The MeG Podcast Series 4, Episode 6 - A Million Elephants: Southeast Asian Armies

 

In this episode of The MeG Podcast the team look at some armies, and enemies, from the Southeast Asia list PDF - possibly one of the more obscure of the list PDFs for many players. As usual we have some history and answer some questions posed by our listeners.

Read on for details, links and army lists ...

The podcast can be found at - https://themegpodcast.podbean.com/e/the-meg-podcast-series-4-episode-6-a-million-elephants-southeast-asian-armies/

As always, we would be delighted to get feedback and suggestions for things we can cover in future episodes and questions for us to tackle; drop me a line at nikgaukroger@blueyonder.co.uk

The Army Lists

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Matt's lists:

Nik's lists:

Richard's lists:

The Yuan is a legal version 😁

Books

As mentioned in the podcast these are somewhat thin on the ground in English. Here are a few we have found:

“Warfare in Indochina: A Military History of Ancient & Medieval Mainland Southeast Asia” by Peter Womack - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warfare-Indochina-Military-Medieval-Southeast/dp/1520669704

“Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia, 1000-1800” by Jos J.L. Gommans and Dirk H.A. Hall - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Warfare-Weaponry-1000-1800-Oxford-Readings/dp/0195648714

“Armies of Angkor: Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers” by Michel Jacq-Hergoualc’h - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armies-Angkor-Military-Structure-Weaponry/dp/9745240966

“The Khmer Art of War: as illustrated in the Angkor carvings 1113-1220” by Stephen Turnbull - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Khmer-Art-War-illustrated-1113-1220/dp/B0CS91MKNM

“Elephants and Gunpowder: Southeast Asian Warfare 1380-1700” by Stephen Turnbull; forthcoming from Helion - https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/elephants-and-gunpowder-southeast-asian-warfare-1380-1700.php

“A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People” by Daguan Zhou, translated by Peter Harris; account of Cambodia by a Yuan period Chinese traveller - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Record-Cambodia-Land-Its-People/dp/9749511247

Other

Slingshot 230 – “Nanzhao Reconsidered” by Duncan Head

Other issues of Slingshot have articles on SE Asian warfare; if you have the PDF collection use the search function to find them.

Additionally, https://www.academia.edu/ will no doubt throw up articles and papers but will take some searching.

Figures

Like reading material, there are not that many specific figures available for SE Asian armies. here are some we found:

Irregular Miniatures - https://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/ - Khmer and Burmese (15mm and 28mm)

Khurasan Miniatures - https://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/siamese.html - Siamese (15mm)

Eureka Miniatures - https://eurekaminuk.com/collections/nan-chao-chinese - Nanzhao (15mm)

Eureka Miniatures - https://eurekaminuk.com/collections/indonesian-and-malay - Indonesian and Malay (15mm)

Peter Pig - https://www.peterpig.co.uk/1%20%20Vietnam.html – Vietnamese mountain tribes (15mm)