Thursday, January 17, 2019

Telling About Telamon

THE January/February edition of Slingshot arrived yesterday and is dedicated to the Society of Ancients' 2019 battle day.
Slingshot issue 322 has a model of a Gaulish warrior on the cover
Much of the magazine therefore covers what is known about Rome's defeat of Gaulish tribes at Telamon in 225BC.
Duncan Head's article is especially interesting, and the only disappointment for me is no real discussion of whether the Gauls really mustered 50,000 foot and 20,000 horse/ chariots (Ancient generals and their admirers seems to have been particularly prone to exaggerating enemy numbers).
Of the other articles, the one that intrigued me most is Steven Neate's on fighting DBA with 54mm figures.

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