Rise of Rome Expansion Now available for pre-order!

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:11 pm

The news you have all been waiting for is here! We are pleased to announce that the Rise of Rome expansion pack for Field of Glory Digital is now available for pre-order. Pre-order now for £11.99 and save 20%!

Features
o A comprehensive army builder which allows you to design armies to a specific number of points and then take these armies in to single player against the AI or online in multiplayer. This adds almost infinite replayability.
o New random battle generator using armies created in the army builder for single and multiplayer.
o A new Line of Sight option. Games can be played with or without LOS. Hide battlegroups in terrain, behind hills or other troops. Beware of ambushes!
o Baggage camps which appear in battle and can be looted for bonus points. Some armies are allowed to fortify their baggage.
o Temporary fortifications such as palisades which can be defended.
o Over 100 new unit types including camelry, scythed chariots and artillery!
o 5 New terrain types - broken ground, impassable terrain, open fields, vineyards & steep hills.
o 6 new battles from the Greek & Persian wars, Macedonian & Punic War's and from Rome’s expansion.

Armies Included
o Mid-Republican Roman
o Late Republican Roman
o Gallic
o Pyrrhic
o Later Carthaginian
o Ancient Spanish
o Later Macedonian
o Attalid Pergamene
o Numidian or Early Moorish
o Later Seleucid
o Later Ptolemaic
o Pontic
o Spartacus Slave Revolt
o Early Armenian
o Parthian
o Later Jewish
o Bosporan

For more details go to the Rise of Rome page - http://www.slitherine.com/games/riseofrome_pc

Note - when pre-ordering your credit card is not billed until the game is released, unless you use a deferred payment system like PayPal. In this case payment can only be taken at the time of authorisation.

Examinondas · Post by **Examinondas** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:46 pm

Wow! It's Christmas again!

Just a question: what are you going to do about online games between a player with the expansion and another one without it?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:55 pm

You will be able to play each other - we just need to work out the logisitics.

Lannes · Post by **Lannes** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:05 pm

Yes great news.

It's compatible with the FOG PC (matrix games) ???

Hudson · Post by **Hudson** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:40 pm

Hmm baggage camps

Baggage camps which appear in battle and can be looted for bonus points. Some armies are allowed to fortify their baggage.

Is that a feature in the miniatures game as well?

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:59 pm

Hudson wrote:Hmm baggage camps

Baggage camps which appear in battle and can be looted for bonus points. Some armies are allowed to fortify their baggage.

Is that a feature in the miniatures game as well?

Camps are a requirement in the table top rules, with fortified camps being optional and/or required depending on the army list.

Chris

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:27 pm

Now that's a nice suprise! Pre-ordering now

e_barkmann · Post by **e_barkmann** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:50 pm

will it be compatible with the Matrix version?

orendel · Post by **orendel** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:07 pm

Great news, but I miss the Illyrians. They are the only army who is in the Rise of Rome book but not in this list...

SirGarnet · Post by **SirGarnet** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:57 am

Rise of Rome covers a narrow though popular slice of history but seems to come with tools to design a far wider range of scenarios. The key question is how many further expansions are required to allow players to design scenarios of particular interest up to 1500, and what is the total cost of ownership going to be?

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:02 am

...counts number of FoG army books...

But as long as the game works where the expansions don't restrict someone playing who doesn't have it....should be fine. I have three or four of the army books, but no interest in the rest of them. I'd be willing to pay for a couple more PC expansions, but wouldn't want all of them. As long as the base game remains the same, am happy.

JayRaider · Post by **JayRaider** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:15 am

Great news!
The army builder aspect is exactly what the game needs.

keyth · Post by **keyth** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:22 am

Played my first three MP games this evening, expansion pre-ordered. Great stuff Slitherine et al.

Cheers,

Keyth

grumblefish · Post by **grumblefish** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:22 am

Hurrah and all that, but...

no armies from the time of Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon... no Spartans...

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Gotta admit, huge disappointment, but I think it's a great game and will definitely be pre-ordering.

EDIT: wait, although the list of new armies doesn't include them, it appears that they might be in: "6 new battles from the Greek & Persian wars, Macedonian & Punic War's and from Rome’s expansion." You can't really have the battle of Plataea without new units for Sparta and all that.

JMass · Post by **JMass** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:00 am

An army builder, a random battle generator, a new Line of Sight option... ? A must buy! Pre-ordered just now!

Lysimachos · Post by **Lysimachos** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:13 am

Great news for an already superb game that's going to be ever better.
The guys at Slitherine and Hexwar are really doing an excellent work!
Just one question:
when the expansion will be avaliable for us fanatics?

SirGarnet · Post by **SirGarnet** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:03 am

Total price seems rich for game software, and Rise of Rome is a period I think I've already overgamed. Plus it's best to see if the most annoying bugs are patched first.

A key question is if the releases will be in the same order as the books.

pomakli · Post by **pomakli** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:12 am

HI!

Lysimachos wrote:Just one question:
when the expansion will be avaliable for us fanatics?

It's written on February!

Pomakli

Ironclad · Post by **Ironclad** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:54 am

Great news about the expansion. I have signed up, assuming it will be compatible with my matrix original like the patches are so fingers crossed.

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:05 am

MikeK wrote:Total price seems rich for game software, and Rise of Rome is a period I think I've already overgamed. Plus it's best to see if the most annoying bugs are patched first.

A key question is if the releases will be in the same order as the books.

I have full confidence in Slitherine and I trust that they will give the game a needed patch. Also, the (pre-order) price seems fair if you compare it to the amount of extra stuff in it. An army maker seems great and I would really like to try the LOS system (Lake tarismaine anyone?).

The only thing I would be waiting for is some cut-scenes which tells all the battles together, thinking a bit Legion Arena here. I guess the seasoned TT gamers have no need at all for such an addition. THe new player however, could use this mode to bridge the gap between a regular pc game and the TT games.