Hello, welcome to another ancient Warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. In this episode,

we'll be looking at Volume 12, Issue 1, Army for an Empire, Augustus's New Model Army.

Joining me are regulars Jasperotage, Murray Dam, Mark McCaffrey, Mark DeSantis, and Lindsay Powell.

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So on to the main feature,

Jasper, with the title of the issue, August's New Model Army,

I was presuming you were drawing parallels with Cromwell's parliamentarian army

from the English Civil War,

which had the same name, New Model Army,

or was the Army, Cromwell's Army, named after the Roman Army,

if that makes sense?

No, it's, it...

I'm going to leap in, sorry, Yaspur, and leap in and say it's what clearly to do with the red

tunics. It's all about red tunics.

Not to mention leather armor.

Yes, yes, because we know from the English Civil War the importance of Bucksigan.

Exactly, they were all in the buff.

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