Slitherine

My co-host for an upcoming FoG Roman vs Gaul convention game told me he heard from a third party that the next version of Fog may well include:

1. An extra 100 points awarded to a Gallic army when fighting Romans.
2. An 8 base Gallic BG deployed 3x3x2 being able to claim rear support for itself.
3. No "Skilled Swordsmen" category for the Romans.

The third party claimed all of these points had been discussed on the Slitherine site. This is the "rules" forum and yet none of this sounds familiar to me except the possible removal of "Skilled Swordsmen".

Is the third party right? Are these three items all likely future changes?

Thanks, Terry G.

They are talking about modifications in the section: Field of Glory 2.0
Maybe it's in there.

Those discussions are in 2.0. There is a non closed section with some of those discussions. Note the changes are a long time from becoming real.

I have heard nothing about the extra 100 points of gauls. But they could probalby use 75 under current rules.

go here viewtopic.php?t=21585 to see some of the things being discussed.

TERRYFROMSPOKANE wrote:My co-host for an upcoming FoG Roman vs Gaul convention game told me he heard from a third party that the next version of Fog may well include:

1. An extra 100 points awarded to a Gallic army when fighting Romans.
2. An 8 base Gallic BG deployed 3x3x2 being able to claim rear support for itself.
3. No "Skilled Swordsmen" category for the Romans.

The third party claimed all of these points had been discussed on the Slitherine site. This is the "rules" forum and yet none of this sounds familiar to me except the possible removal of "Skilled Swordsmen".

Is the third party right? Are these three items all likely future changes?

Thanks, Terry G.

2 and 3 are in the list of changes being tested for v2.0.

1 has been mentioned as a way to give a more balanced game in 1.0 when Gauls (or any army relying on protected swordsmen) play against Romans using armoured skilled swordsmen. There is no suggestion that this would become a rule in FOG 2.

As meatloaf said '2 out of 3 aint bad' and as one is just plain silly the gauls will have a better chance in v2.0.

Paul

I think this comes from a post I made on TMP. I mentioned the FOG 2.0 changes being proposed (2 and 3 in your list) and I also said that if I wanted to play a balanced game with Romans vs Gauls I would give the Gauls more points, say 700 pts of Romans v 800 pts of Gauls.
Chinese whispers eh ?