Slingshot 287

The current issue of Slingshot (number 287, March/April 2013 - yes it is running very late*), the bi-monthly publication of the Society of Ancients, is now available for individual purchases from the Society web store. Individual copies are in very short supply, due to the reduced print runs we are now running - less than 50 copies are available at this point to those who haven't taken out subscriptions. Get them fast as we won't be printing any more!

Slingshot 286 includes 52 full colour internal pages. The contents of Slingshot 287 are as follows:

• Editorial: Slings & Arrows
• Guardroom
• In Search of the Iphikratean Peltast/Hoplite, by Jim Webster
• A Short History of the Iberian Peninsula from 400 to 1100AD, Part 3: Enter the Moors, by Robert Heiligers
• Transjordanian Tales, Part 4: Three Great Kings and a Pharaoh, by Alastair McBeath
• The Western Mediterranean Way of Warfare Debates, Part 2.1: Way of Warfare, by Roy Boss & Mark Grindlay
• War, Games and Wargames: Part 2, by Richard Taylor
• Galatians on the March! … at the Victorian 2012 Field of Glory Competition by Steven Neate
• The Sussex Cup 2013: A DBA Tournament Report, by Richard Pulley
• Reviews, by Steven Neate & Gordon Lawrence

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

You can join the Society at www.soa.org.uk/store. There's also, alternatively, a special offer for a combination Membership + discounted "Conquest of Gaul" gaming set available via our friends at Warlord Games.

* … and as a result of this tardiness, a new editor will be in charge as of Slingshot 288, with a brief to get the release schedule back in line.

Slingshot 286

The current issue of Slingshot (number 286, January/February 2013), the bi-monthly publication of the Society of Ancients, is now available for individual purchases from the Society web store. Individual copies are in very short supply, due to the reduced print runs we are now running - less than 50 copies are available at this point to those who haven't taken out subscriptions. Get them fast as we won't be printing any more!

Slingshot 286 includes 52 full colour internal pages. The contents of Slingshot 286 are as follows:

• Editorial: Slings & Arrows
• Bill Thurlow in Memoriam
• Championship 2012 report
• A Short History of the Iberian Peninsula from 400 to 1100AD, Part 3: Visigothic Society, by Robert Heiligers
• Transjordanian Tales, Part 3: In Dread of Judges, by Alastair McBeath
• The Western Mediterranean Way of Warfare Debates, Part 1.2: The Western Mediterranean, continued, by Roy Boss & Mark Grindlay
• Et Tu Brutii, by Nick Harbud
• War, Games and Wargames: Part 1, by Richard Taylor
• Turkish Travels at Westbury Wars 2012, by Gavin Pearson
• The English DBA Open, 2012, by Martin Smith
• Reviews, by Dave Gee, Duncan Head & Anthony Clipsom

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

You can join the Society at www.soa.org.uk/store. There's also, alternatively, a special offer for a combination Membership + discounted "Conquest of Gaul" gaming set available via our friends at Warlord Games.

Restock at Society of Ancients Store

We recently had a stocktake as part of a handover of responsibilities around the SoA web store.

As a result, some items have been taken off the store, but it has also meant the return of some publications previously thought lost to the depths of time...

In particular, Professor Phil Sabin's classic Legion (predecessor of Strategos and Lost Battles) is now back on sale (we have around 40 copies). Phil's well-received Empire board game is also back on sale (although we have very few copies of that - less than 10 at this point).

We've also been pleased to find stock of the classic Wargaming the Baltic Crusades, where we previously thought we'd run out of copies.

Items in low stock (less than 20 copies):

• Empire - A grand strategic simulation game of the Macedonian and Punic Wars from 350 to 150 BC, by Philip Sabin
• He Who Would be King - A game of Macedonian power politics by Andrew Parrock and Ian Dyer.
• Slim Mumford's medieval warfare rules

We have less than 30 copies of Slingshot 284, and as a result the same applies to the 2012 Slingshot back issue pack. We're printing shorter runs of Slingshot these days, so back issues are increasingly in short supply. 

If you're interested in these or in any other SoA publications, you can obtain them directly at http://soa.org.uk/store. 

Slingshot 285

The current issue of Slingshot (number 285, November 2012), the bi-monthly publication of the Society of Ancients, is now available for individual purchases from the Society web store. Also now available (but in very limited supply - around 30 maximum!) are back issue packs for 2012.

Slingshot 285 includes 52 full colour internal pages. The contents of Slingshot 285 are as follows:

• Editorial: Slings & Arrows
• Guardroom
• The Huns at Châlons: A debate between Roy Boss and Simon MacDowall
• Horses, Spears and Trenches: The Battle of Loudoun Hill, 10 May 1307, by Anthony Clipsom
• Transjordanian Tales Part 2: Moses in the Land of the Giants, by Alastair McBeath
• The Western Mediterranean Way of Warfare Debates, Part One: The Western Mediterranean, by Roy Boss & Mark Grindlay
• Coming to Dublin with Hostility, by Mick Hession
• Götterdämmerung – DBM Battle Report, by Justin Swanton
• Teutonic Indigestion, by Mark Fry
• Fulford Gate 1066 – Hardrada’s last victory, by Jonathan Jones
• Battle Line Morale in “Day of Battle – the Middle Ages”, by Chris Parker
• Game & Figure Reviews, by Richard Lockwood, David Edwards & Mark Watson
• Quick Armies, by Douglas Gold

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

You can join the Society at www.soa.org.uk/store. There's also, alternatively, a special offer for a combination Membership + discounted "Conquest of Gaul" gaming set available via our friends at Warlord Games.

Warlord Games Special Offer

Our friends at Warlord Games are offering a discounted membership package: membership of the Society, plus their 28mm miniatures starter set for the Early Imperial Roman period – Hail Caesar: The conquest of Gaul – at a discounted price of 10% off!

This is a fantastic way of starting yourself, or your nearest and dearest, in the Ancients war gaming hobby, and we're really pleased to be able to make it available.

If you want to take advantage of this offer, please go to the Warlord games web store. The Society receives all the subscription fee component, and you get all the usual privileges of membership.

If you want to renew your membership using this offer, that's fine. Just put your existing membership number as a comment on your payment form to Warlord.

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

Slingshot 284

The current issue of Slingshot (number 284, September 2012), the bi-monthly publication of the Society of Ancients, is now available for individual purchases from the Society web store. Society members received their subscriber copies some weeks ago.

Slingshot 284 includes 52 full colour internal pages. The contents of Slingshot 284 are as follows:

• Editorial: Slings & Arrows
• Guardroom
• How many dead?, by Andrew Hobley
• The Wrong Procopius, by Jim Sye
• The Battle of Clontarf, by Mick Hession
• Catalan Fleet, Sicilian Vespers, by Jim Webster
• Transjordanian Tales, Part One: Ramesses Attacks!, by Alastair McBeath
• DBA Tournament Reports, by Martin Smith
• I Come to Praise Warmaster … , by Justin Taylor & Rick Priestley
• Wargames Competitions Made Simple, by Ray Briggs
• Adapting the Day of Battle Command System to Command & Colors Games, by Chris Parker
• Game & Figure Reviews, by Christopher Kay, John Curry, Fred Cartwright, Dave Gee & David Edwards
• Book Reviews, by John Walsh, Dave Gee, Duncan Head, Anthony Clipsom & John Hastings

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

You can join the Society at www.soa.org.uk/store.

Slingshot Back Issues Now Available Individually

The Society of Ancients has a new webstore up and running and, as part of its new policy, limited numbers of individual Slingshot back issues are now available individually for purchase by non-members at www.soa.org.uk/cartloom/backissues. This policy only applies to the last few issues, but provides an opportunity to try out Slingshot in advance of joining the Society. If you're a new member, and want to buy earlier issues from the year, you can also buy from the same store, taking advantage of your 20% SoA discount code.

(If you're wondering what the previous policy was, you could only buy back issues in bundles of 6, collected by year - this is still the case for issues before 2012).

This is a chance to try out the new format, all colour Slingshot, introduced in March 2012. We hope you enjoy it. We only print a few surplus issues, so back issue availability will be limited while stocks last!

For more information on the Society of Ancients, please visit www.soa.org.uk.

You can join the Society at www.soa.org.uk/join.