Conan [Monolith Boardgame] - KS over and funded

[Polkovnik]

We played our first games this week and enjoyed it.

A write-up of the games and more thoughts on how it plays on my blog.
http://polkovnikblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/first-play-of-conan.html

[Elbows]

Question for the KS folks.

My friends have expressed interest in trying the game so I decided to punch out the materials and bag up everything for this weekend.  I noticed while assembling my unit cards (the punchouts used on the River by the Overlord) that there is no rhyme or reason to the French/English duplicates.  For instance I have doubles of some characters (despite using non-English names) and of Picts I only have a couple of duplicates, etc.  Is there supposed to be a complete set of each?

I have no French named Bossonian Guards, etc.  I have maybe four French named Pict cards vs. the full set of English Pict cards.  Does this sound normal?  It's looks as if I have everything in English (I think).  I also have so many Skeleton cards that I have duplicate beige/crimson bordered Skeleton cards in English.

I checked the full boards and it does not look as if I had any duplicates, but they're also not numbered that I can see.

[Arthadan]

That's normal. From the official updates on KS:

Except for the content of the Barbarian box, the rest (King content, Stretch Goals, Add-ons) contains components in both English and French. You can discard the language you don't need. When possible, we created tiles with different colors in French and English for those who want to use all the tiles in their home-made scenarios.- There are extra cards (blanks, or with only the title of the card). Again, this is extra cards for the creation of home-made scenarios.

Spurce: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan/posts/1722454

[palaeomerus]

ShipNaked sent me my e-mail so I should be getting my King Box + KS exclusive add ons on Friday via FedEx.

[Sterling Moose]

Mine is supposed to be coming today.  No sign of Mr Fedex yet though   

[von Lucky]

Australians are starting to get AusPost emails with a tracking number. Aetherworks is apparently sending them:
https://www.facebook.com/aetherworker/photos/a.219726914749633.63999.127699677285691/1089953331060316/?type=3&theater

Some friends have a Friday date, mine stated Monday. I'm starting to make room for this in the man cave - I've never had to do that for anything gaming wise before!

[supervike]

ShipNaked sent me my e-mail so I should be getting my King Box + KS exclusive add ons on Friday via FedEx.

Me too!! Although, they have now changed my delivery date up a day.  It's expected Thursday.  I sure hope so, cuz I'm going to be out of town for the weekend.

[von Lucky]

Good to hear - mine should also arrive a day earlier (on Friday). Weekend will be spent spreading it all on the bed, covering myself in oil and basking in it all.

[supervike]

Good to hear - mine should also arrive a day earlier (on Friday). Weekend will be spent spreading it all on the bed, covering myself in oil and basking in it all.

As one does....

[Dr. Zombie]

Was there some talk of a new and more readable rule book? And when would that be available?

Because they really are cryptic.

[von Lucky]

Package is friggin' yuge! Going through it now to see what's missing or damaged.

Was there a process to get replacements? I see Belit's staff is all twisted and one of her guardsmen has a limp halberd (though I guess a bit of hot water could fix that one). Some miniatures are way smaller than I imagined (i.e. bones golem), others are far more detailed. The scorpion seems a bit funny without a proper tail (though it matches the illustration in the Kickstarter).

I don't think I have enough oil.

[beefcake]

Hmmm. I contacted Aetherworks earlier in the week and they hoped to have all packages shipped by today. No tracking for me yet. I guess things are taking a bit longer than they thought. I'd really like to see this stuff before even thinking about the Mythic Battles stuff.

[von Lucky]

Dr. Zombie and beefcake - looks like all out questions are addressed in the latest update (#178):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan/posts/1741556

[beefcake]

Yep, got that. Looks like I'm one of the other half that hasn't been sent, frustrating, being probably one of the first NZ backers (just missed the earlybird pledge). I guess someone has to be last though and it will just sit gathering dust for me for a while I imagine  so I shouldn't complain.

[von Lucky]

It's worth the wait. Went through the miniatures, there's quite a few stretch goals I forgot about ("who's this guy?"). No major damage, one or two non-flat bases and about 10 bent staff/weapons.

Also nice touch of adding in a free Spartan miniature from Mythic Battles.