Conan by Monolith: Red Nails Expansion and Versus Mode - Kickstarter Critique Review *Take 2*
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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From The Publisher: Conan, designed by Fred Henry and based on the Conan universe by Robert E. Howard, is a scenario-based semi-cooperative asymmetric miniatures board game. One player is the Overlord, playing the opposition forces, and the other players (1 to 4) play Conan and his companions: Shevatas the thief, Hadrathus the Priest/Sorcerer, Belit the pirate queen, Valeria the warrior, etc. The game is based purely on Robert E. Howard's novels and short stories (and not the movies or other non-Howardian material). The publisher has hired Patrice Louinet, a Howard expert, to make sure the art and the scenarios are compatible with Howard's vision.
Each game is a scenario, played on a map. There are 4 maps included in the retail copy of the game, and each map can have several scenarios set on it. The game is fast, one hour approximately. It's possible to play several scenarios in a campaign, but you can also play each scenario individually. There are 9 scenarios in the base box.
At the beginning of a scenario, players choose their team (Conan and two or three other heroes). The Overlord gathers all the miniatures (picts, Necromancer, skeleton warriors, monsters, etc.), tokens, and cards from the chosen scenario. The game usually plays in a limited number of turns (ten, for instance). Each scenario can have very different objectives: find the princess captured by picts and hidden in a hut and leave the camp before the pict hunters return; find the magical key to open a sealed door, steal the jewel and leave; kill the Necromancer by the end of turn 10; survive by the end of turn 10; escape the prison; etc.
During their turn, the heroes can activate or rest. If they activate, they can spend "gems" from their energy pool to do all sorts of actions: move, fight (melee or distance), defend, pick a lock, reroll, etc. If they rest, they can move a lot of gems from their "spent" pool box to their "available" pool box. When they take an action, they throw a number of dice equal to the number of gems they put in their action. There are three different kinds of dice: yellow (the weaker dice), orange (medium) and red (strong). Each character has a color based on their specialty: Conan throws red dice in combat while the Sorcerer throws yellow dice in combat; the thief throws red dice in Manipulation actions, while Conan throws orange dice; etc. Each player can have equipment cards (armor, magic potions, weapons, etc.) which give them bonuses on their dice rolls.
The Overlord plays differently. He uses a board with eight slidable tiles, plus his own Energy gems. Each tile corresponds to one unit (1 to 3 miniatures) on the game mat, and all of the miniature abilities are written on this tile (movement, armor, attack, special abilities). The tile position on the board corresponds to the numbers 1-8. The Overlord has a pool of energy gems and each time he activates one unit, he needs to spend a number of gems matching the tile placement: tile#1 costs 1 energy gem, tile#2 costs 2 gems, etc. Whatever tile the Overlord chooses to activate, he spends the corresponding energy cost (moving his energy gems from the available pool to the spent pool), then takes the tile out and moves it to the end of the sliding track: If he wants to activate this unit again, it will cost him 8 gems, because the unit is now on position 8. The Overlord can activate a maximum of two tiles, and he regains only a certain number of gems each turn (depending on the scenario).
In a typical scenario, the heroes need to accomplish something and the Overlord wins if the heroes fail to reach their objective - but in some scenarios, the Overlord has his own objectives and the Heroes win if they prevent him from accomplishing his goal.
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It being a smaller number if you don't use dollars, is probably the reason they choose not to.
Perhaps. I tend to assume the worst with Monolith at this point though
FRA ZETTA!! one of the masters of fantasy painting. The guy who LITERALLY made Conan as popular as he is. Good God my man!!! This board game wouldn't exist, or at least be popular enough to exist if it wasn't for the man. The legendary artist Frazetta! Don't let your kids look at his work. 😢
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware the artist was a big deal!
@@BowersGameCorner Hello. Around the 27 min mark u mention doing a podcast w Scott (Alden?) the owner of BGG recently. Where can one go to hear this podcast?
If you add up the European countries backing its higher than the US. Just saying ;)
Great point. OMG I'm an idiot. Is the Euro excepted everywhere in Europe!?!?
@BowersGameCorner to be honest I do actually agree with you. I believe every campaign should take the 10 seconds to work out what the prices would be in at least Dollars AND Euros. (I'm £) but I'd be happy with that.
Keep up the great vids sir.
@@BowersGameCorner the euro is considered "standard" in at least 20 European countries. Only a few countries (mostly in eastern Europe and the Netherlands, also Poland and Hungary) don't use Euros as a standard
Hey boss; I meant to ask, are you a big fan of this game in part because you're a Conan fan, or is it the game itself that you find compelling? Also, was a part of the reason you enjoy it so much is because of the experience in group play?
Asking because 1) I'm mostly a solo gamer, and 2) it seems expensive AF to get everything for a game that I'm not that in to thematically. However, if you say the game is really that good on its own merit, I'll take your word for it.
The original Conan rule book was one of the easiest ive seen... nothing like the sword n sorcery book
Hello. Around the 27 min mark u mention doing a podcast w Scott (Alden?) the owner of BGG recently. Where can one go to hear this podcast?
My guess is, they are not showing USD prices, because they do not now, what exchange rate will there be when they finish kickstarter. And especially because US is a big market, it could impact their profit.
That's why you just put a ~. Also, nearly every other Kickstarter company does it.
It automatically converts it on the actual pledge page, so that doesn't make sense
Yo, they just released 3 more expansions as add ons
A video full of rants how badly the kickstarter presentation is done and that there are no dollars. The author didn't care to prepare himself and make real research about the kickstarter itself before making the video. Basically you can learn all this in half the time yourself just by looking on the ks page. The only worthwhile thing in this video is showing how bad the company's contact with the consumers is. My guess is that they lack English speaking employee, French are terrible at learning foreign languages including English - from my experience. Maybe mentioning the issue with their poorly written manuals.