I'm used to amazon.co.uk not being the most reliable website for FOG books, but this fiasco with T&T is getting a little ridiculous, how have they managed to mess it up this badly?

As I understand it the North Welsh pronounciation of Welsh is significantly different from South Welsh

I was talking with some friends about this a while ago; as a general rule, they told me, if two Wlesh people from opposite ends of the country get together they can just about understand each ...

I finished my archaeology BA at University of Wales Lampeter two years ago and as far as I'm aware only one person who I studied with has actually been able to secure a job in archaeology. With the current recession in Britain and the reduction in the house building oppertunites for rescue ...

Hey, I said difficult, not impossible.

Unfortunatly I think we're still missing one ally list as I don't see an Italian Ostrogothic ally list in the errata.

I'm afraid to say that when it comes to ancient history all there really is is calculations, putting an exact date to anything in the ancient world is difficult at best, downright impossible in some cases.

Thanks guys, that really clears things up.
I actually have a copy of Shaw's History of Egypt with me, it's one of the few books I bought with me to China, I'll go back and have a look at the chronology section again.

I have a question; in Swifter than Eagles what chronology is being used for dating the armies? When I was at uni I remember being told that there are several different chronologies for the ancient near east (although I must confess that I don't remember too much of what the lecturer was saying about ...

Etruscans; I did a module on them at uni 2 years back and I've been itching to do one ever since.

Yay, revised delivery date 4th Feb; better late than never Amazon

I've ordered all the previous books from Amazon UK and had no problem but this time I'll give them one more week and if still no joy then I'll cancel the order and go elsewhere. I really don't know what Amazon are playing at.

My feelings exactly

Well, the picture I'm thinking of in regards cataphract armour is the first colour plate from The Army of Tang China
by Karl Ranitzsch. If I remember correctly suits of armour have been found with these features on, although perhaps not all of them had it, which could explain the suit in the museum ...

I'm not sure if Chinese figures would work, the Koreans in the Three Kingdoms period had a very distinct apperance. Mostly it's down to hats with most troops, traditional Korean headgear is quite different from the Chinese. Korean cataphracts of the period were paticularly outlandish if I remember ...

Very useful! I have models to cover all of this except the HW Tang foot. I wonder what these are? I don't recall there being any large swordsmen in the T'ang period, or dagger axes on long staves, etc.

I think I remember reading somewhere that for a while the Tang issued dagger-axes to some ...

Wasn't that because they were only after a certain point in time (which you didn't have to be), unlike the Jin which are compulsory optional troops all of the time.
Even troops that are compulsary only during a set time are normally core units. I guess it's best to chalk this stuff up to wierd ...

The strangest I have seen is 2 minimums of 6 bases of optional troops in the Jin list, but you can only use one set of the minimums. ( the one set of troop type apears like this in other lists. Strange wording.) But an optional troops minimum?? Could be in more??

If I remember correctly the ...