As you may know, I had a recent article in Ancient Warfare Magazine. Well, if you haven’t picked your copy up, or better yet subscribed, now’s your chance. The publisher has offered a special discount through the rest of the year. This is the perfect chance to get a subscription for the entire year of 2008 at the price of 2007, complete your collection and get a discount!
Discount code: RAT1207
I’ve updated my profile over at WereCabbage Publishing. New items of note:
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– I am editing Book of Bones for
– I added my upcoming article in Ancient Warfare Magazine (
The next issue of Ancient Warfare Magazine is about to hit the stands. Check it out…
Theme: The Roman conquest of Spain 218 BC – 24 BC.
* Jasper Oorthuys, Introduction to the theme
* Jona Lendering, ‘A view from the periphery. Appian of Alexandria’
* Ed Healy, ‘The General: Viriathus’
* Duncan B. Campbell, ‘The siege of Numantia. How Scipio Aemilianus conquered the bravest of all cities’
* Xavi Rubio, ‘The battle of Emporion: Cato’s Triumph’
* Kim Stubbs, ‘The battle of Ilipa. Scipio’s rise begins’
Features
* Patryk Skupniewicz, ‘The Warrior: Sasanian heavy cavalry’
* Be a General, ‘Xenophon’s Cavalry Commander’
He carried on the war not for the sake of personal gain or power, nor through anger, but for the sake of warlike deeds in themselves; hence he was accounted at once a lover and a master of war. -Cassius Dio
I finished my article on Viriathus for Issue #4-2007 of Ancient Warfare Magazine today. The theme for the issue is “The Roman conquest of Spain 218 BC – 24 BC.”
Viriathus was a Lusitanian patriot who led the confederated tribes of western Iberia against Roman occupation. The heart of the Lusitanian resistance, this gifted tactician and guerrilla fighter fought Rome to a stalemate. In the article, I discuss the rise of Portugal’s national hero; his election as warleader following Galba’s treacherous peace offering ca. 150 BC; his campaigns against Caius Vetilius, Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, and Servilius Cipianus; followed by his death at the hands of Lusitanian traitors in 139 BC. I tried to focus on Lusitanian guerrilla tactics in the face of superior Roman training and equipment, and how the Lusitanian resistance, though doomed, inspired that of the Cantabri to the north, which lasted for another hundred years.
Issue 4-2008 is slated for release on November 26th.