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I wound up getting a refund on this. Hated to do it, but I'll get more out of Zombicide: Black Plague. They keep sending me updates, but won't send me the pledge manager, so I'm not invited anymore anyways .

This and Z:BP look like they'll be the last KS I go in really big on for a long time, perhaps forever. I'm tempted to go all-in on this. Any kind of current idea these days on when it might actually ship and in how many waves?

I'm almost in the same boat as Azazelx. At least in terms of figure heavy boardgames.

I'm still a sucker for figure focused stuff or pure tabletop campaigns, especially smaller companies like Ganesha and Antimatter.

Still have no idea what I'm actually getting with this game.

When is this PM slated to close?

That might really determine how much I (can) spend here!

2 updates and they still haven't said. Was gonna get all the exclusives but the shipping is dumb, maybe one of the chainmail armor girls but I don't need 'wolves'

The date September 26th and/ or 30th keep springing to mind.

Of course, there's so many big ticket mini- heavy board game pledge managers open right now, I might be confusing some of them.

One of the comments I saw stated two weeks... If you can access the PM, I think it's in the FAQ. Anyhoo, I went for all the KS exclusive stuff (King pledge, campaign, and any KS exclusive add-ons (Black guard, Sabre-tooth etc) - as even if they don't help, I foresee they'll have value for exclusivity. OTOH, I've not gone for any of the ordinary expansions or add-ons, as I see no point - I'll be able to buy them at retail anyway, and what I'd save on discount, I'll gain back on no shipping fee from a FLGS, and keep in my pocket for another year anyway.

Two weeks is a ridiculously short time for it to be open. I can't see it being that brief?

Just re-checked the FAQ - it closes 26th September.

Also, It's open to people who didn't join the original KS, in case anyone wants to get on board.

I just found this in the comments about shipping time window:

"So as to be certain that we can hold to our revised shipping dates, we have decided to split fulfillment into two waves. YOU WILL ONLY PAY FOR SHIPPING THE FIRST WAVE. THE COST OF THE SECOND ONE WILL BE COVERED BY MONOLITH.
WAVE 1 - First quarter of 2016: Base Box, Stretch goals and Add-Ons (all of them but not the Artbook/campaign)
WAVE 2 - Summer 2016: Expansions (Nordheim, Khitai, Stygia) + Artbook/Campaign"

Makes sense, it was clear from the beginning of the campaign that there was no way they'd hit October 2015. So push the above two dates out by 3-6 months each and we've possibly got our timeframe.

In other news, Monolith has extended the Pledge Manager for another week...

Last week, we saw production minis:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan/posts/1370690

For 1-piece minis, they look really good!


Now we get the details for shipping:

The majority of the Kickstarter contents will arrive during the first quarter of 2016. The only exceptions are the 3 expansion sets (Khitai, Nordheim, Stygia) and the campaign book add-ons which will arrive on your doorstep towards during the summer!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan/posts/1376513

So I should expect to receive all this stuff by March? 4 months delay really isn't bad for how awesome this is looking.

Since Q1 of any year will always (?) contain CNY, I'd say Q2 2016 is far more likely!

I dunno. If they're starting production now, Q1 isn't unreasonable.

They're coming from the same factory (I believe) that produced the minis for The Others, so we should expect a good, high quality I think.

I went pretty light on the PM. With most of the things being available for retail post campaign, I'll wait to see how much of this I actually end up playing.

 RivenSkull wrote:
I went pretty light on the PM. With most of the things being available for retail post campaign, I'll wait to see how much of this I actually end up playing.

Same. I only got the KS exclusives.

We're well in to Q1, and the recent Updates suggests that Conan is moving along just fine.

Update 147 wrote:Well, today is quite the date, it’s been a year since we launched the Conan project and although we did not make our original time frame, we are so very close to seeing the game on tabletops everywhere!

I can’t give you a more precise estimation for delivery at this time, there are too many things we can’t control. If anything comes up, you guys will be the first to know!

Production is still going well and we can now show you the finished versions of Conan the Mercenary and the Hyperborean primitive

Spoiler:

And more production stuff:

Update 148 wrote:

Spoiler:

Finally, some of you have been asking for more information on the beginning of the shipping phase and, although we are constantly in contact with our factories, we have no specific date yet. We expect to be able to give you a more precise answer within the next week or so.

The minis are looking nice enough, and I look forward to playing this game!

I think we'll be lucky to see this finished before the end of the year. They'll launch their ancient Greek themed KS the moment the first boxes leave their HK shippers, though. Probably with a projected fulfilment date of December 2016...

I backed this on ks. Still waiting but I understand that timelines are not always exact due to unexpected events.

Something of interest to everyone that backed the Conan board game...

Modiphius are launching their RPG today and part of their preview text included this little gem (bold-ed)

Now let's take at look at the books you can expect beyond the illustrious core book and Conqueror's Edition! These are all beautiful 112 page full colour hardcover books with high quality Arctic White paper content (the same as Mutant: Year Zero if you have seen those books). We'll be working our way through these in order but we're also going to be splitting them up with some stunning geomorphic adventure tiles which feature similar movement spaces to Monolith's Conan boardgame (the Conan RPG does not use grid movement).

I know they said before that they were going to work with Monolith to have a two way support. It looks like this includes new boards that could be used in the Monolith game. Hopefully this means we'll also get boardgame scenarios for some of the rpg missions and rpg tales that utilise the Monolith boards... we can dream

The delay from Q1 to Q2 is rather disappointing, but I'll be quite happy if it actually delivers.

It'll deliver eventually. I'm just hoping that we can expect it between December 2016 and March 2017 and not have it turn out to be like Journey, which is an absolute clusterfeth.

Journey: Wrath of Demons? I received Wave 1 and played the full campaign. No regrets there. Still waiting on Wave 2, which they are working on. They just Updated yesterday. Not so bad.

As far as clusterfeths go, I've still got money in Robotech...

Overall, I see Conan more akin to Journey than Robotech - late, but delivering.

Yeah, after 2? 3? months of dead silence, they've had 1 update about resins and now a non-update update.
We've heard nothing about production since (at least) Wave 1 shipping back in June last year. Which was when the resins (which they're still fumbling with) were supposed to go out as well. Still no mention of the extras of models from the core box, either - which you'd imagine would have been produced already.

It's a lot closer to Robotech than you might think, at least at this stage. I doubt we'll be getting anything from them in 2016. They clearly don't have their gak together at all.

In the sense that Journey and Robotech have only delivered Wave 1, yeah, I guess. We'll see where it goes. At least Journey is beautiful and playable.

OTOH, Conan is yet to deliver even the core game, which is now pushed back to 6-ish months late, based on the 1-2 week delay for CNY...

We get an update with production / shipping details!

Monolith wrote:As it stands, the official planning shows that the King and Barbarian pledges will be ready to go by the end of June with the Stretch goals flowing behind mid july. This should leave us with everything on the water by late July, meaning that they should be arriving at hub around the end of September, leaving shipping to begin in October.

This is the planning for the 1st Wave. The second wave (add-ons, campaign, expansions) will be the next on the block and we will let you know as soon as we have fixed dates.

So, when we asked if it was going to be October, and Monolith said "yes", they really meant "October, next year". After Gencon, but hopefully for the holiday season.

So a full year late, like various other long-delayed KS. I hope the content and value justifies the huge delay.

I think we can give them some leeway for being victims of their own success -- any KS project that succeeds to that degree is likely to cause delays due to the increased scale of every aspect of the job.

That said, they don't seem to be very professional or experienced at project management, either, given that they seem to have been dreadful at calculating how long any stage of the project would take, and don't seem to have allowed for any delays.

Value still looks really good even if the game turns out to be poor... and the game looks fun so far. I'm really glad they've taken the time to get rules writing help from FFG (though again, they should have planned for that from the start).

A couple months leeway, sure, I get that. Longer production times, etc. A full year? Not so much.

This is yet another artist's KS with weak PM, hence the huge delay. And delays in communication. It's a lack of discipline.

The content and value should be OK, but we won't know that for at least 6 months...

lol. John, I find it utterly impossible to take anything you post seriously, I'm so distracted by your avatar.

What are we talking about?