I know, 2011 has hardly started, but I figured it couldn't hurt to start thinking about next year. That'll ensure at least that we'll always have a nice long list of future themes to publish!

I've been absolutely swamped with well over 60 suggestions (Themes of 2011) for just six issues of Ancient Warfare in 2011. I've decided to pick one (V.1: Gaius Marius at War), as I have to start solliciting proposals for that issue. The theme for the Special has been set as well, though not with complete certainty. Next year is the 2500th anniversary (yes, next year, there's no year 0) of the Battle of Marathon, so that's almost a given. That leaves the themes of five regular issues for you to vote on:

It's that time of year again where I ask the readership for suggestions for themes of next year. This method seems to work well even though, as I said last year, some make me "go bald with worry about appropriate photography..."

In addition to the podcast with issue IV.1, Ross Cowan posted some self-confessed rambling (yet interesting) notes on the Roman phalanx before the introduction of the maniple on his personal blog.

I've received some great suggesti0ns in my previous posting, from which I've selected a few after due consideration of experiences, other ideas and random thoughts. Three issues are more or less 'fixed', while the theme for three others is open to the vote of the readership.

I have to say that, so far, the themes that the readership of this blog and I came up with, seem to have congealed into interesting issues. Sure, some themes cause me to go bald with worry about appropriate photography, but I seem to be genetically pre-disposed to be sparse-haired anyway.

For a while now I've been thinking about the themes for 2009. Some seem obvious. There's doubtless going to be a plethora of books and articles about the Teutoburg forest, but I'm confident that our angles and take will be deeper and more original than what's usually served up.