and then there are beta testers who are busy translating FoG while preparing to play another game in Gent/Belgium (if I remember these rules).

Olivier,

i would be happy to have one. I would return the German version as soon as we have defined the translation of terms and abbreiations.

arnim.lueck@s.netic.de

the abbreviations are a very good point!

To keep the forums to their purpose please continue this topic within the translaters lounge as we are not really discussion rule mechanisms in this thread.

We had a first call in Germany yesterday, work to be started now.

We would like to propose some principal communalities between all the translations. Our first topic of such kind is the glossary:
a priori we would like to translate also the technical terms (test names etc) into German. This makes ...

agree 100%. The glossary (and other appendixes) are ok to support understanding of the text and sometimes provide a different sorting of information. But many difficulties with the ruleset arise from information 'missing' (well for me) in the main text.

One thing that I still want to see improved is transforming the AoW into a good textbook that reads comprehensively to people who are non-gamers (before they are convinced ...).

Apart from the discussion on where to put beginners rules and full rueset I would like to see much wording providing an ...

For me this packaging in "beginners" and "expert" rules separated in the book is worse.
Why? because i try to learn the full rules as quickly as possible.

I do realise that my opinion here is the one of a wargamer with some years of playing. So I want to make a proposal that contains some ...

the value in practice is very limited.
What are the situations they do create? As I see it the only thing it adds in mechanics is that BGs pushing forward through a part of the enemy BL get exposed to reserve BG behind the original BL. Actually this happened very rarely even in the systems that ...

One thing that I missed while going through the experiences so far:

How about introducing the effect of BGs loosing combat being pushed back? I know that this creates all kinds of game mechanics issues if multiple units fight. But i really liked the feel of the Battle Line being pushed back ...

Actually I really support the naming proposal for infantry, maby something like skirmish foot/ loose order foot/ close order foot would do

distributer in Germany:
of the "big" distributers that work with international producers 'FanPro' and 'Pegasus Games' jump to my mind. Both have solid experience with international game producers. Pegasus being probably more my view. I hope to make it to the convention in Essen this year and have a ...

here come my personal thought-list for generals:

differenciate strongly between the various types of generals to give the army a personal look and feel
items that come to mind:
- fighting effect,
- movement effect (maybe pure troop commanders do not allow a 2. move)
- radius of issuing rally ...

here come my personal thought-list for generals:

differenciate strongly between the various types of generals to give the army a personal look and feel
items that come to mind:
- fighting effect,
- movement effect (maybe pure troop commanders do not allow a 2. move)
- radius of issuing rally ...

Apart from those errors still made

the only thing that I found not satisfying during the game was the role of the generals. Maybe more games will help but presently our Generals do two things:

Join the BL that need to move fast at deployment
Hop off the BGs shortly before normal combats or move ...

Oh and one thing I forgot to highlight:

While the hungarian infantry approached the egypt bow and close fighting infantry one BG of clipeati was fragmented by egyptian archers at the first volley. Juergen was not really confident charging in this state. Several rally tests failed. Here the effect ...

Date: 2007-02-04

Rules version 4.04
List version 1.09

Tax Collection
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Yesterday evening Pharao Arnimton wanted to go collecting taxes in
Hungary. Unfortunately it took him some centuries to get there so he
encountered an uneducated people who did not know about their duties.

With ...

Probably discussed somewhere before but i couldn't find it.

While putting together an 800 points force of eager tax collectors for the pharao I stumbled across the rule that a BG must be made up of an even number of elements (with some exeptions). While I never really noted this fact as an issue ...

This first one was of course Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. Both Shops that trade Tabletop, Roleplaying Games, Comics, Book etc. So no GW stores.

I will continue this in and update. But of course feedback from other countries might bring other results! I recall many people commenting on the public ...

First ideas and surveys on product configuration
-------------------------------------------------------

I had the chance to hang around two shops lately and talk to various
people about

How a Tabletop Wargame product should look like

this is just a first feedback, mainly from Warhammer ...

But wasn't one of the leading ideas to "roleplay" the generals? Without giving maybe too many skills to them we could maybe about giving them more tactical tasks than just steadiying troops.

Just dreaming:
- every CMT must be initiated by a general within command range. Every general can only ...