Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray,

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will get questions to us. Now, this is a revisit, as you can tell probably from the title, Warpigs

revisited, simply because I did something on Warpigs earlier, and that has led to a deep dive,

which always is fascinating, but for all sorts of various different reasons. Now, the fascinating thing I

brought up the Black Sabbath song, War Pig, but someone in the comments mentioned that it was a

figure from the Marvel universe. So for those of you who don't follow the Marvel universe in your

ancient warfare related studies, Warpig is a minor antagonist in the Marvel film Guardians of

the Galaxy 3. So it's a villain paired with behemoth, who is a bird creature, which is not what a

behemoth is in ancient sort of ideology. So that's a peculiar mix. But genetically modified

creature serves as a henchman to the high evolutionary, one of the

big villains in the film.

So that's fascinating that you've got this very liminal Roman warfare related tactic, which

as we saw is kind of mentioned twice.

And suddenly it's a figure in a magazine series. Yeah. kind of mentioned twice and suddenly

it's a figure in a magazine series.

Now,

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