Simon Scarrow's Eagle Series

[DGrove]

I've read a couple of the Scarrow books and enjoyed them.  Found some the the dialogue a little to modern. Another series I would highly recommend is Harry Sidebottoms series with Ballista.  Very readable and hard to put down.

[VonMoltke]

I have read the first 4 books in german....
In my opinion a very good series.
For german readers I could also recommend the following series:

Jörg Kastner -----5 Books (Battle of varus and campaigns of Germanicus from a germanic view)
Iris Kammerer ----- 3 Books of the germanicus campaigns from a roman view
Manda Scott ----- Boudica series
William V. crockett---- Series about the britain north frontier, time of emperor Antoninus Pius.

[Bugsda]

I've read all the Scarrows and the first five are the best.

If you like a bit of a whodunnit I can recommend Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Sub_Rosa

[gamer Mac]

The Conn Iggulden Caesar Books are rather good if you fancy a bit of Sharpesque light reading

I am reading these at the moment, the emperor series, and can recommend them. Loads of interesting details that have a ring of truth about them.

[OSHIROmodels]

To be honest, no matter how 'low brow' and lacking in 100% historical fact some of these books are, they are all good for scenarios and inspiration 

cheers

James

[philhendry]

To be honest, no matter how 'low brow' and lacking in 100% historical fact some of these books are, they are all good for scenarios and inspiration

Agreed 100%.  Unless you only play equal points games on open tables, they're great sources of inspiration for everything from tiny skirmishes up to proper battles.  And a lot of the ideas will easily translate into other eras too, or other armies in the ancient era.

[Ssendam]

I've read them all and I like them. It's definitely better to read them in order because the main characters are often manipulated (coerced) by the more powerful to take on specific objectives and it just makes more sense to see things unfold slowly; more so in the latter books where characters from earlier book reappear. The history isn’t a problem for me, in my mind the balance between history and telling a story is right. They ARE action novels though, akin to watching a good ‘ol Arnie film, it won’t win an Oscar but a lot of people will say cool things and then kick ass!