Pour les passionnés du Bas Empire Romain comme moi, il y a une très grande nouvelle qui nous vient de Red Box. Toute la cavalerie bysantine en SIX BOITES ! ! ! ! Les représentations au dos des boites montrent des figurines aux postures alléchantes. je pense que ces six boites vont compléter de manière très avantageuse les figurines bysantines de Linear.
Je les attends donc avec impatience, sachant que avec cette guerre désastreuse en Ukraine, il y aura encore quelques difficultés pour obtenir ces produits.
Da kommt ziemlich sicher noch weiteres - REDBOX scheint ganze Epochen detailliert abzuarbeiten. Ergo kommt vermutlich noch die Infantrie und sogar deren Gegner....
I said I wouldn't bother with the Byzantines but these 6 boxes look particularly attractive. Since yesterday I started studying the lists of the Byzantine army from the time of Justinian to the time of Nikephoros Phokas. First of all I should mention that the banner depicted on the box is one of the three most sacred symbols of the Greeks. The other two are the Macedonian sun and the official Greek flag. Despite studying I have not been able to determine which era the set is from, because the helmets seen in the box photo are from the 7th century while some horsemen are holding Norman shields from the 10th century. Also the words clibanarios and cataphractarios are two synonymous Greek words used for the same type of troop, the extra heavily armored cavalry. The horsemen of the clibanarii set represent heavy cavalry but not extra heavy as is the meaning of the word clibanarios. However, these sets seem extremely interesting to me. The banner distinguished on the box is the double-headed eagle.
A quick observation. The cataphractarios have horses with a barding covering both front and rear of the horses. The clibanarios' horses only have barding on the frontal part of the horse. Does that help at all?
Clibanarios in Greek means he who is in the furnace. That is, which is covered everywhere by metal and not just half like in this set. Clibanarii and Cataphracts are exactly the same and are represented in the cataphracts set. The set named clibanarii represents heavy cavalry with less armor.
I think I would leave them as they are just name them differently. As I saw in the catalogs of the Byzantine army it simply calls them cavalry and they have half horse armor.
Ok. Let's see if PSR (Plastic Soldier Review) catches this in their review of the figures. Would be nice if you got the inside scoop on them :) Thanks for clearing it up.
I look forward to seeing exactly what plasticsoldierreview.com will write, I find them very reliable. Of course, to know this detail you should know Greek very well.
Passionné par cette période historique (de l'an 500 à 1000 de notre ère), j''aime beaucoup cette discussion. Je pense que la différence entre Clibanaires et catapphactaires réside de l'appellation. Le terme de Cataphactaire est plus ancien et est utilisé en occident comme en orient. Tandis que le terme clibanaire est plus moderne et utilisé exclusivement en orient. Ces deux termes sont en effet assez génériques. Quoique j'ai lu quelque part que certains historiens considèrent des différences entre l'équipement et l'emploi des clibanaires et les cataphractaires. C'est en tout cas ce qu'il ressort de nombreux débats entre spécialistes. Personnellement je ne saurais trancher. Dans tous les cas ces 6 boites viendront compléter les excellents Bysantins de Linéar.
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