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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 416144" data-attributes="member: 5990">Tarchon omnibus SPD,As much as people on here seem to like it, the excerpts I read incline me to take its depictions cum grano salis.  There are plenty of real history books in the world.  I'd recommend a translation of <a href="http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/home/war/vegetius/dere00.php3" target="_blank">Vegetius</a>  (for details) or Caesar (for a grander sweep) more than anything though.I particularly like Vegetius because he spends a lot of time going on about the most tedious details, exactly what you need for RPG settings.  Caesar's a far better writer obviously, but you don't hear him mention, for example, that all Roman recruits were drilled extensively in swimming or discuss construction methods for practice dummies and anti-elephant tactics.You can pick such things out from fictional accounts of course, but it's difficult to know whether the author is basing something on history or imagination unless you've already read the sources.</blockquote>