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Field of Glory Napoleonic is being designed in an approachable and easy-to-learn manner to allow players to concentrate on realistic deployments and battlefield tactics of the early modern era. Our aim is to capture the atmosphere of battles ranging from the early wars of the French Republic through the rise of Bonaparte and the Grande Armee, to the Empire's last stand at Waterloo.
This period is an ever-popular gaming period, and wargamers enjoy playing both historical battles and 'what-if' scenarios. FOGN will cater for both types of player, with a full point system allowing theoretical battles between balanced armies to be played out, as well as accommodating factual scenarios.
The rulebook will maintain the same production values as previous FOG and FOGR releases and will be designed both to explain the game and be a reference guide when playing. To make the rules easier to follow, we will include examples, detailed descriptions and explanations of unusual situations in a similar way to our Ancients and Renaissance rulebooks.
This period is an ever-popular gaming period, and wargamers enjoy playing both historical battles and 'what-if' scenarios. FOGN will cater for both types of player, with a full point system allowing theoretical battles between balanced armies to be played out, as well as accommodating factual scenarios.
The rulebook will maintain the same production values as previous FOG and FOGR releases and will be designed both to explain the game and be a reference guide when playing. To make the rules easier to follow, we will include examples, detailed descriptions and explanations of unusual situations in a similar way to our Ancients and Renaissance rulebooks.
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This arrived today and I am in the middle of reading it.
That's much more difficult than it should be. I am not at the point of suggesting the rules designers be taken out and shot, but the graphics designer certainly should be. All the pages have a series of horizontal grey lines as background.
It's supposed to make it look like laid paper, but what it does is make the text harder to read. Being incredibly cynical, I wonder what effect it has on photocopies and OCR - if it shows up there, it's an attempt to deter that at the cost of readability.
I also dislike the Fournier typeface used as it has a very uneven series of height for the lower case letters (a is distractingly higher than z, for example, and the ascender on t is way too small - ts are barely higher than rs). It's also been set too small (the 9pt for body text could be significantly larger if it weren't spaced so much) with, incredibly, some of the digits in the tables - you know, the things you need to look up repeatedly - at just 4 or 5pt high. WTF?
That's not even consistent: have a look at the table on p25. It doesn't help that they've gone for a cut that has digits with uneven heights: 4 has a descender and is quite tall from top to bottom, for example, whereas 2s are tiny. See the table on p31 - the 4s are about 8pts high, whereas the 2s are about 5pts. Throughout, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are big and 0, 1, 2 and 7 are tiny. Gosh, I wonder how it would OCR? Very badly, I suspect.
The organisation of the material is not what it could be either. The scale info (25mm = 60m for 15mm figures, 20 mins a turn, one base is about 300-500 inf / 125-200 cav / 6-9 art) is on p81, for example, rather than much closer to the front. As it is, you're expected to nod wisely at the basing size (given on p7) without having a clue as to how large that is supposed to be.
The army lists are deliberately short - they want you to buy the other books when they come out - and the two sample historical battles (the fight for Placenoit at Waterloo and Scaile, one of the early battles in the 1809 campaign) have no maps, just the order of battle and two or three paragraphs on the history. WTF?
The playsheets at the back are bound into the book on the same paper, rather than on card. The type is smaller (about 7pt or less - some of the digits on the tables are about 4pts high) and the shading on some of the tables makes them hard to read (and, cynically, harder to copy). Again, these are the things you're supposed to be able to refer to all the time.
Moving onto the actual rules :), the design notes talk about the players being army or corps commanders but then going for a regimental scale. There's plenty of formation effects in the rules, but as an army or corps commander, what formation the 42nd Adams are in is none of my business unless I am actually with them (although I may have their colonel shot later if he messes up).
There are some nice ideas in some of the systems, but at the moment I am tempted to return the book for a refund on the basis of the graphic design before trying them on a table.
That's much more difficult than it should be. I am not at the point of suggesting the rules designers be taken out and shot, but the graphics designer certainly should be. All the pages have a series of horizontal grey lines as background.
It's supposed to make it look like laid paper, but what it does is make the text harder to read. Being incredibly cynical, I wonder what effect it has on photocopies and OCR - if it shows up there, it's an attempt to deter that at the cost of readability.
I also dislike the Fournier typeface used as it has a very uneven series of height for the lower case letters (a is distractingly higher than z, for example, and the ascender on t is way too small - ts are barely higher than rs). It's also been set too small (the 9pt for body text could be significantly larger if it weren't spaced so much) with, incredibly, some of the digits in the tables - you know, the things you need to look up repeatedly - at just 4 or 5pt high. WTF?
That's not even consistent: have a look at the table on p25. It doesn't help that they've gone for a cut that has digits with uneven heights: 4 has a descender and is quite tall from top to bottom, for example, whereas 2s are tiny. See the table on p31 - the 4s are about 8pts high, whereas the 2s are about 5pts. Throughout, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are big and 0, 1, 2 and 7 are tiny. Gosh, I wonder how it would OCR? Very badly, I suspect.
The organisation of the material is not what it could be either. The scale info (25mm = 60m for 15mm figures, 20 mins a turn, one base is about 300-500 inf / 125-200 cav / 6-9 art) is on p81, for example, rather than much closer to the front. As it is, you're expected to nod wisely at the basing size (given on p7) without having a clue as to how large that is supposed to be.
The army lists are deliberately short - they want you to buy the other books when they come out - and the two sample historical battles (the fight for Placenoit at Waterloo and Scaile, one of the early battles in the 1809 campaign) have no maps, just the order of battle and two or three paragraphs on the history. WTF?
The playsheets at the back are bound into the book on the same paper, rather than on card. The type is smaller (about 7pt or less - some of the digits on the tables are about 4pts high) and the shading on some of the tables makes them hard to read (and, cynically, harder to copy). Again, these are the things you're supposed to be able to refer to all the time.
Moving onto the actual rules :), the design notes talk about the players being army or corps commanders but then going for a regimental scale. There's plenty of formation effects in the rules, but as an army or corps commander, what formation the 42nd Adams are in is none of my business unless I am actually with them (although I may have their colonel shot later if he messes up).
There are some nice ideas in some of the systems, but at the moment I am tempted to return the book for a refund on the basis of the graphic design before trying them on a table.
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