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ChrisTofalos

Got my rulebook and army lists!

Is there a QRS available?

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I picked up the bit about a Kiel not disrupting from a flank charge from one of Tim's battle reports.

However, my copies of the rules and army lists haven't arrived yet so I'm sort of stumbling in the dark. Can any army form a Kiel or is there a limitation?

ChrisTofalos

Thanks Bob. I live in Blackburn and wargame at MAWS in Manchester.

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Looking for something different, and inspired by some recent battle reports by the often (but not always!) amusing Tim Porter, I've decided to have a go at FoG-R; specifically ECW (so I'm unlikely to be entering any comps!). I'm a keen FOG-AM player, so have some idea on how the rules work and have ...

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No problem. Even breaking the poor troops earlier and crashing into the other poor ones to them wouldn't have helped. The crucial mistake was not charging your fragmented foot on the right. It cost me at least three units and, ultimately, the game. Oh woe is me!

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You're right about not charging the Swedes on my extreme right being the crucial moment (a big mistake!). It should have saved me a couple of units and lost you at least one, and that might have turned the game round. Lesson hopefully learned! Incidentally, you defined the poor troops as light spear...

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.Knights are now way too expensive. Don't think I'd worry about them with the preponderance of foot now. Unless I was a bow cavalry army Polearms and 3 dice on impact have contributed to the virtual disappearance of lancer armies such as Bosporan, etc. The typical 4-base unit is much more likely to...

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I think we were both stating the obvious in the last couple of posts, Pete. Of course, Scandinavian MF in the open suffer a combat penalty against mounted in the open and count as swordsmen in melee. What seems to be have been decided is that they count as HF in all circumstances, except when moving...

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.So if the Scandinavians had say 3 HF and 1 MF base in the front rank and were charged by enemy mounted, 1 of the mounted bases would get an additional POA vs the MF - assuming they are in the open So, presumably, this would apply to melee as well with, in the case of Scandinavians, opponents facin...

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Other BGs of mixed MF/HF (including Scandinavians) do NOT get this bonus.

Does this mean Scandinavian mixed HF/MF get a minus for fighting HF in the open if they lose a HF front rank base and the gap is filled with a MF base? If so, is this effect immediate (as with 25% losses)?

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Some Book 3 lists, such as Late Plantagenet English, state mixed HF/Longbows count as HF for all purposes (movement, combat, cohesion tests). This actually contradicts the terrain disorder effect rules on page 130, which state only the bases in the terrain are affected, so rear rank MF really should...

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That provision is also inconsistent with the retained freedom (from V2.0) of BGs wholly of dismounted men at arms or longbows to move through each other WITHOUT A CMT :shock: . One would have thought the reverse ought to apply :? Easier within a single BG than between separate ones. To be consisten...

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To quote one well respected veteran wargamer, when I asked why he no longer contributed to this forum: "Too many closed minds in a small group = a waste of energy."

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The competition has run, under various rule sets, for twenty years as a benevolent dictatorship and that seems to produce good competitions I'm not sure there's anything benevolent (that is, good) in the catastrophic fall in the FOG player base, Graham. I am sure there can be a myriad of possible e...

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Really need to break down the options into separate bullets.

We should be voting on such things as the period and the number of games, etc, not on a 'broadly speaking' distillation of thoughts from a relatively small sample of the player base.

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Here's a photo of a situation from a club game which I'd like some help with: http://www.ctp-photo.co.uk/Pictures/FOG-01.jpg The pike block on the right (pale green shields) broke its frontal opponents and was left in side edge contact with an enemy battlegroup. My questions are: (1) How many fight ...

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Enjoyable comp! Would be interesting to see the round by round scores (hint! 😊). Other players have been bringing battle mats for some time Chris Perhaps organisers could routinely ask/remind players to bring mats, Pete? That happened at BayFOG last year. Every table had a mat; it looked superb and ...

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Pamela and I will be using Later Macedonian. I'll send my list in shortly.

Can we invite/allow players to bring along their own battle mats? They look so much better and it's easier to move troops on them.

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Well, as I've seemingly inherited the organisation of the Godendag competition, we could try it there.

Good man!

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...would you base this at the year end? I'd recommend that you would? Sounds like the logical answer and players would know exactly what their situation is at the start of each year. Is the top 20 too large a number? What about top 15, then next 15? Might be a bit tricky as a lot of comps no longer...

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