Coming from ‘the age of the pike’ Byzantine Games, I find it very destabilising to see all the infantry steady on rough terrain (being all MF).

(One big point to the pike afaic.)

I know you’re not interested in maps for FoG2 Campaigns but, just for info, the scale of the Campaign map in Master of Command seems interesting, as it allows to play with terrains (trying to choose/avoid a given area, depending on the composition of both sides). Maybe this can be achieved without a...

One square is 60 x 60 paces, so, unless I am mistaken, being able to see men 20 squares away is not unrealistic which of course doesn't mean you can't chose any other LOS you’d find more interesting|challenging

You can also play the battle of Fornovo in the Epic battles of the Rise of the Swiss DLC in the FoG Medieval game from the same developpers. FoG Medieval covers the period from 1040 AD to 1500 AD while P&S covers 1494-1698.

Unless I am mistaken, "Le Roi Soleil" is the name of an update of Pike&Shot whose details are here . It primarily added European armies of the second half of the 17th century (from 1649 on). So you can play as one of the armies of Louis XIV in : - the Pike and Shot Campaign , for examp...

@ Dux Limitis : I don't know anything about the History of the Republic of Genoa. Anyway, it seems that, for example , between 1393 and 1410, Genoa was under the protection of King Charles VI, then of Duke Louis of Orléans. French Knight Jean II le Meingre was the royal gouvernor between 1401 and 14...

If I have understood you correctly, you suggest that the Greek cavalry was potent and highly tactically mobile strike force that never, over the hundreds of years, had a real chance to shine on the battlefield due to the Greek terrain. Ì think that you are totally misunderstanding me. Watch the con...

@MVP7 : Note that our views are quite close.

Here is an interesting short extract of Roel Konijnendijk' book. I don't give the examples nor the explanations at length (for copyright matter). You’ll have to read the book (or free extracts from google books) if wanted : "It is true that there were some major battles, like First Mantineia, N...

Everyone is of course entitled to his opinions. A couple of things bother me in your reasoning though : 1) your only source is Armies of the Greek and Persian wars (1978) by Richard Bruce Nelson, 2) you don't take into account the differences between Regular Hippeis, Hippotoxotai, Prodromoi and Tara...

My imperssion is that the in-game light cavalry and light-spear armed cavalry are (through most of the game) essentially a representation of one and same type of historical cavalry. Through light and non-light formations they are mechanically assigned to the two extremes of of their role and capabi...

Well done

Disclamer : The game is perfect as is. This post is just because I like History. It’s not meant to make any change in the Vanilla game which is based on a smart economy of units and a top-down approach. My current historical question is : Are there light horse in the Greek lists before the 4th cent...

Have you tried it several times ?

I've just tried and bought units for this battle at various levels of SP difficulty (2, 3, 4). 5 attempts in a row. No issue 4 times. The 5th time, I had the feeling that it didn't work. But maybe I misclicked... Or a one-time mini bug ? No big deal in this case.

Indeed. You guys rocks ! Just reporting anything I see. No big deal in this case. Won't change the result of the game. You shouldn't sweat blood and water working on this AI. Make an informative panel at the start of the battle indicating the dismount MMA should be sent straigt ahead till contact wi...

Quite surprisingly, when playing the Castillans, this friendly unit that is marked red below and that is AI-controlled if I am not mistaken, stopped doing anything after a few turns, hadn't moved forward when the hex in front of it was empty, nor fought nor done anything for several turns (nor could...

I didn't know this battle. I've just looked at it. That battle looks very much like the setup of Azincourt. The Castillans are not meant to win. In 1385, if they had been guided only by rational logic, they should have refused such uneven fight and left the battlefield before the start. It's like as...

For example, Robert III de La Marck, Marshal of France and historian, who fought at the battle of Pavia (1525) blames King François 1 about tactical mistakes during this battle : « Le Roy, voyant qu’il estoyent repoulssez, fit advancer la gensdarmerie de l’advant garde devant l’artillerie, tellement...

To sum up, imho Greek cavalry don’t need being made less maneuvrable. It is not a matter of horsemanship. The FoG2A player just needs to choose (or make) a map with enough rough terrain, seashore and flanking hills to simulate the area of Greece (or any other mediterranean one) he wants to play in :...