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We introduce you this game that is very well known in Spain, has good reviews and that we will produce in English after summer, along with two expansions
ONUS! is a wargame similar to miniature games, where both sides fight an old age battle. The game is based on the II Punic War mainly, although battles from III to I B.C centuries could be simulated. The game concept combines both orders and events cards, that makes each game different and each combat unpredictable and exciting.
The game has: A rule book with some battles (40 pages)
A quick guide (4 pages)
1-player rules (4 pages)
90 unit cards
6 help cards
72 action and event cards
4 wooden dice
Cloth bag
Over 130 counters
Rules
Box size: 23x15x5.5cm
Number of players: 1-4
Play time: >30m
Minimum age: 12
Box weight. 0,6Kg
ONUS! has a strategic component similar to that of a miniature game such as Warhammer Fantasy, Fields of Glory or the like, because it allows us to extend formations, change them (wall of shields, phalanx, arrow, square formation), or flank enemies using a special counter. In addition we have to decide how to play the order/event cards. They will allow us to give orders to our army and to change the combats and shootings with special features such as ambush, lancers against mounted units, wounding the officials or the general, reinforcing a unit, making a unit veteran, etc.
ORDERS allow us to activate units in order to be able to charge, move, heal, change formations, shoot, etc...
EVENTS allow us to change a combat adding bonuses or penalties to the dice rolls. For example we can play the event "Wind changes” when the enemy shoots us and she will have some penalties. Or if we charge against a most powerful unit than ours we could use the event "Harangue" that means that our official cheers up our soldiers giving us some attack bonuses.
We will launch a Kickstarter campaign in a few months in order to get enough financial support to produce it in English. And to produce the Persian and Greek expansion and the Scenarios one (with fortresses, woods, assault towers, rams, fire shooting, assault rules, etc..(similar to the Total War videogame! )
We will post more information here and you can also take a look in www.onusgame.com and www.facebook.com/OnusWorld and @ONUSenglish in Twitter.
We want to let you know what and how it is ONUS. We will launch a Kickstarter campaign in a few months in order to get enough financial support to produce it in English. And to produce the Persian and Greek expansion and the Scenarios one (with fortresses, woods, assault towers, rams, fire shooting, assault rules, etc..(similar to the Total War videogame! )
"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Indeed, we will inform about the KS campaign before it is launched.
In the meantime we give you some other news about
INTRODUCTION TO EXPANSIONS
Hi all,
We are back to inform you about the new ONUS projects we are working in. We don´t have new illustrations but nevetheless we give you some tips about them
EXPANSION Greeks vs Persians
It will be a small box, more or less half sized of the original ONUS box. It will have around 100 unit cards, including some generals. We will be able to play historic battles , those of the Persian wars (499 to 449 BC)) , of the Delian League against the Persians and of the Peloponnesian War (431 to 421 BC) between Athens and Sparta
. Generals: there will be 6 generals: Themistocles (Athens), Leonidas (Sparta), Miltiades (Athens), Xerxes (Persia), Mardonius (Persia), Demosthenes (Athens). These generals will have the same skills as Scipio and Hannibal (leadership and moral influence) and at least another special skill. All the information will be written in a general card that wil have an illustration as well.
. Counters with new skills and new generals.
. Units: There will be 4 new armies. Some of them will have new skills.
We will update this expansion regularly
EXPANSION tscenery and fortresses
The box will be similar to the original ONUS box
It will have:
[li]Woods[/li]
[li]Hills[/li]
[li]River: They will be split in several parts including bends. They will have jigsaw connections[/li]
[li]Village[/li]
[li]Bridges[/li]
[li]Towers[/li]
[li]Rams[/li]
[li]Walls and destroyed walls[/li]
[li]Barricades[/li]
[li]Fire damage counters[/li]
[li]Siege towers[/li]
[li]Unit counters to place them in closed places[/li]
[li]A wooden fortress, with jigsaw connections, similar to a Roman camp that we will be able to design as per our wish. With doors, towers, walls....[/li]
[li]Stone fortress, similar to the wooden one[/li]
There will be new weapons and special siege rules.
- In the expansion Greece & Persia we will include at least 6 new generals: 2 from Athens, 2 from Sparta and 2 from Persia. To be able to play battles with different generals (the new ones, the standard ones and Scipio and Hannibal) we have created a recruitment cost system. This way we will be able to play battles using generals of different eras.
Generals will be represented with counters and we will add a general card, with an illustration, its recruitment cost, its moral range, its bonuses, its leadership value and special skills they may have.
Would you like to know the special skill of Leonidas or Themistocles?
- In the Scenery & buildings expansion we are still working in the design. Here you can find some river tiles. There will be plenty of them so we will be able to design the river we want. There will be areas to cross them and bridges too. But watch out! wood bridges can be set on fire and stone bridges can be blown off with onagers
And here you can see the promotional clip. We hope you enjoy it
Reminds me of Battlegrounds with the card units, and now Blucher by Mustafa, which isn't a bad thing.
Definitely interested.
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
We have almost decided the start date of the new ONUS crowdfunding campaign: October, 9th at 17.00 CET.
This campaign contains the 1st English ONUS edition and the 2nd Spanish one plus the expansions Greece & Persia and Sceneries & Buildings in both languages.
All this will be available separately or in several packs depending on what you would like to get.
We are currently working in the units and generals illustrations. Generals will be more important in the game and they will have its own recruitment cost.
There will be new rules, mainly within the Sceneries & Buildings expansion. An
example of this is the following combat sequence by a river and a bridge:
1. Romans move towards the river. Cavalry with the extended formation on the left
side and the triarii ready to cross the river
2. The Lusitan infantry pivots backwards, then moves forward and shoot their
javelins (inflicting 1 wound). Afterwards they move backwards (due to being skirmishers). The archers shoot (1 more wound) and the phalanx gets closer to the
bridge
3. The Roman cavalry charges against the Lusitan infantry, flanking them and rolling 6 dice. After the attack the Lusitans flee and have 4 wounds. The triarii gets closer to the bridge and charges with 2 sections (the bridge size doesn´t allow more sections to engage in combat
Just to finish this post, a question for you: Do you know these folks?
Amusing to see Dakkaites in the comments over at KS.
For the mat, I found that the 15 euro price to get it printed was accurate in current prices from the pixart https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk using UK as the delivery location.
Large Format, Banners/Mesh, PVC Banner, Width of 130cm, Height of 90cm. If this gets funded (and it had better), I will definitely be using the jpg they've provided to get one printed.
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Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
We have added a couple of add ons. One is a playmat that you don´t have to print somewhere else and that you can see in the KS updates of the project and following you have our latest update
As requested by several backers we are going to add a new add-on. 6 Armies Deck Boxes. The add-on price is 9$ for the set of 6 boxes. These deck boxes are 92x20x67mm (5.9x0.8x2.6"). They are big enough to contain our army units with or with no plastic cover. They will come in layers so they are not damaged during shipping. All you will have to do is fold them. If you remove the base game inlay that comes with the box you can have the 6 deck boxes inside and the rest of the components as well.
We have 1 new unit just designed: The Peripolos. They are mercenaries. A light infantry unit, skirmishers, and with javelins. Young soldiers, with high morale and life values that were seen quite often fighting along the Greeks as special forces or securing the borders.
You can add any rewards or add-ons to your Kickstarter pledge
If you have any issues when paying with your card, please contact us to solve them as you can also pay through the Pledge Manager
If you choose more than one option you have to ‘click’ all of them to be able to pay them via Paypal
Shipping: We will do another Pledge Manager in the future informing you about the costs. It will be soe time before we ship the rewards
Here you have an update about the game an its expansions. We already have the black bags that come with the base game and the backers exclusive bags as well.
We are currently producing the second edition, the playmats, the coasters, the deckboxes and the Generals. We are working in the last illustrations for the expansions, their rules, the campaigns and the artbook.
Here we depict some pics of what we developed. We hope you like them
We are working hard in Onus! and here there is an update about all the news we have:
- We are currently producing the 2nd edition of the base game in both languages. Printers do not stop!
- The illustrations of the 22 Generals and 36 units belonging to the new armies (Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, Persia and Greek mercenaries) are done
- The G&P expansion is tested and finished, but for the rulebook´s formatting
- Both the add-ons and the artbook are in the printing queue
- We are focused on the T&F expansion at the moment. There will be a 100 pages campaign book with 6 campaigns and more than 40 settings (including Spartacus'). We are testing the new siege rules and finishing the illustrations and counters.
Here you have some of the new features already done. Hope you like them!
