If you're a regular listener to 'a certain general gaming podcast' The D6 Generation, you'll have noticed that though they discuss mostly non-historical games, they are not averse to history. Craig Gallant especially has expressed his love for Romans on more than one occasion.
We're planning some changes in our production procedure. In preparation I'm moving editorial deadlines up. From now on the deadline for proposals always is always the 20th of every even month for the issue-after-the-next-issue. That's probably confusing, so I'll give an example. February 20th is the proposal deadline for issue IV.3 (IV.1+2), April 20th is the deadline for IV.4, June 20th for IV.5...
The British charity I CAN helps kids with communication difficulties cope and improve their skills. They run adopt-a-word, which allows you to 'adopt' an English-language word (GBP 20 each) of your choice for a year. You get a nice pdf certificate to certify you did so, and the money goes to the charity. I thought this a quite fun idea, so I went and adopted 'legionary'. I'm sure various Ancient Warfare themed words are still available.
The results from the 'Artwork as prints' poll are pretty clear. Now I'd like to zoom in a little more. I've selected three images for 'soldiers' and three for 'battle scenes'.
Time to select your favorites.
Another review of Ancient Warfare online, on DaneOfWar, an English language Danish wargames site. They like us. A lot. Yay!
For some reason I forgot to post the blog below in early July. So mentally backdate and have a laugh at the photos...The tv-show (in Dutch and quite a bit outdated in its historical research) has been broadcast by now as well (last item of the show).
From time to time I search around the net to see if anyone posts comments on Ancient Warfare. I like to know, ya know! Even critical reviews are useful. It's not as if I think we're perfect (well, I think so sometimes, but there are usually people nearby to disabuse me of that thought).
I promise I have excuses for the lack of blog postings, I do! I'd rather get on with it though. Moving house has given me a comfortable train commute which increases the likelihood of me reading books every day and allows me to muse on new ideas.
Xanten (Germany) does not just have the APX - the Archaeological Parc Xanten - that is host to one of the biggest European bi-annual Roman festivals. It also has a Roman museum with some very nice militaria.
