[OT] Another Rhomaphillia thread!, was FMC when?

> You wrote:

Is Rhomaphillia a word?

> If it's generic, can it be used for historical battles as well?

Any half-decent fantasy system can be used (albeit sometimes poorly)
for historicals.

> <humour>

Ah... Well, err... I actually own and have played Fantasy Rules!
2nd Edition.  I use 15mm Essex figures--basing conventions are close
enough to DBA/M/R to work with that army.  My usual army is Videssan.
For those of you not familliar with Harry Turtledove's Videssos (As seen in
Krispos of Videssos, The Videssos Cycle (Legion of Videssos etc), and Time of
Troubles series), it's basically the Roman Empire with magic added. Krispos is
based on (in the first book at least) Basil I, the Videssos Cycle deals with a
cohort of one of G. Julius Caeser's Legions kicked into the beginning of the
Comnenians, and the Time of Troubles is based on Heraclius's time period, told
from the Persian side.

So it looks basically like a historical Rhomaioi Army with the addition of
clerics in blue robes who cast spells.

My other army is a mythological Rhomaioi--historical Rhomaiois plus
Griffons (mentioned in the Digenes Akritai legends, albeit as heraldic
emblems), dragons (St. George, who was originally from Cappodocia),
mages, clerics, etc.  But my dragon is a metallic blue--so sorry to
disappoint.:) The Archangel is on order, and I do have a 25mm figure
of Byzantine general filling in for military-saint-of-choice,
frequently Demetrius.

Those of you with the Fantasy Rules! 2nd Ed rulebook will note that a
Byzantine army is pictured in several rules illustrations, including a shot of
a unit of Skutatoi which was quite striking since the shield design is
identical to the one I use. Of course, we both stole it from the Osprey book
on the subject, so what the heck.

I do have some 25mm Varangians and Cataphracts (lance and bow-armed)
sitting around waiting for me to paint--FMC might be enough of an
excuse to do so.

> John Atkinson wrote:

> I do have some 25mm Varangians and Cataphracts (lance and bow-armed)

Well, um. FMC (and FMA) is for skirmishes with individual figures, so you'll
have to use some creative basing (or only use your FR! characters for FMC).
It's difficult to remove a single figure from an FR! unit to mark casualties
(...well, OK, not that difficult if you use a little force, but then you have
to glue it back on...)

Regards,

> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Well, um. FMC (and FMA) is for skirmishes with individual figures, so
characters
> for FMC). It's difficult to remove a single figure from an FR! unit to

Right, which is why I'll have to paint the 25mm stuff, right? That's all going
to get individually based on the standard 1x1 and 1x2 25mm
bases--uh, Jon, is that the right basing for 25mm FMC?

> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
characters
> for FMC). It's difficult to remove a single figure from an FR! unit

Yes, anything around that size will be fine - base sizes won't be that
important for FMA/FMC, though Oerjan is right in that it is mainly for
individual figures. In FMC especially, there are also rules for small bands
of "followers" (generally up to half-a-dozen low-grade troops in a
bunch) that act much like single figures, so you can have "cinematic" stuff
like your Barbarian hero (or heroine) wading through a whole bunch ofgrotty
little goblins, hacking them left and right......