A fictionalized account of eighth-century Byzantine politics sends cataphracts into Bulgaria and prompts an objection from Foxo. The criticism is that its author has taken the way the Byzantines fought the Turks and applied it to every opponent. The historical comparison offered here is between different army arrangements in the west and east, shaped by different terrain. A convincing campaign therefore needs an army suited to the ground it will fight over, rather than a single fixed national style.
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Why a Byzantine army in Bulgaria should differ from one in the east
A fictional Byzantine campaign illustrates the error of transferring the same army organization and cavalry tactics into different terrain.