"Fog 2.0 on the ipad" Topic

Hi all, i have taken the plunge and after an aborted first attempt, have downloaded and installed it. Not cheap by comparison to other apps but very cheap compaired to the book.

I have found it to be ok, though it does seem to hang quite a lot. I hope new versions will deal with that. What have other people found? I have been using it mostly with no wifi of 3g connection.

I have noticed the rise of rome lists are available and have a question or 2.

I have the paper copy of these, what will i get for my £6.99 GBP!!!!! that i do not already have?

Are they just a pdf of the book or do they contain all the amedments indicated in the rule book?

Is there an army builder function built into them?

I have found it to be ok, though it does seem to hang quite a lot. I hope new versions will deal with that. What have other people found? I have been using it mostly with no wifi of 3g connection.

The app is very slow, nothing to do with your ipad or the internet, just bad programming.

I have noticed the rise of rome lists are available and have a question or 2.

I have the paper copy of these, what will i get for my £6.99 GBP GBP!!!!! that i do not already have?

A digital version.

Are they just a pdf of the book or do they contain all the amedments indicated in the rule book?

Neither just the book made up like the rule book

Is there an army builder function built into them?

Nope

The digital army lists for RoR do include the list amendments that are listed in the appendix of the V2 rules such as allowing the Pontic imitation legionaries to be armoured. There ar eno additional changes t omhy knowledge. The digital versions of the rules and the RoR list seems to be well behaved on the PC although certainly there is lots of room for improvement in functionality. There do not appear to be issues with hangs and responsiveness is reasonable but not blindingly fast.

Chris

Why would what is essentially a secure pdf hang? When you are looking for a rule it is very annoying. That seems more like no programming than bad programming to me.

Also just a straight key word search function would be very useful instead of having to always go to an index, again this is a basic digital document function.

I wont bother with the lists on the above basis, but i have to ask why the hell would there not be an army builder function? Surely that would be selling point 1 of any digital army lists! I have made them in excel for a couple of armies, it was ballache to do but now army lists take minutes and are always added up correctly……

Any 6.99 for the lists, that is to me very over priced. You can get the paper version for peanuts even new and they realy dont have anything more than that version.

There is a lot of discussion of this on the Slitherine forum – basically it seems the reader they have gone with uses something akin to an image file, not a secure pdf, so until (maybe…) they release a major update there is no technical way for a search function to work anyway, as there is no "text" in the documents to search.

Very secure and hard to copy, but…..

They also haven't released any further army lists in this format aside from those 2 offered when the digital rules came out so one can only assume that they haven't been great sellers either – possibly for the reasons you have spotted !

Ipad screen print function makes it easy to copy anyway, so I don't see the point. I believe there was a huge lack of interest in this at Slitherine except perhaps to keep the rules living for the PC Game. Certainly seems that it's time for another ancient set to take the top dog spot….heck if I know what it will be….don't expect DBMM. I've been playing DBA and Lost Battles more recently, and haven't had the enthusiasm I used to for tournaments.

I was a first day purchaser of the iPad FoG 2.0 and the RoR digital army list. The nicest way I can put this is that the iPad stays at home. I'm using the old rulebook paired with a Word QSR. Quicker, easier, not prone to theft or breakage.