A tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos) is one who illegally seizes and controls a governmental power in a polis. Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as, "one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage rather than that of his subjects, and uses extreme and cruel tactics -- against his own pe...

Chris, I went in 2002. Housesteads is really worth the look and the Vindolanda museum is probably the best I have ever been to (but then I like Romans...) however it is a long drive from West Yorks and the A1 can get quite busy. Being from the the US, I'm not really willing to call that a long driv...

Anglo-Saxons: 16x Hirdsmen, 24x Good Fyrd, 16x Poor Fyrd, 6x Slingers, 4x Javelinmen

Vikings: 16x Huscarls, 24x Freemen, 8x Irish, 6x Archers, 8x Thralls

Normans: 12x Milites, 6x Milites w/o horses, 12x Spearmen, 12x Archers

The limit on the range of an assault rifle is only in that it is very difficult to hit an aware (moving eratically, using cover) target beyond 300m. Its difficult to see anything further than right next to you when you are being shot at. Most people can't hit a stationary target beyond 300m. (proba...

As an archer - I would disagree that the range is correct - but as a gamer I think longbows are terrific The famous english long bow could easily launch arrows out to 300+ yards but they were probably most effective at 200 yards and closer sp in the end I think the FOG guru's got it correct. Effect...

Virtually every army in the FoG period is on record as wearing their best clothes for combat.

Romans are pretty much unbleached linen/wool if they weren't expecting trouble, dyed with madder (red/orange) if they were, perhaps with their officers bleached white.

They had an army? I thought they were a purely maratime power.

The problem here conflating drill as a human activity with "drilled" as a label on a game mechanic. The mechanic is applied to troop types to render plausible results in historical battles. The label has nothing to do with history per se just of what the game designers think would be a rep...

Have to agree on this, if close order Athenian hoplites count as undrilled it does seem odd that loose order Samnites are all drilled. The bar seems to have been set a lot lower for the Italians than it does for the Greeks. Isn't this exactly the design objective? Troops are graded not in any absol...

How about if you had 2 games available - one with an accurate historical match up but against a player you didn't know and another with a totally anachronistic match up but with a good mate/regular opponent. Which would you choose? I'll take the player I don't know, but not to get a historical matc...

I'm not big on the merits of (lots of) combined arms - I find it can distract you into wasting units taking terrain for no real gain, and make you overly focus on engineering matchups that at best give you a +1 POA advantage. To be fair, that sounds more like a personal weakness of the general, not...

I have no problems with facing orcs or skeletons, this hobby is small enough without being exclusive.

Squire is the right idea. Valet (or varlet) means servant, every gen d'arme would have one.

Fix your picture, that "white space" is part of the picture.

It only gets one "3rd rank" LF dice at impact for every 2 files that are fighting. LF shooting is rounded down always and only get one dice per 2 bases shooting. Oddly enough, once you lose a spear and end up as HL you count as 2 ranks at 1 dice each and as spear POAs EXCLUDING the POA fo...

Steppes = flat, arid, grasslands, characterized by hot summers and cold winters

Don't know about the cold winters but the rest seem plausible for Syria.

- Agricultural, Developped, Hills, Steppes

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Why should this site depened on Flash in any way shape or form? If this this requires anything more than strict HTML it means that the developers are completely incompetent.

Field commanders are basically only worth it for flank marches, which the Romans shouldn't be doing. Try replacing them with an inspired commander and a troop commander or three troop commanders. Second the comment on ditching the artillery. 650 and 800 are the most common sizes. You can toss in wha...

Once players are experienced and the metagame evolves, one shouldn't need maximum scores to win a tournament. Normal wins in the first few rounds then winning draws against one's rival should be good enough much of the time.