Fantasy Flight Games’ ‘Age Of Conan’ Boardgame Has Been Released

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to present, in conjunction with Nexus Games, Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game. Bringing to your gaming table the epic sweep of the Hyborian age, Age of Conan presents the battles and intrigues, quests and magic, of Robert E. Howard’s celebrated tales of Conan the Cimmerian.

In Age of Conan two to four players will take on the roles of the great kingdoms of Hyboria – Aquilonia, Stygia, Turan, and Hyperborea – and build through military might and cunning the most powerful empire the ancient world has ever seen!

Meanwhile, Conan the Cimmerian adventures through Hyboria on his own quests and the kingdom who ignores him, does so at its own peril. The kingdom which crowns Conan may harness his power, but the barbarian is unpredictable and savage, and failure will only unleash his wrath!

Brought to you by the design team of War of the Ring, Age of Conan is an epic-level strategy game featuring 170 plastic figures, 165 playing cards, 13 dice, and a large game board map of Hyborea, with rulebook and reference cards.

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New Warhammer 40K RPG From Fantasy Flight Games Announced

Following up on the success of its Dark Heresy line, Fantasy Flight Games will release another role-playing game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

In Rogue Trader, players take on the roles of freelance merchants and explorers, seeking ever-greater profits in the vastness of space. Players can own their own spaceships, seek out treasures in far-flung, long-forgotten locales, and tangle with pirates, aliens and other mercenaries equally hungry for wealth and fame.

The game boasts a quick character-creation system, rules for several types of encounters and adversaries, and background information written by WH40K novelist Andy Hoare. The 400-page, hardcover full-color Rogue Trader Core Rulebook ships in August with an MSRP of $59.95.

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The ‘Universal Fighting System’ Trade Up Promotion

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Universal Fighting System is celebrating its third anniversary. The multi-property CCG has experienced three exciting years of hardcore competition in order to provide gamers the first healthy way to settle the age-old dispute: who would win in a knock down, no-holds-barred brawl, character X or character Y? With legendary game characters from such fighting videogames as Street Fighter, Soul Calibur 3, Darkstalkers, King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, and the recent addition of Tekken 6 and Soul Calibur 4, this is your chance to prove you are the greatest fighter in the world.

UFS is building momentum with the recent additions of the Tekken 6 and Soul Calibur 4 licenses, the development of our first original UFS IP: ShadoWar, and a new lead designer: James Hata, the 2008 World Champion. We believe that the next year will be our best yet!

UFS also has “the coolest prize in gaming.” If you win a national or world singles or team championship, your prize is a tournament-legal character card featuring your name, and likeness along with stats and abilities you help design. You receive every released copy of the card to distribute as you see fit.

To make it as easy as possible for you to join Universal Fighting System we have created a special player promotion program. Simply send a deck of a game you’re no longer playing to the address below, and we will send you a tournament-legal UFS starter deck. Read more

Talisman Revised 4th Edition Has Been Released

Talisman takes you on a journey through magical lands, as you endeavor to reclaim the Crown of Command. Each turn will see your hero advancing, battling, gaining knowledge and power necessary to defeat the guardians lurking between the Portal of Power and the Valley of Fire.

Fantasy Flight Games has sipped a new Talisman Revised 4th Edition, and if ever you’ve been interested in this franchise, then this edition of the title is very much worth your while.

A Fantasy Flight revision usually means high quality stock, high quality pieces, new rules, and ongoing support in an online community. But aside from the granted staples, this Revised Edition sports new decisions on how to improve upon Talisman’s mechanics to take the franchise to the next level.

For one, the designers wanted to keep the player count high (2-6) but decrease the time ti takes to play (under 2 hours). Considering we rarely have entire afternoons to lose ourselves in a marathon sessions of old school Talisman, this seems like a good thing to us.

They’ve also introduced new rules that help characters from dying so bloody often; the premier example being the new Fate mechanic. Each character has a pool of fate, each token giving them the ability to reroll one die result when it’s needed most dire. But fate is rare, and once it’s used the character will have to venture out of their way to get more, like spending a turn at a temple to pray for Fate instead of life, for instance.

Additionally there was a careful look at the major features surrounding the character factions, and they were rebalanced to make playing Evil characters a more viable option.

In a similar fashion, the game’s locations have gotten a mechanical face lift to ensure there’s always something to do for your character, no matter how remote the location he finds himself in the world.

Fate tokens are a new component and game mechanic. I’ll first explain the mechanic –how players use fate. For players who are curious about the development process, the last half of this article explains why fate was introduced in the Revised 4th Edition. Read more

Talisman: The Reaper – First Expansion To FFG’s Talisman Revised 4th Edition

Fantasy Flight Games has announced the first expansion for Talisman Revised 4th Edition…

Following closely behind the release of the Talisman Revised 4th Edition core set, we are releasing FFG’s first expansion: The Reaper. This expansion introduces new characters, new adventures, and an entirely new game mechanic: The Grim Reaper, a dark figure that players manipulate against each other.

To celebrate the imminent release of The Reaper, we are offering a pre-order promotion. When customers pre-order their copies of The Reaper through their local game store, we will send out two promo cards per pre-ordered copy: The Instructor and Doppelganger. To learn more about our pre-order promotion, visit our Talisman Revised 4th Edition website or go straight to this page to download your pre-order forms. Th is promotion is for brick-and-mortar game shops only.

Product Details:
Will You Look Death in the Eye?

An unearthly chill creeps through the air. The Wizard stops reading his ancient tome and gazes cautiously over his shoulder. The Warrior feels an unfamiliar fear as he draws his mighty sword.

A shadow has fallen across the countryside. Death himself wanders the land. Can the heroes fulfill their epic quests with the spectre of the Grim Reaper hounding their every move?

The Reaper expansion offers Talisman Revised 4th Edition players;

* 4 new character cards and plastic figures
* 90 new Adventure Cards
* 26 new Spell Cards
* 12 Warlock Quest Cards
* and the Grim Reaper, a dark figure that players manipulate against each other.

The race to the Crown of Command has never been deadlier!

Fantasy Flight Games Posts Rules for Age Of Conan – The Boardgame

In anticipation of the Spring 2009 release of Nexus Games’ and Fantasy Flight Games’ new epic strategy board game, Age of Conan, we are presenting this brief sneak peak at Age of Conan, by Editor Sam Stewart. Those of you who attended Gen Con 2008 and got a chance to play the prototype of Age of Conan will remember Sam – he ran demoes the entire Gen Con weekend.

Age Of Conan – The Boardgame Rules

Age of Conan is, at heart, a game of military conflict. Phalanxes of armored soldiers square off against hordes of howling, axe-wielding barbarians, while swarms of horsemen pepper ensorcelled legions with clouds of arrows. While players can (and should) send their diplomats to convince or coerce the provinces of Hyboria into alliances, they should not do so at the expense of their armies. Though military conquest may prove more difficult than diplomatic intrigue, it will also provide a player with more long-term rewards. After all, this is the time of Conan the Barbarian, when only the strong survive to reap their rewards.

Conan is a major presence in this game (of course!), as he adventures through Western Hyboria. He can start minor uprisings and raise bands of brigands in provinces as scum and rabble-rousers flock to his presence. He may even join the armies of neutral provinces to fight against the invading armies of the players. Obviously, this means Conan’s influence can often upset a player’s carefully laid plans. However, there are ways for players to temporarily enlist Conan to aid them in their endeavors. A canny player will time his actions to take full advantage of Conan’s presence or absence. A player may even steer Conan in the direction of his opponents, so their schemes will be disrupted while he can proceed unimpeded. Read more

Age Of Conan: The Strategy Boardgame – Fantasy Flight Games

Marco Signore over at BoardGameGeek.com has posted some information on the current status and an overview of Age Of Conan: The Strategy Board Game…

During the 2008 edition of Lucca Games (Italy), I’ve been given the honour of being the offical demonstrator for Age of Conan boardgame (I will also post pictures of the event soon), in the Nexus stand. In four days of continuous play (from 9 a.m to 7 p.m.) I’ve played and taught to play enough games to gain a decent understanding of both rules and mechanics of this highly expected boardgame. I’ve talked at lenght with one of the authors (Roberto Di Meglio) and so I’ve decided to write this preview/review.
I will not focus on the rules, as many other reviews in this forum (from demo games) have already told you about “the rulebook”; I will instead attempt to offer a deep insight into what is the final “version” of the game, and its gameplay.
WARNING: Please note that some of the game terms will be different in the English Rules. This is because the Demo copy in Lucca was in Italian, therefore I have not been able to read the English rules.

Box content
Judging from the “final” demo copy of the game, the box will contain a rich hoard of materials that will enhance the gaming experience. The game, as most of you may have learned, is for 2, 3 or 4 players. Each player takes the role of one of the major Powers in Hyborea during the Age of Conan: Aquilonia, Turan, Stygia, and Hyperborea. In a 2-players game, only Aquilonia and Turan will play. The 3rd player will take Stygia, and Hyperborea is reserved for the 4th player.
Each Power has its uniquely sculpted Military units and Emissaries (Diplomatic units), while Fortresses and Towers are similar for all players (but of course different in colour). Furthermore, each Power has its own card deck, called Reign (or Realm) deck. Each power starts with 4 Military units, and 4 Emissaries.
Finally, each player takes 3 Gold counters. Aquilonia and Turan take one more Military unit, while Stygia and Hyperborea take 2 Sorcery counters each. Then each player draws two cards from his own Reign deck and two card from the Strategy deck, which is a “common” deck of cards that have several uses (see below). Read more

Fantasy Flight Games’ Holiday Release Schedule

Fantasy Flight Games has released details regarding its holiday-season release schedule for six product lines, covering its miniatures, board game, and card game properties.

The Tide of Iron: Designer Series (MSRP $24.95) is a hardcover manual containing 20 scenarios for the customizable WWII board game, created by veteran wargaming designers. Scenarios range from quick skirmishes to huge tactical battles, some requiring the North African expansion Days of the Fox and one huge scenario that requires two copies of the base set. Read more

Cosmic Encounter Coming In November From Fantasy Flight Games

W. Eric Martin over at Boardgamenews.com has posted some information on the new edition of Cosmic Encounter by Fantasy Flight Games…

Fantasy Flight Games has put a date on its new edition of Cosmic Encounter: November 2008. Read more

Upcoming Releases From Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games, the makers of Tide Of Iron, Starcraft The Board Game, World Of Warcraft The Board Game, and a host of other fine products, has an extensive list of projects currently in development. Here is a list of those products with their expected release dates.

Thanks to BoardgameNews’ Gone Cardboard

Tribune	June 2008
World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game	July 2008
Cosmic Encounter (new version)	Q2/Q3 2008
Descent: Tomb of Ice	September 2008
MotoGrandPrix	September 2008
Tannhäuser: Operation Novgorod	Q3 2008
Arkham Horror: The Black Goat of the Woods	October 2008
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game	October 2008
Red November	October 2008
Talisman (revised 4th edition)	October 2008
Talisman: Death and Glory Expansion	December 2008
Age of Conan: The Board Game	Q4 2008
Aye, Dark Overlord!	Q4 2008
BlackSheep	Q4 2008
Kingsburg	Q4 2008
“Not-Dune”	Q4 2008
Gears of War: The Board Game	Q4 2008
Si, Godfather	Q4 2008
Battles of Napoleon: The Eagle and the Lion	2008?
Blood Royale (new version)	2008?
Constantinopolis	2008?
Runebound: The Frozen Wastes	2008?
Borderlands (new version)	Q2/Q3 2009
Reins of Power	2009

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