Reply To: Soloman Kane KS about to arrive, and I couldn't care less!

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@onlyonepinman I think the enthusiasm died with the wait. The excitemnt wore off. Had the product been on time I probably would have been excited. Had it been 1 year late I would have played it with the hope it would grow on me. 2 years+ late and the disappointment has coloured my view before I get it to the point that I don’t care if I don’t ever play it. The fact that it’s coming in 2 waves just makes that even worse.

Regarding Conan, I feel like role playing in the Conan universe gives a much richer experience. The game has the setting perfect, I just didn’t quite get the ‘feel’ that I was Conan. If the Conan game was like Warcry or some other fantasy skirmish game I’d be happier with it and I could probably play those scenarios just as easily. By that I mean the mechanics of the game don’t necessarily make it ‘feel’ any more ‘Conan’ to me than other rulesets with the same minatures would.

To me the game doesn’t quite seem to know if it’s a skirmish wargame or a miniature boardgame. If I’m Conan than I want the freedom to do Conan stuff. Start a tavern brawl, take over a mercenary company, lead an army, romance/shag a princess/shieldmaiden. I get exactly what @limburger is saying. Some source books for a fantasy earth (whether it’s Conan. Old World, etc) are a waste but the advantage is that I don’t have to buy them.

And to Limburger’s point about Hate, sadly my issues are similar. I’d love a solo play mechanism. The art and story is amazing. Not that fussed on the grid system but it does make movement easy.

I regret not backing Walking Dead if only because everyone that plays it have said the game is excellent. There was a Walking Dead miniatures game based on the show with great minis (better than Mantics, not than Mantic’s were bad at all), I can only assume the rules weren’t good enough to compete with Mantic’s version.