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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: fsn on 24 February 2018, 01:39:35 PM

Title: Byzantines
Post by: fsn on 24 February 2018, 01:39:35 PM
Good afternoon gentlemen.

I've been reading the Alexiad of Anna Comnena again, and so, of course, I now want Byzantines of the Dyrrachium period (1081).  I've been looking at the Late Roman and Sassanids; the Dark Age range and possibly the Silhidars from the C16 Ottoman Turks. 

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: FierceKitty on 24 February 2018, 01:41:34 PM
Some of the competition do have Byzantine ranges; two companies at least.
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: fsn on 24 February 2018, 02:10:20 PM
Get thee behind me, Kitty!

Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: FierceKitty on 24 February 2018, 04:24:18 PM
They look very good on the field; my favourite medieval army.
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: DanJ on 28 February 2018, 10:22:37 AM
Also one of my top two or three armies, built up a huge collection for Warmaster Ancients and I'm slowly rebasing a chunk of them for SAGA.

Unfortunately I had to stray from Pendraken......

I'll go and get the sack cloth and ashes.
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: urbancohort on 23 March 2018, 06:22:56 PM
(Got an error message on my previous attempt to reply - apologies if this is a duplicate.)

Does anyone else ever wonder whether, had the Western Empire not collapsed in 476AD, and instead survived a significant period longer, either in its full state, or as a 'rump' Southern European state, it would have resembled the Byzantine in its strictures and military?

Imagine if the Romans in the late 460s or 470s had managed to recover the provinces of Africa between them, (not so far fetched; it was done by Justinian and Belisarius 60/70 years later)? What might the Western Roman Empire have looked like?

Counterfactual history, I know, but I have never derailed a post before and I am anxious to do so.

:D
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: fsn on 23 March 2018, 06:34:05 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/02RXpRS.jpg)(https://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/When+you+reach+the+modern+age+with+the+romans+_fc0699070c024cb7e734ea099af0b3b9.jpg)


(https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2014/03/176cdb24c30b9b4fdcddf4ef8c6d59e4.gif)
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: urbancohort on 23 March 2018, 06:35:44 PM
Quote from: fsn on 23 March 2018, 06:34:05 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/02RXpRS.jpg)(https://static4.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/When+you+reach+the+modern+age+with+the+romans+_fc0699070c024cb7e734ea099af0b3b9.jpg)


(https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2014/03/176cdb24c30b9b4fdcddf4ef8c6d59e4.gif)
Brilliant!
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: paulr on 23 March 2018, 07:52:35 PM
Quote from: fsn on 23 March 2018, 06:34:05 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/02RXpRS.jpg)

Is that Legio I Germanica :-\
Title: Re: Byzantines
Post by: Techno on 24 March 2018, 07:58:46 AM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Cheers - Phil
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