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Wider Wargaming => Batreps => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 17 November 2021, 07:11:07 AM

Title: Spiny Norman again
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 November 2021, 07:11:07 AM
Having walloped the Vikings twice, the Normans are now invading Sicily. Lee's trying to stop them with the Byzantines.
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 November 2021, 07:52:09 AM
Don't forget that theb FRankish Knight can charge through the walls of Byzantium itself !
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: FierceKitty on 17 November 2021, 08:24:22 AM
Tell my dice! But Princess Anna said Babylon, din't she?
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 November 2021, 09:01:16 AM
Could well have, either would be a tad impressive !
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: Ithoriel on 17 November 2021, 09:08:37 AM
"... a Frank on horseback is invincible, and would even make a hole in the walls of Babylon, but directly he gets off his horse, anyone who likes can make sport of him." (Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, ed. and trans. Elizabeth A. Dawes [Routledge, Kegan, Paul, 1928], pp. 341-42.)
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 November 2021, 10:51:46 AM
Ta La
Title: Re: Spiny Norman again
Post by: flamingpig0 on 18 November 2021, 02:19:29 PM
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 November 2021, 07:52:09 AMDon't forget that theb FRankish Knight can charge through the walls of Byzantium itself !

That is because the Byzantines use the same builders my housing association does