Slitherine

After years of no wargaming (other than on the PC) I fancy dipping my toe in the water again. FoG rules look promising and I wouldn't mind a bash. What is more I would like to wean my eldest son off Warhammer-style combat and perhaps FoG might fit the bill.

My period is from the Wars of the Successors up to the Fall of Carthage, my favourite commander being Pyrrhus of Epirus but if I got into that I would have to do lots of painting which is quite an investment of time and energy. So can anyone with knowledge and experience of FoG recommend a period that requires only small armies in order to realistically simulate/wargame battles using these rules?

Well the new Rise of Rome list has pyrrhus. The rule book has a starter army for them in it.

The question for you is what defines a "small army" in qty?

hazelbark wrote:Well the new Rise of Rome list has pyrrhus. The rule book has a starter army for them in it.

The question for you is what defines a "small army" in qty?

Well I suppose up to about 8,000-10,000 men.

Warfare in the Classical or Hellenistic period involved much larger armies in set piece battles.

Ah I thought you meant for painting a small army.

Well FoG is roughly 250 men to one base so that you are talking approximately 32-40 bases. That is a small battle or elite troops in FoG.

hazelbark wrote:Ah I thought you meant for painting a small army.

Well FoG is roughly 250 men to one base so that you are talking approximately 32-40 bases. That is a small battle or elite troops in FoG.

Strictly speaking FoG does not have a scale. If you nail an author to the wall and threaten him with a hot poker you might get a comment about roughly 250 men.

Really an army is 6-800 points and that will be however many bases.

As an example a base of average pikemen is four figures for six points so you get a lot of figures for your points.

Elite Roman legionaries are seventeen points for four figures so make a smaller army.

Late Republican is actually a relatively small army in terms of minatures.

<blockquote> If you nail an author to the wall and threaten him with a hot poker you might get a comment about roughly 250 men. </blockquote> Has anyone tried this yet? Can we form a line of volunteers?