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1 hour ago, Arthadan said:

 

Yep, playtesting will help us to balance things. I like the idea of a bigger map for this scenario though (just enlarging the one we have).

Be careful to not enlarge the map if we do not want to change the place of the battle! In fact in the movie the battle of the mounds occured in a very small area ! The map that I realized respects this to meter-scale tolerance !

If you would like to enlarge the area maybe new spots should be added as the Akiro hut and maybe other mounds and pits...maybe the sea too ?

@Arthadan ! What about the activation at the same time of the same unit family (mounted & dismounted) and for only the cost of the mounted tile. This idea was presented in the french forum.

For example in the river, only the mounted tiles of the red Fangs is used (normally they are 5 activated) but as there are 2 that were dismounted the tile of dismounted warriors is present near the river (but not on the river). Thus, when the overlord activated the red Fangs riders both the tiles are activated for only the mounted Fangs tile cost

If not Overlord will have to pay twice for characters that belong at the beginning of the game at the same group...risk to upset the balance of the game!

What are you thinking of this ?

@Arthadan I agree with you: Thulsa Doom would have to have the best equipment but only play test will help us to evaluate if this is too much or not and if game is enough balanced between players ! In fact, Thulsa Doom in this condition is very powerful and even more on a small map as it is at present... A little frightened that Conan & his friends return to earth too soon as the doom's children recommended Conan to do! We will see !

54 minutes ago, Arthadan said:

Last one for today:

 

Changes for Mounted tiles:

 

- Movement icon changed to distinguish mounted tiles, although it should be pretty evident for the picture.

- Movement increased: between 5 and 6

- One attack dice upgraded (in this case from  to )

- Armour increased: + 1

 

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

 

6 in mouvement is too much for me !

4 will be better !

@ArthadanThere are already these tiles for mounted Rexor !

Have you already seen this movie : The Whole Wide World 

In Texas in the 1930s, young schoolteacher Novalyne Price meets a handsome, eccentric, interesting young man named Robert Howard. He's a successful writer - of the pulp stories of 'Conan the Barbarian'; she's an aspiring one. A friendship develops into a sort of courtship. Based on a memoir by Novalyne Price.

Very good job @Arthadan !!!!

@Vincent255 Thank you very much for this Web adress !  There are a lot of very rare pictures (I have never seen some of them !!!) And very useful for us on our project ! It's à real gift! Thank you very much !

Thank you for your post about the "Fangs of the snake"! For me,  It could be the next step of our aventures because it was one of the best event in the movie...Even if the whole scenes of the movie are "The Best " or "good" !

A big avantage of a bigger map would be to put the 14 riders at the same time on it!

In a such case, I hope the heroes will be lucky with their dices rolls to get rid of the enemies before to be flooded by them!  😜

@Stonewolf! Never doubt! Your motivation and enthusiasme give us a lot of energy!  

@Stonewolf please, because my english is not as good as yours and as I have a better visual understanding, could you realize a drawing with a pensil, for me,  of your wish (and scan it) ?

That would be great to better see what you would like !

42 minutes ago, Xaltotun said:

 

Sure, but a horse shouldn't be so useful in such a battlefield, that's why I guess they could have chosen this terrain and fortified it in Milius film.

But maybe a use on a short distance for an heroïc action could be fun : jumping on a horse,  gallop on few meters, chop off, from his horse,  some doom's soldiers heads before jumping on a Thorgrim on foot ! 😜

It could be fun to allow Conan to catch a horse and to go to fight with a horse !

26 minutes ago, Xaltotun said:

The tile for Rexor is very nice!

 

Is this token intended to be put under a miniature to indicate on the boardgame that it's  mounted?

 

On the french forum it was used only as a proposal to indicate that a horse is waiting a rider on the map ! But we can do what we want !

In fact, I have fun to do some conversion of riders for the battle of the mounds!

At the same time,  @Arthadan that is a real fan would like to create his own miniatures to play with the right character and would like to offer to the fan to print by themselves their own ones! (I hope he will succeed ! )

But both solutions are quite long and expensive ...

So to avoid that all the community of the "Conan the Barbarian" fans become completely broke and wait too much time, we decided last evening to do our best at short term to allow everyone to play with the basic material of the core box! And in the future we will improve the miniatures to be used for the "Conan the Barbarian" adventures by 3D printable miniatures (or conversion...but be quiet @Arthadan does not like to hear this ! ) !

So as you asked and thought maybe this token (or an adapted one)  could be used to represent mounted warriors with some miniatures from the core box in the next few days !

I have just discovered further on the forum a beautiful hero card of Conan that could be used for the battle of the mounds:

@jpuglio has created it here !

@Arthadan I put there the rules you propose in an other post about the management of mounts in the game !

A big post proposed rules about this on the french forum but the Arthadan synthesis seems good enough for our goal: playing to the battle of the mounds !

Some Ideas were proposed  here (but in french) !

Mounted Warriors

Units

They have two tiles: Mounted tile (more movement and better melee attack) and Infantry (normal). They must be of different color as they represent different profiles. While mounted they belong to the Mounted tile.

If when Mounted  they suffer the loss of 2+ life points, they are killed

If when Mounted they suffer the loss of 1 life point, they are Dismounted (see below) and they change the color of their base (they  'swap' units belonging now to the Infantry tile).

Lieutenants

They also have two tiles. one Mounted and one on Foot.

They are Dismounted when they suffer at least the loss of 2 life points in a single melee attack.

Dismounted: When character that has been Dismounted as a consequence of an attack, place the miniature liying down on the board. This has the following consequences:

- The character cannot attack

- The character can defend normally

- Any melee attack against the character has an elevation bonus dice 

- The character will need to spend 1 movement point to stand up.

- Once dismounted cannot mount again (the horse is assumed to run away)

Note: below some concept cards that could be adapted for our need and that can be used for inspiration !

Cheval (in french) = horse

Destrier (in french) = steed

REXOR (in french) = Rexor

Surplomb (in french) = overhang

11 minutes ago, Xaltotun said:

Wonderful!!!

What's the book details, please?

This is this old french magazine!

And in few weeks if we would like to work on the first battle it will be easy with this plan!

For pleasure, I have found on a new book from the 80's, I received at noon some rare documents! Look what did look like the mounds at the early beginning of the projects in John Milius '  mind! 

All is possible! Just need a hudge amont of additional work! As the actual map took me many months to be created so do not know how much time a double size new one would require ?

To change monoliths size and suppress others, will be for me,  frustrating because monoliths number is near the right number of the ones of the movie... Furthermore, quality of actual monoliths would not be compatible with an increasing of the size: need to find new ones but don't  know where? 

Besides, the problem is to have an efficient tool to generate the map background with the mounds!  Star craft II editor was easy to use but quality of picture is too poor(desert floor and mounds)! Maybe the "unreal engine" would be great but I'm totaly noob with this software ...

Moreover,  at this step of the project, I think small updates at short term could be considered but too hudge should be postponed.

As I told to @Arthadan yesterday evening my purpose is to have a first playable version of the game very soon to test game mecanismes and to begin to have fun! Thus, maybe other people would join the aventure and could help us with software graphical designer skills ?

Then we could work on an improvement phase faster than we could do now! 

@Epaka !!!Congratulations !  This is very impressive!!!!

@Xaltotun Thank you! If you have ideas or request feel free to write them purpose is to improve the map !!!

I have been working on this with @Arthadan for many months, now I can share it with you even if it is not fully finished!

It is enough to allow us to write the specific rules by beginning to launch soon "home playtests" !

First attempt for the Map of the "Battle of the Mounds"

Any comments or update of the map are welcome !

Share them with us !!!

28 minutes ago, Stonewolf said:

 

I was going to create the orgy room scenario before ever we started to work on the full movie.

If I don't find better for the masked pot stirrers I'm going to use The Colosse by Sygill forge, love that figure

I understand you...I put it often in my basket on the Sygill Site...but before the end I removed it...until now  but maybe you're going to give me the excuse to buy it !