Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Ancient Warfare Answers with me, Murray, your weekly fix of ancient warfare related ranting and raiding.

If you saw last week, absolutely lots of ranting and raving in there, probably some more coming up.

What we do here, what I do here is I attempt to answer a question from a reader, viewer or listener.

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So this question comes from Tim, who is responding to an earlier answer. Oh,

this is my 200th, ancient warfare answers. Oh, I just remembered that. 200 of them. So if you want to,

you can almost listen to me for 38 hours straight, I think. Is that right? I'm aiming to get to 365

of these. So I'm over halfway, so that you could basically

listen to one a day for an entire year if you wanted to, if you really need to have a Murray fix.

Who knows? Anyway, sorry, I get distracted. Tim asks, in response to the podcast on the Athenian

Arches that I did a few episodes ago, it would be interesting to hear of the effectiveness of the arches.

In wargaining, Creighton arches are usually considered as better than other arches,

similar to Balearic Slingers.

Was this actually true or just a wargaming tradition?

Okay.

Did I get through all of that?

You could, of course, back as on Patreon, one of different levels, legionary Optio and Centurion. You can, yes, ask a question, how are you like. Crete and Arches are a fascinating field for me. So I don't know if you follow on academia. I think it's coming up 10 years ago now. Gosh, that's

craziness. 10 years ago. I published a article on my academia site. Just to search for my name.

You'll be an archer, my son, the ubiquity of the Creighton archer in ancient warfare.

It was 4,190 words not. Since then, in the previous decade, and what I do is generally each year I save a new

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