Fantasy Counterpart Culture

[William Cloud Hicklin]

The use of "war-wagons" as opposed to mere chariots is a far more Germanic practice, associated with both the Teutones and the much later Goths. (Of course, there was also Attila's fortified wagon-camp at the Battle of Chalons)

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

(Of course, there was also Attila's fortified wagon-camp at the Battle of Chalons)

That is exactly what I was thinking of in regard to the Wainriders.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

That is exactly what I was thinking of in regard to the Wainriders.

OTOH, the wagons in that case may well have belonged to the Goths who made up nearly half of Attila's army on that occasion; there is little to suggest, in other accounts of the Huns, that their armies used anything for transport besides packhorses and travois.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

OTOH, the wagons in that case may well have belonged to the Goths who made up nearly half of Attila's army on that occasion; there is little to suggest, in other accounts of the Huns, that their armies used anything for transport besides packhorses and travois.

That is a good point I had never considered before.