Another comp won by Later TYW German Catholic... Well it could just as easily have been Protestant, there weren't any Catholic options in it. This was my first competition and I would concur with thanks to the organisers and the people I played who made it a very enjoyable weekend, even though I mu...

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Do we get to see runners and riders?

Jonathan (Crowe)

Did any of the beta testers try 25mm games? Should we look at 650 points on a 6 x 4? Have some very very old ECW Minfigs and Hinchliffe figures that could do with a dust :) :) Don Don I did some individual combat testy type stuff with 25/28mm, but not any full size battles. Mechanisms seemed to wor...

donkiesrus2003 wrote:I have been working on a spreadsheet for FOG,
It calculates your points cost and once you put in your marh order it also works out your attrition.
2 Questions:
1. Is this okay to distribute to people?
2. If the answer to 1 is yes, does anyone want it?

Yes. please. I'll have it!

Jonathan

Thanks Nik I assumed that was the case with the beta testers, but it's nice to have it confirmed. Perhaps the site could indicate that - 'cos you can still apparently sign up to be a beta tester. I know that's an issue for Slitherine but perhaps you could pass it on. As regards Britcon, I'll firm up...

Really looking forward to the development of FoG Renaissance. Hoping it will meet the needs of this fascinating period. A few queries. Responding to Nik Gaukroger's posting on the DBMM site about FoGR beta testers and the upcoming competition at Britcon, I signed in here at the Slitherine site and a...

... but I think any combat effect from enemy elephants (i.e. the loss of 1 die in 3) should only apply if your army has no elephants. That's not because your army has elephants that your horses are used to fight against them. Cavalry riding at 5-10 meters from elephants feels better than cavalry fi...

Thanks for the explanations guys. I see from the earlier discussions - thanks for pointing me there - that I had fallen into the same trap as many of those posters to whit thinking of the meaning of the word elite on its own, rather than as one element in a rules grading system. Now, let's scrub tho...

Have you any evidence to back this up? Off the top of my head, no, I can't give you chapter and verse - because it's kind of an 'omission proves the point' thing. TE Lawrence doesn't mention it in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, for example, as far as I know. But I'll look further in my available sour...

My apologies if this has been done to death somewhere else. What are the historical criteria for a troop type to be considered elite in the rules? There are no elite troops in Storm of Arrows for example, unless I have missed them. I thought maybe elite could only be drilled but the solidurii in the...

[/quote]While horses may become familiar with friendly elephants, their riders would also be familiar with what panicking elephants can do to their own army - and this would make them pretty nervous of friendly elephants (not to mention enemy ones).[/quote] A fair point but a different point to what...

The problem is that you can't have elephants in BG's of more than 2. You need to make sure that there is another BG of something either side of the elephants to stop them getting overlapped or ganged up on too much by shooting. One method I saw used was to have the elephants in a column which makes...

FWIW I have seen Sri Lankan horses working around elephants rather uncomfortably, and you would get much more familiar than that as they are near them every day. Very happy with the balance we have, although as RBS says not everyone is going to agree with us on everything - it would be a boring old...

Indeed exactly designed for this effect. So actually there is a big benefit in putting 4 El together as you can then disorder potentially 6 width of enemy and if you have foot next to them yourself there is zero effect on you. If you put mounted next to them then your don't change your odds of winn...

Major omissions: Disorder (page 26 and 132, and in the combat charts for modifiers) Disruption Fragmentation Subsequent checking (about five minutes random looking) Capabilities and all of the definitions of this - bow, firearm, offensive spearmen, etc. Type (p16 under In Summary - 5 qualifiers) - t...

As the rule stands, elegant it ain't. Your privilege to think so of course. However, it was not our intention that there should be no effect on friendly cavalry at all, just less than on the enemy. You have already pointed out the effect on CMT. Also if you put elephants on both sides of a BG of yo...

Thanks for the confirmation Carlos. However, that really means the Companions are not penalized whatsoever for the presence of Elephants and the consequent disorder. That's the idea. Thus saving us from having to complicate the rules by excluding cavalry from being disordered by their own elephants...

Apologies if this has been asked before. Is there a reason why some lists in this book have no starter lists? Are they available somewhere? Thanks Jonathan (Had first game of FoG recently - hampered by Madeleine falling asleep in the middle while I checked the playsheets - hope it is not an indicati...