Spiny Norman again

[FierceKitty]

Having walloped the Vikings twice, the Normans are now invading Sicily. Lee's trying to stop them with the Byzantines.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Don't forget that theb FRankish Knight can charge through the walls of Byzantium itself !

[FierceKitty]

Tell my dice! But Princess Anna said Babylon, din't she?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Could well have, either would be a tad impressive !

[Ithoriel]

"... 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.)

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ta La

[flamingpig0]

Don'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