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Ancients Links

Ancient history and wargaming links
Romans
Carthaginians and Spanish
Greeks, Thracians, Macedonians
Persians, Indians
Chinese, Japanese, Mongols
Dark ages, crusades, early medievals
Medieval Europe
Rules, clubs, wargaming organisations
Ancient Historical Texts

Ancient World Mapping Center Maps of the Ancient world, or at least Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean.

Romans  ^

Illustrated History of the Roman Empire Not just a great resource about the Romans, they will even sell you a cut-out Roman Legionary helmet!

The Roman Army Page Imperial service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?

Roman Seas Ancient Roman naval gaming in 1/300 scale.

S.P.Q.R Website of the Second Legion Augusta (NZ) Legio II Avgvsta is a New Zealand re-enactment group. Members include the Master Armourer to Lord of the Rings.

Trajan's Column Relief sculptures depicting the Emperor Trajan's campaigns in Dacia.

Carthaginians and Spanish  ^

Armas y Ritos en la Iberia Prerromana A Spanish website about ancient Spanish weapons.

Hannibal Barca and the Punic Wars The life of Hannibal and the wars between Rome and Carthage.

Jos� I. Lago�s website A Spanish website about Ancient Spanish, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, and the Trojans.

The Punic Wars An overview of the First, Second, and Third Punic Wars.

Greeks, Thracians, Macedonians  ^

Alexander the Great welcomes you to his homepage.

Everything Spartan, Lakonian and Messenian Includes a section on Spartan sayings which may be exclaimed during wargames.

Hellenic Macedonia Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Macedonia.

The Hoplite Equipment, time-line, Thermopylae, Marathon, female hoplites.

The Hoplite Association A re-enactment society bringing the 5th Century BC to life.

Thrace and the Thracians (c.700 BC to 46 AD) This page is the home of everything around 2,000 years old and a bit Thracian. That includes Skythian, Illyrian, Dacian, Paeonian, Bithynian, and Sarmatian. By Christopher Webber, the author of the Osprey book on the Thracians.

Warfare in Hellas Greeks, Macedonians and Persians.

Persians, Indians  ^

Achaemenid Persia : A History Resource by Mark Drury, including Achaemenid history, historical sources, army, campaigns, and wargaming.

Darius III Codomannus Persian culture and the army of King Darius III.

History of Iran Everything from Ancient Elamites, Medes, Persians, Parthians and Sassanids up to the present day.

The Kushan Military The Kushan Empire and the armies of Bactria.

War in Ancient India Part of the Hindu Wisdom website.

Chinese, Japanese, Mongols  ^

Heike Monogatari : the Tale of Heike The best website for early Japanese, ever - according to Brett-San.

Japanese Battles from Wikipedia  - another good samurai link.

The Mongolian Culture website from the Indo-Mongolian Society has lots of information about the Mongols from Ancient times to the present.

The Mongols in World History The Mongols and their empire from 1000-1500.

The Samurai Archives Japanese history page.

Takegaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasion of Japan Takegaki Suenaga, a Japanese warrior who fought against the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281, commissioned scrolls recounting his actions.

Dark Ages, Crusades, Early Medievals  ^

1066 and All That The Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings.

De Bellis in Terra Sancta Website on the Age of the Crusades (1050-1300 AD) by Brendan Moyle, author of the ruleset Shattered Lances.

Regia Anglorum Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, and British living history 850-1100AD.

Medieval Europe  ^
The Battle of Aljubarrota The Portuguese victory of 14 August, 1385.

Castles of Wales Medieval Welsh warriors and warfare.

Company of Saynt George A re-enactment group featuring a 15th century artillery unit.

De Re Militari The Society for Medieval Military History, an international scholarly association.

The Grey Company Trebuchet page Here you'll find a lot of pictures and a few words about these amazing pieces of "leverage artillery"

The Lance and Longbow Society promotes historical, re-enacting, and wargaming interest in the Middle Ages, covering the period from the early 11th century into the early 16th century. The society also produces a bi-monthly journal Hobilar and newsletter called The Scourer.

Medieval-Castle-Siege-Weapons.com All about medieval castles and medieval siege weapons.

The Medieval Sword Resource Site has information about medieval European swords and also other parts of the world.

Medieval Warfare is an informational site talking about the weapons of war and tactics in the medieval era.

Siege Engines Reconstructions of ancient and medieval siege engines. Quote from the author, �Trebuchets shouldn't really be tested in small yards.�

Wargaming and Warfare in Eastern Europe Matthew Haywood's site covering the period 1350 AD to 1500 AD.

Wars of the Roses The civil wars in England from 1455 to 1487 between the House of Lancaster and the House of York

Rules, clubs, wargaming organisations  ^

AllDBM A group of Spanish wargamers have set up this website dedicated to DBM, including all the army lists.

AncientBattles An unofficial Warhammer Ancient Battles website.

Field of Glory Previously known as Art of War. A new set of ancient/medieval wargames rules currently being developed by Slitherine.

BHGS The British Historical Games Society, especially strong on DBM gaming with some DBR material as well.

Chariotmaster Chariot racing rules.

DBA Online As the name suggests, an online version of the DBA game. DBA was the first of the DBx series of games, and the printed rules for the table-top game are into the second edition.

DBM homepage Richard Bodley Scott's wargames page. RBS co-authored DBM with Phil Barker. His article, 'Fun with Fast Light Horse', includes this: "I am painting a mixture of pointy-hatted Donnington horse archer figures, so that I can plausibly use them as Skythians, Kushans, Hsiung Nu or Cumans. My daughter says they look like gnomes. She probably means gnomads." The latest official amendments to DBM version 3.1 are available to download from this site.

DBMM DBMM is Phil Barker's long awaited successor rules system to the extremely successful DBM wargaming rules. The rule book was published in April 2007, and the army lists are now being revised. The rules can be ordered from the Caliver Books website.

DBX Page The Nunawading Wargames Association site dedicated to De Bellis Multitudinis and associated DBx family of games; DBA, DBR & HOTT.

The Die is Cast Designed to cover the rise and fall of the Roman empire. These rules are especially suited to refights of historical battles.

Fanaticus A virtual community for DBA enthusiasts with lots of interesting things relating to many aspects of ancient and medieval warfare.

Hoplon A DBM style set of rules for the pre-firearm era. Hoplon Version 3 was released in June 2006.

Impetus A basic version of the Impetus rules is available to download from the website.

IWF The International Wargaming Federation.

Luke Ueda-Sarson's homepage with ancient military history.

NASAMW North American Society of Ancient and Medieval Wargamers.

Phil Barker's homepage The leading author of ancient wargaming rules since the 1960s.

Society of Ancients An ancient society that has been around even longer than Phil Barker!

Sue Laflin-Barker's website includes the first edition WRG ancient rules. See where it all began in 1969 with just eleven pages of rules including advice on how to paint your Airfix Romans.

Tabulae Novae Exercituum TNE has discussion and proposals for amended army lists and troop classifications for DBM and DBMM.

Warmaster Ancients A Warhammer Historical game designed for 10-12mm figures, but playable in larger or smaller scales as well.

Ancient Historical Texts  ^

Ancient History, Archaeology and Biblical Studies Ancient Historians and Generals, Assyrian and Babylonian texts, Information about Persia, and more.

Bayeux Tapestry Reproduction of the tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings and a full Latin-English translation of the text.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) has more than 350 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook Introductory articles and links to lots of primary sources.

The Internet Classics Archive English translations of Greek and Roman works.

Perseus Digital Library Hundreds of Greek and Roman historical texts.

Tales from Froissart Jean Froissart's 14th Century chronicle of the Hundred Years' War.