#Age of conan review 2019 series
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VPвЂ™s come from various sources - conquest during the game earns points, as does consolidating them by city-building later on, and there are various military objectives in play for extra points. Three such ages and the game ends with a final tally of victory points determining the winner. Four of these adventures mark the duration of an age, at the end of which is a mini-admin segment allowing players to spend money for new units.

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When all the tokens of a given adventure run out, a new adventure is drawn and if Conan is at his destination the Conan player gets another free token, then the bidding for Conan starts over again.

These tokens are handy things: they can be traded for in-game resources such as gold, determine who gets to control powerful magical artifacts during the game and provide a hefty victory point bonus at the end of the game. Other players can also claim tokens, but it takes their whole turn to do it - the Conan player can effectively do it for free. These tokens represent the monsters, women and treasure that Conan encounters in the course of his adventure and each time the Conan player takes a turn he can claim a token if he moves Conan closer to the adventure destination. Conan is a very powerful tool - whoever controls him will have the monopoly on the events of the current adventure, has the opportunity to annoy the other players by dropping troublesome barbarian raiders into their territories and can use Conan to provide a huge boost to any battles taking place in the provinces he visits.Д®ach adventure Conan goes on consists of a destination and a number of adventure tokens. Highest wins, but everyone has to discard the token and card they used in any case, so care needs to be exercised.

#Age of conan review 2019 series

Players have a series of one-use bid tokens of varying value and in addition bid a strategy card (which are usually used in combat) for a combined total. The game begins with each player bidding to control Conan the Barbarian for the duration of his next adventure - with these adventures being the clock which drives the game along.

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So itвЂ™s not a difficult read and, as ever, if youвЂ™re interested in the game IвЂ™d recommend you go download it from the FFG website and go through it yourself, as IвЂ™ll be providing no more than a potted summary.Д®ach player takes the role of one of the major kingdoms of ConanвЂ™s world - Aquilonia, Turan, Stygia and Hyperboria - and will vie with each other on a map board of the Hyborian age to become the most powerful empire. The size of the rulebook is partly down to redundancy - there are three types of combat in the game, for example, and the rules for each are laid out individually in laborious detail even though all three kinds use fundamentally the same mechanics and so all three sections of the book spend a lot of time repeating themeselves. AoC is not difficult to learn, or to play, and will certainly require no more than one вЂњlearningвЂќ game to get to grips with. RulesДЄge of Conan comes with a rather daunting 24 page rulebook, so I initially assumed that the вЂњsimpler than WotRвЂќ opinion was an outright lie. I was quite content to pursue my usual policy of waiting until the dust had settled before reviewing the opinion and deciding on making a purchase, but FFG kindly decided to provide me with an early copy to review - so here are my impressions on the latest offering from the Nexus design group. Further investigation revealed that the game appealed to me on a number of different levels: IвЂ™m a sucker for multi-player conflict games of any type, but the fantasy theme has proved the hardest for designers in this area to pin down. Being someone who loved WotR but thought it suffered somewhat from being complex, long and two-player only I was instantly intrigued. Age of Conan first caught my eye when I heard it described as a simpler, shorter, multi-player version of War of the Ring.