Hello and welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast.

This is apparently episode 131 and ancient warfare answers number 24, I think it's going pretty quick.

I'm Jasper Wirthouse. I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine. With me is Murray Dom.

And we will shortly be talking about a sort of a morbid question,

which maybe is appropriate for this year, but it may actually come out next year. I don't know.

I'm completely losing track of everything. I think this is New Year's Eve. I think this is

the last study of 2020. It's highly appropriate.

Anyway.

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But now we are going to talk to Murray about a question from Hugo Boss on YouTube.

And it is inevitable that Hugo Boss asks a question that has to do something with, you know,

equipment, dress, clothing, I guess.

He says, it said that Hannibal took armor and weapons from the dead Roman, so he must have

used tactics without the phalanx, I guess the assumption is that weapons and armor dictate tactics.

Murray, what do you think about that?

Well, I think Hugo's question may have arisen out of our discussion

about whether the Carthaginian phalanx was what we understand to be a phalanx.

And the idea of stripping the dead, obviously, is something that

goes all the way back to Homeric and earlier, you know, warfare, which is not only about plunder,

but also about getting a better sword, helmet, shield, set of armour.

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