Slitherine

I recently checked out the Osprey leaflet for FoG: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_img ... eaflet.pdf
Everything looks excellent, and I am anxious to see more.

On the back cover mock-up, I did notice a mention of "ROMAN LEGIONNAIRES." Here in the USA, the term "legionnaires" is normally associated with members of the French Foreign Legion and various veterans' organizations (eg. "Legionnaires' disease"). For discussions of ancient Roman soldiers, the term "legionaries" tends to be preferred. Is this something that might need correcting, or are the two terms more interchangeable over in the UK and Europe?

Best,
Scott

ars_belli wrote:On the back cover mock-up, I did notice a mention of "ROMAN LEGIONNAIRES." Here in the USA, the term "legionnaires" is normally associated with members of the French Foreign Legion and various veterans' organizations (eg. "Legionnaires' disease"). For discussions of ancient Roman soldiers, the term "legionaries" tends to be preferred. Is this something that might need correcting, or are the two terms more interchangeable over in the UK and Europe?

No, we are aware of the error and have pointed it out.

Bene habet!

Valete,
Scott

Yep looking good. I hope those Numdians passed their CMT to charge the hastati.

numidians charging anyone is not complex - it's stupid!!

Struck me as an odd example to be honest which is why I commented. Remove the Numidians whack in some Spanish and voila! all fine and dandy.

Indeed.

You won't be surprised to hear that the current diagram is exactly that.....Carthaginian Cavalry charging..........glad the numidians caught your attention. They did look rather brave to us as well........

The flyer was done by Osprey and its purpose was to give a feel for the quality of end product that will come out in terms of print quality, original artwork and graphics calibre, rather than anything else.

The examples in there are samples rather than the finished article therefore. Hopefully given what you say it did its job in getting that across.

Nevertheless its good to see it wasn't just us that noticed these things .... it proves people actually do read marketing flyers.

We are seeing the samples for the real thing emerge and we are lloking forward to seeing it complete soon. Exciting times.

Si

stalins_organ wrote:numidians charging anyone is not complex - it's stupid!!

Indeed, and it would be suicidal in FoG.

As Simon says, we had already pointed this out ourselves (but not in time to have it corrected in the flyer), and the Numidians are being replaced with Spanish or Gallic cavalry (not sure which yet, we are letting the artist decide).

ars_belli wrote:I recently checked out the Osprey leaflet for FoG: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_img ... eaflet.pdf.
Everything looks excellent, and I am anxious to see more.


Scott

The link yields a 404 error

*edit*

I found the problem; you have a period at the end of the url. If I remove that, it works fine, though the PDF file does generate a non-fatal error when it loads (obviously Osprey's issue, not yours).

The reason for the numidians being used in the flyer is much simpler. The artists are working to a schedule and at the stage we went to print they were the only mounted unit that had been drawn, so they were promoted to hero status...

You might be interested to know they rode the Romans down

REgards
JDM

possum wrote:The link yields a 404 error

*edit*

I found the problem; you have a period at the end of the url. If I remove that, it works fine, though the PDF file does generate a non-fatal error when it loads (obviously Osprey's issue, not yours).

Here you go: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_img ... eaflet.pdf

The "non-fatal error" might also be due to some hardware or software on your own computer that is not allowing the PDF file to download properly.

Cheers,
Scott

I like the look of Osprey artwork, both the `hieratic` and historic paintings by Simon Chew and the beautiful plates by Angus Mcbride. Has anyone seen the one of hoplites in winter, attacked by tracian javelinmen and featuring a couple of Ekdromoi? Beautiful. I think the artwork will fit perfectly with the rule description.

ars_belli wrote:

possum wrote:The link yields a 404 error

*edit*

I found the problem; you have a period at the end of the url. If I remove that, it works fine, though the PDF file does generate a non-fatal error when it loads (obviously Osprey's issue, not yours).

Here you go: http://www.ospreypublishing.com/osp_img ... eaflet.pdf

The "non-fatal error" might also be due to some hardware or software on your own computer that is not allowing the PDF file to download properly.

Cheers,
Scott

Heh, as I said above, it works fine if I remove the period at the end

ars_belli wrote:

possum wrote:The link yields a 404 error

*edit*

The "non-fatal error" might also be due to some hardware or software on your own computer that is not allowing the PDF file to download properly.

Cheers,
Scott

I tried opening it with Acrobat 6 and got an error while loading, and the first page was blank. I upgraded to Acrobat 7 and it loaded/displayed fine.