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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Tim Haslam on 15 August 2023, 06:36:27 PM

Title: Flaming pigs!!!
Post by: Tim Haslam on 15 August 2023, 06:36:27 PM

Which armies used incendiary pigs?
Republican Romans against Phyrrus?

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Title: Re: Flaming pigs!!!
Post by: DalyDR on 15 August 2023, 06:57:02 PM

Megara, vs. Antigonus in 266 BC.  Maybe others?

Title: Re: Flaming pigs!!!
Post by: SJWi on 15 August 2023, 08:30:02 PM

Yes I think the Romans used them vs Pyrrhus at Beneventum in 275BC.

Title: Re: Flaming pigs!!!
Post by: ithoriel on 16 August 2023, 09:33:51 AM

The Romans are said to have used squealing pigs against Pyrrhus though how they made them squeal is not, as far as I remember, recorded. They also used "wild boars" against the Tarantine war elephants.

The Megarans used flaming pigs against Antigonus Gonatos' war elephants with great success.

I'm not aware of any other recorded use of "war pigs". Though Alexander the Great is said to have learned of the use of pigs as a counter to elephants from Porus, if I remember correctly.