Conan Review - The Challenge Comes Before Playing!
Whichever way you look, we seem to find a tactical skirmish miniatures game. Especially from Kickstarter, as apparently all you have to do to get a game funded is show off some fancy models and you're set. Conan however is a theme which I can get behind for this genre. You could play as your favourite heroes from the movies (of which I've only seen a couple of them once for Arnie nostalgia purposes so my knowledge is very limited) and face off against different enemies and monsters even though we've seen them time and time again in every fantasy miniatures game ever.
I wanted to get this played and reviewed at the start of the year, but I was held up not only by other games that needed reviewing but also a massive problem with the game, that being its horrific rulebook. It was no surprise of mine to hear that everyone was slating Conan for the low quality rulebook which made it a burden to learn and play. Bad rulebooks feature pretty highly in my Top Ten list of "things publishers annoy me with". Time is precious for me and if a publisher can't take the time to fulfill a fundamental requirement of every board game in existence then I'm less willing to take the time to play your game. I don't think I'm been fussy here. I expect a dentist to have suitable qualifications before he sticks a whirring drill down my gob and equally I expect a board game to have a functional, approachable rule book when I give you money for it.
Thankfully though the publishers did recently publish a revised PDF on their website that we could download as a revised rulebook and which would feature in an upcoming reprint. Reluctantly I decided that I would tackle Conan head on using this instead to see if it did the trick and if it was worth the wait and effort.
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I wanted to get this played and reviewed at the start of the year, but I was held up not only by other games that needed reviewing but also a massive problem with the game, that being its horrific rulebook. It was no surprise of mine to hear that everyone was slating Conan for the low quality rulebook which made it a burden to learn and play. Bad rulebooks feature pretty highly in my Top Ten list of "things publishers annoy me with". Time is precious for me and if a publisher can't take the time to fulfill a fundamental requirement of every board game in existence then I'm less willing to take the time to play your game. I don't think I'm been fussy here. I expect a dentist to have suitable qualifications before he sticks a whirring drill down my gob and equally I expect a board game to have a functional, approachable rule book when I give you money for it.
Thankfully though the publishers did recently publish a revised PDF on their website that we could download as a revised rulebook and which would feature in an upcoming reprint. Reluctantly I decided that I would tackle Conan head on using this instead to see if it did the trick and if it was worth the wait and effort.
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