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This looks very interesting. Impressive work. One question, where is the heavy chest?

Anyone interested in what these movies are?

I just imagined Heracles as a bartender, would have to the best mannered bar in history, at least until Conan turned up 

Seriously, I am a worry, but I would hope that REH would appreciate my ‘humour’.

Oh, by the way, happy birthday Robert, born 112 years ago today and whose legacy lives on stronger than ever.

Now, if we could just get a decent movie (or Showcase series).

How about “Khitaian Whispers”, though it may end up totally different at the end than what you expected at the start.

Sorry, couldn’t resist

2 hours ago, Primeval said:

Great - thanks, that is a big help!  Can we perhaps give it a specific name for our campaign to give it more flavor  ( i just realized i hate that phrase but can find none more suitable at the moment...).?

Gravitas?

I didn't get the dragon but I have a Stegosaurus proxy. Closer to REH's description, just needs bigger teeth! Medusa's tricky but one of the monsters will do. Ares was also tricky but I think Yogah may be a similar size.

I don’t think that Heracles and Medusa are themselves as such, just something very similar, they’re not really named except on the tiles. The exception is Conan’s Nightmare as it is all in Conan’s mind.

Re using alternatives, the hardest ones to proxy in my mind are Hydra and Medusa. The rest could be proxied by Conan models reasonably easily. The main reason you need to get MB:P is for the maps.

Note: these scenarios are not really canon, except Queen of the Black Coast (though I don’t really think the Ape is quite what Howard described).

Yes I do have the Corinthia expansion. The scenarios sound good but I haven’t played them yet. There are 4:

1. “The Amazon’s Dragon” which is Conan and Zenobia against the Hydra, Medusa and Amazon miniatures. The aim is for the heroes to get away with Medusa’s head. Some interesting mechanics with Medusa’s petrifaction power.

2. “Conan’s Nightmare” which has Heracles, Leonidas and Achilles in a fevered dream of Conan’s where they are trying to stop Ares reaching Conan. They do this by trapping Medusa, the Giant Snake, Cerberus and the Minotaur into giant cages? Very trippy. Conan has only a passive role in this.

3. “For Murillo” where Conan, Shevatas and Odysseus have to steal gold coins from villagers and plant some incriminating evidence (political reasons) and escape. Trying to stop them are Heracles and Hoplites. If a hero is caught doing something wrong then the OL can add Achilles, Leonidas and the Spartans. The game includes drunken brawls, thieving children and distracting guards with beer. One of the ways the heroes lose money is being forced to buy a round for everyone! It should be noted that Heracles (Hercules) is the bartender.

4. “Queen of the Black Coast” where the Winged Ape is trying to kill Belit and Conan and N’Yaga or N’Gora (you choose) are there to protect her. To win the heroes must kill the Ape but also 20 Rabid Hyenas. An interesting mechanic is being able to push over marble columns to cross a river.

The scenarios sound a lot of fun and I will play them when I can. I have worked out proxy minis for all the MB:P core box characters but it would be nice to have the originals. It should be noted that scenario 3 uses the Inn map from Conan but the other three use MB:P maps. Luckily I picked them up on eBay (from France) for a very reasonable price.

I haven’t played them but they look very good.

I agree, after reading the reviews of MB:P I may actually play it if I get the game and not just for the Miniatures.

I would love to get these, but my French is limited to menu items when ordering food.

No emails yet. Supposed to be today (Monday) but since I am umpteen hours ahead of most of you, mine may be arriving in the early hours of Tuesday.

You allocated the guard gems after the OL troops attack.

I recently purchased the Corinthia Mythic Battles Crossover expansion and think the scenarios sound great, BUT, now I am considering purchasing the Mythic Battles: Pantheon core box just so I can have the miniatures for the Conan scenarios. This game really gets in your blood. 

My wallet is thinking of leaving me to make me stop

4 hours ago, Neil Amswych said:

I seem to remember @Matt John S saying he wanted to use the big guys from the Nordheim box in the scenario. Would be kind of cool

to shift that and have Stygian Assassins in the snow, though (trying to ensure we don’t lose the Stygian Assassins)

Well, if you can have Picts in the snow...

2 hours ago, Matt John S said:

@drmauric@Primeval@Neil Amswych 

 

Scenario 4: Matt Nordheim. I have been busy this week, and was going to sit down to this tonight and really flesh it out. But assembling this master plan here has taken my time. Haha. So,  I’ll give you my loose ideas and they’ll have to be enough for the time being.

This takes place on the battlefield Map.

 

I’m struggling with the geography here. Norheim is way off the beaten path and just about every other location has motivation except this one. We need to transition from Khitai, Khitai, road away from Khitai, blank, Stygia or Aquilonia. The blank is the geography of this scenario. Nordheim is way the fuck out of the way. So, I was thinking about including Conan and making it a dream or a lotus vision. Otherwise I can have them travel there on the weird winged creature summoned in the Scarlet Citadel. Perhaps Hadrathus is capable of this?

...  

I’m all ears for how you think I should make this one make sense.

 

Just a thought, but does it have to be considered Nordheim? You can use the Battlefield map but have it occur in far north Khitai (a Mongolian/Siberian type area). The characters could be similar and would help overcome the “way the fuck out of the way” issue. 

Sorry all, but I am the midst of selling my house so have been absent from this discussion; but I just want to say that I am very excited by the sounds of this and cannot wait. Hopefully I will be in a position to do some play testing when needed.

Generally yes, unless a scenario’s Special Rules say otherwise..

He can teleport through walls.

Each time he stops he has to cast it again to teleport. So if he stops in one hut,  checks and then teleports to another, the spell is cast twice.

Ok, I’ll try your strategy and see how I go.

A question re the tentacles. Are they considered part of Thaug and are therefore activated at the same time as it is?

Ever since the French compendium was announced I have been hoping that an English version would become available, and it has now happened! The Conan Boardgame fan community is amazing and the support that Monolith are providing, doubly so. I've never heard of this happening elsewhere in my limited experince with boardgames so a heart felt "well done" to all involved. As soon as my email comes it'll be a big "yes please" from me.

But if Skuthus moves into the space with the Giant Snake, his protected skill means that he is fine as long as the snake is alive. Having used so many gems the heroes would find it difficult to kill the snake and it then gives the OL time to unfreeze and activate other monsters. Or am I missing something?

Ok, 

Easy and hard, in that order.

The easy one is Spaceballs. The hard is too hard.