{"id":35,"date":"2009-09-02T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-12-04T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:29:37","slug":"age-of-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Age of Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher:<em>Conan<\/em><em>, what is best in life?<br \/>\n<\/em>Conan: <em>To crush your enemies, see them driven before you&#8230; and to hear the lamentation of their women!<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We got a few new games\u00c2\u00a0at Gencon and from ThoughtHammer.com. So in the following weeks we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be playing lots of new ones. This week we tried out <em>Age of Conan: the Strategy Board Game<\/em>. I like Conan. I like games with armies &amp; waging war. The board game <em>Conan<\/em> has those and a lot more: Emissaries, sorcery, global objectives, Conan adventure cards and Fate dice. Fate dice determine just what actions are available to the players during their turn.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The game has a lot going for it, but the 90 minute playing time it suggests has just got to be incorrect. Of course maybe the designers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have friends like Ben, Owen and Mike who fret over each turn like lamenting women. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they understand that you must drive your enemies before you? Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they read the intro? Ok, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m kidding a bit here. Owen, Ben and Mike are superior strategist. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not, my turns go a little faster.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we played for about 150 minutes and still had about a third of the game to go. We all liked the game a lot and now that we got\u00c2\u00a0our feet wet during the first game we are all looking forward to the next time we play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teacher:Conan, what is best in life? Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you&#8230; and to hear the lamentation of their women!\u00c2\u00a0 We got a few new games\u00c2\u00a0at Gencon and from ThoughtHammer.com. So in the following weeks we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be playing lots of new ones. This week we tried out Age of Conan: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}