The year: 217 BC. Across the Mediterranean, the great empires are vying for total domination. Who will come out on top? The Romans, Seleucids, Macedonians and many more slug it out in this ancient grudge match.
Theme: 217 BC - The ancient world at war
- Jeff Jonas, 'The Mediterranean arena of 217 BC - The grudge match of empires'.
- Jeff Jonas, '217, Cage match of empires - Gaming the grudge'.
- Mark Backhouse, 'Gaming the Battle of Lake Trasimene - Trick you twice'.
- Eoghan Kelly, 'Cutting Hannibal's Spanish supply - The Battle of the Iberus River'.
- Guy Bowers, 'Assembling a Carthaginian army - The army of the New City'.
- John Morris, 'John loves it when a plan comes together - Where's the elephants, Hannibal'.
Features
- Eoghan Kelly, 'A battle for the Western Oosterbeek perimeter - God save the king'.
- Mark Backhouse, 'Part I of an ACW Sharp Practice mini campaign - Three days with the tigers'.
- Michael Leck, 'Danish guerrilla forces during the Scanian War - Snapphanar'.
- Peter Schulein, 'Part 2: Surviving the Twisted Tentacle Arms - Playing From Dusk till Dawn'.
- Stephen Tunmore, 'Modelling the retreat from Moscow, Part I - Building a Russian Izba'.
- Tony Harwood, 'Re-building a resin cottage for 28mm gaming - Resplendent resin'.
Departments
- Miniature reviews
- Rick Priestley, 'This Gaming Life - Mein Host, Part II'.
- Henry Hyde, 'Tabletop tactics - Line infantry: Theory into practice'.
- Rob Rhodes, 'The Irregular - Do I really need a podcast?'.
- Rob Rhodes, 'The American Civil War rules from Reisswitz Press - Let's play Pickett's Charge'.
- Guy Bowers, 'Adventures in time and space - First look - Doctor Who - Exterminate!'.
- Eoghan Kelly, Raif Watkins, and Ian Beal, 'Game reviews - Mortem et Gloriam, The Curse of Dead Man's Hand and Wargame: The Spanish Armada 1588 / Wargame: The Roman Invasion Ad 43-84'.
- Parting Shots
