Happy New Year fellow wargamers!
While there are several 2024 battles to chronicle, newly painted units to parade, and battery of year-end wrap-ups to write, I begin the New Year with a prize drawing!
What is the reward for entering the drawing? The winner receives a one year's complimentary membership to the Society of Ancients (SoA). If you have an interest (whether general or specific) in Ancient & Medieval warfare and wargaming the period (3000 BCE to 1500 CE), give the SoA at the link above a browse. The SoA publishes a (mostly) bi-monthly magazine, Slingshot, that is crammed full of interesting content.
If interested in a complimentary membership, reply in the comments declaring your entry into the drawing. If more than one entry, a random drawing will follow. Get your entry in by Sunday, 05 January.
Good luck and hope to see one of you as a new member on the forum.
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Phil!
DeleteOoooo, yes please Jon. Enter me into your competition! handsome chap in the phot btw....
ReplyDeleteFirst, you will need to identify yourself before I can mark you down!
DeleteOoops, that was me in the comment above Jon. Forgot to add my avatar
ReplyDeleteAh, there you are! You already are a member. Is this for an extension?
Deleteyes, whenever that is this year :)
Deleteactually I feel guilty so dont include me in the drawer!!!
DeleteNo need for guilt!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan. Don't put me in the draw. There are others that would benefit more from your generosity.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! You sure no entry???
DeleteWell you can blooming well chuck my name in the pot for starters. Not sure who gave them the okay to use my picture on the front cover of their magazine!
ReplyDeleteYou're in! There was discussion on the forum whether that was a photo of the Slingshot editor out on the prowl for article submissions.
Deleteindeed.....!
ReplyDeleteBest Wishes for the New Year. That is a fantastic gift for the draw, very generous. I have to admit to allowing my membership to lapse, so would feel churlish accepting such a gift, so I would respectfully ask to be kept out of the draw. Good luck to all who do enter.
ReplyDeleteThere are no conditions. You may enter without guilt.
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteNeil
Happy New Year!
DeleteBut then it turned out that the then editor was a bald chap and not a hirsute Viking at all. We had been had!
ReplyDeleteCan I, as SoA forum moderator both congratulate Jon on his generosity and also echo the benefits of the forum. We finished the year with over 15,000 posts on nearly 1500 topics, so it's quite lively. It's a great opportunity to learn from fellow enthusiasts and we have a lively interest in archaeology alongside the wargaming.
In addition to the forum and Slingshot, members can also join our wargames championship. Fascinatingly structure to be rules agnostic and to allow games fought in different contexts to be added to your score. And then there are the trading discounts. So, sieze Jon's generous offer with both hands folks.
Thanks for providing more info on Society benefits, Anthony!
DeleteBest wishes for a most Happy New Year
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mark!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan! I look forward to your formal review. No need to include me in your very generous offer of the draw...others would benefit more.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Mark! Gosh, it is hard giving stuff away!
DeleteHappy New Year, Jon.
ReplyDeleteThe SoA Membership offer is a great (and very generous) initiative. I’d thoroughly recommend anyone with even the faintest interest in Ancient and/or Medieval warfare to comsider joining. I’ve been a member off and on since about (?) 1976, and it had been highly valuable.
Please DON’T add me to the draw, as I’m already in, and I’d prefer the freebie to go to a new face.
Cheers!!!
Thanks, Martin!
DeleteHappy New Year Jon! A very generous offer and I am more than happy to be included in the draw...given my recent painting activities, I would doubtless benefit enormously from some of the information available via the SoA.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Keith! You are in the draw!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan, looking forward to more of your battle reports in 2025
ReplyDeleteThank you, Neil! BatReps to write are stacking up like cordwood.
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan. Slingshot is a magazine I have often meant to sign up for as it seems to have been going as long as I have, but then forget. Please include me in the draw as it might be the only way I actually remember to subscribe.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lawrence! Your name is in the hat!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Michal!
DeleteHappy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dan!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan looking forward to your upcoming additions!
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Thanks, Chrisopher!
DeleteHappy New Year, Jonathan!
ReplyDeleteAnd Happy New Year to you too!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan, looking forward to the forthcoming posts.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Phil! My queue is quite long…
DeleteA Happy New Year, Jon. I always read your posts with interest, although I apologise for not commenting as often as I should. And I would be interested in being entered for your SOA prize draw. Thank you! All the best for 2025, David.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! No need to apologize. Commenting is not required. Nice to see but not required. Your name is entered into the hat for the prize draw!
DeleteHappy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI am a SOA member already so won’t enter your draw.
Alan Tradgardland
Happy New Year, Alan! I don’t recall seeing you post on the forum. Have you joined the forum and are you an active participant? If not, join in and enjoy the discussions.
DeleteJonathan. Happy New Year! Please enter me into the draw. I should become a member anyway. Looking forward to more of your insightful posts through 2025. Andrew
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrew! Your name has been tossed into the hat!
DeleteHappy New Year may '25 be a good vintage for wargaming
ReplyDeleteStephen
Happy New Year! Hope to see you back at the gaming table in 2025.
DeleteHappy New Year Jon, al the best for 2025 and we shall see where it takes us. Very generous prize in your draw, very good off you, not really my area of expertise, pretty much stuck n the 18th century me!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie! Not really my area of expertise either but the forum frequently offers topics and discussions suitable for Wargaming in general. There is much valuable and interesting content, therein, and I always find something of interest.
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan. I wrote several articles for the SOA many moons ago and still have them.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, George! Which issues contain your works?
DeleteA George Andersen (sic) won the Alan Nickels prize for medieval articles in Slingshot way back in 1980. The same person, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteOnly George can answer that! What was the topic?
DeleteYes, guilty as charged.
DeleteCongratulations on your award, George!
DeleteFrom notes I've seen, Robert the Bruce.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year to you, Jonathan.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Joe!
Deletehappy New Year Jon - your blog is inspired - your games superb as ever. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks much, Darren, and Happy New Year to you!
DeleteA belated HNY to you and yours Jon:)! What a great prize for the draw, so as I've never read any of the issues, I might as well throw my hat into the ring just in case I get lucky...
ReplyDeleteGood choice to throw your name into the hat, Steve! Nothing to lose and everything to gain.
DeleteHappy New Year to you too Jonathan. What a splendid idea to run a draw and with a rather nice prize too. Please include me in the draw.
ReplyDeleteThank you, David! You are in the drawing.
DeleteHappy New Year, Jon! Thanks so much for the many excellent games you hosted over the past year, always great fun!
ReplyDeleteI'll 'pass' on the draw - looking at the backlog of 'Arquebusier' and 'Foreign Correspondent' issues I have, plus commercial wargame magazines and huge pile of military history books, I think I have plenty to be going on with! Great idea, though, and very generous.
Happy New Year, David! We sure had many an enjoyable game, didn't we?
DeleteA somewhat late "Happy New Year"! Looking forward to seeing what new and exciting things you will post up for us to enjoy this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dai!
DeleteHappy New year Jonathan and thanks for all the posts from the last year! I'll have to pass on your generous offer as I am like David time poor with a pile of reading probably larger than the lead pile!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain caveadsum1471
Thanks, Iain, and you are welcome!
DeleteHappy New Year to you! And very many thanks for all the fascinating blogging you have been doing. No to the draw from me (I absolutely must not find another diversion in my life at the moment!) but it sounds a great offer. I hope to be in a position to join myself in the next few years.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words on my blogging efforts. Much appreciated as always. Happy New Year!
DeleteHappy New Year Jonathan, I visit blogs less often now, but it's always a pleasure to come here!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Phil! Why fewer blog visits nowadays?
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