Slingshot 319 with the Printers

Slingshot 319 is with the printers and will hit your postboxes* soon. Here are the article titles with a short summary of content.

• Kinging it in Ulster – Part 2 – by Mick Hession
The concluding half of the account of the opportunistic knight de Courcy's attempt to carve out a lordship in northern Ireland.

• Tackling Telamon with l'Art de la Guerre – by Chris Hahn
The first of a four-part series that recreates the Battle of Telamon (when a Gallic raiding army in Italy became the patty of a Roman burger) using four popular rulesets.

• War elephants – by Patrick Waterson
Tracing the history of the war elephant examining the different ways the elephant was used in battle.

• Paraetacene Writ Large with DBMM – by Duncan Head
Recreating the famous Successor battle with huge DBMM armies.

• Becoming an Ancients Wargamer – by Keith Flint
How a confirmed WW2 gamer discovered what a good thing Ancients warfare is.

• The Sack of Chang'an – Part 1 – by Nicholas Spratt
How many people know that Tibet was once an empire that humbled China and conquered its capital city? The first part of a two-part article that describes the apogee of the realm of Lhasa.

• Origins of the Macedonian Infantry – by Duncan Head
Who founded the Macedonian heavy infantry and what did it originally look like? Duncan Head answers these questions.

• Slingshot Reviews
A set of reviews on five books that study the Second Scottish War of Independence.

*If if doesn't hit your postbox that is either a) because the postman was chased away by your dog, or b) you don't have a subscription. We can do something about b) – soa.org.uk/joomla