Ian Heath - armies of the Aztecs, Incas etc. p33- regarding Aztecs ' no standing army' 'Howerever, they remained collections of individually courageous warriors rather than properly constituted, formally administerred and displined companies, and outside of the their service either on campaign or in...

Thought HWY Longbow would have made superior (if not elite!). They fought specially hard, in some rather bad situations. They were specially seclected far more than Galoglaich and Swiss infantry, I think the English longbowman had a feared reputation as much. They seem to have out performed the Scot...

The Spartacus list for FoG is more useable than the DBM one but it is difficult to produce an inspired list from the history of the revolt. The list is certainly interesting and the FoG troop classifications do mean the resulting army sits halfway between a Roman army and a Gallic or German one. I ...

Hi all (first post)

One of my favorite armies is, that of Spartacus's Revolt.

I have loads of medieval stuff, but i'm hoping the rules will inspire me to crack on with building this army.
And I hoping the army list is a bit more inspired then the DBM list.