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Mortem et Gloriam Army Lists => List Queries => Topic started by: IanN on November 27, 2019, 08:04:04 AM

Title: Nubian Archer
Post by: IanN on November 27, 2019, 08:04:04 AM
Nubian archers appear as Skilled shouters (as Loose Order and/or Skirmishers) in all early Egyptian lists from Old Kingdom to Saitic - except Libyan Egyptian and Saitic. Are these latter two intentional or 'missed' ?
Title: Re: Nubian Archer
Post by: tarnowski1 on November 27, 2019, 10:15:26 AM
Quote from: IanN on November 27, 2019, 08:04:04 AM
Nubian archers appear as Skilled shouters (as Loose Order and/or Skirmishers) in all early Egyptian lists from Old Kingdom to Saitic - except Libyan Egyptian and Saitic. Are these latter two intentional or 'missed' ?

or the Kushite Egyptian list.... which if anyone was going to have
Title: Re: Nubian Archer
Post by: nikgaukroger on November 27, 2019, 12:38:27 PM
Suspect they may no longer have been seen as the especially effective archers that they were earlier - plus classifications are often affected by the desire to get relationships right between armies in a book as more important than comparisons with similar troops in different books.
Title: Re: Nubian Archer
Post by: Rino on November 27, 2019, 01:56:04 PM
But Christian Nubians have skilled...
Title: Re: Nubian Archer
Post by: nikgaukroger on November 27, 2019, 03:09:04 PM
There is evidence that they were especially effective  8)

The huge difference in time between them and the earlier ones make extrapolating into the gap unwise.