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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight
Published: June 6, 2026 03:33
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such generalā¦
Gap Week: May 29, 2026
Published: May 29, 2026 16:27
Hey folks! I had a few other projects that I really needed to get finished this week, which left me with limited time to put a blog post together. My plan for next week is something for the worldbuilders out there, a sort of āguideā to different kinds ofā¦
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights
Published: May 22, 2026 22:28
This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and constituted. Over the last four parts, weāve looked at the larger components of Carthaginian armies: the relatively small role ofā¦
Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026
Published: May 16, 2026 03:31
Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week weāll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the āodds and endsā components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture of troop-types was employed in battle during the thirdā¦
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries
Published: May 8, 2026 23:11
This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III) looking at how Carthageās complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised and structured. Last week, we looked at Carthageās unusual system for raising vassal forces: long-serving Carthaginian generals couldā¦
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals
Published: May 1, 2026 15:33
This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthageās complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthageās armies: North African troops levied out of Carthageās subject communities inā¦
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part II: The African Backbone
Published: April 25, 2026 01:06
This is the second part (I) of our series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. As we discussed last time, while Carthage has an unfair reputation for being an āun-militaryā society, its military system was one of the highest performing in theā¦
Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026
Published: April 17, 2026 17:37
Hey folks! Fireside this week; next week weāll be back to seperating out the components of Carthaginian armies, looking at the real backbone of those armies, which are Carthageās North African subjects. But for this weekās musing, I wanted to talk a bitā¦
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
Published: April 10, 2026 23:14
This is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfair!) reputation for being a country of āpeaceful merchants who tended to avoid wars,ā Carthage was, I will argue, without question theā¦
Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral
Published: April 3, 2026 21:08
This week weāre going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which it turns out is surprisingly tricky for us to confidently reconstruct, in part because the period of its use that most interests us (the runā¦