Military Fantasy blog

I started a blog for military fantasy, as that is the genre I am interested in. Name is, amazingly, Military Fantasy.

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Infantry Weapons
Medieval Weapons and Body Type (a.k.a. "Why archers are not weak")

Naval Warfare
War at Sea - Galley vs Sailling Ship
War at Sea - Northern Cog

Fortifications
Minas Tirith and Constantinople - Defences Overview

Strategy
Denethoring the Lannisters

Military Worldbuilding
Problem of Guns in Medieval Fantasy

General Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding Programs

Fantasy Analysis
Military Capacity of Iron Islands
Military Organization of Gondor
Aegon Targaryen as Ruler
Navy in Middle Earth
Worldbuilding Problems - Westeros
Western and Eastern Dragons - Similarities and Differences

 

Military Organization of Mordor

 

They were extremely organized. But that is largely in the background - while Tolkien has built up incredibly realistic and detailed systems of military organization, warfare is not the focus of the books, so one has to look for clues, a lot of which would be hidden to a casual reader (or a reader without significant knowledge of ancient and medieval military organization, even).

 

Indeed. And you can even see that in military organization: while military of Gondor is based around Byzantine themata and Anglo-Saxon fryd, military of Mordor is both organized, behaves and even talks much more like a modern-day military than anything else - albeit a First World War military, obviously, as that is what JRRT had experience with.

 

Weapons and Armour Interaction

 

Military of Westeros 1 – Organization and Manpower
Military of Westeros 2 – Tactics

 

Tactical Overview – The Unsullied
Strategy of Sauron
How Powerful Was Gondor At Its Height
Military Organization of Gondor (Expanded)

 

Military Organization of Rohan
How Powerful Was Ar-Pharazon’s Numenor?
Heavy Cavalry vs Infantry: Impact of Cavalry Charge

 

Something historical:
Correcting Reconstruction of Diocletian’s Palace

 

HISTORY
Campaigns of John Hunyadi

TACTICS AND STRATEGY
Heavy Cavalry vs Infantry: Impact of Cavalry Charge

WEAPONS AND ARMOUR
Weapons and Armour Interaction

LORD OF THE RINGS
Strategy of Sauron
Clash of Empires – Mordor vs Westeros
How Powerful Was Gondor At Its Height
Military Organization of Gondor (Expanded)
Military Organization of Rohan
How Powerful Was Ar-Pharazon’s Numenor?

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
Issue of Slaver’s Bay
Military of Westeros 1 – Organization and Manpower
Military of Westeros 2 – Tactics
Military of Westeros 3 – Weapons and Equipment
Military of Westeros 4 – Conclusions and Implications
Tactical Overview – The Unsullied
Population of Westeros

 

Harness Overview – Basic Principles

 

Harness Overview – 15th Century Gothic Armour
Harness Overview – Nohr (Fire Emblem)

 

Argument for Monarchy

 

Tactical Overview: Golden Company

 

New post about organization of the army:
Social Background of the Army Organization

 

On development of military lands in Byzantine Empire:
Land and Military in the Roman Empire

 

Some discussion on fantasy elf trope:
Why Fantasy Elves Are Great Archers