08-22-2002, 01:24 PM
Osprey books are known for their inventiveness. I buy them just for McBride's pictures. The other illustrators are definitely not in the same league.<br>
Some Ospreys are better than others. The one on gladiators is definitely not one of the best..<br>
I like the idea of time travelling Caligula in a Colosseum that wasn't built before Vespasian...<br>
Several are pretty good such as Gallic and British Celts, Sassanid Persians, Assyrians, Scythians (that one probably the best I've read).<br>
Some are appalling like Roman republican armies (the white flimsy looking legionary scuta are extremely funny) and late roman infantryman/cavalryman, because the pictures are not Mcbride's.<br>
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Some Ospreys are better than others. The one on gladiators is definitely not one of the best..<br>
I like the idea of time travelling Caligula in a Colosseum that wasn't built before Vespasian...<br>
Several are pretty good such as Gallic and British Celts, Sassanid Persians, Assyrians, Scythians (that one probably the best I've read).<br>
Some are appalling like Roman republican armies (the white flimsy looking legionary scuta are extremely funny) and late roman infantryman/cavalryman, because the pictures are not Mcbride's.<br>
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