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Old May 8th, 2008, 04:18 PM

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Wrana said:
Well, Ireland is Eriu. And chariots remained there almost until 16th century iirc. Here it would represent more archaic nature of their army which is compensated by magic & inborn high quality of Tuatha/Sidhe warriors. While in EA they would be redundant - Sidhe surely have no problem with most human infantry (& charioters wouldn't get to use their higher weapon abilties, except against other chariots)!

Tirnanog is as much ireland as Eriu is. I don't see how they're redundant in EA. One of the tuatha/sidhe heroes uses a chariot, for example. Additionally I'm not sure I'd even make them tramplers, given that all descriptions I've read of celtic chariots stress they were fairly light and more of a rapid deployment/ranged skirmish troop than a scythed trampler.

I don't think that the century in which weapons were used is important, more where they fit in the general military evolution of the source nation. Dom3 puts greek hoplites and plate armoured germanic knights in the same era after all. But again, this isn't the thread to discuss that.


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