tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185876513552272723.post37459757247753197..comments2024-03-28T03:10:23.679-07:00Comments on Polemarch: BenburblingThe Polemarchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10958736917525649927noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185876513552272723.post-64378120717658934702021-12-20T01:51:09.723-08:002021-12-20T01:51:09.723-08:00Thank you. I do have some vague ideas of Rathmines...Thank you. I do have some vague ideas of Rathmines, but it seems a rather complicated running battle, with terrain. JWH (on Heretical Gaming) did Knocknamuss (?spelling) a while ago so that's a possibility too.<br /><br />As to the pikes, I don't think we really have the evidence to say. The Irish don't seem to have had much in the way of cavalry and the Nine Years War didn't have Irish pike, so far as I recall. But then the tactics were different.<br /><br />The short / long pike debate gets subsumed into the prod or push debate as well, which generates more heat than light. The latter dates back to debates about hoplite warfare, so no resolution seems to be possible, unless re-enactors can be persuaded to try to kill each other....The Polemarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10958736917525649927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185876513552272723.post-51089407275024752132021-12-19T05:03:26.657-08:002021-12-19T05:03:26.657-08:00Very good stuff.
My hears pricked up when I hear B...Very good stuff.<br />My hears pricked up when I hear Benburb, Hayes McCoy being used as a reference and your own hombrew rules. More please :)<br /><br />Also, I always believed that this period marked the start of 'pike-shortening' to the more sensible 11' from 16', simply by virtue of the fact that Irish terrain generally made pike attack less effective, and horse more dangerous - hence pikes remained, albeit only as a form of defence against horse...Duc de Gobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10668407600014604176noreply@blogger.com