User:Nik Sage

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Hi, I think Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia ever written and it's getting better constantly.

My main fields of interest are Middle Eastern history, European history and military history, especially of pre-modern time (although I also read a lot about wars in modern age).

My favorite topics concern the Euro-Asian Steppe horse archers (hence the picture to your right). Nevertheless I have a keen interest in all other themes of ancient and medieval warfare.

Hope to meet fellow military history buffs. Nik Sage ( talk / contrib )

The entries I'm most interested with
Weapons
 * Ranged weapon - Composite bow - Hun bow - Hungarian bow - Turkish bow - Mongol bow
 * Throwing axe - Hurlbat
 * Pole weapon - Spear - Pike - Lance - Javelin
 * Doru - Xyston - Need help with these articles
 * Lancea - Verutum - Need help with these articles
 * Soliferrum - Falarica - Assegai

Military units
 * Companion cavalry
 * Horse archer

Military tactics
 * Close combat
 * Shock attack - Charge (warfare)

Others
 * Horse people - Euro-Asian Steppe - Need help with this article

Entries I intend to create or rewrite
Weapons
 * Turkish bow - Ballista - Catapult - Trebuchet
 * Pole weapon - Sarissa - Xyston - Spiculum - Verutum
 * Swords - Scimitar

Military tactics and units
 * Phalanx formation - Hoplite phalanx - Spartan phalanx - Theban oblique phalanx - Macedonian phalanx - Hellenistic phalanx
 * Hypaspists
 * Ranged attack
 * Feigned retreat - Parthian shot
 * Maskirovka

Armies
 * Hellenistic armies
 * Great Seljuk armies
 * Mongol Armies

Battles
 * Battle of Leuctra - Byzantine-Seljuk wars - Battle of Manzikert - Battle of Durazzo - Mongol-Khwarezmid wars - Battle of the Kalka River - Massacre of the Citadel

Middle Eastern studies
 * Seljuks - Kilij Arslan - Mamluks

Sandbox and drafts
For my Sandbox, Draft and Pictures

Further discussion
Whomever wants to exchange ideas, have a discussion or argue about issues in military history or in Middle Eastern studies please feel free to drop me a note at my Talk page.

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