A very special gift to BC community!!!

[dejan07]

After a great response and succes in thread about AI formations,i want to thank and reward BC modders for their magnificent work.One of the most untold stories about Total war series are origins of this game.The main idea for this great game came from the two main sources: Civilization and Wargaming series.The idea was to combine Civilization system of building empires and strategic part from Wargaming. About Civilization i think that everybody already knows enough but about "Wargaming" surprisingly nothing.

Well, the story about wargamming begins in 19th century in Germany.
Modern wargaming grew out of the military need to study warfare and to 'reenact' old battles for learning purposes. The stunning Prussian victory over the French in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) is sometimes partly credited to the training of Prussian officers with the Kriegspiel.
H.G. Wells' book Little Wars was an attempt to codify rules for fighting battles with toy soldiers (miniatures), and make them available to the general public.

Wargames have existed for centuries—chess is an ancient example. In fact, one could make a case that all competitive games which have a winner and loser may be considered wargames.
History records many Wargame successes during World War II, but perhaps none was more impressive than America's naval victory over Japan. Our wartime Pacific commander, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz explained to a Naval War College class in 1960 that, "the war with Japan had been reenacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing happened during the war that was a surprise - absolutely nothing except the kamikazes towards the end of the war!!!".

Except for the personal pleasure,the game and the books to the game also provides first class informations about warfare,history and tactics.I started to play this game before i even heard about total war series.After i discovered Medieval i was really pleasantly surprised,it was like wargamming in 3D but with the Rome and Medieval 2 things are getting more simpler(dumber?) and most of all unrealistic.

Because all of that i decided to intoduce you to this great game and to give you one of the best existing books on medieval period:
"Byzantium beyond the golden gate"
http://rapidshare.com/files/10244731..._Gate.pdf.html

In this book you will find Byzantine army compositions(and for their enemys) for each epoche,formations,numbers,illustrations,custom battles(Dara,Yarmuk,Manzikert,...),detailed informations about wars,biographies about kings and strategos.

and a few links for video presentation:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4oKBYapQlG8
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Anc_MV...eature=related
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=YYtj31...eature=related

and even more stuff:
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mediev...leTactics.html

I hope you will find it usefull.
Peace.

[Erwin Rommel]

SO it was you guys who always have those in google search images for obscure units

you guys ALWAYS seem to have units and battle for everything

hmm......like EB and BC

anyway.......+rep........great post!

[AnthoniusII]

Great job...those millitary manuals should be guides for any one who wants to construct a byzantine roster!

[dejan07]

Have you been ever asking yourself from where comes all this information in EB,Napoleonic wars or Real combat mod?Because they have some members in our communitty.Thats a dirty little secret on TWcenter.

[Erwin Rommel]

good..niiiiiiiiice

Anthonius here kinda needs your help

[iksterminator]

Great Post Dejan, it's a present for all of us, I'm fan of late rome (I call biz late rome) couse I'm of roman decendance, good recources.
Thank You Duce

[Miraj]

Very nice, downloading it.

[Ahiga]

Much thanks for the post, presents, and praise, Dejan. We do owe a large thanks to Wargaming Systems such as DBA and DBM beyond just giving rise to the Real Time Strategy Genre, but also that without their research and work many factions in BC would not have been possible.

[Miraj]

Very cool book! Read it this morning and now. +rep

It has some cool miniature of some other stuff like the Rus, early caliphates and steppe nomads too. I can imagine the Rus may help us for 2.0.

[Tony83]

Damn! Those photos take me back a bit. I still have my 15mm Austrian and Russian Napoleonic armies.