Looks like Attic black-figure pottery ca. 550-480 BC. Some see those duos as an Hoplite (mounted or not) and his hyperetes, a man by whom the hoplite was accompanied when he took the field, and who carried the luggage, the provisions and the shield of the hoplites (Xen. Cyrop. 2.1, § 31) and who ser...

Archaïc/Classical Greek vase painting show fascinating duos of 1 Heavy/Medium man and 1 Light man, such as: - 1 hoplite and 1 archer - 1 cavalryman and 1 Light Javelin/Archer Horse - etc. fighting as a duo during battles : https://i.imgur.com/f72dMrn.png https://i.imgur.com/MpyvPhr.png https://i.img...

I guess the best way to phrase it is that a unit that had all its APs when it shot can only make one move during the same turn : rotating 180° and moving 1 square forward (or only rotating 180° if it can't move forward as the next square has already been taken by another unit). (including diagonal m...

Well, I guess the situation is more complex than I first thought and should be better thought out, expecially to prevent unwanted outcomes, such as units charging just after having shot...

In the Vanilla game, shooting empties the stock of APs. After shooting, it'd be nice, if there still were : 12 APs for the Cavalry Troop Type 6 APs for the LH and LF (and besides, for Dragoons in P&S) ... so that these units could fire and then turn and move for 1 square during the same turn (if...

Thank you, Rchard. I started this scenario as a SP one, but may add a MP version with this feature.

Interesting!

Being able to save several Custom battle settings (Army 1 + Army 2 + scenario type + Map size + etc.) and give them names.

The English defeat at the battle of Patay (1429) against a few charging cavalrymen (knights and mounted infantry) due to lack of time for placing stakes and organising the defence shows the importance of field fortification in the process. There's been lots of experiments and a focus on the damages ...

P&S AI tends to advance toward the player army, even when starting on a hill and thus having a potential Uphill advantage, right ?

Imagine an historical battle with a bigger army on one side : 11 000 vs 9000 men. Irl, 'unsurprisingly', the larger army won. How would you make this battle in FoG/P&S ? 1) Would you keep it as irl, to make it as historical as possible : same army sizes, same troop quality, etc. 2) or would you ...

How to make retreating possible say only 66% of the time (or less). I think, if you add to the file CampaignTools.bsf in the corresponding condition || (FXRand(0,99) < 34) like this if (((army1Strength <= comparator) && (proportionFoot >= 33)) || (FXRand(0,99) < 34)) // Defender will set up ...

In a user-made scenario, how to make the AI side play first ?

I want the IA to move first.

In custom AI data dialog, I turned Aggression to 16 and located target AI points behing the player's army.
I now need the IA to play first.

Possible ?

... It shouldn't be automatic in Pike and Shot Campaigns and Sengoku Jidai, both for the IA and the player. Retreating could be made possible say 66% of the time (or less). ... I think, if you add to the file CampaignTools.bsf in the corresponding condition || (FXRand(0,99) < 34) like this if (((ar...

I like the Sandbox Campaign in the FoG2 series. It allows events to happen.

In fact, maybe there could more storytelling/events/reason to fight in these Campagns.

We did that in Pike and Shot Campaigns and Sengoku Jidai, but people complained that the AI kept retreating from their mega-armies. (And vice versa, but they did not complain about that!) It is a bit of a no-win situation for game designers, if the battles are to be tactically fun. To make it work,...

The big problem is that, under musket fire, superior units tend to get disrupted or fragmented quite in the same manner as raw or below average units, which is unhistorical. As the manual says : "The cohesion test is based on Rand(1,6) + Rand(1,6), with some “re-rolls” depending on troop quali...

I am a fan of pursuit and pushback (in this game, I mean).

I guess it is mainly a matter of players who like having maximum control over their units, their game, their fate while other players prefer more chaos, surprise, uncontrolled things.

That's a good thing the FoG2 series gets things that cann't be copy/pasted in P&S.

Thank you very much for this reply