Historical Art Thread

More of these.

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mediafire.com/folder/c3bswmt3eo863/Osprey
strv102r.tripod.com/battleof.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Delian_League#Egypt
dabrandonsphere.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

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Can anyone explain this picture, picture shows bronze age, but greeks on it seem overgeared for that time period

>*record scratch*
>*freeze frame*
>So you're probably wondering how I ended up with these two
*Chuckles* well it's a long story. First we have to go back
>*Rewinds to midwife leaning over heavily pregnant woman*
>"It's a boy" cries the midwife
>Camera pans over fully armored baby
>Woah, woah! Not that far back!
>Camera fast forwards to battle of Marciano
>Oh here we go
>French forces in fast retreat
>Petty Captain thrown into jail cell with Captain and Irish Auxilliary
>It may not look like much, but this is how I met my two closest friends
>All three look at each other and back at the guards
>"I have to share a cell with these two?" they all whine at the same time
>Well, we weren't friends right away
>*Funky fresh tunes start playing*
>But little did we know that our world was about to turn upside down
>Three of them kneeling in front of Maximillian II
>"I knight you three; arise, guardians of the Holy Roman Empire"
>Shadowy figure in background raises his eyebrows and makes a smug expression
>I'm Pierre, and these are my two closest friends, and this is our story
>HBO presents
>'KNIGHTZ'
>SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME

For some reason I find the helmet of the dude on the left to be very aesthetic.

it is

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8/10 would copy

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why is late antiquity/early middle ages always the most interesting?

It's an era not everyone is familiar with to same extent as classical antiquity or the late middle ages or Renaissance.

something about these guys is badass

mediafire.com/folder/c3bswmt3eo863/Osprey

A good thread, on Veeky Forums?

>when you inheret dark ages

My personal favorite -- of Shapur I.

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Anyone got Viking/Migration Period Stuff?

I gotchu senpai

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looks like dwarven armor from elder scrolls

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What is that cutout in his shield for?

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spear

>all that fucking armour
>no sandals

Mad.

Tbh the battle of Brun Keb erg sounds pretty badass based of this website.

strv102r.tripod.com/battleof.htm

I believe it is when the Athenians supported the swamp king of Egypt against the Persians.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Delian_League#Egypt

Bronze age min-maxing

Two questions about this:

Wtf is that crossbow shotgun thing?

How common were women in Persian armies?

>Dunno, a Sassanid book just mentioned some device that can shoot multiple arrows "at once."
>Female Sassanid warriors often come from the tribalshit subjects of the empire. And they're often elite/wives of the elite, there are no battalions of them of anything.

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why do they all looks like turks

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There's just something about this picture.

I know what you mean.

I'll dump what I have
1/?

goddammit why tf is the image so small fuck nevermind goddammit fuck my stupid computer

This looks like something from Age of Empires.

have you seen this guy's gallery. it's basically full of horribly drawn WEWUZ shit.

dabrandonsphere.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

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>but greeks on it seem overgeared for that time period
But Greeks were more overgeard in both the Bronze age and Archaic era than they ever were at later periods.

They were kang men

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Portuguese Colonial Troops

Since no one posted warships, i'll post some.

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That's all.