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Field of Glory II Immortal Fire is out!
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died – Alexander the Great

War can have many different shapes. Sometimes, the contenders have dreams of power and hegemony that collide. Sometimes subjugated people have to fight for justice and revenge against their masters. Leaders summon their brethren and subjects into a fight for motives that only a future victory will justify.

Eventually, there is a time when different civilizations can’t coexist peacefully, and different visions of the World engage a mortal fight.
What side will you take, when destiny calls?
Field of Glory II: Immortal Fire, the second episode in the series that is bringing back to life highly historically accurate wargaming, is now available!
Follow the Achaemenid Persian Empire in its expansion, the clash between the Greek City-States, the epic deeds of Alexander the Great and the following wars between his generals after his death.
This DLC greatly expands the base game content adding 8 new factions, 10 new units, 30 new Army Lists, 10 new Epic Battles, 4 new historically-based campaigns and 1 what-if campaign!
In addition, the Sandbox Campaigns module has been expanded to include all 108 army lists from Rise of Rome and Immortal Fire.
Get more information about Field of Glory: II Immortal Fire from its official product page.

Do you want to know more? Don't miss our Twitch Stream today, 11 AM EST / 4 PM GMT / 5 PM CET!

Purchased, looks good. Interesting choice of campaign for Alexander. I rather expected to play fighting east to India, but not so!

$$$ spent

hunter wrote:Purchased, looks good. Interesting choice of campaign for Alexander. I rather expected to play fighting east to India, but not so!

We decided that as Alexander's major battles already constituted half of the Epic Battles in the expansion, it would be more interesting to do a "what if Alexander had not died" campaign than rehash his progress to India.

Thanks for Immortal Fire!

I hoped the first DLC wouldn't take long to release after FoG2, and I was right. Now, you've set a precedent here (a good one) - are you already working on the next DLC? Not being pushy of course, just eager. You make 'em, I'll buy 'em.

hjc wrote:are you already working on the next DLC?

Yes.

How come the DLC with all that content only is 2.67 Mb? Or is it maybe the 1.1.5 update which contains all the goodies and the DLC makes sure I can use it properly? It seems that when I had installed the update, and not yet the DLC, I could still go into the main window of the new campaigns. How does it work with the DLC vs the update?

*I didn't know that the thread in Global Announcements and the thread in Announcements were different when it comes to people's posts. It seems one actually learn something new each day.

data can be compressed, it's pictures and or art that's bigger for a guess, but yes i'd also think some of the later as well, in reply to your question

It seems zakblood_slith has traced me down to this thread too. If zakblood_slith knows that is the correct answer, I trust him on it. But if there is something more to say about it I'm all ears for an explanation to how those technicalities work.

Most of the new assets are in the patch to allow players to play with those who own the DLC. So the DLC-specific files are smaller.

Cheers

Pip

Ok, so it was the way I assumed. Thanks for confirming it.

Just for yuks, I made an integrated Army List using the basic game list as show in a forum post (http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... 77&t=78924) and the Immortal Fire list from the Slitherine Immortal Fire web page. Oddly, it counts out at 108 armies. I might have duplicates if they were there in the originals. And yes, the armies with multiple entries did sort with the newest first, but that's what Excel did and I'm too lazy to go back and edit the list

Achaemenid Persian 419-329 BC
Achaemenid Persian 460-420 BC
Achaemenid Persian 480-461 BC
Achaemenid Persian 545-481 BC
Achaemenid Persian 550-546 BC
Ancient British 60 BC - 80 AD
Antigonid 320-301 BC
Apulian 420-203 BC
Arab 312 BC - 476 AD
Armenian (Tigranes) 83-69 BC
Armenian 331 BC - 252 AD
Atropatene 144 BC - 226 AD
Atropatene 320-145 BC
Bithynian 297-74 BC
Bosporan 348-85 BC
Bosporan 84-11 BC
Bruttian or Lucanian 420-203 BC
Campanian 280-203 BC
Carthaginian (Hannibal in Africa) 202 BC
Carthaginian (Hannibal in Italy) 216-203 BC
Carthaginian (Hannibal in Italy) 218-217 BC
Carthaginian 235-146BC
Carthaginian 262-236 BC
Carthaginian 280-263 BC
Carthaginian 340-281 BC
Carthaginian 410-341 BC
Carthaginian 490-411 BC
Caucasian 320 BC - 476 AD
Dacian 50 BC - 106 AD
Etruscan 330-280 BC
Etruscan 490-331 BC
Galatian 280-63 BC
Galatian 63-25 BC
Gallic 100-50 BC
Gallic 300-101 BC
Gallic 390-301 BC
Germanic Foot Tribes 105 BC - 259 AD
Graeco-Bactrian 250-130 BC
Greek (Western) 280-49 BC
Greek 227-146 BC
Greek 280-228 BC
Greek 460-281 BC
Greek 550-461 BC
Iberian or Colchian 331 BC - 252 AD
Illyrian 350 BC - 25 AD
Indian 500 BC - 319 AD
Indo-Greek 175 BC - 10 AD
Indo-Parthian 60 BC - 130 AD
Indo-Skythian 95 BC - 50 AD
Italian Hill Tribes 490-275 BC
Jewish 167-64 BC
Jewish 64 BC - 6 AD
Kappadokian 260 BC - 17 AD
Kushan 130 BC - 476 AD
Kyrenean Greek 460-322 BC
Kyrenean Greek 550-461 BC
Latin 490-338 BC
Libyan 220 BC - 70 AD
Ligurian 480-145 BC
Lydian 550-546 BC
Lysimachid 320-281 BC
Macedonian 260-148 BC
Macedonian 320-261 BC
Macedonian 328-321 BC (Alexander and first phase of the wars of the Diadochi)
Macedonian 355-329 BC (Philip and Alexander)
Mountain Indian 492-170 BC
Nabataean 260 BC - 106 AD
Numidian or Moorish 220-56 BC
Numidian or Moorish 55 BC - 6 AD
Parthian 250 BC - 225 AD
Pergamene 190-129 BC
Pergamene 262-191 BC
Pontic 110-85 BC
Pontic 281-111 BC
Pontic 84-47 BC
Ptolemaic 166-56 BC
Ptolemaic 320-167 BC
Ptolemaic 55-30 BC
Pyrrhic 280-272 BC
Rhoxolani 350 BC - 24 AD
Roman 105-25 BC
Roman 199-106 BC
Roman 219-200 BC
Roman 280-220 BC
Roman 340-281 BC
Roman 490-341 BC
Saka 300 BC - 50 AD
Samnite 355-272 BC
Sarmatian 350 BC - 24 AD
Scots-Irish 50 BC - 476 AD
Seleucid 124-63 BC
Seleucid 166-125 BC
Seleucid 205-167 BC
Seleucid 302-301 BC
Seleucid 320-206 BC
Seleucid 320-303 BC
Skythian 300 BC - 50 AD
Skythian or Saka 550-301 BC
Slave Revolt 73-71 BC
Spanish (Sertorius) 80-70 BC
Spanish 300-10 BC
Spartan 460-281 BC
Spartan 550-461 BC
Syracusan 280-211 BC
Syracusan 421-281 BC
Thessalian 404-353BC
Thracian 350 BC - 46 AD
Umbrian 490-260 BC

Temple wrote:Just for yuks, I made an integrated Army List using the basic game list as show in a forum post (http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... 77&t=78924) and the Immortal Fire list from the Slitherine Immortal Fire web page. Oddly, it counts out at 108 armies.

108 is correct. Three more were added to the Rise of Rome ones (IIRC).

At least two Etruscan armies were added. Or to be correct, Etruscan armies for two different periods of that era. I'm interested in the Etruscans so whenever there are Etruscan armies in a game I'm very happy to play them. I don't know which the third army is.

It would've been nice if there could be a Hittite army and armies of the so called Sea Peoples as well one day. But that is probably a time period too far away for this game. And I think the amount of different armies in the game maybe is enough.

Maybe. It's possible that some day this book will be made into a FOG2 DLC, we can hope:

http://www.slitherine.com/products/666/ ... han.Eagles

Does FOG II have a solo mode where the Player1(manual) can play against the AI (player 2) and have the option to have an ally which is controlled by the AI (player 3)?

SnuggleBunnies wrote:Maybe. It's possible that some day this book will be made into a FOG2 DLC, we can hope:

http://www.slitherine.com/products/666/ ... han.Eagles

The Biblical Middle East at War? Yeah, I'd buy that

athineos wrote:Does FOG II have a solo mode where the Player1(manual) can play against the AI (player 2) and have the option to have an ally which is controlled by the AI (player 3)?

No

How would a battle like Himera (480BC) be modeled- I see Syracuse only goes back to 421BC? Would you just use the generic Greek list?

SteveD64 wrote:How would a battle like Himera (480BC) be modeled- I see Syracuse only goes back to 421BC? Would you just use the generic Greek list?

At that date, probably yes.