i will play bronze/iron age and with these three armies as my choice

three armies for the bronze age:
Hittite 1594-1351
Babylon 1594-891
Egypt 1450-1277

thank you for the invitation

my three choices, in this order, are:
Achaemenid Persian 419-329 BC
Babylonian 1594-891 BC
Byzantine 988-1041

Let me know which i get to use and when!

i see how that applies to that special unit in the alex list (foot companions and hypaspists)

but it does not say anything about WHEN you decide if your THureo/thuro are placed on the table as MF or HF.

so, again..

WHEN do you decide?
-before or after placing terrain?

some units can be purchased as EITHER MF or HF (the Theuros offensive spear in the graeoco bactrian and other successor type armies).

the cost is the same.

do you have to announce BEFORE seeing the terrain/opposing army whether they will take the field as MF or as HF, or can you decide during the ...

thank you.
i have 44 crossbowmen so that gets me the dozen LF that i will ever need and half way to the dozen MF...

...i have not had these guys down from the shelf in the 14 years since i moved from washington DC to Connecticut....nobody up here played wrg renaissance and even though i played in ...

the rule book nicely displays the foot print of the big battalions of a dozen bases...

...but none of the pike/shot units or tercios in the army list book are that large...most seem to be 6 to 9 bases...

where are these big tercios to be found? what army lists?


also, the bases of shot in the ...

on the average, about how many crossbows of medium and light foot do the earlier armies field?

as i am going to remount my crossbows some as medium and some as light, i'd like to know about how many of
each i'd need for, say, a typical 800-900 point army of the italian renaissance...

the sample ...

i need to remount my crossbows from my old wrg armies and was wondering how they will be represented
in the game....in the rule book the only reference to that issue is in the sample french army list where it shows them as light troops.

will that be the norm in the upcoming army lists?

i beg to differ. longbows are not very effective in this game. i do not have any problems with the other firing mechanisms and points of advantage etc with other weapons, as if you can manage to get enough fire on a unit you might just actually kill something -- or, more importantly, cause it to ...

Longbows seem terribly weak and ineffective in FOG.

yes, they do get some pluses against some troops and do not suffer minuses against others, but compared to almost every other miniatures or board or computer game i can think of seem very weak.

from all i have read they should be far more lethal ...

so units already in rout when hit in the impact phase (or by others who careen into them while pursuing other routers or evaders) will not do anything until the JAP?

they just stay there, like a big block, and then they just rout in the JAP (with a base loss)?

have i got it right?

these questions apply to units already in rout. if you know the answer, please cite the rule book page.

(1) what happens when you shoot at a routing unit?
---does it take a death test for hits?
---does it take a cohesion test, and if it fails does it immediately take a rout move? what if it passes ...

Spartacus null pointer exception crash
-following error message crashed my spartacus game (i was spartacus)...in the rise of rome fog, which had the latest patch....

NullPointerException
1.1.1 2010 03 12
{}
gamelogic.s.RoutPath.movePathGrow o gamelogic.BestFirstMovePath o gamelogic.s.RoutPath i4i4 ...

let me add my congratulations as well. the digital army builder in particular is superb -- easy to use (although i had to change my screen display from 800 down to 1024 to see the very right hand column where you actually buy the units, but after building a few armies, i just backed out, put the ...

i downloaded the file, moved it to the documents folder, even created a new folder for it in there with the other test scenarios i had designed...but it does not show up when i open up the game and go to custom or new games.

it says it is an rar file -- how do i open that?

in other words, what am ...

there is no such documents/slitherine/field of glory/scenarios folder in the game.

there is no documents folder that i can see

an army maker? comes with the next patch maybe? along with new units?
that would be nice.

still, just a simple basic list of what the units you can build would be helpful...

and what is this about being able to modify those units? how?

is there a simple list of the units available in the scenario editor and their vp cost?

i know that if you right clik on each unit it gives the vp cost, but it would be a lot easier if there was a nice, simple table listing each type of unit and its cost...that would make creating scenarios and ...

yes, the handicap is in the number of break points it takes to win.

for example, in the first scenario at neutral, it takes 9 to break romans, 12 to break gauls.

if you go favor gaul -- it is 8 to break rome, 14 to break gaul
if you go stronger gaul -- it is 6 to break rome, 16 to break gaul

if ...

i just noticed that when you clik on a unit in the scenario editor and paste it on the map, if you right clik a list of properties comes up ....including a VP value!

rather than go down this list cliking each one, and making a note with pen and paper, is there a master list somewhere that shows ...