Hhh..mmm..mmmm.
Interesting enough, but if the sample chapter is anything to go by, nothing new.The modelling techniques Sabin uses are well-known, and have been in use for many years.......
Quote:There's an interesting promo page on Philip Sabin's forthcoming Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World
at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/st ... ttles.html
Includes a downloadable extract about the Hydaspes.
Its interesting to see wargaming get some academic respect. I suppose renaming it "conflict simulation" and designing a system for realism first would help.
However, I'd have to read his introductory chapters to see if his model is convincing. The Hydaspes article sounds like it is pretty rough one, and of course we often only have a wild guess at the size and composition of one or both armies or even the site of battle.
Do you know what he means by referring to earlier publications of similar methods? All the work by him I know is his Face of Roman Battle article.
Quote:Do you know what he means by referring to earlier publications of similar methods? All the work by him I know is his Face of Roman Battle article.
He probably includes the series of simulations/games he's published for the Society of Ancients, notably
Strategos - see
http://www.soa.org.uk/strategos2.asp
And did you follow the link to
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/consim.html ?
Not sure what else there might be.
Quote:All the work by him I know is his Face of Roman Battle article.
Oh yes - he's also one of the authors of the forthcoming (and rather more expensive) two-volume
Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Due 31/12/2007 if anyone wants to save up their Christmas money - £209.00 for the two volumes from amazon.co.uk!
