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Can the bickering go to PM please? I'm sure I'm not alone in getting tired of wading through walls of text complaining about this, that and the other in what is supposed to be a news thread.

 Alex C wrote:
Can the bickering go to PM please? I'm sure I'm not alone in getting tired of wading through walls of text complaining about this, that and the other in what is supposed to be a news thread.

Yea, I'm done. Sorry again. I'll leave the thread alone from now on.

Weeble, honestly mate I think you would be better off putting your intelligence, writing ability (and time) into something more worthwhile.

The fething KS hasn't even started yet and you've already moved past the word count acceptable for a novella..

 Pacific wrote:
Weeble, honestly mate I think you would be better off putting your intelligence, writing ability (and time) into something more worthwhile.

The fething KS hasn't even started yet and you've already moved past the word count acceptable for a novella..

Exalted. Yep. You are totally right, although I did break my own rule and check the thread again...

So, to make it more positive and on topic.

What sorts of scenarios might we expect in the game? And what are your favorite R. E. Howard themes you'd like to see in Conan?

Personally, if there isn't a giant snake already, that's what I would love to see. If you think about the number of times Conan encounters giant snakes in Howard's stories, it is pretty startling. I'm sure one could make some kind of Freudian interpretation of that, but I always just figured he was writing on a deadline and snakes are kewl!

There is a Youtube video (BGG I think) where they have a demo scenario with Conan trying to save a princess from a Pict camp and kill the Pict Chieftain.

A Giant Snake was in the scenario but didn't do anything (it was a very basic demo). I think the mini they used was the Hordes Tatzylwyrm, so I don't know if they've shown the actual one they're making yet.

EDIT: Giant Snake render is in the spanish interview on Youtube.

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Monolith/WhelpSlayer:

I know the game isn't taking any influence from the movies, but I would like to make the suggestion that camel-punching should be in the game somewhere.

Also, I really hope that if there's a "kill all enemies" scenario, that the mission objective should be thus:

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women"

Maybe a "Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain" spell-resistance ability?

Winged Ape-Demon things!

And some of the Lovecraftian Demon God things!

And of course the diabolical sorcerers and necromancers!

 Alpharius wrote:
Winged Ape-Demon things!

And some of the Lovecraftian Demon God things!

And of course the diabolical sorcerers and necromancers!

Yea, winged ape-demons would be cool.

The black men from the Pool of the Black one would be pretty cool to see also, or scenarios inspired by that story. Outrunning a giant, seemingly sentient green river of death? Yes please!

Eh, I think w1000's posts are entirely reasonable, or at least expected. Well, I'd certainly ask these questions to a random stranger who asked for $100 from me!

Anyway, I finally found the publisher's FB page. Scroll down to find previous games published. https://www.facebook.com/hascoeterwan

He is the President of Bombyx: https://www.facebook.com/studiobombyx?pnref=lhc and http://www.studiobombyx.com/

I'm most familiar with the game Takenoko, which has a fair number of plastic miniatures, including painted. https://boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/70919/takenoko

EDIT: And I just found something you can buy for ten bucks!

Well they've got most of the major bad guy ingredients for me already in the box.



Snake.


Lovecraft.


Ape man.

Can't help but wonder if we see an add on with Kull and some Stygian snake men!

That's different ape man. I believe it is a reference to Rogues in the House, as opposed to Queen of the Black Coast, which is what Alph was referring to.

I'm a wee bit disappointed in that snake though. I had always imagined the giant snakes to be...simply giant, honestly. Adrian's art is better than the sculpt on that one. I think the spikes are too pronounced in the sculpt. In any case, giant snake box is ticked though!

Ah! Finally we can get back to the interesting stuff!

weeble1000 wrote:
What sorts of scenarios might we expect in the game?

Well there are 4 maps in the base box, each with 2 completely different scenarios: Pict Village, Tavern, Swamp, Fortress. Each of them have suitably flavoured scenarios from defending a village from a pict attack, a good old bar brawl, stopping a dark ritual and a Jailbreak to name but a few.

These scenarios use all the models in the main box and any additional models that come along will also have their own unique scenarios.

weeble1000 wrote:
Personally, if there isn't a giant snake already, that's what I would love to see.

We couldn't make a Conan game without a giant snake! I see someone has already beat me to the punch. This is actually one of my favourite models so far and I fear that the photo doesn't do it justice!

 Alex C wrote:
camel-punching

There was actually a discussion at one point to put a camel model into the game as a sort of easter egg but sadly we pulled it in favour of more useful models! Plus the fact that we are trying to remain as true as possible to the books, as good as the Arny films were. We may still try and sneak a reference in though, who knows

 Alpharius wrote:
Winged Ape-Demon things!

And some of the Lovecraftian Demon God things!

And of course the diabolical sorcerers and necromancers!

Check, check and double check my friend

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Ape man.

Right then, let me just put my howardian nerd cap on here:

That isn't actually an ape-man, it's a man-ape (a very significant difference for Howard)! His name is Thak and he is the main antagonist from the story Rogues in the House.

 WhelpSlayer wrote:

Right then, let me just put my howardian nerd cap on here:

That isn't actually an ape-man, it's a man-ape (a very significant difference for Howard)! His name is Thak and he is the main antagonist from the story Rogues in the House.

Nailed it. The cloak, of course, is a dead giveaway.

About the maps, how are they produced? What I mean is that are they composed of a particular tile set, or are they contiguous foldout boards?

I am mainly curious about whether players will be able to re-arrange the layout of the maps for additional gameplay variety.

Whelpslayer:

My wife was curious if the Overlord player has any choice in what models he/she uses for the game, or if it's strictly determined by the scenario?

Also, is the Overlord players' deployment predetermined? Or do they have some flexibility there?

weeble1000 wrote:
About the maps, how are they produced? What I mean is that are they composed of a particular tile set, or are they contiguous foldout boards?

I am mainly curious about whether players will be able to re-arrange the layout of the maps for additional gameplay variety.

The boards are 2 piece fold outs, like a classic board game. The tiles are not interchangable a la Zombicide.

 Alex C wrote:
Whelpslayer:

My wife was curious if the Overlord player has any choice in what models he/she uses for the game, or if it's strictly determined by the scenario?

Also, is the Overlord players' deployment predetermined? Or do they have some flexibility there?

The Overlord doesn't have much flexibility in terms of units/deployment as they have been balanced for each scenario. That being said, nothing stops you from swapping out some pict warriors for pict archers and seeing how it goes

Funded in ~5 mins, clocking $130k in ~15 mins https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan

Did you guys see how much stuff is in that box? Jeez.

Especially with the King edition and its skeletons and mummies.

Almost have enough junk in here I can reskin Heroquest into Conanquest.

All we need now are some 3d terrain, objectives, whathaveyou...


In the comments it was also mentioned we've already unlocked 2 stretches- pict archers as well as skeleton archers.

Definitely impressed.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

Did you guys see how much stuff is in that box? Jeez.

Especially with the King edition and its skeletons and mummies.

Almost have enough junk in here I can reskin Heroquest into Conanquest.

All we need now are some 3d terrain, objectives, whathaveyou...


In the comments it was also mentioned we've already unlocked 2 stretches- pict archers as well as skeleton archers.

Definitely impressed.

Yea, I know. Look how many copies of the same sculpt you get!

I forgot about this one launching at 1PM today - there's goes my shot at an early bird and $10!

Still, there is a lot of stuff in here...

You had your five minute window.

Oh, and I think they started early. The EB's dried up at 10:01am on my 'puter.

Picts for those without Kickstarter access




And the next stretch goal is another hero, who is already unlocked


Some alt-sculpts to upgrade existing models would be nice, though I certainly won't complain if we don't get any

Your right Weeble, there are a lot of repeat sculpts. What game doesn't have them? That didn't stop us from enjoying the hell out of all those old adventure board games a lot of us grew up with.

Plenty of recent mini heavy games had a bunch of repeats as well.

Who knows, maybe they'll mix in some alt sculpts down the line. They already are with the skeletons.

Oh and the next goals are up!

Repeats should attract the casual value backers at the $90 level, and cost practically nothing to make relative to funding for a new mold for an additional sculpt. Repeats, of course, can be used to make armies for other games. And, assembly-line style, they'r easier to paint!!

I forget, how much was shipping estimated for the US? I'm being tempted to bite.

So we can check off the man-ape box on our Conan necessities checklist.

With the exception of the mummies and hyenas then, every enemy type shown so far will have at least one sculpt variation.

Still need a camel to punch though!


Also some sort of AI co- op rules...

 Sinful Hero wrote:
I forget, how much was shipping estimated for the US? I'm being tempted to bite.

The Kickstarter page says they were estimating shipping to the US for the standard core box to be at around $15. I assume the King pledge would be slightly more with the extra stuff added in. Not to mention the added stretch goals.

So, I'll be the one to say it.

This is not that appealing to me as primarily a painter. I'm not impressed with the plastics/sculpts, especially with the characters. It really does look like the plastics limited what they could do.

I'll keep watching and see if some of the stretch goals draw me in. But, I'm not likely to play it as a board game, and I've already bought a couple board games for the minis and not been impressed.

Jebus10000 wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:
I forget, how much was shipping estimated for the US? I'm being tempted to bite.

The Kickstarter page says they were estimating shipping to the US for the standard core box to be at around $15. I assume the King pledge would be slightly more with the extra stuff added in. Not to mention the added stretch goals.

The Barbarian has the stretch goals as well- have they mentioned if they will add to the shipping total?

Seems they forgot a stretch goal.



Nice to see we will be getting that variation after all.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

Jebus10000 wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:
I forget, how much was shipping estimated for the US? I'm being tempted to bite.

The Kickstarter page says they were estimating shipping to the US for the standard core box to be at around $15. I assume the King pledge would be slightly more with the extra stuff added in. Not to mention the added stretch goals.

The Barbarian has the stretch goals as well- have they mentioned if they will add to the shipping total?

Here's what they put under the shipping info section:

"Shipping costs will be applied once the Kickstarter is over so as to allow us to calculate the exact costs when taking into account all the unlocked stretch goals and optional purchases. We want to be as fair as possible, therefore, postage costs cannot be generalised as this would leave some backers penalised. We have reached an agreement with Asmodee for deliveries in North America and Europe as well as other carriers in the USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain and China. Our first estimations for a Core Box indicate that shipping to the USA should cost $15, $30 for Australia and Hong Kong, between $10 and $15 for the EU and $50 for Singapore and South America. Please bear in mind that these prices will vary depending on the quantity of additional material unlocked during the campaign as well as your choice of carrier."

So it probably will increase the price, it just depends on how much of it there is.