From the Warlord Games Website
More wheeled reinforcements for Hittite players this week with three new chariots ready to take on the Egyptians.
These chariots were slightly heavier in construction than other
2-horse chariots of the period, not least because it is likely that the
wheel axle was further forward from the rear of the chariot cab, perhaps
to support the weight of an extra crewman. Alternatively the chariot
can be crewed by just 2 men and with a javelinman on foot acting as a
chariot runner.
Egyptian scenes of the battle of Kadesh show Hittite chariots with
spear armed charioteers, such as these, though it is likely that some
were bow armed. This is represented with
Later Hittite Chariot III below
.
Horses were now generally armoured with bronze scales.
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