This army guide covers the armies of Rome, its enemies & allies 280-25 BC. During this period Rome expanded from Italy to gain an empire including the whole region around the Mediterranean.

The armies covered are listed below:

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

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Product Description

Field of Glory presents the historical tabletop wargamer with a new, accessible rules set. Rise of Rome provides an accessible, detailed army listing for the Roman Republic and its enemies, from the war against Pyrrhos, to the victory of Augustus. This companion contains a complete historical overview of this period, covering conflicts such as the Punic Wars and Romes bloody wars with Hannibal and the Carthiginians. It includes well-designed, visually stunning and comprehensive army listings, with detailed historical overviews of each army, supporting maps and Osprey artwork.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88707 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

About the Author
Written by esteemed wargaming experts, including Richard Bodley Scott, former contributor to Wargames Research Groups DBM series.

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Customer Reviews

Sweet but a bit short
Production and presentation exemplary, as expected.

Each army is prefaced with a short introduction and also some very nice Osprey imagery and even the odd painted figure snapshot. Nothing amazingly useful for the hardened game/historian, but it doesn't claim to be a history book. As an introduction to any period, however, it's really nice material to whet the appetite.

As the previous reviewer noted, it could well have been filled out with more lists. All the classics are covered, but the "unsuals" have been left out, probably because they are not part of the quite narrow theme of the book. Some of the quirkier options form old army lists are omitted. Possible because those oddities caused too many problems or were rarer than rare in actuality. No doubt some of these will be claimed by later books.


The author has seemed to made good efforts in making FoG armies not vary too much from your old DBM army. My Gaul army, for example, was almost the same,base for base, in DBM or FoG. Useful. Most armies have different allied sub-lists to add also, just as was done in DBM.


ARMIES COVERED IN THIS BOOK

MID-REPUBLICAN ROMAN, LATE REPUBLICAN ROMAN, GALLIC, PYRRHIC, LATER CARTHAGINIAN,ILLYRIAN, ANCIENT SPANISH, LATER MACEDONIAN, ATTALID PERGAMENE,NUMIDIAN OR EARLY MOORISH, LATER SELEUCID, LATER PTOLEMAIC,PONTIC, SPARTACUS SLAVE REVOLT, EARLY ARMENIAN,PARTHIAN,LATER JEWISH , BOSPORAN.

Very well thought out army lists
Funnily enough I think the army lists are cauting more contention over whether they are value for money than the rules, (which most people agree are an excellent set of rules)

Well here is my opinion:-

Do you like the rules (I do) - then you have to buy at least the army lists for the period you are interested in or you can't play the game! Having said that I intend to buy the lists for periods I do not currently have armies for as I find them excellent and interesting books to read.

I have seen a lot of people say "they are more expensive than DBM lists". Yes they are but their production values etc are much higher. I think it would be fairer to compare them with WAB army list books which have similar high production values, make interesting reads and cost as I remember about twice as much!!

Particularly if you buy them at Amazon where they are offered at a considerable discount I think they are good value for money

So I would say.
If you don't intend to play the game - don't buy the army lists
If you aren't sure do as I did and buy the rules plus one army list book
If you like the rules but don't have too much money to spare just buy the army books you have to buy for your army
If you have a little more money to waste on frivolous purchases then these are an excellent candidate, and let's be honest how many things do we buy that we don't "need"? Quite a lot :)

Andy

Colourful army lists
Field of Glory 3: Immortal Fire: Greek, Persian and Macedonian Army List (Field of Glory): Field of Glory Greek, Persian and Macedonian Army List (Field of Glory)

I agree that these are expensive on a 'pound per list' basis. But I like love the artwork and the presentation of the lists themselves is faultless. The real advantage is that they allow gamers with armies based to other rules sets (you know the ones I mean..) to set up straight away without tedious re-basing of figures. Granted the lists are fairly basic in their coverage but I am sure that more obscure lists will follow on the web. Or just adapt the lists you already have.