Taking a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity, Phil Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to create a whole new means of examining the great clashes of the ancient world. Having developed a model to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies we are able to actually interrogate the lessons of history. The book develops detailed 'scenarios' for individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, to cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient conflict are ...
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Taking a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity, Phil Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to create a whole new means of examining the great clashes of the ancient world. Having developed a model to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies we are able to actually interrogate the lessons of history. The book develops detailed 'scenarios' for individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, to cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient conflict are realistic. Readers can use the model to experiment for themselves by refighting engagments of their choice, tweaking the scenarios to accord with their own judgements of the evidence, trying out different tactics from those used historically, and seeing how the battle then palys out. The book thus offers a unique dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigour with the interest and accessibility of simulation gaming.
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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.
