Urartu: The Kingdom of Van: Opposition for the Assyrians by Clive Naseby

[Druzhina]

Urartu: The Kingdom of Van
Opposition for the Assyrians
by Clive Naseby

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[FierceKitty]

Interesting. That one was published in Miniature Wargames in 1983.

[Druzhina]

Was it 1983? My copy doesn't have a date.

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[FierceKitty]

Pretty sure. It was the first wargames magazine I'd ever seen, and I bought it on arriving in the UK to study. The date is thus fairly iconic in my increasingly fuzzy mind.

[Druzhina]

Here is a miiror site for
Urartu: The Kingdom of Van
Opposition for the Assyrians
by Clive Naseby

and extracts from: Armies and Enemies of Ancient Egypt and Assyria:
Urartian Infantryman by Alan Buttery
Urartian Chief by Alan Buttery

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[FierceKitty]

That skin worn down the right side must be to compensate for the lack of a shield on the right to catch Assyrian and Cimmerian arrows, I suppose? Not the ideal material for armour, but then wicker isn't the last word in shield technology either.