1040-1154. Yay, Hastings and the First Crusade then! Perhaps some tail end Vikings too. As for sieges, they are woefully underrepresented in wargames (board and computer) compared to how common and important they were historically. I feel however that trying to fit a siege model onto Field of Glory...

I want renaissance. :-)

The feature that I would like to see added at some point is the weather. Rain certainly did affect some later medieval battles when firearms and cannons started being used, and wind and rain would always have affected archers to a certain extent. It wouldn't have to be too complicated. If it starte...

What is the reason for this? They didnt have armed conflict with central and western Europe? The Poles fought the very modern Dutch-style Swedes on numerous occassions, and their old-school cavalry proved remarkably efficient until at least mid-century. One of the reasons for more cavalry and less ...

Love to read it but it says "subscription expired". What gives?

My wish would be to have Malplaquet playable by the french 75 000 men would make at least 100 units in the game. You seriously want to shuffle that every turn? :-) Seriously, I think the system works best with the not-so-humongous armies of the Renaissance and TYW even if the later stuff is fun as ...

Ancients does make sense. It does seem a bit weird to have two digital product lines based on FOG though. Ot maybe FOG2 is meant to supercede Pike and Shot as well?

Agree that ancients is a good bet given the original focus of Field of Glory. Richard Bodley Scott doesn't seem to be much into anything past 1700, although I'm sure a Napoleonic or American Civil War adaption would sell lots. The real orphan in the above is 1700-1800, and especially the early 1700s...

Of course re-enactors keep their pikes vertical so as to avoid killing people, the opposite of a real pike fight. True, but you can still get valuable results from reenactments even if they don't kill each other. Also two hedges of pikes blocking each other and creating a kind of lockdown effect (a...

Hopefully the game series will get there. There are no modern computer wargames covering that era, which is both interesting and popular, so it would be great to have the P&S franchise develop in that direction. As for differences, the pike disappeared from most armies in the 1690s but the Swedes an...

Good to hear. I hope the Ipad is still part of this Archon thingy strategy?

Pike vs pike would probably be more shoving than killing, given that the pikes will block each other. Philip Sabin mentions reenacators have found that pike units can push each other back several hundred meters - push of pike indeed! Of course if you can break the cohesion of a pike unit it can be s...

The impetus for the reiter was the wheelock pistol, which could be used and reloaded on horseback. Since reiters were effective against both traditional heavy gendarme cavalry, while being cheaper, and also against pike units which they could blast from close range they quickly became indispensable....

Thank you very much for the quick reply. I understand these are business decisions as well, I just felt that button size was such a basic issue that should (?) be scalable with few problems. As for the multiplayer, I have't tried the Slitherine service yet (didn't have time to register) so I can't c...

As a huge fan of the CiC series and primarily an Iphone player I was very disappointed to see that the interface had been "computerized", i.e. not at all designed for the Iphone anymore. The main annoyance is the tiny buttons. While I can accept some of the changes even if I don't like or even under...

Working fine for me now after the update. Thanks!

Just gonna add my vote to this. The game is unplayable because of the crashes (I can't even exit the tutorial!) on my brand new 64 GB IPhone 6 with updated IOS 8 and lots of free space.

Help us Obi-Wan Shenandoah, you're our only hope!

Ok, thanks. Still looking forward to it.

What happened to the submarine game? Is it still in the pipeline?

France 1940 and Sicily both likely. Huzzah! I think they will both make great games, especially since the engine seems well capable of handling special factors (e.g. French C&C lethargy in 1940). Kursk is a really hard battle to simulate (kinda doomed from the start). Well so was the Bulge, you cou...