Ancient Warfare Podcast

History Podcasts

Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. Why did early civilisations fight? Who were their Generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. Warfare minus two thousand years.

Episodes

AWA421 - Did legionaries and auxiliaries have to bribe their way into the Roman army?

AWA420 - What were Roman walls for?

AWA419 - Who is the better general: Thrasybulus or Demosthenes (or Brasidas)?

AWA418 - What did legionaries drink on campaign?

AW417 - The Evolution of Tactics

AWA416 - What evidence is there for striped Egyptian headwear?

AWA415 - Why did the Romans completely abandon the spear in favour of the pilum?

AWA414 - Did legionaries need to be 1.80 metres tall?

AW413 - Early Campaigns in Germania

AWA412 - Were Cretan archers better than other archers?

AWA411 - How did the Huns dress for war?

AWA410 - What role and status did trumpeters have in warfare?

AWA409 - What did the Constitutio Antoniniana mean for the Roman auxilia?

AW408 - Why Germania?

AWA407 - War Pigs Revisited

AWA406 - What army did Alexander Molossus have in his Italian campaigns?

AWA405 - We got a fan letter!

AW404 - The Marian Reforms

AWA403 - Why does the Odyssey 2026 trailer feel wrong?

AWA402 - Arausio 105 BC: military defeat or political disaster?