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Can anyone shed any light onto what style of tents the huns used, were they like a Mongol Yurt

or more a ramshackle fur covered structure?

Also did they palisade their camps?

Irmin wrote:Can anyone shed any light onto what style of tents the huns used, were they like a Mongol Yurt

or more a ramshackle fur covered structure?

Also did they palisade their camps?

I have a beautifull camp for Steppe Armies, suitable also for Hunnic. I'm going to attach photos for you.
Sergio

Thart'd be excellent Sergio.

From my own research I'd suspect that Huns (being of Turkish/Central Asian extraction) would probably have used tented or covered wagon as their primary source of cover in camp - like other turkish tribes. I think that there's a referance to attila retiring to the wagon laager at his final great defeat by Aetius. It has been assumed that these wagons were those of his gothic allies, but it's just as probably that they were hunnic wagons.

What scale is your Hunnic army? Irregular miniatures do a really nice tented nomad wagon in 15mm.

Cheers

Mark

Aetius wrote:From my own research I'd suspect that Huns (being of Turkish/Central Asian extraction) would probably have used tented or covered wagon as their primary source of cover in camp - like other turkish tribes. I think that there's a referance to attila retiring to the wagon laager at his final great defeat by Aetius. It has been assumed that these wagons were those of his gothic allies, but it's just as probably that they were hunnic wagons.

What scale is your Hunnic army? Irregular miniatures do a really nice tented nomad wagon in 15mm.

Cheers

Mark

It'll be in 15mm.

Having read what little I can of Priscus he describes tents rather than tented wagons otherwise I would've agreed with you. Just need to work out what they looked like

Irmin,
Black Hat Miniatures do a nice nomad covered wagon (Under the Gladiator miniatures range ref EQ9). There is certainly reference to the Huns using/retreating to a wagon based camp (laager) in Attila's major battle at Chalons. However most Hun campaigns involved smaller scale raids, where probably a tented camp would suffice (Wagons would have simply slowed up these raider forces too much).

Personally I would not get too hung up on what they looked like other than to use an assortment of different wagon types and ensure they have animal skins/pelts for the covers. I use such an assortment of nomad type wagons for my laager and also have a tented camp using the Baueda Gothic tents with their fantasy 'Orc clan' tent as the centre piece for the Big Boss!

Happy raiding!

Irmin wrote:Thart'd be excellent Sergio.

Hi Irmin,
I've attached some photoso of my camp (tent from Baueda, figures form Essex, wagon I'm sorry but I don't remember the manufacturer).
I use it for Steppe armies, so also for Mongol and Hunnic ones









Sergio

Very nice, thanks for posting it, it's given me an idea of what to use.