Hello, welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. We're once more between issues of the magazine with this episode.

One of our patrons came up with tonight's topic, or this morning's topic if you're Murray in Australia.

We're going to discuss what we actually know about combat on the battlefield and what it might have been like.

Much of what we read is the work of fiction,

but since John Keegan's faces of battle in the 1970s,

historians have attempted to give a picture of what it might have been like

for soldiers on the battlefield.

So thank you, David, for suggesting the topic.

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So joining me tonight is Jasperotage, Mary Dam, Lindsay Powell, Mark DeSantis and Matt McCaffrey.

So this question came from one of our Patreon guys who wondered about what we thought

or what we knew about what the battlefield

might have been like. And I think it's something we've touched upon

on numerous occasions of which, you know,

we don't really know much about the battlefield, but someone wants to tell us

what we do know and what we don't know that is actually in the sources, or what's not in the

sources. Goa, Jasper, you kick us off.

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