Slingshot 289 will soon be with us. Being the Battle Day issue its main focus is on Chalons, 451 AD.
Contents include:
Rome's Last War, by Justin Swanton
The Roman Army in the 5th Century AD, by Simon MacDowall
Arming the Late Roman Soldier, by Perry Gray
An Introduction to Battle Day 2014, by Richard Lockwood
There are also ten Battle Day Reports on Chalons with:
- Piquet Archon 2, by Adam Hayes
- DBA/DBMM, by Martyn Simpson
- Warmaster Ancients, by Jeremy Giles
- Comitatus, by Simon MacDowall
- De Bellis Antiquitatus, by Sue Laflin-Barker & Paul Glover
- DBMM, by Toby Partridge
- Epic Armati, by Mark Fry
- King of Kings, by Keir Maxwell
- Impetus, by Mike Brian
- Field of Glory, by Richard Case
Slingshot is issued 6 times a year to members of the Society of Ancients.
You can subscribe or re-subscribe through the store at the Society's website, soa.org.uk
The editor (Perry Gray) is always interested in ideas for articles, so if you are a member or plan to become one and have a battle report or historical article, a review, rules ruminations, scenario or campaign ideas, or anything else you would like to contribute to Slingshot, feel free to contact him.
Be aware that the Society also has the 'Operation Balearic' sale on at present.
Operation Balearic offers back issues of Slingshot at a very much reduced price.
The bundles on offer are for the years 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1987, and for each year from 1996 through to 2010. Some years are close to sold out already. This offer is only available until the end of June and while stocks last.
To order, go to the Balearic Bundles page in the store section of the Society of Ancients website.
See the Society News blog link for more information and a summary of the articles in each bundle.
Thanks for reading,
Aaron
finishes his Temple project by painting the kit he previously assembled.