Assyrians 1, Egyptians 0

[Hertsblue]

Love a battle that sort of wheels round itself; you're never quite sure who's going to win 

We call it the "wargamer's waltz" in our club.

Nice battle, FK. 

[getagrip]

We call it the "wargamer's waltz" in our club.

Consider that stolen

[nikharwood]

 

[toxicpixie]

Looks good, FK - do I detect a lot of Newlines excellent chariots there?

Our Egyptian player hasn't had much luck with her chariots either - they keep getting run over by Hittite heavies after the Syrian arrow fodder suck up the Egyptian bowfire. Sorry, after our noble Levantine allies heroically engage their hated oppressors.

[FierceKitty]

Yep, I have 18 Newlines and three Mag. Mil.

[toxicpixie]

Good stuff

I like the look of the MM chariots, but at twice the price I'm not so tempted...

[FierceKitty]

The Newlines are better anyway, but I wanted the commanders to look distinct from the rest.

[toxicpixie]

Are they?

Right then, more Newlines it is

Although I have some Syrian infantry to collect at WMMS in March, need proper bowmen and spearmen to absorb the Egyptian arrow storm!

[FierceKitty]

The Midianite camelry, with two riders per mount, have proved capable of putting out a killing arrow storm, though the return fire hurts them too, being as they are quite without protection. I've made them unreliable allies, since I'm sure they weren't too keen on the Assyrians, but they did sterling service in this last battle.

[toxicpixie]

I don't think *anyone* was very keen on the Assyrians were they?!

Although I guess Midianite cameleers can always disappear into the desert with ease, should they decide it just ain't worth it...

[FierceKitty]

I have read a few suggestions that those ghastly carvings illustrating the fate of captured enemies might have been warnings rather than records, and that such atrocities may have been less everyday run of the mill policy than they seem. But I'm in no position to evaluate such a claim, and I suppose historians in a thousand years may be speculating on whether the Third Reich really did all it was accused of.
(Yes, I know about Holocaust denial. Don't hijack us.)

[toxicpixie]

I do wonder on the Assyrians - if they were actually as bad as they're painted I have half a suspicion everyone in a very large area might have happily combined to wipe them out, then salt the earth they lived on... Although I suppose something must account for their resilience as they seem to be the empire that just keeps on popping back up again  and again!

[FierceKitty]

Really? I'd say that about the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Jews; but the Assyrians had just a couple of centuries, and nobody had a good word to say for them after they'd gone. I think of them as the Americans of the ancient near-east.

[paulr]

Really? I'd say that about the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Jews; but the Assyrians had just a couple of centuries, and nobody had a good word to say for them after they'd gone. I think of them as the Americans of the ancient near-east.

[toxicpixie]

Well, maybe not as a "great power" for all that time, but they were pretty much functional and whole (even when under others a a client) from around 2600BC to 600BC - that's a bit more than "a couple of centuries"... like saying Egypt only had the bit around the Kushite Empires, or only existed at the high point immediately pre-Bronze Age collapse whilst fighting Hittites

Compare that with Hurri-Mitanni or even the Hittites.