New ancients blog

By Robert Heiligers, a prolific writer of articles for Slingshot:

http://historandmor.blogspot.co.uk


The more the merrier!

Quick edit - thanks to Robert for following on here too!

Online library: resource for Roman history

Hi all, I've been looking for easily accessible information on the interrelationships between the Jugurthine War, the Cimbric migrations and the ongoing problems the Romans were having with the Scordisci and friends. Found this on the web:

http://erenow.com/ancient/crisis-of-rome-the-jugurthine-and-northern-wars-and-the-rise-of-marius/5.html

There's quite a lot of other material on there too - might be of interest to someone?

The reason I was looking is because this is where we have got to with our ongoing campaign, with me umpiring and the guys in Glasgow playing the battles.


QUICK EDIT: I posted this link on the Society of Ancients forum, and the consensus there is that erenow is a form of internet 'privateering'. In other words, they'll post stuff, but if the author sees it and complains enough they'll take it down. Not quite piracy, but close...

On the painting tray: June 2016

Took these photos at the beginning of the month, but haven't had the time to post them:

Romans, always with the Romans...

Some more finished than others. This is the penultimate legion of my Companion Miniatures figures. Embossed shields courtesy of Happy Gordon in Newcastle-ish.