About Slingshot

Slingshot is a bi-monthly publication, distributed to members of the Society of Ancients as part of their membership subscription. Most of the content is contributed by Society members on a wide range of items related to Ancient and Medieval military history and wargaming. There are articles, reviews, letters, game design ideas, as well as the usual discussion on various wargames rules. Competition results and the occasional battle report are also published. Our quality publication is well edited to showcase the written contributions from our membership and features original pen and ink artwork.

A PDF index of Slingshot, covering all issues from 1965 to 2007, is available from our Downloads page

Current Issue (Slingshot 271; July 2010)

The latest issue of Slingshot is 271, publication date July 2010. The next issue will be the September 2010 issue.

This issue is 56 pages long, not including the cover pages. It’s published in the same format introduced with issue 258.

The contents of Slingshot 271 are as follows.

• Dertosa: The Cannae that Failed, by Patrick Waterson
• Constantius II, Ammianus, and the Big Parade, by Jim Sye
• The 7th Annual Society of Ancients Battle Day: Zama 202 BC, by Richard Lockwood
• Zama with Armati, by Mark Fry
• Zama with Commands & Colors: Ancients Epic, by Andrew Lawrence
• Civitates does Zama with Very Small Men, by Simon MacDowall
• Must Triarii Harder – Battle Day using Impetus, by Mike Brian
• Zama with Lost Battles, by Philip Sabin
• Operation Zama - a very large 28mm Command & Colors: Ancients game, by Simon Miller
• Zama with Peltast and Pila, by Daivid Barnsdale
• Zama with Donald Featherstone’s Rules for Ancient Wargames 3000BC to 400AD, by Martyn Simpson
• Tabletop Command & Colors, by James Roach
• Byzantine campaign in Italy 1155 AD to 1156 AD, by Jim Webster
• Official Amendments to Lost Battles, Empire and Roma Invicta, by Philip Sabin
• Show Reports
• Alfred Duggan – the unromantic novelist, by John Graham-Leigh
• Game Review - Hammer of the Scots
• Book Reviews
• Guardroom