Slingshot Issue 352

THE March/April 2024 edition of the journal of the Society Of Ancients arrived yesterday.

The cover shows a first-century terracotta head of Jupiter adorned with the curling ram horns of the Egyptian god Ammon

Perhaps the most interesting article to me was Dave Watson's on the early generalship of Alexander the Great.

But, unfortunately, what stands out the most from the magazine as a whole is the disappointing tabletop battle scenes.

Some photos are marred by very poor miniatures (see page 11), others by obtrusive markers (page 24) or irrelevant paraphernalia (is that a Filofax on page 40?), and one by no fewer than five sets of rulesheets (page 19).

If such things have to be strewn across a battlefield, they could at least be moved for the few seconds it takes to snap a picture.