Conquest! The Last Argument of Kings! 5th Anniversary One Player Starters. p.92.

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**CthuluIsSpy**

I like the Caryatids, not so much the Kanephors.
The melee loadout doesn't seem to suit them all that well. The bows look more "natural" on them.

I understand why they did it that way; it's so they can share a box. I just don't like the design as much.

Is that black substance meant to be smoke or slime? If the latter, why is there slime?

**Sasorijap**

The black substance is the blood of the fallen god Hazlia.

"While Hazlia’s Fall and subsequent annihilation of the population of Capitas infused the very stones of Capitas with his power, nowhere was this more evident than in his greatest temples. Here the very blood of Hazlia oozed from the walls, infusing his holiest icons and statuary with a dark parody of life. The beautiful Karyatids that once ringed the great temple’s temenoi have come to life and, in a grotesque parody of their ritual purpose, now hunt down all interlopers in their god’s domain. Only the most zealous and dedicated of Hazlia’s servants can hope to bind these unholy creations in common purpose to unleash their horror upon the battlefield, where missiles creatide of divine blood and sheer spite make a mockery of mortal armor and flesh."

**Sasorijap**

New faction reveal is coming on December 15th during the Happy Hour livestream.

**JimmyWolf87**

City States are going to be some lovely sculpts if that promo model was anything to go by.

**NinthMusketeer**

Still waiting on some sort of balance/gameplay update to make my Tempered not the obvious second fiddle to Ardent.

**Sasorijap**

City States reveals from last night's livestream

**JimmyWolf87**

Love to find out the price-point on that new starter set. If they've managed to make that appealing then I'm probably accidentally starting 2 new factions.

City States look great. The statues and hoplites are the standouts; Minotaurs are decent enough. Those new Dominion sets are incredible.

**vultute**

At that livestream, did they say anything aboutunreleased factions?

**Rihgu**

vultute wrote:
At that livestream, did they say anything aboutunreleased factions?

Quite a bit, but most overlapped with what we already knew.

Sorcerer Kings:
Despite popular memes, are NOT Math Wizards.
Made deals with elemental forces.
Middle eastern themed with auxiliary subfaction themed after steppe horsemen

Hel:
Nordic death cult
Supported by half-dragon monster men (described as "mix between argonians and gargoyles")
Use spire and dwarf tech
Use drakes (like dweghom hellbringer drake)

Sellswords:
Core army themed after Black Army of Hungary
will have mercenary units from Spires, Dweghom (as examples)
mercenary units will be able to be used in their primary faction (Dweghom merc unit can be used in Dweghom army list)
can be used as a way to explore unreleased factions, example given: Blademaster unit from the Quiet, years before Quiet actually come out.

**warboss**

I like the aristarch and polemarch. THIS... IS... CONQUEST!!!

**NuhJuhKuh**

What’s the due date for City States?

**CthuluIsSpy**

NuhJuhKuh wrote:
What’s the due date for City States?

2023, by the looks of it.
There's a vote later on for Project 8. Apparently it's a choice between the Sorcerer Kings and Hel.

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Rihgu wrote:
vultute wrote:
At that livestream, did they say anything aboutunreleased factions?

Quite a bit, but most overlapped with what we already knew.

Sorcerer Kings:
Despite popular memes, are NOT Math Wizards.
Made deals with elemental forces.
Middle eastern themed with auxiliary subfaction themed after steppe horsemen

Hel:
Nordic death cult
Supported by half-dragon monster men (described as "mix between argonians and gargoyles"
Use spire and dwarf tech
Use drakes (like dweghom hellbringer drake)

Sellswords:
Core army themed after Black Army of Hungary
will have mercenary units from Spires, Dweghom (as examples)
mercenary units will be able to be used in their primary faction (Dweghom merc unit can be used in Dweghom army list)
can be used as a way to explore unreleased factions, example given: Blademaster unit from the Quiet, years before Quiet actually come out.

So basically -
> Azracs / Alin
> Not-Norsca
> Dogs of War

I'm pretty interested in Hel. I want to see what the Dragonmen look like.

**NuhJuhKuh**

Thanks @Cthuluspy! I had figured as much… but any idea what month? When did Old Dominion release this year?

**Lord Kragan**

The new core set releases in mid february or so.

**Rihgu**

the tentative release schedule is:

January
Old Dominion: "Heavy Metal" Founders Exclusive
Old Dominion: Karyatids
Old Dominion: Kanaphores
Old Dominion: Mounted Strategos
Spires: Incarnate Sentinels

February
Conquest Army Support Packs Wave 4
Conquest Objective Markers and Tokens
City States vs Nords 2 Player Starter Set
City States Polemarch
City States Aristarch
City States: Hoplites
City States: Phalangites
City States: Minotaur Thyreans
City States: Minotaur Haspists
City States Faction Dice on Gray swirl Dice
TLAOK Softcover Rulebook - English 2.0

March
City States: Army Support Pack W4
W’adrhŭn: Chieftain
W’adrhŭn: Veterans
Old Dominion: Athanatoi
Old Dominion: Varangians
Dweghom: Herald of Magma
Organised Play: Paint & Take

April
First Blood Starters - all faction
City States: Mechanist
City States: Promethean
City States: Hephaestian

**highlord tamburlaine**

Have we got proper photos of the Old Dominion stuff teased in that last video yet?

Those Minotaurs were so much better than the plastic GW ones!

**Arbitrator**

Damn they're not wasting time getting to the City States huh.

**Gallahad**

When do those Minotaurs release? I'm getting a box for sure.

**Rihgu**

Tentatively, February, per the schedule posted above.

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

I swear you guys seem to miss half the news about this game-

First of all, in stark contrast to certain other companies, 2023 for Parabellum will bring a price DEcrease.

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

https://boardgametoday.com/para-bellum-reveals-its-conquest-2023-pricing-and-new-releases/

Second of all, there's already HD pictures of the new City States Hoplites and Phalanges that didn't get posted here yet.

**warboss**

RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
I swear you guys seem to miss half the news about this game-

First of all, in stark contrast to certain other companies, 2023 for Parabellum will bring a price DEcrease.

Welcome and thanks for volunteering to help! Do you have a link to that news?

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

Third of all, seems to me like in all the excitement about the City-States, people completely skipped over the new and shiney mounted Strategos and plastic Incarnate Sentinels

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warboss wrote:
RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
I swear you guys seem to miss half the news about this game-

First of all, in stark contrast to certain other companies, 2023 for Parabellum will bring a price DEcrease.

Welcome and thanks for volunteering to help! Do you have a link to that news?

Yeah, it's right here, for some reason I couldn't post it in my first post-

https://boardgametoday.com/para-bellum-reveals-its-conquest-2023-pricing-and-new-releases/

Character miniatures went from $28.99 to $24.99 MSRP
Infantry Sets move from $42.99 to $39.99 MSRP
Brutes and Cavalry are steady at $49.99

There's also a new ditigal catalogue, giving a very high quality look at all the new 2023 releases, including all of the first wave of the City-States releases.

https://www.flipsnack.com/conquestcatalogue/conquest-2023-early-catalog/full-view.html

**Rihgu**

Hey! The plastic incarnate sentinels were posted, like 2-3 pages back!

Aren't the price decreases just putting us back to where we were before the troubling times of the world? When they increased prices back then they did say it would be temporary.

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

Well, personally, I can't find them. Well I can find them being a thing, but so far it seems nobody actually posted the minis themselves

**Rihgu**

Oh, true. But, the minis aren't really different from the resin ones, anyways. That's why I never posted them

**warboss**

RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
Third of all, seems to me like in all the excitement about the City-States, people completely skipped over the new and shiney mounted Strategos and plastic Incarnate Sentinels

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warboss wrote:
RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
I swear you guys seem to miss half the news about this game-

First of all, in stark contrast to certain other companies, 2023 for Parabellum will bring a price DEcrease.

Welcome and thanks for volunteering to help! Do you have a link to that news?

Yeah, it's right here, for some reason I couldn't post it in my first post-

https://boardgametoday.com/para-bellum-reveals-its-conquest-2023-pricing-and-new-releases/

Thanks! It's likely that you couldn't do it in your first post to prevent spammers from joining the forum and posting links only.

The mounted strategos really does look nice. Did they do an infantry version of that sculpt as well (with the same armor and helm)? Hopefully they'll offer the catalog as a downloadable pdf as well for ease of use.

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The wadrun chieftain looks pretty cool as well. In general, the figs for this line look 35mm+ even for "normal" humans. Is that the case? If so, I'm guessing that the chieftain is probably oldhammer ogre in size.

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

warboss wrote:
RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
Third of all, seems to me like in all the excitement about the City-States, people completely skipped over the new and shiney mounted Strategos and plastic Incarnate Sentinels

Automatically Appended Next Post:

warboss wrote:
RomanHockeyAlligator wrote:
I swear you guys seem to miss half the news about this game-

First of all, in stark contrast to certain other companies, 2023 for Parabellum will bring a price DEcrease.

Welcome and thanks for volunteering to help! Do you have a link to that news?

Yeah, it's right here, for some reason I couldn't post it in my first post-

https://boardgametoday.com/para-bellum-reveals-its-conquest-2023-pricing-and-new-releases/

Thanks! It's likely that you couldn't do it in your first post to prevent spammers from joining the forum and posting links only.

The mounted strategos really does look nice. Did they do an infantry version of that sculpt as well (with the same armor and helm)? Hopefully they'll offer the catalog as a downloadable pdf as well for ease of use.

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The wadrun chieftain looks pretty cool as well. In general, the figs for this line look 35mm+ even for "normal" humans. Is that the case? If so, I'm guessing that the chieftain is probably oldhammer ogre in size.

There's a Strategos on foot but he doesn't have that same helmet.

Also yeah, Wadrun tend to be pretty damn beefy. I wonder how much he's going to overlap his base.

**Rihgu**

warboss wrote:

The wadrun chieftain looks pretty cool as well. In general, the figs for this line look 35mm+ even for "normal" humans. Is that the case? If so, I'm guessing that the chieftain is probably oldhammer ogre in size.

The official scale is "38mm". The W'adrhun are generally ogre sized, yea.

**RomanHockeyAlligator**

As a side note, I have no idea what's the exact lore behind this particular character model, but-

When one looks closely at the Polemarch, he does not seem particularly, human. More like an automata fashioned to broadly resemble a human.

His limbs as well as his neck, are made of mechanical pistons, joints and such, while his chest and all the other "fleshy" bits seem to be pieces of armour broadly fashioned to look like a naked human body.

Anyone caught more about him from livestreams or such?