"From Terror to Tactical Usage: Elephants in the Partho-Sasanian Period,"

[rodge]

Academia EU. Not read it yet.

https://www.academia.edu/27081447/_From_Terror_to_Tactical_Usage_Elephants_in_the_Partho-Sasanian_Period_The_Parthian_and_Early_Sasanian_Empires_Adaptation_and_Expansion_eds._V._Sarkhosh_Curtis_et._al._Oxford_2016_pp._36-41

[Duncan Head]

I've just got the book from Oxbow - http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-parthian-and-early-sassanian-empires.html

[Jim Webster]

is it worth getting, I have family who need suggests as to what to get me for Christmas etc :-)

[Duncan Head]

Not sure yet - there's a queue.

[Mazdak01]

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-parthian-and-early-sassanian-empires.html

Is it worth buying; probably not (but I did).

The article on Sasanian use of elephants doesn't tell us anything new in my opinion. I covered this (in greater depth I think) in a Slingshot article c. 2007 'Persian Pachyderms'

[nikgaukroger]

https://www.oxbowbooks.com/9781785702075/the-parthian-and-early-sasanian-empires/

Appears to be the correct URL - one "s" in "sasanian" not two.

[Nick Harbud]

I remember one of Phil's articles that mentioned how, unlike other mounts, elephants have a reverse gear.

Still waiting to see that one reflected in a wargames ruleset....

 

[Cantabrigian]

I remember one of Phil's articles that mentioned how, unlike other mounts, elephants have a reverse gear.

Caution! This elephant is reversing!

[Keraunos]

I remember one of Phil's articles that mentioned how, unlike other mounts, elephants have a reverse gear.

Still waiting to see that one reflected in a wargames ruleset....

 

Now there is a thought!  Perhaps I should treat them like triremes in my naval rules, able to perform anastrophe and move backwards as easily as forwards 

[Imperial Dave]

Presumably they make some form of beep-beep noise when reversing?

[Nick Harbud]

I was thinking that any reversing noises might be rather less musical and probably smellier...