![]() This is a mighty host that can dominate other cities at will, but who will lead it? To help make that decision for you, we’ve included a command team absolutely free, along with a unit of Royal Guard wielding fearsome two-handed ‘epsilon’ axes – just the chaps to keep your leaders safe! There are also a pair of 4-equid battlewagons, the forerunner of the more ‘modern’ horse-drawn chariot to provide some (rather ponderous) striking power. While records of the exact equipment and composition of armies from the period is circumstantial in the extreme, enough was written and has survived for historians to have a reasonable guess – and more importantly, to wargame it! Our Early City-State of Ur deal gives you two big blocks of Sumerian spearmen, clad in the iconic and mysterious ‘studded cloaks’ of the period, which have been interpreted as a form of armour, alongside light infantry archers, and a host of slingers and javelinmen. The Sumerians were the first significant human culture of the region and raised many cities. Ur was a city-state of the ancient Sumerian culture, located in Mesopotamia’s ‘Fertile Crescent’, near modern-day Nasiriyah, Iraq. ![]() Light troops probe for gaps in the approaching enemy battle line.
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