Stuart Ellis-Gorman

@drcrossbows.bsky.social

Medieval historian, crossbows and the Hundred Years War. Author of The Medieval Crossbow (2022) and Castillon (2025).

Freelance writer/editor/proofreader, occasional game designer. Reviewer of books and games.

Website: www.stuartellisgorman.com

@fredserval.bsky.socialReposted by @drcrossbows.bsky.social

Over the last couple of years I've returned to my old habits and started playing Hex and Counter wargames again. I've been quite impressed by the games from the Swedish publisher 3CG, so here is a teach and play of one of their east front games I wanted to share, here is Iskra :
youtu.be/-6BYtYAGhig

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she said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring

@donalh.bsky.socialReposted by @drcrossbows.bsky.social

Colleagues in Maynooth, please join on Monday 13:00 at TSI for this rally in support of the Palestinian students whose visas have been denied. We have two fully funded students from Gaza due to come to Maynooth as well as many more at other institutions across Ireland who have been refused visas.

Solidarity Rally, Monday October 12th, 13.00 outside TSI building
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I would have loved for it to be longer, but the publisher has a very specific length they want all of their books to be, and I wanted it to be accessible to most people because there's not much on crossbows right now. I'm hoping to return to the subject sometime in the future in longer form.

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I just want the record to reflect that I am no officially a Dungeon Synth Guy (tm)*, so if you have any Dungeon Synth you want to recommend to me I am all ears. *let's be real, it's been a long time coming.

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I do cover it in the book, but the tl;dr is that no, it did not really make a difference. The proclamation was one of many attempts by the papacy to limit and control secular violence within Europe, with overall mixed results.

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