#fantasy army

Physiology and Biology Fantasy dwarfs (dwarves) are actually most realistic of fantasy races (along with elves). They tend to be significantly shorter than humans, but as broad or even broader than them. In humans, short athletes have better muscle definition. Because strength depends on muscular crossection, shorter individuals are stronger, pound-for-pound, than taller ones. Thus stocky build…

Nomadic victories are often attributed to simplistic factors: superior numbers of combatants, incompetence of nomads’ enemies, or innate advantages of nomadic societies over sedentary counterparts. Nomads are portrayed as living in the saddle, “natural warriors inured since birth to riding and archery in the harsh climate of the steppe” – yet nomadic armies in fact required as much training to…

Nomadic battle tactics generally favored deception, feigned retreats and ambushes. In combat, nomads such as Huns would form army into several units of irregular size with a separate force in reserve, ready to spring an ambush. Huns Hunnic tactics were based on their hunting tactics, which were based around mounted archery. They would attack the enemy by bombarding them with arrows while…