In another I thread may :? have suggested that FoG's Battle of Heraclea cannot mirror the events of the real Battle of Heraclea (namely, the routing of the Roman cavalry with war elephants and the subsequent collapse of adjacent Roman legions).

Well ... I may have been hasty. :oops:

After playing ...

You guys know a lot more about these commanders and battles than I do, so tell me, when you play a FoG historical scenario (any FoG historical scenario) do you feel that the strategic and tactical questions that you have to face are the similar to those that you know (from your reading or other ...

You know, perhaps the reason that I couldn't get any thing like the real Heraclea in FoG is that all of my games resulted in decisive victories for which ever side was not controlled by the ai. This meant that either the elephants could not save the day or were superfluous.

I suppose that had the ...

Well, take the Battle of Heraclea (280BC).

History tells us that the battle was finely poised until Pyrrhus introduced his twenty war elephants, whereupon the Roman Cavalry routed creating chaos in the Roman lines. The charge of the Thessalian cavalry then delivered the coup de grace.

I've played ...

I'm with berto.

For me FoG would be ideal if it had historical scenarios in which strategies and tactics could play out the way they did in real life; if I could use a phalanx the way Alexander did, or elephants the way Pyrrhus did; if it could help me to understand Gaugamela or Marathon.

At this ...

Wow!

Long for how TheGrayMouser reading minds able have been you?

Well, RoR's installed and you were right.

Each of the six hitherto missing battles mentioned above (including Marathon) now appear in the in-game Historical Game list.

Thanks again.

By the way, isn't there also something wrong with the die roll in the last line equalling zero?

All right then.

I was planning on getting RoR at some point. I guess I'll just do it a bit sooner than I expected.

It may take a while for me to confirm whether you're right though. I prefer to get the boxed copies of the packages, and I live on the other side of the world from Slitherine HQ, so I ...

No. I don't have RoR, only SoA.

But remember, the six games ARE in my Games folder, just not in my in-game Historical Game or Custom Game lists. I doubt they would be in my Games folder were they from RoR.

Besides, one would have to be remarkably creative when it came to defining the word 'Rome ...

v1.1.2(boxed) + v1.2.5 + v1.2.6, but the problem was there from v1.1.2 I think.

Nope! Didn't touch them.

They DO appear in my Games folder. They just don't appear in my in-game Historical Game list, and if I copy them to the FieldofGlory Scenarios folder they don't appear in my in-game Custom Game list either.

I can move other games to the Scenarios folder and they do appear ...

Correct me if I'm wrong; Beneventum, Hydaspes, Marathon, Orchonenus, Taurus, and Trigranocerta ARE (official) Historical games. (The FoG Main Help Menu deals with them in Battles section.)

Not only can I not get them onto my Historical Games list, I cannot get them onto my Custom Games list . Even ...

Thanks for the help.

I eventually found a 'FieldofGlory Scenarios' folder all the way over in the 'My Documents\Slitherine' folder and tried your suggestion.

A peculiar thing seems to be happening. If I copy a game in my 'games' folder that already appears in the FoG Historical Games list over to ...

I've got some games in my 'games' folder that don't appear in the historical games list when I launch FoG.
Can some one tell me how to get them to appear?