Next up for the Sumerians (15mm from Museum Miniatures) are another non-core unit: the absolutely insane Straddle Carts:

The view from the rear, below, shows them better, but it’s a chap sitting on a mini-vaulting horse being pulled along by four equids!

This seems like a very good way to die!

What is a shame, however, is that the army lists from To The Strongest rate these as just about the worst troop type you can get: Raw Lights. Now I know that is probably the author reflecting his slight disbelief that these things ever existed (carvings, presumably, being open to misinterpretation), but I think a Veteran rating would be more appropriate. For a start, more people would use them, adding to the uniqueness of the army; and secondly, as I say in the title, you’d have to be crazy i.e. Veteran to ever get on to one of them in the first place!