05-28-2007, 05:28 AM
Hoplite14gr,
I'm baffled by that phenomenon. I mean, people in the US reenact the Revolutionary and Civil War periods. Renaissance reenactment is also popular. I myself started to branch out into doing a Spanish conquistador impression. There's not much distance between us and these eras I just mentioned but maybe things are different in Europe, they sure are Greece.
Well, with anything else, there's much to choose from - infantryman, foreign mercenary, cavalry, archer, etc.. All of these vary in cost, of course. And I understand it would take time to save up money but that's true of doing just about any other time period unless you're doing really modern impressions.
You could also choose to be an Isaurian. True, they were, at best, half-civilised but were at least native to Anatolia and thus subjects of the empire.
Yes, you did. Sorry, I must've read your post too quickly (plus, I'm not yet used to seeing modern Greek spellings for unit types). Cavalry reeanctors of all periods are the elite among the rest of us due to the prohibitive costs of that genre.
~Theo
Quote:Well Theo,
Ancient Rome has some "sentimental distance" to Greeks.
Byzantium does not.
I'm baffled by that phenomenon. I mean, people in the US reenact the Revolutionary and Civil War periods. Renaissance reenactment is also popular. I myself started to branch out into doing a Spanish conquistador impression. There's not much distance between us and these eras I just mentioned but maybe things are different in Europe, they sure are Greece.
Quote:1000$ is roughly 800 Euro which is a married shop assistant's or courier's monthly salary in Greece so it is kind of "salty".
Plus most of the items have to be imported and that adds to the expence.
Well, with anything else, there's much to choose from - infantryman, foreign mercenary, cavalry, archer, etc.. All of these vary in cost, of course. And I understand it would take time to save up money but that's true of doing just about any other time period unless you're doing really modern impressions.
Quote:Most of the "native" Byzantine troops were militia with the Varangians "Latinikon" and Imperial household cavalry composed from foreigners in a substantial part
You could also choose to be an Isaurian. True, they were, at best, half-civilised but were at least native to Anatolia and thus subjects of the empire.
Quote: - plus as I said cavalry reconstructions are more demanding.
Yes, you did. Sorry, I must've read your post too quickly (plus, I'm not yet used to seeing modern Greek spellings for unit types). Cavalry reeanctors of all periods are the elite among the rest of us due to the prohibitive costs of that genre.
~Theo
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