Reply To: Mycenaean Swords

[Mike Headden]

Swords seem to be very much secondary to spears in Mycenaean warfare. Your Spears will also have swords (or axes or daggers). A unit specifically of swordsmen would seem very unlikely, to me.

Cavalry are also unlikely and if present are likely to be unarmed or lightly armed scouts of little use on the battlefield at least until the Geometric period. The mounted arm would be largely or entirely chariotry.

That said, if you (and any opponent) are happy to try what is effectively a “what if” scenario then why not?

I’m currently converting a figure to represent Humbaba for my Early Bronze Age Mesopotamians. I doubt your swordsmen and cavalry are any more fanciful than a fire-breathing being with the head of a lion, the horns of a bull, the claws of a vulture, a hide covered in thorns and a tail that ends in a snakes head and whose gaze is death! Even if he is attested to in the Epic of Gilgamesh. 🙂

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