Well the post title says it all. 2013 is going to be what I will call the year of Field of Glory gaming.
Last Month Slithering released Field of Glory 2.0 in a proper physical book format. Months earlier (Mid 2012 they had originally announced that the new version would be digital only (and worse yet only on Apple and PC, not Android). Public outcry followed and so they finally realized that they were being silly trying to push a digital only format and at the end of December released a Print on Demand copy of the rules. My copy of these rules arrived a couple of weeks ago in the post and since then I’ve pumped out 7 games of various sizes and am finally getting the hang of the changes – all of which I’ve decided are the best (Even though 2 of my armies suffered a little due to the changes in the POA rules for better armour rules.
Just lately I’ve been consolidating my model collections and have been selling of some Flames of war armies as well as some War machine and Hordes and other odd bits and pieces. This isn’t because I don’t like the games (certainly not the case for Flames of war) but I do find myself with far too many models that I just don’t get to use. Rather than having them take up space in figure cases I’ve decided that if I’m not playing at least one game with it every few months it needs to find a new home where it will get used as was intended. This also clears the way for new armies and projects that I’ve wanted to get and start for several years now. The projects I’m referring to will be revealed in future posts but the first one is a new FOG army that I’ve had in a box for a whole year now - “Classical Indians”.
- this picture is what inspired my army.
The Classical Indian army is one I’ve always liked the look of and wanted to paint up. I like Elephants and the list allows for lots of them (12 in total). When my friend Jason went out and brought a Macedonian army I decided it was time to get the Indians as a nice themed army to counter his wall of spiky death. I was very keen, I placed my order with old glory received it – thought my oh my that’s a lot of bowmen!!! And then got very, very busy with work and as a project it just kept slipping back further and further down the list of things to start working on. (This is sadly something that happens far too often – hence the clean out.)
Now fast forward to 2 weeks ago on the day of arrival of my copy of FOG 2.0. Having a read through I discovered two things MF bow got better with their second rank of shooting in Impact and Elephants now have 3 dice each at impact instead of 2. “Wow” I thought to myself Elephant/Bow armies just got a lot better. Then I remembered that I had just such army sitting in a box. With work projects finally out of the way I can start working on the force. Last week I managed to clean up and assemble 12 Elephants and crew and 4 battle groups of bowmen. (it’s obviously much bigger than this but it’s a good amount to start working on.) This week I’ve managed to get paint onto models and have the Elephants in a half finished state and am just starting on the skin for the bowmen. Pictures to follow once I get my camera set up.
Wow no posting for two months and then suddenly a whole page.!!!
5 comments:
I'm trying to convince people here to play 15mm ancients with Hail Caesar. But because the most popular scale seems to be 28mm, I've gone out and bought some 28mm Athenians. Which is a shame because I love me some 15mm.
I had a browse of FoG v1 and it looked too much like WHFB. Too heavy a system. I'm liking simpler systems nowadays.. probably because I play so many. And I looked at FoG v2, the ebook version, and it was the most unintuitive interface I've ever seen in my life.
But Hail Caesar wins in every regard. You should play it. *hint hint* :D
Lol fog 2.0 is pure awesome. I didn't get the e.book I ordered the print on demand version. (Tablets still not good enough to replace books)
Fog is a very easy system to play that is hidden under a complex looking ruleset. Not as bad as wrg or dbm or dbmm but still a bit rough. However if you show someone how to play its very easy to pick up the rules. We have a solid group of 15 players in my local area. Hail ceaser I haven't read but I'm taking an educated guess that its like black powder. Not a bad system but a little open ended for my liking. As for 28mm even though I can afford to do armies in 28mm I perfer how 15's look on the table, not to mention storage space is less of an issue.
next time your up this way we will have to get together and ill show you how simple fog is to play.
Hi Mark,
What is the book reference for the image of the Elephants?
Looking forward to seeing the finished army, 800 points is it, and the basing style.
Cheers
take care with your elephant :
mf light spear with a second rank of mf with bow get as well 3 dices
at equaly poa
deadly for elephants
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/War-Elephants_9781846032684
great blog
Hey Mark and Marco. Marco has it right its an image from Osprey War elephants - an excellent book by the way. The army will be 800 points but ive also made a 600 point and 400 point versions of it.
Marco ive been using elephants since V1 first came out. My Carthaginian force packs 6 of them. I think after 4 years ive figured out all the tricks for them. Looking forward to break out 12 of them in one hit.
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