Warfare - all 4 reports

FoG battle reports of Late Republican Romans vs Parthians, Early Carthaginians, Bosporans and Selukids now online.

New Xyston Gaesati Photos

Reviews Now added to the Photo Gallery, including some size comparison photos vs Essex Minis Celts, and shots of the figures next to a ruler.

Warfare Army Lists

Lists now posted for My Romans, and all my opponents - Parthians, Early Carthaginians, Bosporans, and Selukids.

Warfare Reading

FOG - A rather painful experience for my Marian Romans at Reading this past weekend. Army lists by the end of the week, reports may take a little longer.

Over 100 more pictures added !

Romans, Greeks, Lydians, Indian, Persians, Thracians... over 100 new pics added to my site (many kindly provided by theonetree Painting Service")

New Additions for the Photo Gallery

New photos added to the Ancients Gallery including some Late Republican Legionaries and Greek Hoplites with funky shield designs.

Later Polish added to the FoGipedia

800 ap army list, external links, pictures and brief useage notes

Gettysburg

Well, the technology all worked, and the live report is available on this site. The posts are in reverse order, so when you click through to the Gettysburg pages you need to scroll down to the end, and then work upwards to follow the course of the battle.
All photos are clickable (to make them larger).

New additions to 15mm Supplier Index

50 Paces and War Modelling now added to my 15mm Ancients Suppliers Directory. There are now 37 different manufacturers listed, with details of all their ranges.

Gettysburg in 10mm - Maybe...

I might be posting live updates from a "Gettysburg Day 2" Fire & Fury game this weekend. But only if I can sort out internet access at the venue. Check this this page for details.

African Vandals added to FoGipedia

Reader-contributed content helps me create a page in the FoGipedia on this hairy bunch.

"Hannibal Speaks" coffee mug now available!

Ideal for Christmas - a selection of "Nasty Hannibal" Mugs with the slogan "This Coffee has about it the bitter taste of defeat". Also comes in "Hot Chocolate" and "Beer" varieties Click here to buy this and other bizzarre items!

4 Match Reports from Roll Call

All 4 battles now uploaded to the website. Photos, writeups, lists and the return of Hannibal's award-winning Post Match Analysis - Click Here.

Roll Call

It all ends up a bit flat as I face 4 cataphract armies out of 4 - 78 cats over the weekend !!! Full reports to follow by the end of the week. Promise.

Roll Call - FoG Army Lists

My Foederate Romans, Richard Bodley Scott's Sassanid, 2 Palmyrans, including The UK No1's, and a Parthian.

Roll Call Update:

After the 1st day I am mid table with a big win against Parthians and a big loss to Richard Bodley-Scott's Sassanids. Report next week:

Free Delivery at Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.co.uk has just anounced that it now offers FREE "Super-Saver" delivery on any item over £5!! That means pretty much everything in my UK Bookshop can be ordered with FREE POSTAGE!

FoG Decline & Fall Out Now

The FoG book on the Byzantines arrived today, and looks to have some interesting armies in it - after the rather "samey" Ottoman Book. Order it via this link in the UK, or this one in the US

Central London Club (West)

October's CLWC nights at the Perseverance are: Thur 16th, Wed 22nd, Thur 30th. Club nights at The C___ Tavern in Euston are every Tuesday.

Poles added to the 10mm Gallery

Pitheads Polish range creates a new section in the 10mm Gallery

Visitors now able to add comments to Photos

If you visit my 15mm figure directory or the 10mm one you can now add comments to each picture

Ancients Photo Directory Released in "beta"

The 10mm WW2 Photo Directory has been so popular I've added now an Ancients Photo Directory to his site. There's over 500 photos already, and you can even upload your own photos (so please do so!).

Field of Glory Army Pages under Construction

I'm gradually adding a whole set of Army-specific pages to my website, with links, pictures, army lists and other goodies.

Britcon reports now posted

I've finally got round to posting the Britcon reports on my website. The whole site is now coded in "php" to allow me to add links to relevant books, and other content. This should help with search engine rankings too.

The games are Cilician Armenians vs

Free Company
Crown of Aragon
Later Danish
Early Ach-wotsit Persian
Late Roman (Dominate?)
Ancient British

All 7 lists are posted, together with the usual pics, commentary, analysis, rules stuff and inapropriate you-tube embedded video..

Georgia - Military Analysis

Military Analysis 101

The war in Georgia conclusively proved that having lots of modern Russian military hardware is better than having a small amount of out of date Russian hardware.

dubai

the other (3rd) gamer in Dubai likes a beer

and plays DBM, FoW and FoG

and lives near me

and was the only serious drinker from his club in singapore.

oh yes......

Fo G Comp this weekend

Its another FoG competition this weekend, with carthaginians getting a 800point outing this time

Im hoping Hannibal can inspire the boys to victory - and that I dont have to face too many medieval armies!

Live updates may make their way onto this blog...

What do you think of my Disrupted markers?

These downloadable FoG markers are the latest value-added bonus available from this site. If you like - or dislike - them please comment below. You can buy the actual figures from Donnignton, who now go by the name of Ancient & Modern

Field of Glory now in my possession

I now have the rules and the first 2 lists - both via Amazon, arriving before their scheduled dates.

And they look gooooood !!!

The bar has certainly been raised on production values for both rules and lists.

My DBM lists and rules are now already looking embarassed and shuffling towards the corner of the room

FoG Rules start to ship today

The reports I get on my Amazon UK affiliate bookstore on madaxeman.com show that they have started shipping copies ordered via my website as of 14/01/08. This is (I would say materially) earlier than date that Amazon has always given as its official shipping date of the 18th Feb.

The reports don't give me access to any more information than this, so its imposible for me to know who they have gone to, or even when the copies shipped were ordered, or when/(if?) any more will be shipped, I just have visibility of total ordered and total shipped.

Total orders via my UK site to date include over 50 copies of the rules, and similar numbers of the first 2 army lists since I set up the site in September or October last year – the orders have come in across this timeline, and several are now coming in each day.

Either way, despite the rumours, Amazon UK have clearly got some copies, and they have clearly now started sending them out.

Its exciting that the rules are out there and shipping. For the biggest problem at this point to be too much demand (despite apparently three increases to the print run) is not exactly bad news for the hobby, although it may be irritating for some of us.

I also think it's hard to pin too much blame on either Amazon or Osprey for failing to accurately predict that a new set of rules for the totally obscure hobby of ancient wargaming (priced at 50-100% more than any previous set) would end up (as of today) as the 186th best selling book in the UK, or even more astoundingly, the No3 in the History category – just behind the biography of someone who is looking likley to be the next president of the USA!

See – here's the link to Amazons charts (updated hourly) link

One slightly irritating (potential) delay for a bloke who plays with toy soldiers, but one giant leap in popularity for the whole hobby.