I was curious if you guys had any handy sources for what a marching camp for an ancient army-on-campaign looked like. The sources that I know of just kind of mention that they exist, without describing them in any detail (which makes sense, of course; not many modern novels are going to describe the steps to turning on and operating a motor vehicle, after all). Outside of the obvious Roman examples--which are obviously exceptional--I can't think of anything beyond "well, they would have had campfires and tents..."
I recently watched a tutorial about making army camp tents and was thinking of adding it to the million other spinning plates I have at the moment, but it occurred that, again, outside of Roman examples, I wasn't exactly sure what a camp for, say, Macedonian/Successor/Persian/etc. armies would've looked like. Similar, no doubt, but what were the differences?
Although I can't seem to find it at the moment, I swear I remember a reference saying that one of Philip's innovations was eliminating the baggage train, making every man carry his own stuff so that the army could move quicker. But... would this mean individual tents/bedrolls? Do we have any information on a Macedonian equivalent of a
contubernium? Of course, the longer Alexander campaigned, the more "camp followers" (including "new families") we hear about, so one assumes after a while the camp would've looked more like the later Roman "city on the move"... but how so?
Anyway, I had this grand idea (someday!) of a scenario game in which the objective is to capture the enemy's camp, as appears to have happened any number of times in ancient history... I'd just like it to look half-way right whenever I get around to it!