Product Description

Field of Glory presents the historical tabletop wargamer with a new, accessible rules set. Storm of Arrows provides an accessible, detailed companion for the Later Medieval period, 1300-1500. This army list contains a complete historical overview of this period, covering conflicts such as the Hundred Years War, and Wars of the Roses. It includes well-designed, visually stunning and comprehensive army listings, with detailed historical overviews of each army, supporting maps and Osprey artwork.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57004 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.

Customer Reviews

It's not bad
I bought this initially out of curiosity, just to see how detailed it was, and I was impressed. Doesn't quite fit with my own research though, but they have to generalise to create armies of roughly equal weight and strength etc so that you can have a fair fight.

I personally leave all my knights and men at arms mounted untill it's tactically necessary to dismount them, usually because I'm outnumbered. But although these rules allow you to dismount Knights the majority in most armies are already classed as 'dismounted menatarms' and as such you don't get the option - or make the tactical decision - to dismount most of them. This kind of defeats the lessons to be learned in this period. But despite my own quirks these army lists are comprehensive enough. They usually include foreign allies for each army, and without you therefore needing to buy the extra army list books.

The Austrian's and Hungarian's are not listed in this one, it's strictly Western Europe.

If you'd like to read a broad view of ancient and medieval warefare before deciding which, if any period army list facilitates your preferred style of play, then Neil Thomas's book is a great introduction with the army lists included in the rule book. He doesn't advocate anachronistic games though, whereas these army lists are designed to work outside their period of history with other books in the series.

Wot, no hussites?
The book contains a number of interesting lists including some that were new to me (e.g. various Iberian and Scandinavian territories). I also liked the concept of having both 'starter armies' and detailed lists. I was disappointed that this wasn't done in every case, especially not for the WotR. I was also rather dismayed to find that there was no reference at all to the Hussites. Some mistake, surely?