We were playing a game of FoG last night. A Heavy Foot Battle Group routed into a vineyard near the rear table edge. Vineyards are difficult terrain limiting movement to 1 MU per turn. I can't find anything in the rules that says Routing units ignore terrain. The net result is that the routing unit ...

With all respect to Foundry, Companion Miniatures Caesarian Romans are the best 25/28mm figures for the period. They are, in fact, perhaps the most beautiful figures I've ever seen. Sadly, I'm not really interested in the period which precludes me from buying them, but I can never put them down at c...

Am I to assume Scott that the Varangian Guard will be rated as undrilled as well? And may I inquire about the future status of Byzantine infantry of the 11th century with regards to drilled/undrilled.

Playing with 11th century armies and trying out FoG we're debating what troops, if any, should qualify as drilled. For instance, would King Harold's (Anglo-Danish) household huscarles qualify? The evidence that I've seen that would suggest that they might. Permanent standing troops that were capable...