Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray.

What's this? A postcard. Ancient Warfare Answers has its first postcard. Very, very exciting,

red letter day. So for those of you who want to ask a question and want to send a postcard, just like this one from Uchale, thank you, Uchale, much respected and appreciated.

PO Box 222, Bellfield, NSW-2191 Australia, will get one to me and I can get very excited.

Don't send too many because then my lovely lirbs will be covered up.

Dear Murray, a card from Heidelberg, gorgeous.

I have two questions, if I may ask.

Have you ever played Age of Mythology?

If so, how do you like the depiction of speech of the various armies of the game?

Unfortunately, I have never played Age of Mythology.

My video game playing days are gone, I think, these days. I've got friends who want to play Baldus Gate and some others. I think close combat five and a couple of the age of empires. No, total war. I think Total War Napoleon was the last thing I tried to play. Anyway, so very quick answer to your first question.

Second question, how much of your research happens online and how much from physical books?

Any recommendations on how to find good books related to a topic, any source other than books and the internet?

Well, I do indeed love books, and if I could put the camera that way in, in the other rooms, there

are indeed many books, mostly academic, and in many cases, they are still the best way to go.

A lot of those are not fully available online if you've used Google Books or, obviously,

Google Scholar is certainly one place. But often you'll find

that passage is missing. And I don't know whether it's just me or whether it's everybody,

but it always seems to be the precise page I want is the page that is indeed missing from my

Google Books preview. That's always frustrating. Obviously, in some cases, books are out of print and

hard to get, but part of my obsessive, compulsive book buying is about tracking down said books,

getting a book, you know, that's nigh on unavailable and then suddenly comes available

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