Decline and Fall: Byzantium at War (Field Of GLory) |  | Author: Richard Bodley Scott
Creator: Peter Dennis
Brand: Field of Glory
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 554360
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.3 x 0.2
MPN: FOG007
ISBN: 1846034027
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9781846034022
ASIN: 1846034027
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
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Product Description
Your once mighty empire stands alone. With enemies on all sides, Byzantium, the foremost power of the ancient world must endure or die. With Decline and Fall, the Field of Glory companion you can recreate the epic struggle of Byzantium commanding its Kataphraktoi, Skoutatoi and Varangian guard, or one of its many enemies including Vandals, Visigoths, Lombards, Slavs, Arabs, Turks and Moors. Enhance your gameplay with this addition to the original rulebook, complete with organisational charts for hundreds of accurately researched troop types, detailed historical overviews and supporting maps and artwork.
CONTENTS: 80 pages; soft cover
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 Decline and Falll September 24, 2009
K. Murphy (The thriving metropolis of Masury, OH)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This title is a gaming companion for Osprey's Field of Glory wargaming series, featuring army lists, gaming and historical notes, Osprey artwork, and photographs of suitable miniatures. It focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically the Eastern Roman Empire and its neighbors, including Goths, Moors, Arabs, Bulgars, and Turks.
Although a good title and providing some interesting army lists and historical notes, there is one unfortunate omission - the Rus', the mixed Swedish and Slavic state that was Russia in its earliest form. Norse, particularly Swedish warriors played a very important role in Byzantine history, fighting both for and against the Empire - the Varangians being a famous example.
 Army Lists January 23, 2009
Ving Thorr (Arizona, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book contains the following army lists:
Early Byzantine, Later Moorish, Later Moorish Allies, Later Visigothic, Later Visigothic Allies, African Vandal, Italian Ostrogothic, Early South Slav, Early South Slav Allies, Lombard, Maurikian Byzantine, Maurikian Byzantine Allies, Christian Nubian, Avar, Avar Allies, Western Turkish, Western Turkish Allies, Arab Conquest, Early Bulgar, Early Bulgar Allies, Thematic Byzantine, Thematic Byzantine Allies, Umayyad Arab, Abbasid Arab, Abbasid Arab Allies, Early North African Dynasties, Early North African Dynasties Allies, Khurasanian Dynasties, Khurasanian Dynasties Allies, Bedouin Dynasties, Bedouin Dynasties Allies, Dailami Dynasties, Dailami Dynasties Allies, Kurdish Allies, Bagratid Armenian Allies, Pecheneg, Pecheneg Allies, Ghaznavid, Nikephorian Byzantine, Nikephorian Byzantine Allies
A range of wargaming experts contribute January 9, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
A range of wargaming experts contribute to DECLINE AND FALL: BYZANTIUM AT WAR, a gaming companion to 'Field of Glory'. It's Book 7 in the 'Field of Glory' series for historical miniatures and offers the original rulebook with organizational charts for hundreds of troop types, complete with maps and overviews. An excellent military library pick.
Army Lists for "Field of Glory" December 6, 2008
Richard Peterson (San Diego, CA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As the previous reviewer stated, these are army lists to use in connection with the miniatures rule set, "Field of Glory." If you're not using that rule set, don't bother getting this book.
That said, it does an excellent job of covering the armies of the Byzantine Empire and its enemies for the period of 493 - 1050 AD. Of the two army lists the previous reviewer complained were missing, the Volga Bulgars never fought the Byzantines; the branch of the Bulgars that did is covered by the book. The Seljuk Turks are really outside this period and are covered in a previous volume, "Swords and Scimitars."
The real shortcoming of all the volumes of this series is the skimpy notes for each army. You get a brief overview of the history of the state whose army is covered, any details necessary for using the army list correctly, but little or nothing about the army itself. Why particular troops are graded the way they are, is rarely mentioned and then briefly. If the army appears only as an ally to one of the states, you get no notes at all.
If you play "Field of Glory" and are interested in the period and region covered, get this book. If you are just interested in the armies and hope to get some useful information about them, look elsewhere.
Missing some key armies! October 30, 2008
SCOTT A. MACPHEE (Coeur d'Alene, ID United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book's format is the same as Osprey's other Field of Glory army lists, which means that each army gets a brief introduction, maybe some pictures from other Osprey books, and detailed lists to let you build your force. The lists don't lend themselves well to other rule systems, so unless you're playing Field of Glory, don't bother.
The book has one key flaw, though. It has army lists for Byzantines of every period, but lacks lists for two key opponents of late Byzantium: the Seljuk Turks and the Volga Bulgars. Presumably Osprey will be publishing lists in other books, but it's cheesy not to include these two very important opponents, especially since Osprey gives us a half dozen different varieties of Islamic Arab armies.
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