Monkeysloth wrote:
odd. every few minutes the quote from my post disappears. So I add it back and then it's disappears again.

So I'm adding it to a new post

 ced1106 wrote:
Monolith is also negotiating with other companies to use their miniatures with Monolith's game system (eg. Zombicide, Cthulhu Wars?). CMON announced a top secret KS in January, so the speculation is that it's the Zombicide components you need to use the Beyond Monolith game system.

Most rulesets that have you use your own miniatures are exactly that -- rulesets. I get the impression that Beyond Monolith still needs you to have cards for the miniatures. So I'm curious how much these cards cost and how well Monolith can work with other companies to produce these franchise-specific components. I lump dice-based combat systems together and didn't find Conan's combat system that interesting (energy gems were a good idea, at least).

frankelee wrote:
It really seems like they should be leading off with the new Conan content to expand upon the original game, and then say, "Now that we've got you here, check out our new universal game system!" From the comments it kind of looks like many potential backers are just not feeling the desire to spend $100 to get minis they already have for a versus system they really don't need. I'm not sure what's up with them for this campaign, very late getting info out, objectively poor advertising, overly complicated sales packages, and it looks like not much focus on making new, compelling content to get people to buy in.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

frankelee wrote:
It really seems like they should be leading off with the new Conan content to expand upon the original game, and then say, "Now that we've got you here, check out our new universal game system!" From the comments it kind of looks like many potential backers are just not feeling the desire to spend $100 to get minis they already have for a versus system they really don't need. I'm not sure what's up with them for this campaign, very late getting info out, objectively poor advertising, overly complicated sales packages, and it looks like not much focus on making new, compelling content to get people to buy in.

What they should have done is do what people have been asking for is reprint of the old game and adding new dedicated Adventure Box stuff like the Red Nails campaign they've been talking about for years then add in Vs mode like they did for Batman. But they claim a reprint will loose them money as they don't think there's enough interest in the boardgame side of conan to justify it which makes you then wonder why they're bothering with Conan?

 ced1106 wrote:


Matt wrote solo scenarios for the Modiphius Monolith Sourcebook that were popular. However, AFAIK, the Sourcebook is primarily an RPG product. So, with the Adventure Mode, the Conan boardgame has solo content, which was also in demand.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
It's certainly a mess and whoever is on facebook duty today isn't helping

I'm not really sure the new conan content is the big seller though as there isn't really that much, although it's obviously where they're hoping a lot of the backers will come from, as I think too many folk will resent having to 'pay' for stuff they already have (even though dropping the old minis would not reduce the cost much, and if they did people would complain the new stuff was too expensive for 'only' a few minis)

A Minor Delay: Campaign Launch postponed by a week.

Greetings all,
Following the launch of the Draft/WIP page of our Kickstarter campaign, Conan: Beyond The Monolith, many of our loyal backers have requested that some of the miniatures that are bundled in our Monsters Boxes and Conan Faction Boxes would be made available for individual purchase.

This option would allow backers of our previous campaigns to avoid adding duplicates to their existing collections. This is not an easy thing to do, but we really wanted to do what we could in interest of our backers. So, after reflection and some tweaking, we are able to offer some of these miniatures on their own.

The selection of these miniatures was arrived at based on the following criteria.

1. The miniature in question would have to be one contained within its own mold or share a mold with another mini from the selection.
2. We would not offer any miniatures for individual sale that come from a multiple mini mold, as this would result in thousands of miniatures destined for the landfill – not cool.

This change in our plans, as well as some other tweaks we are hoping to make based on your feedback, means we have some additional costing research to undertake and some additional KS page redesigns to prepare.

We aren’t able to squeeze this additional research in before the obligatory Kickstarter validation period, so we are postponing the campaign launch until Monday, January 13.
We sincerely hope that these changes will meet your expectations.

Thanks for your dedication to our games and your valued feedback.

The Monolith Team.

We will now be offering “Paper Proxy” factions during the Pledge manager phase. These boxes will contain the maps, scenarios booklets, tiles, and tokens—everything required for Versus game play except the miniatures, their plastic tray, and plastic base rings (a different factory handles the plastics). These require you to add in your own miniatures, whether they are Monolith Conan miniatures or whatever you deem to be appropriate substitutes or “proxies”. They will cost 32 Euros each (price subject to change slightly) and, again, will only show up during the pledge manager phase as an optional addition to your pledge.