Hello, welcome to another ancient warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. In this episode, we'll be

looking at volume 11, issue one, blotting out the sun, archers in the ancient world. I'm joined by

Mark DeSantis, Mark McCaffrey, and it's a welcome back to Jasper, who once more is editor of the magazine.

So, Jaspers, is the first time you've been on the podcast in literally years, and this is your first full issue back as editor.

I wondered how this issue came about. Archer's looks like you've pulled a real crowd

players out of the bag to return with a bang

it's actually that that's up to your show he set the theme for this issue

he collected the proposals but though I think we did make the

the choices together so I took it from there.

So that's still mostly to his credit.

I've been messing with the rest of the year, but no, the choice in this case was his.

So which is the first one that's your suggestion of topic?

Well, strictly speaking, that's going to be the next one.

I mean, Yoshos set the themes for the whole year.

But 11-2, it was supposed to be Magna Grykia, so the Greek cities in southern Italy.

And when I looked at the proposals that I've got, they were extremely diverse.

And I've been looking at various reference works about battles that be big enough to have a long piece on and have sort of a coherent theme.

And that seemed like it was going to be difficult so I made an executive decision as

they say and being more of a Roman person than than Yosho is I was like oh let's

put it into the Roman sphere and it's it's become sort of the if if you look at it, we did, I did, what's it called? A multitude of

peoples, ancient warfare issue 4-1, that's the very first issue that sold out after the very, very

first range that had very small circulation,

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