Historical Enemies

[getback]

Thanks Richard. That sounds brilliant.

[Simon Meg-Meister]

No upset.

Just need to find an easy way of doing what could otherwise be a mammoth task.

S

[sultanbev]

What I did recently as an example using those maps is pick a date, in this case 100AD,

https://www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/East-Hem_100ad.jpg

and an army, in this case Dacians, because who doesn't like two-handed chewers, then see who the neighbours were on the map. So, without any prior historical knowledge of the Dacians, I deduced that possible opponents were:
Romans
Lazyges
Gepids
Sarmatians
Goths
and a whole host of what I assume to be Germanic tribes - Getai, Roxolani, Teurisci, Carpi, Nevari. The latter then could lead me going on a research tangent into finding what they are.  I've no idea what Lazyges and Gepids are either, cool names, although at least I have heard of Gepids, but that's part of the fun, finding out.

Mark

[nikgaukroger]

No upset.

Just need to find an easy way of doing what could otherwise be a mammoth task.

S

Mammoth may be understating it - I am currently cross referencing 5 different list books to sort out some army/enemy combinations in one book ...

[Simon Meg-Meister]

Diplodocian task?

Si

PS I've seen a first version from RJC and its superb. But it takes a lot of cross referencing.

[nikgaukroger]

I was up to 7 PDFs for the lastest lot ...

[nikgaukroger]

And now 8 for the one I'm currently working on - guess which it is ...

[daveparish]

Some obscure army with a really long time line (because we don't know enough about it). Perhaps one of the Alan lists  (I think one runs for hundreds of years)?

[nikgaukroger]

Ah, its for a whole list book not an individual army - Mongol Conquest might be the individual list from all the books that references most other list books though at a guess.

[daveparish]

Ahh, so the list book with the most links to other books (via battles fought). I'm going to go Arabia from the Early Medieval period. Just for general aggression and geographical spread

[lionheartrjc]

For information

So far the army with the most enemies is Early Imperial Roman - 32.  I suspect that may not be beaten.

Richard

[nikgaukroger]

Beats Mongol which came in lower than I expected - probably because the Chinggisid successors cover quite a few in their individual lists rather than being all in an overarching Mongol Conquest list a la DBx, and also we tend to have split up western barbarians more than steppe nomads.

Doing this is a remarkably interesting process in a nerdy way 

[Simon Meg-Meister]

For information

So far the army with the most enemies is Early Imperial Roman - 32.  I suspect that may not be beaten.

Richard

Wow.  I wonder what we would have all guessed without knowing. 
Shows just how huge the empire was at its peak.

[lionheartrjc]

Historical Enemies can be downloaded from the MeG website https://mortem-et-gloriam.co.uk/meg/army-lists/historical-enemies/.

[mad lemmey]

Thank you