Balkan Wargamer

 This new Osprey by Anthony Spalinger is a bit outside my normal scope, but I got sucked in after visiting the wonderful British Museum exh...

 My local library has been downsized, and I have been struggling to find my monthly library pick. However, I did spot Geoffrey Williams'...

This Osprey Campaign book by Mark Van der Enden covers the classic legion v phalanx battle of the ancient world. The Battle of Cynoscephala...

 This is the new Osprey MAA by William Horsted, covering a popular wargame army: the Seleucids. Seleucus I Nicator was the founder of the S...

 This new Campaign series book by Nic Fields covers Rome's long war in North Africa, against the Numidians. The war is named after Kin...

 My library pick this month was David Breeze's study of the Antonine Wall. The Antonine Wall was built in what is now Scotland. It stre...

 This is a new Osprey Combat series book by Murray Dahm on the Dacian Wars AD 85-106. The Dacian Wars are one of my favourite ancient camp...

 No, this isn't another blog about my go-to set of ancient wargames rules. This is the opening book in a series by Robert Fabbri on the...

 There have been many general studies of the armies of this period, but now the Athenian Army has a stand-alone Osprey by Nick Sekunda. For...

 Strength and Honour (S&H) is my favourite ruleset for big battles in the ancient world. One of my wargaming pals finds this ironic as h...

 I am in London this week working in the Greenwich and Kew archives on the Ambuscade book . While here, I didn't want to miss the Briti...

This is Simon Elliot's book on the two campaigns Emperor Severus made in Scotland. His swansong before dying at York after the second ca...

 These are the new rules by Mark Backhouse for fighting the epic big battles of the ancient world. I played these at Partizan in a refight ...