ever seen a cataphract reenactor until now

[russia almighty]

It's a little outside of the EB timeframe, but I've never seen this before until today

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...6_2%281%29.jpg

The reenactor looks pretty scary. I wonder how someone on the receiving end of the charge had to feel.

I felt like posting this because it's the closest I've seen to an EB Kataphraktoi in real life.

[A Very Super Market]

I wouldn't care if they called that a Hungarian Hussar, that's just plain awesome. Must have been time-consuming making all that.

[antisocialmunky]

Must have cost a arm and a leg.

[Cute Wolf]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...6_2%281%29.jpg

OMG! He looks closer to those vanilla Cataphracts! Just look for his conical helmet and the large scales of his horsey's armour.... perhaps he never look for EB before?

[A Very Super Market]

Perhaps you speak of the Sassanid cataphract he's explicitly labelled as?

[Cute Wolf]

Perhaps you speak of the Sassanid cataphract he's explicitly labelled as?

Yeah, I know that he was Sassanian Katas, but he looks more closer to those vanillas....

[ARCHIPPOS]

heheh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ur3iV6Z34

[antisocialmunky]

Yeah, I know that he was Sassanian Katas, but he looks more closer to those vanillas....

No, this is a vanilla cataphract reenactor...



Also, hot linking bad.

[Apázlinemjó]

No, this is a vanilla cataphract reenactor...



Also, hot linking bad.

Oh lol.



Quite similar.

[abou]

Yeah, I know that he was Sassanian Katas, but he looks more closer to those vanillas....

Look up Dura Europos graffiti.

[Knight of Heaven]

It remindes-me a gay parade. but with kats.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

heheh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ur3iV6Z34

I didn't know the Scots knew of phalanx tactics. Or that the battle of Stirling Bridge did not, in fact, feature a bridge.

[bobbin]

I didn't know the Scots knew of phalanx tactics. Or that the battle of Stirling Bridge did not, in fact, feature a bridge.

Scottish pike formations were quite famous during wars of independence era so in that respect the clip was accurate but yes no bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge is a bit idiotic.

[A Very Super Market]

A bit? That's like making a movie about Rommel with no tanks. And set in South America. In 1987.

[antisocialmunky]

Well to be fair, they ran out of money for both a bridge battle and a castle battle and inaccurate face paint.

[mountaingoat]

they mooned them till they could take no more?

[Macilrille]

The "Kata" on the pic looks more like some of the Germanisc Iron Age offshots we know best from the Wendel graves in Sweden.

And the Russel Crowe Robin Hood film did not feel they had money to get some proper re-enactors over (us) to do the fighting scenes and big battles. They apparently believe the travel expenses plus standard wage for 50 Danes and 100+ Brits working in UK would make the film go bust.

[Ludens]

Scottish pike formations were quite famous during wars of independence era so in that respect the clip was accurate but yes no bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge is a bit idiotic.

True, but the film made it appear like Wallace reinvented the pike. The makers claim that Braveheart is a Celtic fantasy. I agree, as long as one places the emphasis on fantasy.

[anubis88]

I didn't know the Scots knew of phalanx tactics. Or that the battle of Stirling Bridge did not, in fact, feature a bridge.

Heh, i read somewhere that a local a the shooting of the film ask the director(producer dunno) why there is no bridge...
The Director replied: "because it was in the way"
Then The guy replied: " that's what the English thought as well"

[antisocialmunky]

True, but the film made it appear like Wallace reinvented the pike. The makers claim that Braveheart is a Celtic fantasy. I agree, as long as one places the emphasis on fantasy.

I liked the chariot battle shield wall spear thing from Gladiator more.

[Macilrille]

I have yet to see any cinematic depiction of anything concerning military history and/or war- fighting- melee- you-name-it, come close to the actual thing.

Edited to add what I forgot cause my ferret sounded very ill and had to be checked, except Stalingrad. That is not too bad.

[Ludens]

I have yet to see any cinematic depiction of anything concerning military history and/or war- fighting- melee- you-name-it, come close to the actual thing.

Edited to add what I forgot cause my ferret sounded very ill and had to be checked, except Stalingrad. That is not too bad.

Have you seen "Tora! Tora! Tora!"? I understand it is pretty accurate. It certainly seems more like a documentary than a film.

BTW, which "Stalingrad"-film are you referring to?

[antisocialmunky]

Its the German one I believe. That one that starts out really happy and then gets super ridiculously depressing.

[vartan]

I have yet to see any cinematic depiction of anything concerning military history and/or war- fighting- melee- you-name-it, come close to the actual thing.

And what my friend would be the "actual thing"? hmm?

[Olaf The Great]

I suppose downfall counts as a retelling of the fall of Berlin, and that truely was an amazing film.

[bobbin]

True, but the film made it appear like Wallace reinvented the pike. The makers claim that Braveheart is a Celtic fantasy. I agree, as long as one places the emphasis on fantasy.

Oh yes i completely agree its about as accurate as The Patriot, that other godawful mel gibson "historical" film.

[Skullheadhq]

Real history is not shown on TV, go read a book.

[athanaric]

But it could be, that's the point. It would be so easy to just consult some decent historians and actually try to do what they say. Instead we get served the same crap again and again and again.

I'm still hoping to see a realistic movie about something in the EB timeframe, especially something with cataphracts and a proper rendition of "Eastern" peoples...

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(likewise I'm still waiting for a decent Lord of the Rings film, but that won't come for some time)

[Dutchhoplite]

Oh yes i completely agree its about as accurate as The Patriot, that other godawful mel gibson "historical" film.

Or "Apocalypto" what a horrible piece of garbage that was.

Mel Gibson should be forbidden to do anything else with history

[ARCHIPPOS]

well admittedly there are some war movies which are waaaaay better than most...
I'ld recommend ...
-"Paths Of Glory" (Stanley Kubrick so you know it's great!!!)
-"The Battle Of Algiers" amazing, mindblowing movie on politics and revolutionary violence...
-"Das Boot" (not the English dubbed version though)
-"The Thin Red Line"
-i also liked "Jarhead" a lot...

those films capture the essence and moral implications of modern warfare with minimal or almost-none Hollywood cheesiness...