Florentin

On 30/03/2018 at 1:13 PM, Arthadan said:

No rest for the wicked!

I've been thinking what scenario would be best to do next. I know you guys feel like doing scenario VII - The Fangs of the Serpent II (a.k.a. the orgy), but please take in account this is the only remaining scenario needing another custom map. Perhaps it would be better to do something lighter, using an official map. I don't have the Modiphius tiles yet, so the list of remaining scenarios using Monolith boards are:

 

II - The Tower of Set

Heroes: Conan, Valeria, Subotai

Map: Custom or Khitai Tower from Khitai expansion

The heroes enter the dreaded Tower of Set to steal its riches. They must take out the guards in stealth and they can disguise themselves using the tunis of the acolytes and of course they must retrieve the greatest treasure there which is protected by a Giant Snake!

 

III - Escape! 

Heroes: Conan, Valeria, Subotai

Map: Stygia streets (from the Stygia expansion)

The tower guards rush after the intruders through the streets of Shadizar. The heroes must fight their way through the streets and make the guards lose their trail. A vengeful camel may appear.

 

VI - The Fangs of the Serpent I

Heroes: Conan, Valeria, Subotai

Map: Stygia tunnels (from the Stygia expansion)

Having recovered his strength, Conan and his companions head back to the Mountain of Power to recover the daughter of King Osric, now an adept of the Serpent God. First they have to sneak into the mountain using a secret entrance, dark tunnels lead them deep into the heart of the mountain.

 

And then we have one scenario re-using the Mounds map:

 

V - The spirits here ask a heavy toll

Heroes: Valeria, Subotai

Map: Custom Mounds map

Akiro has cast a spell on Conan to save his life but the Spirits of the Mounds will try to claim his soul before dawn.

 

I think doing any of these will reduce dramatically the development time and increase the chance that people actually play our scenarios. I think now we are getting more "likes" and sympathy than actual players because printing so much material when there are so many scenarios out there using official stuff is not very appealing. Of course we are doing this mainly for ourselves, but it would be nice to get more people involved.

 

I think before voting what we want to do next, we need to ask our dear cartographer @Florentin if he feels like starting another map right away.

 

What do you think?

 

Always ready for great aventures with the Tigers team!

And ready to improve my knowledge in map creation and to face new challenges!

All scenarios above are fun ! I'm ready for the whole! 

Hi guys !

I have just changed as required.

Hope this will satisfy you.

19 minutes ago, Vincent255 said:

 

It's all the way back at Page 1.  Post 1.  

 

The name given to the 7th scenario (the one preceding BotM), when they're off to Steal a princess.  

Ah Battle in the caves !

Yes ! It is a very interesting project !!!

2 hours ago, Vincent255 said:

Well to be perfectly honest, the protracted wait that's been the case since the beginning of the year - following a relatively quick development earlier - I think is the main reason for the decline in the post rate due to waning interest.  And this particular scenario is now running months behind the original schedule which I doubt is helping any.  

 

Still, I was hoping the next Scenario to be developed would be:  VII - The Fangs of the Serpent II, that being the one which caught my interest the most.  

 

 

What scene are you calling the" Fangs of the serpent" in the movie ?

Hi guys,

Sorry for poor reactivity until now.

Map was updated and put under the download area: HERE.

Some areas were divided in smaller ones as required.

6 minutes ago, Arthadan said:

 

Perfect, then I'be been useing it as intended! Then I'll change the card to follow the standard format if you don't mind.

Do what you want that doesn't matter! 

For the heavy axe:  two red dices with one reroll each !

6 minutes ago, Xaltotun said:

 

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.

Maybe some easy rules could take place in order to fight more in the monoliths field?

As an example, until turn 4 it is not possible for the OL to go to the Yasmina's hill because Thulsa doom wants his revenge !?

Most important question @Xaltotun: Did you have pleasure to play this scenario ?

A new monolith was  arrived yesterday at home!

But no time to Enjoy it too ! 

I have all the items printed now 

But now I'm afraid the time is missing me to fastly play the game! 

I hope to have time enough to cut all the things this week-end!

9 hours ago, Arthadan said:

I plan to test it next weekend in a local games shop with new players. Thing is the game is almost unknown here, since it's not translated so I'll play with people new to the game.

 

How is your testing progressing?

No items have been printed yet ! Hope tomorrow!

1 minute ago, Arthadan said:

 

It's impossible to kill the heroes in 4 turns, trust me. Anyway, playtest your idea and let me know the result.

Maybe some tiles must be modified in the river to give a chance to the OL to succeed in killing the heroes in 4 turns ? 

18 minutes ago, Arthadan said:

 

But before that some soldiers try to grab the princess. That's what we see in the movie.

You are right ! 

So maybe the solution would be: 

• from turn 1 to 4 OL have to kill the heroes
• From turn 4 to ... OL have to captured the princess  or kill the heroes

And If Thorgrim & Rexor die then kill the princess!

To my opinion, Thulsa Doom want to take its revenge after the Caves attack by killing the heroes !

He thought that should had be easy and then he would had got the princess.

But that wasn't the case and he realized this when he saw both Thorgrim & Rexor killed....then he decided to kill the princess !

5 hours ago, Arthadan said:

 

Kill the heroes is an immediate win for the Overlord at any point.

 

I suggest:

 

- Before Doom enters the game: capture the princess (as it is) + kill the heroes (as you suggest)

- when Doom enters the game: kill the princess OR kill the heroes

 

Thing is heroes are tough as nails with their armours and with Thorgrim and Rexor coming late in game, they're pretty hard to kill. So doing this we ensure the game will last at least until Doom enters the scene, which is a good thing.

 

This combined with the "aggressive" River setup could spice things up.

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

Capture the princess and (&) kill the heroes for objective or

capture the princess or(+) kill the heroes ?

Sorry past boolean algebra lectures are making me confuse ! ☺

18 hours ago, Arthadan said:

When you have time, please tell me if everything is clear in the Scenario or there is something confusing which would need a better explanation.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting your battle reports this weekend!

Hi guys !

I have read the scenario and I found it very good ! It was a real pleasure to read it and the introduction (once again) is very well written and immersive !

However, I need some information because there is something I do not understand very well.

Maybe it is a consequence of my lake of conan game practice ?

• After setup heroes do not move any gems from their reserve to their fatigue zone ? What does it means ? Why such thing ? After each new phases setup ? or only at the first setup ? To my understanding each new game phase gems are going to move from the fatigue zone to the reserve ? If this does not occur at each new heroes phases, the hero would not be able to have action ?

Thank you !

The documents were not printed this afternoon ! I'm very disappointed...I will have tu use my all printer this weekend...

48 minutes ago, Arthadan said:

When you have time, please tell me if everything is clear in the Scenario or there is something confusing which would need a better explanation.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting your battle reports this weekend!

I have printed your beautiful work yesterday evening!  I will work on it this evening! 

At present,  the map and all the stuff files are at the printer Shop ! Hope all would be ready for this evening ! I'm dying to test the scenario ! This is a great day !!!

Thanks  to you guys, an old child dream is going to come to life!

8 minutes ago, Xaltotun said:

A small request to @Florentin. Could you upload the last version of the map, please?

I could print it again tomorrow, since I had printed it double sized the first one I'm using now.

Thank you!

The .jpeg version is above ! Posted Sunday at 04:17 PM (edited)

Do you want the .bmp ?

The last version was downloaded in the download section!

Yes  @Arthadan ! It would be perfect! 

Thank you very much! 

The release could be only à .txt file! 

I don't need a perfect document only the global vision !

11 hours ago, Arthadan said:

 

It's perfect, thanks!

 

Would you mind if I make the thinner more vertical wall of sand? I think you have the zone division and zone centers in a different layer. I'd just need the "base map" without zones in JPG or BMP format.

 

I'm saying that because if you draw lines of sight and then we change the wall, many of them would need to be drawn again. I understand you can't the change the wall before Christmas but I'm confident it won't take me long.

As we already said we will study the need to change it in a second time like a lot of things for the expert mode!

Moreover, I'm not convinced at all about the need to change the sand wall before xmas and ...even after xmas!

There are many reasons for this !  Let's have a look to my last post on the subject...and a new reason is that it could be seen as a decor (as it exists in the Picts map)  and to an area that prevents the dooms riders and foot men to reach the princess too easily!

We have enough worked on the map now...the urgent matter are the rules...

I would like to test the scenario by myself urgently because you are alone to do this and it is not the right way !

It is not only to you to do the test but to all the team!

You have well understood that I would like to test the scenario with the map as it is but for this we need ...the rules!

I don't understand why you do not send us the rules synthesis faster in order to allow the team to share a same vision and to be better able to discuss of improvement together or to congratulate each other because result would be perfect ?

But for this, one more time, you have to send us all the rules fastly...

But if you do not want to  or not have the time to write them, I could spend time to  write this document this week!

In fact, we don't have time left: in less than one month it will be Xmas...

For me we have lost a week of useful time and I begin to believe that we will not have enough time to test the scenario efficiently...

23 hours ago, Arthadan said:

Remaining tasks (all mine) :

 

- Update the map rules document with the last map and add it to our download section. If there is any map rule you want to discuss, now is the time!

 

- Make my last playtesting session, trying the new map and a more aggressive enemies setup in the River (Thorgrim and Rexor appearing earlier).

 

- Release the scenario for internal use to give you a chance to playtest it before we go public. Just need to add some graphics like initial heroes and enemies setup on the map, River setup and so on.

 

And that's all! Then I'll wait for your  feedback after playtesting it, discussing any changes you may want to suggest, and then we launch the open beta!

 

An early Cimmerian Christmas present is coming!

 

 

@Arthadan are the rules synthesis could be  available ?

I have well understood hat the map rules will be updated but what about all the other rules ?

Without them it is difficult to share a commun vision and to study the globality of the scenario and its balance ! 

Thank you for your response !

Hi @Arthadan! Find the updates requested!

If all is ok for you guys, I begin to draw the line of sights ?

Let me know !

Guys ! This is amazing!

I have just discovered this!