TheFrenchJester - I never mentioned shepherds. And as someone who has studied classical history for 30+ years, I have read the odd good history book. My point is this: Greek citizen hoplites do not get drilled status at this period. I have no particular problem with this. But I struggle to see the e...

First off, errata: page 49, Pre-Islamic Arabian - Javelinmen should be divided into a Medium Foot line, which is printed correctly, and a Light Foot line, which unfortunately has all been shifted one column to the left. Second, some observations. Somewhat surprised that the Campanian Triarii (p29) a...

At the risk of resurrecting/hijacking a rather old thread... One thing that I have been wondering of late is the decision to go with Bow, Swordsmen for early Persian cavalry, rather than allowing them Light Spear. The Troop Notes makes mention of "recently discovered tomb paintings" which ...

Thanks for the clarification, Richard - I thought that might possibly be the answer but wanted to be sure it was intentional.

Noticed one rather garbled entry so far in Wolves - Carolingian Frankish, p38, Frankish "horse archers". The quality column has Average over Drilled, whilst the training column has Undrilled. Now, given that the points for the two options are 16 and 17, I presume the Average is a complete ...

Just received Legions Triumphant - very good indeed. A couple of very minor typos/layout errors I have noticed: p33 - Early Scots-Irish - the MF line for the Attecotti sees the Impact Foot rating drift into the Shooting Capabilities column. p38 - Later Sarmatian Troop Notes - the line "sometime...

The other typo I noticed is in the Syracusan list where the dates given for Agathokles in N Africa run from 310 to 207, vice 307...

You are right - I had missed that point. Thank you.

Thank you Richard for such a quick reply. Fully accept that they are guidelines/descriptions only. And as you say, right not to be too equipment obsessive. I am not a competition player, so will happily experiment myself. It was simply that, on a first take of the rules, it was the only thing that s...

Apologies if this is an old issue - but I have searched the forum and cannot find an earlier discussion. Having just acquired FoG and Rise of Rome, the thing that struck me most when perusing the army lists was that light foot and light horse seem to have a universal application of Unprotected as th...