Storm of Arrows: Field of Glory late Medieval Army List: No. 2

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.

Lazy mans' army lists and a reason to paint up actual units rather than the dodgy stand of this and two of that. I think 95% of the illustrations are straight lifts from osprey MAA titles, which is okay of you don't have these already. The lists are well set out (and researched) and give a reasonably balanced army. Like the rules, if you have historical armies and tactics you mostly get historical results.

very good value for money. fast delivery. The book was in good condition many thanks

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?

Excellent set of army lists

Great book

This is the second of the FOG army list books, covering "late Medieval Europe from 1300 to 1500AD". There are 88 pages and 27 army lists, making it better value than army list books 1 and 3. Production quality is up to the same very high standard of all the FOG series, with beautiful color illustrations, clear layout or all the armies, and photos of painted miniatures which figure painters will find very helpful. Army lists and histories are well written.I generally like this book, and find it gives a more complete coverage of the armies in its period than some other titles in the series. If you want to play Knight armies in FOG, or English longbowmen, this is your book. I have two reservations. First, it is really only of later medieval Western European armies, as Poles, Hussites, Hungarians etc are all missing. This again means you need additional books to complete some historical match-ups.Second, it starts a trend that I believe is a problem in several subsequent books from a game-play perspective. There is an extreme reluctance by the authors to use the "Elite" classification to rate troops. According to the authors, there were no "Elite" troops in the whole of medieval Europe, whether Drilled or Undrilled, including Spanish military order knights, French royal guards, and of course Swiss halberdiers! Really? None?? This tends to make many of the lists look and play very similarly, and the trend to "vanilla" lists in FOG. This is a problem with the ratings, not the rules. That being said, the armies in this list are well balanced, though 100YW English players may grumble that they have little hope of emulating history if the French player dismounts their knights.Overall I recommend this book, and it is reasonable value.

Very good army lists too use with brief explanations to the lists. Some troop types are a guess though. Is a good starting point for anyone wanting to start 15mm gaming.