Operation Balearic

Back issues of Slingshot, the journal of the Society of Ancients, are now available at the bargain price of six for £5 (£4 for Society of Ancients members) plus shipping. That's a year's worth of Slingshots for the price of one magazine.

This offer is only available until the end of June and while stocks last, so get in quickly.

The bundles on offer are for the years 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1987, and for each year from 1996 through to 2010.

To place your order, go to the Balearic Bundles page in the store section of the Society of Ancients website.

See below for a summary of each year's highlights.

Highlights of the Year 1982

Series on: the Vandals, the Arab conquest of Egypt, the Republican Roman army 218-168 BC, the ancient Ligurians, later Roman forts, Courtrai. 

Notable articles on: Nicopolis, early Ottoman armies, armies of the Jarls of Orkney, Brunanburh, campaign economics. 

Start of award-winning series on Charles the Bold’s armies.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1983

Series on: strategy and tactics of the Hundred Years War, the Attacotti, Ilipa 206 BC, al-Babayn 1167 AD, running a wargames campaign, Egyptian chariots.

Notable articles on: Saladin’s siege of Bourzey castle, the Hittite army at Qadesh, Crusader Turcopoles, Communal Italian city badges.

Conclusion of award-winning series on Charles the Bold’s armies.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1984

Series on: Magnesia, evolution of the Roman legion, chariot warfare, English longbows

Notable articles on: the Mitanni, Roman siege engineering, 4^th century BC Greek tactical developments, Agincourt, Mongol armies, Byzantine iconoclasm.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

 Highlights of the Year 1987

Series on: the Axumites of Ethiopia, Society Conference reports, Anglo-Norman warfare, the Church Militant.

Notable articles on: Tamberlaine, Culturism, refighting Pelagonia 1259.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1996

Series on: Arrian’s campaign against the Alans, Sassanian Persia, Roman strategic though and practice, Mursilis (the Hittite king), the battle of Frigidus, 394 AD, warfare in Feudal Scotland.

Notable articles on: Late Roman infantry, Numidians in Carthaginian armies, Castillon 1453, Gaugamela.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1997

Series on: warfare in Feudal Scotland (continued), Sassanian Persia (continued), Mursilis (continued).

Notable articles on: Numidians in DBM, the Sogdian Rock, the Amarna Letters, solo campaigning, the Catalan Company, the Jewish revolt, Caledonians.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1998

Series on: Mursilis (continued), Sassanian Persia (continued).

Notable articles on: the Bayeux Tapestry finale, Braveheart, Assyrian infantry, Bruttians, Bosworth, Ancient British wargame armies (“Woad Rage”), Sui Chinese armies, medieval Srivijaya, al-Qadasiyah 637 AD.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 1999

Series on: painting techniques, Julian’s campaign in Persia

Notable articles on: Flemish communal armies, Macedonian military costume, Hasmonean Judea, Stiklestad 1030 AD, Vegetius, Troy, Hawaiian armies, Worringen 1288 AD, Sir Robert Knolles, Bithynian armies.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2000

Series on: Hittites, Thracians, Wars of the Roses.

Notable articles on: Arthur’s battles, morphing Dark Age armies, Scipio Africanus, solo campaigning, Bosworth, Vedic Indian armies, Kingdom of Lan Xang.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2001

Series on: Wars of the Diadochi, Vegetius, the Songhai Empire

Notable articles on: medieval Malaya, Hittites, Samurai, Mayan warfare, Harlaw 1411 AD, Versinikia 813 AD, Japanese castles, medieval Irish armies.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2002

Series on: The Songhai Empire (continued), the evolution of Hellenistic infantry, the New Chronology, the Roman legion.

Notable articles on: Wargaming with Gauls, Hellenistic military dress, Boudicca’s revolt, Mapuche armies, Picts, wargaming in India, the kingdom of Benin, Sasanian armies.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2003

Series on: The Roman legion (continued), Alexander’s cavalry, the New Chronology (continued), Lydian armies.

Notable articles on: Vikings in Scotland, Chanca/Inca wars, Picts, King Fulk of Jerusalem, late Carolingian France, Ghulams, Maccabean armies, medieval Thai armies, Callinicum 531 AD, Nanzhao armies, Sasanian armies, Cynoscephalae refights.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2004

Series on: Lydian armies (continued), Sasanian armies (continued), Ancient Korea.

Notable articles on: The Notitia Dignitatum, naval rules, Paraetacene 317 BC, Gabiene 316 BC, Barnet refights, early Parthian armies, Tarantine cavalry, Battle Day reports (Gaugamela).

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

 Highlights of the Year 2005

Series on: Angevin armies (start), elephants, Hydaspes, medieval south-east Asia, Janos Hunyadi (start).

Notable articles on: Byzantines v Slavs, Tigranocerta 69 BC, Hapsburg-Burgundian armies, Edington refights, Bannockburn, Zama, medieval Frisian armies, Battle Day reports (the Sambre), ancient Elam, medieval cogs.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2006

Series on: Angevin armies (continued), Janos Hunyadi (continued), medieval south-east Asia.

Notable articles on: medieval Ghana, ancient sea power, Picts, Hellenistic battle-standards, Constantine the Great, Rajputs, medieval Kongo, Battle Day reports (Dorylaeum).

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2007

Series on: Pre-Samurai Japanese.

Notable articles on: early medieval Ireland, Cnidinium (Sparta v Persia), ancient logistics, Crusader warfare, 13^th century Song Chinese armies, the Zanj revolt, Dyrham 577 AD, the Bahmani (India) Sultanate, Battle Day reports (Dorylaeum and Cynoscephalae).

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2008

Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Macedonian military culture, Sasanian armies.

Notable articles on: longbows, trireme reconstruction, Battle Day reports (Cynoscephalae and Poitiers), Spartan expeditionary forces, the ancient Macedonians.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2009

Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia (continued), medieval Irish warfare, Constantius II, Sasanian armies (continued),

Notable articles on: Zama, ancient logistics, the Granicus, the Lombards, Battle Day reports (Callinicum), Magnesia, Cannae, Pydna, Teutoberger Wald, Heraclea, ancient Chinese expansion.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.

 

Highlights of the Year 2010

Series on: Bronze Age Mesopotamia (continued).

Notable articles on: Ming China, the Etruscan League, Hannibal’s veterans, Marcus Aurelius, Issus, Sassanid/Roman wars, Battle Day reports (Zama), Byzantines in 12^th century Italy, Alfred Duggan, Chalons 451 AD,.

Plus battle reports, wargaming discussions, reviews and many more historical articles.