Slingshot, January 2008

Slingshot Issue 256

This is the last issue to be edited by Nik Gaukroger. Layout by Paul Cummins. The issue is 48 pages long.

The contents of Slingshot 256 are as follows:

• "The Longbow Revisited,” by Anthony Clipsom
• “Mesopotamian Warfare Notes II,” by Alastair McBeath
• “Constantine’s Conversion and the Laborum: A Response,” by Ilkka Syvanne
• “Terra Cotta Update,” by David Edwards
• “Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the Pink-Jerkinned Arabs”, by Duncan Head
• “Report on the 2007 Battle Day, Cynoscephalae, 197BC; Part 2”, by Richard Lockwood
• “Pseudo-Polybios does the SoA Battle Day”, by Ray Briggs
• “Ancient and Medieval Wargaming and Wargames Competitions,” by Neil Thomas
• “Several over the Eight,” by Graham Evans
• “P.A.W.S Autumn DBA, or Tashkent, the new Baghdad,” by Martin Smith
• “Campaigning in Milton Keynes,” by Mark Schofield
• “Review: Ancient Warfare Magazine”, by Nik Gaukroger

Supplementary Material:

Missing Mesopotamian Map

From Alastair McBeath:

"The article 'Mesopotamian Warfare Notes II' in Slingshot 256 should have had a third map with it, which seems to have been omitted for space reasons. It showed a slightly simplified version of Hans Nissen's ideas of settlement influence areas in southern Mesopotamia for the Early Dynastic I/II periods, plus another variant set of watercourses to those in Maps 1 and 2 with that article. The paragraph beginning "The drying climate was coupled with..." on page 9 is best read with reference to this map, and it also explains why the cities of Badtibira and Larsa were referred to on page 10, but not shown on either of the extant maps. This map was intended to be useful for following some of the discussion in my third Mesopotamian article too, in Slingshot 257, notably in the "Rebuilding history" section, where it was particularly referenced."

This missing Map 3 is given, with its caption, HERE.