Field of Glory II: Medieval News

Rise of the Swiss, the fourth DLC for Field of Glory II: Medieval, is finally out.

Field of Glory II: Medieval reaches the 1300s with a brand new DLC; it was the era in which Swiss troops started carrying long pikes, and that introduced the so called Pike formations to the battlefield, adopted in many western European countries, notably in Germany by the famous 'landsknechts'.

Field of Glory II: Medieval - Rise of the Swiss comes with 60 more army lists and 22 new units.

Relive 8 more historical scenarios covering key engagements of the period on an epic scale: Kutna Hora 1421, Towton 1461, Brunkeberg 1471, Grandson 1476, Loja 1482, Bosworth 1485, Fornovo 1495, Dornach 1499.

To celebrate the upcoming release of Rise of the Swiss, Field of glory II: Medieval and its DLCs are discounted up to 50%.

Moreover, Rise of the Swiss has now been added to the Field of Glory II: Medieval - Complete Bundle, allowing you to buy it an additional 10% discount.

From the late 1300s some Swiss started to carry the long pike, at first as a minority weapon, but by the end of the fifteenth century it had become a dominant weapon.

The Swiss system proved an astounding success on the battlefield: victorious in the Burgundian Wars, defeating the Holy Roman Empire in the Swabian War, and as mercenaries they were a key component of French King Charles VIII's armies in Italy.
Soon pike formations were adopted in many western European countries, notably in Germany by the famous 'landsknechts'.



This new DLC will include:

• Additional coverage for the following nations and factions from the introduction of Swiss-style pike tactics or Hussite war wagons by themselves or their opponents until 1500 AD: Aragonese, Berber (Wattasid), Bohemian (Catholic), Burgundian, Castilian, Danish, English (Lancastrian, Yorkist and Tudor), Florentine, French, German (Imperial, Feudal and City armies), Granadine, Hungarian, Hussite (Taborite and Utraquist), Low Countries, Milanese, Neapolitan, Papal, Polish, Rus, Scots, Swiss, Venetian. Each of these has their own historically-based banner. (Several European nations are already covered up to 1500 AD by previous DLC).
  
• 22 new units.
  
• 60 more army lists.
  
• 8 more historical scenarios covering key engagements of the period on an epic scale: Kutna Hora 1421, Towton 1461, Brunkeberg 1471, Grandson 1476, Loja 1482, Bosworth 1485, Fornovo 1495, Dornach 1499.
  
• 41 more historical matchups added to Quick Battle mode, increasing the total to 239, most playable from either side.
  
• 4 more historically-based campaigns covering major leaders and conflicts of the era: Rise of the Swiss, Hussite Wars, Charles the Bold, Louis XI.
  
• Sandbox campaign expanded to include all the new army lists.
  
• Time Warp modules expanded to include the new army lists.
  

Storm of Arrows the third DLC for Field of Glory II: Medieval is finally out.



The one and only tactical strategy game with “tin digital soldiers” set in Medieval age, reaches the golden era of the mighty heavy knight charge and the longbow with this brand new DLC.

Field of Glory II: Medieval - Storm of Arrows comes with 95 more army lists and 45 new 14th and 15th century units.

Relive 8 more historical scenarios covering key engagements of the period and 5 more historically-based campaigns covering major leaders and conflicts of the era: Hundred Years War (English), Hundred Years War (French), Sir John Hawkwood, Henry of Trastámara, Władysław II Jagiełło.

To celebrate the upcoming release of Storm of Arrows, Field of glory II: Medieval and related DLCs will be discounted up to 50%

Moreover, Storm of Arrows will be added to theField of Glory II: Medieval - Complete Bundle, allowing you to buy it an additional 10% discount.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21135/Field_of_Glory_II_Medieval__Complete/

Hello Everyone,

The World Team Championship is over and after many tough and balanced games, we have our first World Team Champion: Furor Gallico.

Furor Gallico consisted of four French members: dim30, Bodhran, Sennacherib and their team captain random27. It was an astonishing feat of skill and teamwork that took them to the peak of the world!

They played the final against another skilled and great team, the British Armchair Heroes. It is worth remembering the composition of the team: Stew101, Ericodoman1, lydianed and captain waltersavage.

The after action report written by random27, the last and decisive game of the challenge, makes for compelling reading when you consider it’s significance:

Period 2 : Furor Gallico losses 50 vs Armchair Heroes 51

“The battlefield was composed of a large plain in his middle, on the right a big hill and on the left near the viking deployment line, a forest bordered a middle hill next to a rough ground
Arab army was a mixed force of infantry and cavalry, viking army was mostly only infantry with 3 superior cavs in support.

The arab plan was simple, a great force of cavalry followed by dailami and irregular rushed on the left whereas the arab foot lancers waited in the south east.

Thanks to great movements, the viking line managed to avoid the arabs cavs to take them by rear or flank, better than that, they pushed back their enemy and killed a lot of men. At the same time, the battle in the south began and after several turns, arab infantry, rejoined by the cavalry, destroyed the vikings.

Thanks to my opponent it was a great battle. I was under pressure, knowing the result of the other games, I knew I must not take a decisive defeat and I sometimes made moves for this purpose.

I have endured many feelings in the battle, because things didn't go like I wanted and it should have been the same for my opponent.

It seems that for this first edition, furor gallico is world team champion, like our motto says : IMPOSSIBLE NOT FOR (the) FRENCH”


The 3rd and 4th place playoff challenge, between the american team Hell on the wheels and chinese team Qin, was absolutely conditioned by the tactics and fear of losing. Just 2 games out of 4 finished in time and the organizers had to adjudicate 2 games.


In this case the Solomonic decision was to not consider the unfinished games for the final score.


The challenge was a perfect draw, 1 victory for each side and Hell of wheels won the match for 8% casualty difference.

Final ranking:

World Champion
Furor Gallico, France
Team composed by: random27 (cap.), dim30, Bodhran, Sennacherib, Sivispacem (reserve)

Second Position:
Armchair Heroes, UK
Team composed by: Captainwaltersavage (cap.), Ericdoman1, lydianed, Stew101, carpkem (reserve)

Third Position:
Hell on the Wheels, USA
Team composed by: Aetius39 (cap.), deeter, karvon, pbuck777, rpadilla1988 (reserve)

We hope you enjoyed the World Team Championship.

Don’t forget Slitherine’s Tea Time on our Twitch Channel Slitherine.tv planned on Thursday 27th February as the captains of the finalist teams will be our special guests.

See you in the next WTC edition planned for September 2022.

Take care and stay healthy!

After the Christmas holidays, the moment to see what happened in the WTC semi-final has arrived.
The plan was for there to be two very intense and interesting challenges:


Right-hand semi-final

Furor Gallico vs Hell on the wheels, France vs USA.


The Gallic warriors against the Americans, this match seemed to be very balanced and oriented towards being a tough battle to the last man. However, the blues with an extraordinary performance carried out a brilliant 3 to 1 victory! Their motto represents exactly the spirit of the french team, "Impossible, not for (the) french"!

The after action report written by the captain of the blues, random27 (Arab) who was playing against Kharvon (Navarrese), went as follows: “His sportsmanship is significant". “At the beginning of the day, the Arabs couldn't see all the Navareese army. A big hill overhung the middle of the battlefield. The Arabs sat on it and the irregular Navarrese awaited them in a big forest on the left and in hills on the right.”
“In front of the forest, a big force of light troops scared the Arabs and stopped their advance. Once again the dailami wanted to fight and decided to attack troops in the forest in a maybe-too-optimistic charge. They saw that they were outnumbered too late and were taken from the flanks. Despite that, they managed to continue fighting for more than ten turns.

The second part of the Navareese army, consisting of unmounted horse lancers , launched their attack and tried to outflank the Arab army. They were repulsed and since the Arabs were too numerous on this side, Dailami knew then that they would die. Their sacrifice gave the victory to Gallico.
Thanks for the great game, the win could have gone to either side".

Left-hand Semi final

Armchair Heroes vs Qin, UK vs China.


This battle was a dramatic and epic clash of arms. The result of the challenge was a perfect draw, with 2 victories for each side. This means the final result was decided by the percentage difference, which was just 6% in favour of the British team.

In this battle the hero was Ericdoman1, with a crushing victory (10% - 43%). This created a big gap that was impossible to fill. The second victory was won by Captainwaltersavage, here is the after action report written by the British player:

"A very strange battle. It was like fighting in a mirror. We brought very similar armies, though I brought more lights and cavalry and the other side brought more dismounted knights. The main feature of the battle was a deep stream that was dividing the battlefield. The most significant other terrain was a large tract of rough ground on my right on the other side of the river.
I went right, as there was a slight bend in the river that gave me a chance to sneak into the rough ground. I felt I was going to get destroyed in the open and felt the battle came down to how well I could hide and battle in the rough ground whilst avoiding the mounted and dismounted knights.

The Chinese Germans came on in a very efficient formation that drove my left and centre back. My right had all the success and their greatest triumph was when 4 units surrounded a unit of dismounted knights and eventually dragged it down like a pack of hunting dogs on a lion. It was all down to the timing, and the battle ended just at the point that the heavy units of the Enemy were about to crush my centre."
Regarding Qin, there is no doubt that the level and skills of the team and the talent of the Chinese players, was worthy of the finals with the british. There is a stone in the Egyptian desert and some very apt words were chiseled into the stone by 7th Bersaglieri Rgt, that represents very well the spirit of the Qin team: "Mancò la fortuna, non il valore" "it lacked luck, not valor".

The program of the finals includes:

1/2 Final
Furor Gallico vs Armchair Heroes

3/4 Final
Qin vs Hell on the Wheels