Slitherine

As promised here is the poll for the teme at the Oxford Doubles: -

Here are the details of the options in the poll: -
Option 1 – The Rise and Fall of the Achaemenid Persian – 585 BC to 330 BC

Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Median
Lydian Classical Indian Classical Greek
Skythian or Saka Thracian Early Achaemenid Persian
Later Achaemenid Persian Alexandrian Macedonian Later Dynastic Egyptian
Kyrenean Greek

Option 2 - The Rise of Islam and the Decline of Byzantine – 629 AD to 1204 AD (No Heavily Armoured Knights)

Arab Conquest Sassanid Persian Later Visigothic
Maurikian Byzantine Axumite Thematic Byzantine
Christian Nubian Andalusian Fatimid Egyptian
Western Turkish Umayyad Arab Abbasid Arab
Early North Africian Dynasties Khurasanian Dynasties Bedouin Dynasties
Dailami Dynasties Ghaznavid Beja, Nile Valley Blemmye or Early Nobatae
Lomard Early Bulgar Norman
Rus Pecheneg Cuman
Fatimid Egyptian Georgian Seljug Turk
Italo-Norman Early Crusader Syrian States
Later Crusader Middle Serbian Ayyubid Egyptian
Komnenan Byzantine Western Turkish Bedouin Dynasties
Middle Bulgarian Medieval Cypriot

Option 3 – The March of the Vikings – 790 AD to 1149 AD

Viking Scot-Irish Middle Anglo-Saxon
Early Slav Early Welsh Carolingian Frankish
Later Pictish Feudal Scots Norse Irish
Anglo-Danish Scots Isles and Highlands Early Russian
Astur-Leonese Norman Early Scots
Rus Pecheneg Early Medieval French
Italo-Norman Nikephorian Byzantine


Option 4 – The Northern Crusaders and the Rise of the Ottomans – 1201 AD to 1500 AD

All the lists in the Eternal Empire plus: -

Wendish, Prussian or Estonian
Early Medieval Frisia and other Free Cantons Post- Viking Scandinavian
Mamluk Egyptian Medieval Cypriot
Venetian outside Italy (Italian Condotta)





Option 5 – China and its Enemies up to the Mongol Invasion – c1700 BC to 1206 AD

The relevant lists in Empires of the Dragon plus
Classical Indian (only Guptas)
Seljuk Turk (Only Eastern Seljuks) Khurasanian (only before 1206 AD)
Kushan or Indo-Skythian Hephthalite Hunnic Western Turkish (not Khazars)
Abbasid Arab Ghaznavid

This poll will end shortly and as no one currently has voted the organisers will pick the theme.

So it is up to you to vote for your choice.

Bob

Bob you need to vote to see the results, even if you are the original poster.

Tick one, remember it then discount that one.

Mind you still only nine votes, but yours will make the %ages easier

Nikephorian Byzantines seem like an obvious omission from the lists for the Rise of Islam and Decline of Byzantium. Not planning to attend so I haven't voted.

Chris

So we have a result with "The Rise of Islam and the Decline of Byzantine – 629 AD to 1204 AD (No Heavily Armoured Knights)" as the theme for the Oxford Doubles 2011.

I will add Nikephorian Byzantines to the list of armies that can be used.

I think we might go Chinese next year (2012) so everyone has plenty of time to paint a suitable army.

Bob