I've been having a look at my wargaming armies, and am amazed when I look at the Geography of the armies that I favour.
For instance, the following armies I have an interest in:
Bactrian Greek, Hepthalite Huns, and the Ghurids.
If we do a brief study of their Geography we find that they are all in the same location - Afghanistan.
Drawing a bit of a long bow, we can also throw the Palmyrans in the same location (I know it's not really that close, but it's closer than Rome
)In addition to this, I'm interested:
New Kingdom Egyptian, Ptolemaic and Mamluk Egyptian. I've got an interest in Napoleon's Egyptian Campaigns.
Now, I'd vaguely undertand that if I had Afghan or Egyptian blood, but I'm a Celt.
It would be interesing to know if anyone else follows the same geographic limitations.
I had a friend who wanted to build (back in 7th Edition) an army from each book, and also have a Rennaissance, Napoleonic, WWII and Modern army. Well, going from 'Swifter than Eagles' you'd be limiting your range if you also only picked one geographic region, but what could you have if you selected 'Egypt': - Old Kingdom Egyptian, New Kingdom Egyptian, 26th? Dynasty, Ptolemaic, Mamluk Egyptian... They're all pretty different armies too. This is an economical way to build an army too, you'd save on camp... you'd only need to build one PYramid
