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 [/b] Looks like a misquote. It is not contained in the main, ancient sources: Arrian, Plutarch, Di...

Patrick Ward wrote:...will increase system overheads for those with lower powered computer...

Vae Victis! Bring on the fancy unit models

I have to note that Hanson is very much on one side of the divide in the study of Greek warfare. For one thing, he takes the view that hoplites actually engaged in organized mass shoving. More distastefully (for me) he lets his own neoconservative ideology invade his books - see the strongly orient...

Ahem, I believe there are parts of this planet where it is December the 5th already...

I just won a game as the Slaves against Romans. Actually, I absolutely obliterated the Romans. It was an open field battle; I stacked a tonne of light-spear guys in a forest on one flank, while my other flank was against an impassable river. I used my skirmishers to lure the Romans in, and then BAM...

There are many things I don't get about antique warfare, I won't give any example because I'm ashamed. What should I read to get a grip on what's going on in this game ? If you know of an introductory book covering weapons, troops and formations evolution over the period covered by this game, I'd b...

It is hard to model Ekdromoi because they were not discrete units but only part of a unit, and the rest of the unit would operate as normal hoplites all of the time (as would the Ekdromoi most of the time). Certainly I don't think this is enough to give later hoplites improved movement. Some sort o...

What would be the disadvantage of deploying every HF unit in a square once the two lines are face to face? When units get pushed back and forth, they expose themselves to flanking, and of course sometimes cavalry and other foot units get around the sides and flank. If you deploy everyone as a square...

Considering the original Field of Glory, I have to imagine that we will get two main types of hoplite in Immortal Fire: Heavily-armoured early hoplites attached to army lists from 5th c. and earlier Medium-armoured later hoplites (as we see in our current version of the game) attached to army lists ...

I upgraded my old MSI laptop recently, was showing its age and FOG 2 didn't run very well.

When I registered the new laptop, I saw the date that I registered my old one... 5 years ago! These things last!

I just won a game as the Slaves against Romans. Actually, I absolutely obliterated the Romans. It was an open field battle; I stacked a tonne of light-spear guys in a forest on one flank, while my other flank was against an impassable river. I used my skirmishers to lure the Romans in, and then BAM,...

I have updated the original post with v2.3. This uses the server for all serial checks. This means that older games should also work for Steam users. It also means that you can run the tool on machines where the games themselves are not installed. If people don't find any issues with this version I...

I second the advice to throw javelins at the elephant. I think of elephants as good HF who disorder all nearby cavalry, but are vulnerable to missiles and pretty useless once cohesion breaks down. I just beat someone with an army involving 3 or 4 units of elephants, and clicked out before I wrote &q...

I don't believe so, I will have to check which games are popping up next time I'm at home. I do own the original FOG, of course, but I don't play it anymore.

I have updated the original post with v2.3. This uses the server for all serial checks. This means that older games should also work for Steam users. It also means that you can run the tool on machines where the games themselves are not installed. If people don't find any issues with this version I...

I would like to join, but I cannot log in to the front page. It doesn't reject my username/password as incorrect... it just reloads the page and I'm still logged out without any error message or indication as to the problem.

I have updated the original post with this new beta version. This should work for Steam users of FoG2 (currently will not work correctly for older games on Steam, but this is coming). So please give it a try. https://www.dropbox.com/s/94vw2teng9q3ets/SlitherinePBEM%2B%2BHelper_Betav2.2.zip?dl=0 Che...

YES! The best expansion pack, and it's the first released. FOG II is great stuff. Can we see what the Greek army list looks like, please? I am especially interested in the Spartan army list. Wondering if Hippeis are a separate 0/1 choice, or if we just assume Hippeis are a veteran hoplite unit with ...

My 2 cents... The problem of the Zealots would be solved if we could have two separate lists; one if the nation is defending on home territory, that would have the Zealots; A list if they were attacking, they would not have Zealots I do not know if the game mechanics would allow this. Danny Weitz T...

...In game terms, these troops would be impact foot, and swordsmen, with elite quality :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Also, for the idea that this Hebrew army should have 2+0/9 "Zealots" that are superior: Absolutely not, unless Sparta ...