“Then Cyrus, fearing that the King might get behind the Greeks and cut them up, moved directly towards him. With his six hundred he charged into and broke through the screen of troops in front of the King, routed the six thousand, and is said to have killed their commander, Artagerses, with his own hand.

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This year’s Battle Day was held at Hermitage Village Hall in Berkshire on Sunday 30th March and showcased The Battle of Maldon, the 991AD encounter in Essex between the English army of Byrhtnoth and the Viking raiders of (probably) Olaf Tryggvason. Immortalised in the eponymous Anglo-Saxon poem, the battle provided plenty of challenges to stage,

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Next year’s annual Society of Ancients Battle Day will take place at Hermitage Village Hall in Berkshire (postcode RG18 9WL) , on Sunday 24th March 2024. We will be re-fighting Scipio’s famous victory against Hasdrubal and Mago at Ilipa in 206BC. The day will run from 9am (with the hall available to set up from 8am) to 5pm and will consist of

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Meanwhile Epaminondas led forward his army prow on, like a trireme, believing that if he could strike and cut through anywhere, he would destroy the entire army of his adversaries.  For he was preparing to make the contest with the strongest part of his force, and the weakest part he had stationed far back, knowing

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The eighteenth annual Society of Ancients Battle DaySunday 20th March 2021Shaw House, Church Road, Newbury RG14 2DR

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While the battle thus raged between the front lines in both sectors, Richard learnt, first from spies, that Henry was some way off with a few armed men as his retinue, and then, as the latter drew nearer, recognised him more certainly from his standards. Inflamed with anger, he spurred his horse, and road against

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The Celts at first were ignorant of the arrival of Atilius and imagined from what they saw, that Aemilius’ cavalry had got round their flank in the night and were engaged in occupying the position. They therefore at once sent on their own cavalry and some of their light-armed troops to dispute the possession of

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Battle Day 2018 will be Paraetacene 317 BC, the large Successor battle between the armies of Eumenes of Cardia and Antigonus One-Eye. So…pike, heavy cavalry, light cavalry, elephants in a big battle on an open plain – what’s not to like here! Members are invited to come and run games, or to just turn up and

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Battle Day 2017 duly took place on Saturday 1 April at the usual venue of Sycamore Hall, Bletchley. Around 40 wargamers refought the Battle of Arsuf, 1191 AD across eight different wargames using eight different sets of rules. The day started with a very well-received expert introduction to the battle and the challenges of wargaming

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Pharsalus 48 BC For almost all the horsemen had crowded to this point, in order to overpower Caesar and cut to pieces the tenth legion; for this was generally said to fight better than any other, and in its ranks Caesar usually stood when he fought a battle. But Caesar, observing that the left wing of the enemy

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