PAWS English DBA Open October 2016

The Portsmouth and Allied Wargames Society will host England's premiere DBA competition on Sunday 30th October at the Stacey Community Centre, Portsmouth, UK, commencing 9.30 am. Trophies will be sponsored by the Society of Ancients and prizes by Magister Militum.

More details here.

Slingshot 307 with the printers

Slingshot 307 is currently with the printers and will appear shortly.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Arming the Slaves, by Richard Andrews

It’s a Long Way to Tibareni (4), by Alastair McBeath

The ‘Drunken One’ at Campaign 2016, by Steve Rathgay

Actium Naval Rules, by Harry Ryder

Pharsalus Battle Day Reports

• Pharsalus in Japan, by Aaron Bell
• Pharsalus with ‘To The Strongest!’, by Paul Innes
• Pharsalus using ‘Scutarii’, by Bill Butler

Hannibal Triumphs! - ‘Mortem et Gloriam’, by Richard Jeffrey-Cook

Another Consideration of Chaeronea, by Chris Hahn

Development of the Republican Roman Army

......is a free ebook on the development of the Roman army from obscurity until later Republican times, written by Kenneth Haynes, a long-term SoA contributor. Containing illustrations and diagrams, it is available in ePub and MOBI formats here.

 

Britcon 2016 12th - 14th August

Britcon is the UK's largest multi-period, multi-ruleset wargames competition, held this year in Manchester.

Ancient and Mediaeval period rulesets will include the following:

DBA
DBMM
Field of Glory
Saga
l'Art de la Guerre

...and the first public appearance of Mortem et Gloriam, created by Simon Hall, one of the developers of Field of Glory.

More details here.

MINIATURE WARGAMING - THE MOVIE

This will be the first full-length documentary on the miniature wargaming hobby, incorporating interviews with key miniatures personalities, a history of miniatures wargaming, and a look at the production, modelling and tournament aspects of the hobby. A successful Kickstarter campaign has raised the necessary funds to complete the movie. More details here.

Free DBA 3 reference sheet offered for download

A free 2-sided A4 reference sheet for DBA 3 is available as a pdf from the Society of Ancients website. Check it out here.

Undersea Athenian naval base at Piraeus uncovered

The Zeaharbour Project that spent ten years in undersea excavation of the ancient military naval base of Piraeus has uncovered the enormous shipyard - one of the biggest complexes in the Ancient world - that housed hundreds of triremes used to defeat the Persian fleet in the 5th century BC. See a summary here:

http://www.livescience.com/55142-ancient-greek-naval-base-found.html

And more detailed article here:

http://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/da/Forskningsaktiviteter/Forskningsprojekter/Andre-forskningsprojekter/Zeaharbourproject