Sunday 17 December 2023

Normans in Sicily - posted by Andrew Bennetts, 16 December 2023

It must be Xmas - a new army.....for FREE!
I've always found the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily fascinating, full of larger than life characters such as Robert Guiscard (The Fox!), his tempestuous son Bohemond, his brother the iron willed Roger I, who doggedly spent 20 years wresting Sicily from the Moslems with very limited resources and Roger's son, the machiavellian Roger II, who successfully played off the Pope, the German Emperor and the Byzantine Emperor to secure a crown that united all the Norman conquests in Sicily and Southern Italy.

After finishing my Andalusian project earlier in the year, I found myself with a few surplus figures and realised that, if I assembled these as some otherwise missing troop types, then between the Andalusians and my existing Normans I could do the early part of the Sicilian list (Book 4/5) that covers this period at no extra cost. 

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  • John Edmundson
    Now you need to expand it so you can provide both armies ðŸ™‚
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    • Andrew Bennetts
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      John Edmundson Well I have been pondering Komnenan Byzantines - after all the Normans invaded the Balkans at least 3 times while the Komnenans also tried to reclaim Sth Italy
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  • John Edmundson
    Incidentally I remember, many moons ago, Brendan Moyle saying (on the old DBM list,) that Fatimid is a better list for Muslim Sicily than the EMNA Aghlabids that are supposed to cover it.
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  • Vincent Cholewa
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    The best way to do it!
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  • Andrew Crampton
    Check out Norman Centuries. It's a podcast by Lars Brownworth. Really good over view of all the various Norman kingdoms.
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  • Eddie Hudspith
    The whole Norman adventure in Southern Italy is an epic tale, from the failed Lombard revolt in 1018AD...through the Victories of 1041AD and Civitate in 1053AD Guiscard defeated the Pope,The Byzantines,drove off the Holy Roman Emperor and even burned Rome....what a Guy!
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