Field of Glory expansion announced

[pvthudson01]

http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=122099

Features
o A comprehensive army builder which allows you to design armies to a specific number of points and then take these armies in to single player against the AI or online in multiplayer. This adds almost infinite replayability.
o New random battle generator using armies created in the army builder for single and multiplayer.
o A new Line of Sight option. Games can be played with or without LOS. Hide battlegroups in terrain, behind hills or other troops. Beware of ambushes!
o Baggage camps which appear in battle and can be looted for bonus points. Some armies are allowed to fortify their baggage.
o Temporary fortifications such as palisades which can be defended.
o Over 100 new unit types including camelry, scythed chariots and artillery!
o 5 New terrain types - broken ground, impassable terrain, open fields, vineyards & steep hills.
o 6 new battles from the Greek & Persian wars, Macedonian & Punic War's and from Rome’s expansion.

Armies Included
o Mid-Republican Roman
o Late Republican Roman
o Gallic
o Pyrrhic
o Later Carthaginian
o Ancient Spanish
o Later Macedonian
o Attalid Pergamene
o Numidian or Early Moorish
o Later Seleucid
o Later Ptolemaic
o Pontic
o Spartacus Slave Revolt
o Early Armenian
o Parthian
o Later Jewish
o Bosporan

[Alan Sharif]

Phew!

[e_barkmann]

nice! Another purchase for me. Will Matrix be selling the expansion Erik?

[leastonh1]

ORIGINAL: Chris Merchant
nice! Another purchase for me. Will Matrix be selling the expansion Erik?

+1 Even though I haven't had time to play FoG properly yet. A great game though and this expansion looks like it will be a must buy.

[Joram]

You're kidding me. They are going to charge for the army builder which should have been there all along.

[Ironclad]

Even without that, the base game, including patch enhancements is proving a really great buy, fun and speedy to play and the multiplayer (ie for playing human opponents) works like a dream.

I have never played the table top version but it reminds me of all those things that I used to look for years ago when playing wargame research rules but never really got to do because of the hassle (time, painting up figures, preparation, finding opponents etc) involved. I signed up for the expansion pack too; just hope it works with my matrix original - the patches have so fingers crossed.

[siRkid]

Good news.

[sfinlay]

Can we assume, like the slitherine patches, it is automatically compatible with the matrix version ?

[e_barkmann]

over at the Slitherine forums they've responded that it will be compatible with the matrix version.

[bssybeep]

cool, but will we be able to buy the expansion from Matrix?

[Erik Rutins]

Yes guys, we are planning to carry the entire FOG line, including this expansion.

[darthsmaul]

any idea how much and can we save by preordering?

[Erik Rutins]

We will be carrying it at the same price as Slitherine at release, but we do not do pre-orders. So if you want to pre-order your best bet is to get it through them.

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