{"id":358,"date":"2011-02-18T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-02-18T07:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:41:44","slug":"age-of-conan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrowedhalls.com\/wordpress\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Age of Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we played Age of Conan<\/em>. Mike was out saving the world at his work, but fortunately Andy was available so we still had\u00c2\u00a0four players.<\/p>\n

In Age of Conan<\/em> the players are in control one of the major kingdoms of the Hyborian age. The idea is to take over the neighboring provinces thus gaining gold and victory points. You can take over a province by either using the time tested method of marching your armies into it or by using intrigue. \u00c2\u00a0The other element of the game is that Conan is running around completing adventures that may help or hinder you.<\/p>\n

As Ben pointed out during the game, Age of Conan<\/em> has several overlapping concepts going on all at the same time.<\/p>\n

Frist, there is Conan. Before each Conan adventure the players bid for control of Conan. A Conan adventure lasts for several rounds, allowing Conan to possibly help you and possibly hinder your opponents. Through each round of Conan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adventure, players can acquire Adventure Tokens that can gain them immediate sorcery and gold or can be saved for later victory points and special magic artifacts. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little confusing just when a player gets these adventure tokens. We had to look that up several times.<\/p>\n

On a player\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s turn he chooses a fate dice (previously rolled) to determine what action he would like to take: a military action, an intrigue action, or a court action. The court action allows you to play or draw Strategy and Kingdom cards into your hand. These cards are very useful.<\/p>\n

The rules for the actions are in two places in the rules. We found we had to page back and forth a lot during the game as one section only tells you part of the story. Conan<\/em> does come with a reference \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sheet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for each player that just happens to look like a booklet\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith tiny text.<\/p>\n

So what happened during our game? Well, Conan is played of three ages each with four Conan adventures. In the two plus hours we played, we finished the first age. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell that one person was doing better than any other, although judging from forts and towers on the board, I was losing.<\/p>\n

I think Age of Conan<\/em> is a game you need to play a few times to get a good sense of what strategy to use. Sadly, we probably won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play it again for months.<\/p>\n

Chaos Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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