IDEAS FOR WARGAMING HISTORY'S EARLIEST CONFLICTS BATTLES IN BRONZE

In Europe, the Near East, Africa, and parts of Asia, the Bronze Age began in the last third of the fourth millennium BC (ca. 3300 BC) to 700BC. It saw (unsurprisingly) the increased use of bronze. This went hand in hand with the development of writing, increased urbanization and the development of the first empires. It is an age that offers many varied and exciting possibilities for wargaming.

By Murray Dahm

Rameses says: PAY TO PLAY Mercenary troops can be just as loyal or more loyal than your own troops. When I defeated and captured the Sherden pirates, I took these veteran fighters and made them my personal bodyguards. During the Bronze Age, ancient peoples began to smelt copper and alloy it with tin to produce a metal that was harder than copper by itself. Tin was relatively scarce, so trade networks for it developed in order to meet the demand. The impact of this new, harder metal was evident in tools and the things they could produce: in culture, art, and especially in weapons. Warfare, therefore, became far more formalized and organized. Indeed, it is in the Bronze Age that we see the very first armies and the first historically recorded battles.…

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