Urartu: The Kingdom of Van
Opposition for the Assyrians
by Clive Naseby (http://warfare.atwebpages.com/Ancient/Urartu.htm)
Druzhina
Sites of Wargaming Interest (http://warfare.atwebpages.com/Ancient/index.htm)
Interesting. That one was published in Miniature Wargames in 1983.
Was it 1983? My copy doesn't have a date.
Druzhina
Pretty sure. It was the first wargames magazine I'd ever seen, and I bought it on arriving in the UK to study. The date is thus fairly iconic in my increasingly fuzzy mind.
Here is a miiror site for
Urartu: The Kingdom of Van
Opposition for the Assyrians
by Clive Naseby (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Urartu.htm)
and extracts from: Armies and Enemies of Ancient Egypt and Assyria:
Urartian Infantryman by Alan Buttery (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/AEofEA-84-Urartian_Infantryman.htm)
Urartian Chief by Alan Buttery (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/AEofEA-87-Urartian_Chief.htm)
Druzhina
sites of wargaming interest (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/index.htm)
That skin worn down the right side must be to compensate for the lack of a shield on the right to catch Assyrian and Cimmerian arrows, I suppose? Not the ideal material for armour, but then wicker isn't the last word in shield technology either.