Ancients

 There has been a lot of Ancients chat flying through the ether this week amongst folk I email etc with. It is good to see people enthused by what to me is a fascinating period( or multi periods) to game in. It has led me to reading around it with renewed enthusiasm-

Got this old friend out for a wee read and wallow in nostalgia. It is an undoubted classic.

In 1991 on my first visit to Copenhagen l became enchanted by the Lur Horns on display plus the other Scandanavian Bronze Age artifacts. Subsequent visits to Denmark reinforced this enthusiasm via bog bodies etc. Then circa 1996/97 Foundry made their wonderful figures for the period! The above photo is of a file of information, army lists, letters l compiled about the background to the Late Scandanavian Bronze Age. Looking at it this week I was struck by how helpful people were and how much time, energy and enthusiasm had gone into collecting the material. 

I recently added to the figure collection. Now all I need to do is commit to basing size and rules…

Finally a photo of a business l saw yesterday with splendid shutter artwork-

Oh did I mention l have a Sumer based game in the offing next week, can’t wait!