Product Description

Providing accessible and informative coverage of the Greek, Persian and Macedonian armies, Immortal Fire details conflicts such as the Spartan stand at Thermopylae, Alexander's victory at Gaugamela, and his fight for the Granicus River. Well-designed, visually stunning and with detailed historical overviews of each army, these comprehensive army listings, with supporting maps and artwork, allow gamers to recreate some of the most legendary battles in history. Take on the role of the world's greatest tacticians and soldiers and change history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19059 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• 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

Disappointing
The book looks good - reminding me very much of the Warhammer style of production. However the disappointment is the comparatively small number of actual army lists in the book, especially when compared to the De Bellis Multitudinus army list books. Also there are no dates on the front of the book so you really have to know your ancient history chronology to know where it fits in the series. I also didn't find the lists that easy to use - maybe just me though. Nice pictures but if you're into wargaming this period you'll probably have the Osprey books that some of the pictures are taken from & thus feel, like I did, slightly cheated. Given that you will need to buy about 12 of these books as well as the rules, then, IMHO, not worth the money. Again, IMHO, you'd be better off putting up with the flaws in the DBM or even DBMM rules & lists & spend the money you save on some more figures..

Keeping up appearances
I wasn't sure initially how far I would use this, since I have only dabbled in the armies of Hellas and their contemporaries. I was pleasantly surprised at the coverage and , particularly, the inclusion of Early Carthage (although you might argue that it would have been better to arrange to have the two Carthage armies in one volume, but that's not happening).

Good layout, god background, excellent starter armies. Classical Greek only requires 40 bases of hoplite :)

Worth the wait.