Quickly making the rounds in the German press, a bit more slowly in English, but German archaeologists have announced the discovery of an early 3rd century (AD!) battlefield in Germany, quite a bit from the normal limes.

See the summary of news reports on Rogueclassicism and a thread with many links to German news reports and a discussion about the finds on RomanArmyTalk.

It's hugely overdue, but this Sunday (the 21st), we'll have another Skype-phone conference to record the 5th podcast. Murray Dahm and I will be joined by Mark Schwartz, who wrote 'Warriors at the dawn of time' in AW II.5. Hopefully Angus will be able to upload the result somewhere in the Christmas week, so you'll have something to listen to, when you've had your fill of food, drinks and family.

On his blog Ferrous Lands Ancient Warfare illustrator Andy Brozyna is running a sort of collaboration project. All figure and mini modelers are invited to paint a winter scene and join the fun at his site. I think I'll paint some wintery Romans. I've got an old model lying about, but maybe I'll use something else completely.

My third interview focuses on the author – Brendan McGinley (BM) – and illustrator – Mauro Vargas (MV) – of the web-comic ‘Hannibal Goes to Rome’. The famous story is lacking representational evidence, especially from the Carthaginian side, so it’s always interesting to see what artists come up with.

Mainz is cool. So is nearby Bad Kreuznach, or at least its Römerhalle. It's all even better with friends who share a crazy interest in the Roman army

I normally forward reader's questions and remarks to authors and / or publish them in the 'News and Letters' section of the magazine, but that is limited. We currently have our own sub-forum on Romanarmytalk for further debate, but I wonder whether that is accessible enough for our readership. I'd love to encourage more debate among our readers and between readers and authors. After all, there is often not enough space in an article of limited length to address all angles and problem of a subject. What do you think? Should Ancient Warfare get its own forum on the magazine's website?




Part 2 of my blog interview series features Stephen English, known to the readers of Ancient Warfare as the author of an article on Macedonian 'Heavy' infantry. Steven recently completed his first book about the army of Alexander the Great, which will soon be published by Pen and Sword books.

It took forever, but once our study was in working order and our ISP connected us to the internet, I too was ready for a late night podcast recording session. It was, as usual, fun to do. Hopefully it's fun to listen to as well.

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.

Not really, but we're using FeedBurner now for our RSS feed. The feed link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ancientwarfare