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Excuse me, what do I have to do to receive the 2nd and the 3rd conpendium? I'm not sure I understand...

In this thread it's better.

Me too, but I guess that probably II or III could be easier to create.

I'd work on number II or number III.

You can be right We can develope the Fangs of the serpent: I guess the best is to step forward.

Hi guys! As I can see, the number of new posts in this thread is decreasing, like - probably - the entusiasm around the project. Am I wrong? If you agree, I'd like to go on to the next scenario, conan and the wolves/atlantean sword. I'd take the Easter time to "close" the discussion about the BotM and then to start with the new project. My only suggest is first to: - create the next scenarios with no further and new special rules; -elaborate a good connections between the scenarios, the create the campaign. -once we have a first version of the campaign, we can take time to check each scenario, test it and try variants to the official rules. @Arthadan, @Florentin What do you think about?

Last version (1.2) of the tokens, available in the download section

Honestly I remember in Conan and Bran Mak Morn books the Picts as a fierce and quite dark skinned people (far from irish men and scots): seems that Howard believed the old theory about their arrival from the Northern Africa. I painted them too white I guess, and maybe, I should have used more blue for their tattooes, so following what I read about them in some history book somewhere...

"You Barbaric Scum, you dared, you played and you made them really angry: that's why Crom will let them dismount for the joy of finishing you!..." New tiles uploaded under our Campaign download section.

Do you need me to recreate/correct the tokens?

I think you're right: as you know, I'd simplify the scenario

Can't wait for the book to receive. Thanks for this opportunity!

Guys, sorry for my delay... I had horrible days recently. I'll try to answer you in the next days.

I don't know. Honestly, the impression was there were bit too many rules and there was a kind of 'gap' between the map and the objects of the game. Anyway, we experienced some minor problems I'd like to talk better tomorrow I think it's better for you and @Arthadan to test the game with other players first; then we can compare our experiences and elaborate solutions.

PS. When Rexor crossed the palisades to hunt for Conan was really epic. A pity he was fatigued and wounded ( 2 life points left)

Sure! I was just a bit frustrated because the most interesting part of the map (and several rules) wasn't used. Anyway, we can say that an important thing worked: I think it was quite balanced, infact in the second part of the game we had fun. I'll write more tomorrow, since there are some points to explain, I guess.

Last part of the game and conclusion Conan was heavily wounded and crossed the palisades to stand beside Subotai, who had used a lot of gems and had also a nap in between, to recover all of them. Some riders are finally showing up from behind Yasmina top. Dishorsed by Conan, Rexor crossed the palisades trying to follow Conan. It's too late to free Yasmina (a couple of turns left!), but the heroes haven't killed Rexor or Thorgrim yet, so Doom is still off the map (was it correct???). The only chance is to kill the heroes, so the OL wants to prevent them from escaping back through the palisades: he stops a rider to close the way to the altar hill, unleash Rexor (wounded and dismounted) behind Conan, while Thorgrim and few troops are charging the back of the hill. Final results: Rexor died during the ninth turn. No chance for the OL to activate Doom when he finally entered. Thorgrim killed Conan, but was killed himself by Subotai in the last turn. 5 Doom troopers left, two of them never moved. Subotai was alive and well living, since he never lost a single gem (!!!). No one has ever walked on the 5 monoliths small hill. ******************************** So, that's basically the game we had. Tomorrow I'll try to write down the impressions and the results of the big discussions we had before, during and after. I can try to make some scheme of the game, if you need. ....by the way, I hope you can figure out the battle by my poor English.

The big problem appeared from the game is that 2/3 of the map was completely unused during the game. -as the game began, Conan took the Heavy Axe and Subotai collected all the arrows, then they run to the Yasmina's mound, since both the players recognized it as the best defendable position. This way they were safe behind the palisades, and Yasmina was safer behind them! Subotai (red line) stood on the top of that hill, behind the palisades, shooting at everything was coming by. Conan (blue line) changed his weapon and run to the Yasmin hill too, but he stopped on the top of a black stone to kill some of the upcoming knights. After a first attempt to help Conan, Akiro (orange line) tried to escape on Yasmina hill too, but he was intercepted and killed in the marked position (orange cross). Poor Akiro was completely ignored by Doom riders: he was killed only because a rider stopped his movement in the same area and had nothing else to do. I fear the poor Akiro felt himself a bit useless... 😢 - Doom knights first moved following the green lines; once 2 traps were discovered, some of them moved following the purple direction. Attention: As you can see: no one entered the monolith field ☹️☹️☹️, except the corridor on the right, and only for two reasons: 1) Conan stopped on the black stone, while his back was guarded by Subotai arrows; 2) the OL feared that some traps could have been put down the hill, in front of the palisade... and it was a spike trap and a decoy. First rounds: Doom riders carefully avoid the monolith field: the OL thinks this is the easiest way to reach Yasmina. As you can see, Conan dropped his sword. When finally Rexor and Thorgrim entered the monolith field they have to fight against Conan still on his black stone, while Subotai is shooting against them. Meanwhile Akiro (see the hand on the left) is moving for his very last time (RIP). ☠️ Attention: almost half of the game passed, before some fight happened.

Two nights ago I had a first real play with a couple of friends well experienced in Conan. It was an important test in my opinion, since one of them is in the jury of the Magnifico award. Here are the impressions from the test. I hope we didn't make too many mistakes, following the rules. First, I must confess that we spent quite long time to explain (and discuss) the new rules... THE SETUP and the START of the Game The map: - Black Stones: since it's possible to jump on the black stones, probably a white circled dot for the line of sight could be added. The weapons: - Heavy Axe card was not so clear: 2 red dice with reroll? - Seems there's no point in changing weapons during the game. As the game began, Conan dropped his sword and picked up the more powerful Heavy Axe. - Meanwhile Subotai collected all the arrows. - After that, No hero changed his weapon for all the game long. The skills - No one has the feline grace, though it's written on the gameboard rules that this skill is necessary to cross through narrow passages. - Both Conan and Subotai have the Precision strike, so seemed a bit useless a high armour level for all of the OL troopes Here's the problem about the battle axe... . Now I'll try to resumes the impressions from the game play...

Let's start!

What do you exactly mean with this, please?