Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84357 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

"A bit too Swift..."
Many of you will, like me, be buying these army lists to play Field of Glory having played Mr Bodley Scotts previous wargame rules, DBM. The presentation of this book is excellent, with good quality print, inspiring artwork from Osprey and nice pics of miniatures from the armies in question.
However, Mr Bodley Scott has not really been bothered to provide much background detail to go with the armies that he includes here. For example, he provides 85 words ( less than a quarter of a page ) on the armies of the Later Mycenaean period and the Trojan War, making no mention of Hector or Achilles or anyone else along the way. Instead,in each list we get a quick potted history of the culture, much of which is unecessary and looks to have been cut and paste from Wikipedia ( do we really need to know that "Sumerians spoke an agglutinative language whereas the Akadian language was Semitic" without explaination as to what this means or why it is important? ) with about two or three lines on the army and how it fought. A gallop through...
Gone are a number of armies that you might have collected for DBM and hoped to use again in Field of Glory ( such as Bedouin, Early Sumerian etc ) and also gone are some of the fun bits of the army lists eg: No more Early Hebrew with the Ark of the Covenant. Instead, the armies are very similar and extremely bland. Very little thought seems to have gone into how to represent the differences between the armies during a period when the cultures were strikingly different, more so than any other period represented by Field of Glory so far. Buy a couple of chariots, a few bow and a couple of spear bases and you could represent pretty much any army in the book.
Bodley Scott seems to be pushing these army lists out at a tremendous rate and as a result the quality of the content, if not the presentation, is suffering.
Buy them if you are off to competition, but if not, stick to Warhammer or any number of alternative rules and lists which try to capture the flavour and spirit of the army represented in the list.