A rather singular aspect of wargaming peculiar to those who fight in the Ancient and Medieval periods who, without, seeming at all incongruous, accept that battles can take place between armies of widely diverging periods, so that Persians and Romans clash or armies will fight each other with both containing a colourful mixture of differing periods. This might be due to a mental telescoping of the centuries B.C. and A.D. but it is not a habit common to other wargaming periods. One never hears of a Napoleonic force taking on a Marlburian army or the Hussite wagon forts taking on the Prussians of Frederick the Great -- although the tactics of the former might well have stood this test of time. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 153 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1974 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com