Suggestions please! :)

Sirstroud · Post by **Sirstroud** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:52 am

tis me,
i need some help deciding with legions triumphant or wolves of the sea, which is more begginer friendly, the game club i go too are interested in FoG, so which book would you sugest?
Thanks

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:03 am

Legirons is more fun as there are some very different armies.

Wolves could be more user friendly as the armies are very similar to each other in the main. But, IMO, that makes for boring games.

jlopez · Post by **jlopez** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:58 am

I agree, Legions Triumphant is a better choice. Given your interest in hairy barbarians, something like Foederate Roman is a good bet as you have a core of illiterate nutters which you can leaven with superficially more refined "Roman" types. Later on you can decide to expand the army down the barbarian or the Roman route depending on your interest and/or gaming experiences.

Going for an all barbarian infantry army is IMHO not the best option for your first army as I believe has been pointed out in another post. It's not an awful lot of fun to play even within the period and outside it, it will be tedious to say the least.

deadtorius · Post by **deadtorius** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:31 pm

Take Legions much more interesting armies in there if you want to get away from boring old Romans and look at some more exotic weird armies. Still the Romans are interesting too I suppose (you can tell I have to fight Romans on the TT all the time cant you)

Sirstroud · Post by **Sirstroud** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:27 am

thanks chaps

, i might give the Ancient Brits a go

, (aand MAYBE.... the romans.. :/ )

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:18 am

Romani Ite Domum

Sirstroud · Post by **Sirstroud** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:45 am

err.... FOR THE KING/QUEEN/WARLORD!!!

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:04 am

on the walls of the government were wrote:Romani Ite Domum

Do schools not educate kids these days? Hmmph!

This quote is up there with "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came I saw I conquered")

And I do believe more people know how to translate my phrase.

jlopez · Post by **jlopez** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:20 am

philqw78 wrote:
on the walls of the government were wrote:Romani Ite Domum
Do schools not educate kids these days? Hmmph!

This quote is up there with "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came I saw I conquered")

And I do believe more people know how to translate my phrase.

Inevitably, this calls for another quote:

"But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya"

Sirstroud · Post by **Sirstroud** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:27 am

Hyeme Viresco ( i flourish in winter) my family motto

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:32 pm

Phil, I can't - but struggled with English, let alone Latin...

gozerius · Post by **gozerius** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:53 am

Some people aren't happy unless you play their game. Go ahead, park an army of protected defensive spear behind a line of FF and listen to them squeal.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:56 am

timmy1 wrote:Phil, I can't - but struggled with English, let alone Latin...

I'll give you a hand Tim
Romani - Vocative Plural
Ite - Third person plural imperative
Domum - Locative

Often badly translated into latin as "Romanus eunt domus".

Now, write it out 100 times. If its not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

BeansNFranks · Post by **BeansNFranks** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:33 pm

timmy1 wrote:Phil, I can't - but struggled with English, let alone Latin...

I'm still struggling with American!

On topic Legion's Triumphant is a much more diverse and fun book to pick armies out of. Wolves of the Sea should have been named "Undrilled O Spear of the Sea..."

I would suggest against an army of undrilled foot, unless you are thinking something like Ancient Briton's which has the chariots and light horse for mobility. Just look at the movement chart and what "other undrilled" can do as opposed to "Drilled."

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:44 pm

For the young Mr Stroud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbI-fDzUJXI

This will help with your "education" young man

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:55 am

philqw78 wrote:
on the walls of the government were wrote:Romani Ite Domum
Do schools not educate kids these days? Hmmph!

This quote is up there with "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came I saw I conquered")

And I do believe more people know how to translate my phrase.

Carthago delenda est.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:13 am

rbodleyscott wrote:Carthago delenda est.

I've never met one.

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:19 pm

rbodleyscott wrote:
philqw78 wrote:
on the walls of the government were wrote:Romani Ite Domum
Do schools not educate kids these days? Hmmph!

This quote is up there with "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came I saw I conquered")

And I do believe more people know how to translate my phrase.
Carthago delenda est.

Isn't that from Asterix and the Laurel Wreath?

dreiling · Post by **dreiling** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:19 pm

Try Cato the Elder as in "Carthage must be destroyed!"

Recommend Legions, as there are many barbarian armies to smash into the Romans (Early Imperial through Later Imperial) or for that matter each other. And don't forget the Sassanid Persians, a particularly long-lasting thorn in Roman/Byzantine's side!