Society Of Ancients Battle Day

Just a quick note to thank all of those that took part in the very successful SoA Battle Day on the 3rd April - game organisers and players.

Feedback has been universally positive about the day and a number of excellent ideas on how we could improve on what we have already achieved have been gratefully received.

Indeed the event is not yet over - Rob in Ireland and Gerry in Australia are running games that will feed into the article for Slingshot and hopefully indicates the international nature of the SoA.

The Slingshot article will be forthcoming in the September issue and will feature contributions from all the game organisers plus some players. Additionally, we shall be collating as many pictures, etc. as well for the battle Day website to supplement the Slingshot article.

This first Battle Day was something of an experiment to see if the idea was popular and if it was something that the SoA should be offering it's members (and also non-members). Without wanting to pre-empt the committee's decision I personally feel that it has proved a success and should be repeated.

Any suggestions for Battle Day 2? Broadly we would be looking for a large scale battle, pretty well known and preferably one of the decisive battles.

Again, thanks to all involved,


Nik Gaukroger