military history

We started off this episode discussing the Imperial Walkers in Star Wars and how they hearken back to war elephants on the ancient battlefield–the animators even [...Read More...]

Few sights terrorized ancient armies more than that of a wall of elephants, tusks drenched in blood, bearing down on them in a killing frenzy. From the mighty armies of [...Read More...]

Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed that story as much as we enjoyed putting it together. We relied pretty heavily on Ross Cowan’s Roman Guardsman: 62 BC-AD 324. [...Read More...]

Did the Mongols really kill 1.3 million people in a single day? How does civilization devolve in a city under siege when the food runs out? What really went down during the [...Read More...]

NOT THE CLEANERS!! …Sorry, we had to do that…   This episode was a lot of fun to research and write. Our biggest source for this was Appian’s The Civil [...Read More...]

How would you survive an ancient siege? We take a close look at the brutal siege of Carthage at the end of the Punic Wars–and give you a few tips and hacks for staying [...Read More...]