Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — primary sources

  I do a lot of games on ancient and medieval topics. We often know far less about those battles and conflicts than we do about modern ones. Primary sources are fewer in number and also less reliable; the line between history and propaganda, always thin, becomes especially and uncomfortably porous the further back we go. When we do have multiple sources to draw from, they're often contradictory. It's common to be unsure where and when a battle took place, but there are also battles where we don't know who was on which side, who won, or if the battle...