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The French fury of Antwerp in 1583 is an example. The duke of Anjou didn't have much authority over The Netherlands, and he sought to improve it by trying to take Antwerp, by a ruse. He asked for a ro …

The Dutch - Scilly Islands War or The 305-Year War comes to mind. zero civilian casualties started with a declaration of war no illegal weapons were used Ended with a treaty signed on 17 April 1986, …

The key factors were high mobility and better weapons. The Huns for example were in the beginning almost exclusively mounted. Hunnic infantry appears much later. They were armed with a very powerful c …

Is it at all accurate to divide the army into units of specific sizes. Of course, you're making a game. You have to make a balance between playability and reality. A Roman cohort has 480 officers …

This was the common rule of warfare of the day. The enemy didn't like to put in a lot of effort, and let you walk out afterwards: "was a nice game boys; see you next time!". …

What exactly is a miracle weapon? My definition would be: something that all of a sudden changes the outcome of a conflict and decides a war. Hannibal used clay pots filled with snakes to be thrown on …

Light infantry often carried small or medium sized shields. Peltasts for example carried their own type of shield. Even a buckler offers some form of protection against arrows. Not all light infantry …

Castles were ALWAYS located in strategic locations. Circumventing was the first thing the enemy would try to do. The trick was to make sure that was impossible. A castle had many functions, both civil …

Several reasons. One of them might be hemorrhoids. Napoleon suffered from them. So did I, once. You do not, repeat: DO NOT know how painful this can be, if you never had hemorrhoids. A patient has one …

The Swedish Stridsvagn 103 didn't have a turret. The driver was also the gunner. He aimed the gun with his driving controls and raising/lowering the suspension. The radio operator sat at the back, and …

I'm not a metallurgist, that's your field. I'm looking at your question from a historic and economic angle: Was the quality of Roman armour really worse than the armour of knights of the XII-XIV centu …

In general, do revolutions need the support of the populace to achieve long-term success? No. Not at all. It's a nice bonus. Nothing more. Plenty of dictatorships ruled with very little popular suppor …

They didn't because of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. The Allies agreed (in Yalta ???) that the USSR should as soon as possible attack Japan, which they did in August 1945. By then the war was a …

They were fairly to reasonably effective. Otherwise nobody would have bothered with them in the first place. War is not about having the biggest baddest whatever. It is about applying force in the bes …

Long time ago I wondered about the same. I always thought the Roman army (early imperial, of course) would beat the crap out of any opponent until the end of the middle ages. After learning a lot abou …