"Lost Battles takes a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity. Using his experience with conflict simulation, Philip Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to construct a generic, grand tactical model of the battles as a whole. This model unites a mathematical framework, to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies, with human decisions to shape the tactics of the antagonists. Sabin then develops detailed scenarios for 36 individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, and ...
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"Lost Battles takes a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity. Using his experience with conflict simulation, Philip Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to construct a generic, grand tactical model of the battles as a whole. This model unites a mathematical framework, to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies, with human decisions to shape the tactics of the antagonists. Sabin then develops detailed scenarios for 36 individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, and uses the comparative structure offered by the generic model to help cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient sources on issues such as army size fit in best with the general patterns observed elsewhere. Readers can use the model to experiment for themselves by re-fighting engagements of their choice, tweaking the scenarios to accord with their own judgment of the evidence, trying out different tactics from those used historically, and seeing how the battle then plays out. Lost Battles thus offers a unique dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigor with the interest and accessibility of simulation gaming. This book includes access to a downloadable computer simulation where the reader can view the author's simulations as well create their own."--Publisher description.
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This book gives an interesting slant on some of the classic ancient battles. Using the idea of conflict simulation to show possible reasons for the battles occurring and why the outcome occurred. It also shows the difficulty of studying ancient battles with their limited information on strengths of armies. Being a military wargamer myself it gives a large number of scenarios to allow replays of the battles. The combat simulation is reasonably simple to understand and the Yahoo group helps with further information. The explanation of each battle is interesting to a gamer and military historian but can get a bit repetitive, as a lot of the battles are very similar. I would recommend this book to any wargamer and military historian, I am not certain that it would be of major interest to anyother groups.
