Slitherine

Just heard from our club events organiser, who is at Devizes show today.

He has been sounding out people at the show, who have told him that FOG 2 is now dead, and we should replace our FOG Ancients competition with FOG Renaissance or Napoleonic

Which would be a shame, since the Plymouth club has been a predominantly Ancients club since it was first founded in 1973...

johno

Why can't you continue to play FOG Ancient v1?

pyruse wrote:Why can't you continue to play FOG Ancient v1?

sounds like an idea none is forcing the change on you and in the uk the majority unless bhgs change will play v1

pyruse wrote:Why can't you continue to play FOG Ancient v1?

sounds like an idea none is forcing the change on you and in the uk the majority unless bhgs change will play v1

johno wrote:Just heard from our club events organiser, who is at Devizes show today.

He has been sounding out people at the show, who have told him that FOG 2 is now dead, and we should replace our FOG Ancients competition with FOG Renaissance or Napoleonic

Which would be a shame, since the Plymouth club has been a predominantly Ancients club since it was first founded in 1973...

johno

How can something that has not been released be dead?

Oh well.......

We had a long history in dead-before-birth government

hammy wrote:How can something that has not been released be dead?

Oh well.......

because it was only going to be accessible to very few people. Now it should be accessible to all. So it lives. Horray

philqw78 wrote:

hammy wrote:How can something that has not been released be dead?

Oh well.......

because it was only going to be accessible to very few people. Now it should be accessible to all. So it lives. Horray

I still think from what has been said it is being released on digital thats a fact, but they are only trying to get it to paper sometime no date.

So it will be out to those with digital first still splitting a small number of wargamers. If i was cynical I would have thought due to the bad press something had to be done to move this digital idea forward what better than saying they are working on a paper copy. of course I'm not cynical.

Dave

As far as the likelihood of running V2 tournaments, I suspect that is not going to happen until either the paper version is available or. at a minimum, an authoritative list of changes is available in hard copy. While that may not be "dead". for a set of rules whose biggest strength seems to be for tournament play, that would seem ot at least qualify as suspended animation. So hopefully the paper version or at least changes/amendments will follow quickly to minimize the duration of the suspension.

Chris

david53 wrote: of course I'm not cynical.

Dave

No just a dour Scotsam. Oh, there's another one of them on here!

I think people are being insane now.

Slitherine wanted to do something dynamic for their product and our hobby. They heard that they are bit further forward than the hobby and they are working on a print solution. Everyone is going to win. So let's stop the weird complaining and slagging.

We get digitial and print. What''s wrong?

I like the idea of a digital edition - I work in IT for God's sake!

But I can't afford a tablet of any shape, size or description to run it on - I work in IT in the SouthWest of England, where the wages are up to 30% less than they are in the M4 corridor for the same job

So unless there is a printed version I can take to my games, I am not likely to buy v2 at all.

If there is a printed version, then I might later add a digital version, if I can afford something to run it on...

johno

And we now know they are working on a print version, which makes it all "OK".

hazelbark wrote:And we now know they are working on a print version, which makes it all "OK".

Except that we apparently need to let some emotions run their course. Once that's done maybe we can see that we have a good deal.

shadowdragon wrote: Except that we apparently need to let some emotions run their course. Once that's done maybe we can see that we have a good deal.

I generally don't care for lynch mobs unless they are doing my bidding. So i have several suggestions for those who need an emotional release.

hazelbark wrote:

shadowdragon wrote: Except that we apparently need to let some emotions run their course. Once that's done maybe we can see that we have a good deal.

I generally don't care for lynch mobs unless they are doing my bidding. So i have several suggestions for those who need an emotional release.

I also don't care for lynch mobs - especially when they are doing my bidding. Anyway, one thing that doesn't work with lynch mobs is "reasoning with them". Channelling their energy into a harmless (or less harmful) direction works best. I haven't a clue how to do that here, so I'm open to suggestions.

So it looks like things will work out in the end.....they still get to push the technology bubble into the future, and we'll have a print option.

Now the only question is when?

Skipper