Thank you so much! I am HOPINg to get my husband to play but this takes patience. I played for years on my own (as the WITCH KING no less 😈 but it’s been decades. Thinking I need to relearn on my own before teaching him again... last time he gave up quickly. Sighs.. it is such a great game!!
You beautiful man! I had this for my 10th birthday back in 1980. Never managed to decipher anything past the first section, but was always in awe of the components. I sold it years later, always regretted it. Can't wait to see it played properly!
ohh I love this game. There hasn't really been anything as epic as this in fantasy board games still to this day, and while the rules are a bit archaic there is really nothing like this around that I know of. Great choice. Up there with 7 Ages as a ambitious game vid!
Regarding armor and sharpness stars, Any armor will cancel exactly ONE sharpness star from an attacking weapon. Also, any armor will absolutely keep a character from dying from any blow UNLESS that blow EXCEEDS tremendous damage, which is a sort of critical hit for all practical purposes. So if the Amazon receives tremendous damage against her shield, it does NOT destroy the shield and her breastplate and then kill her. It would destroy her shield and she would take a wound.
Nice I couldn't remember the name of this then I found some BGG pics I downloaded a long time ago. I remember seeing this in the hobby shop after D&D came out. I have a vid of my D&D Holmes boxed set up. I came close I came to getting this back in the day. But my friends played D&D so I got that.
I have two original full copies of it plus one custom print & play with the alternate monster counters plus one print & play with the Carthaginian (karim) awesome redesign (beautiful but not as charming as the original IMO). So, in total, 4 copies of it (not counting the huge amount of rulebooks and fan-created expansions...) As you can understand, I'm more than pleased to see this video with your explanation/introduction :) cheers!
Since I recently acquired a copy of the game, I'm really interested in any playthroughs. The rules are a beast! I really had to laugh at the 34:30 mark in this video, because the combat rules are truly arcane. It almost seems as if they were kept deliberately as complicated as possible...
It's a rough one, because the rules are so bad (PI style). The fan made revisions don't really help, somehow bloating it from the thin original rulebook to over 100 pages, in order to nail down every special case. The basics of the game can be taught fairly quickly, in person. Struggling through the PI (unlearning rules learned earlier) is probably the next best choice. The massive fan made rules might serve as a useful reference if you want to play the game at a tournament or if you're interested in looking at some of the new optional rules, but I'd leave it alone otherwise.
@@calandale Well... I feel like it tries. It just has so much baggage from wargames with the chits and complications. I guess grognards might warm to it more easily for that reason, but... if all you want is a rousing adventure with some pals, yeah... but from reading comments and other pages, it sounds like people just love to solo this.
Frankly, I'd prefer something more like Heroquest. But this was a fair amount of fun opposed. Mainly because of a couple people who tried to nerf the system more than the actual narrative.
Thank you so much! I am HOPINg to get my husband to play but this takes patience. I played for years on my own (as the WITCH KING no less 😈 but it’s been decades. Thinking I need to relearn on my own before teaching him again... last time he gave up quickly. Sighs.. it is such a great game!!
You beautiful man! I had this for my 10th birthday back in 1980. Never managed to decipher anything past the first section, but was always in awe of the components.
I sold it years later, always regretted it. Can't wait to see it played properly!
Afraid I'm letting you down there. I play it improperly. :D
Yes! MR at last! Thank you very much dear Sir!
ohh I love this game. There hasn't really been anything as epic as this in fantasy board games still to this day, and while the rules are a bit archaic there is really nothing like this around that I know of. Great choice. Up there with 7 Ages as a ambitious game vid!
Not quite the same, but keep an eye out for AH's Wizards. It's a very interesting game.
Regarding armor and sharpness stars, Any armor will cancel exactly ONE sharpness star from an attacking weapon. Also, any armor will absolutely keep a character from dying from any blow UNLESS that blow EXCEEDS tremendous damage, which is a sort of critical hit for all practical purposes. So if the Amazon receives tremendous damage against her shield, it does NOT destroy the shield and her breastplate and then kill her. It would destroy her shield and she would take a wound.
I had 2 copies in the early eights. I lost one to spilled Welches grape juice and REGRET selling the second copy a couple of years later :*(
Nice I couldn't remember the name of this then I found some BGG pics I downloaded a long time ago. I remember seeing this in the hobby shop after D&D came out. I have a vid of my D&D Holmes boxed set up. I came close I came to getting this back in the day. But my friends played D&D so I got that.
I have two original full copies of it plus one custom print & play with the alternate monster counters plus one print & play with the Carthaginian (karim) awesome redesign (beautiful but not as charming as the original IMO).
So, in total, 4 copies of it (not counting the huge amount of rulebooks and fan-created expansions...)
As you can understand, I'm more than pleased to see this video with your explanation/introduction :)
cheers!
Since I recently acquired a copy of the game, I'm really interested in any playthroughs. The rules are a beast!
I really had to laugh at the 34:30 mark in this video, because the combat rules are truly arcane. It almost seems as if they were kept deliberately as complicated as possible...
good choice, looks very interesting !
This has been sitting on my shelf for years unplayed. I should not be intimidated by this game.
It's a rough one, because the rules are so bad (PI style). The fan made revisions don't really help, somehow bloating it from the thin original rulebook to over 100 pages, in order to nail down every special case.
The basics of the game can be taught fairly quickly, in person. Struggling through the PI (unlearning rules learned earlier) is probably the next best choice. The massive fan made rules might serve as a useful reference if you want to play the game at a tournament or if you're interested in looking at some of the new optional rules, but I'd leave it alone otherwise.
I thought it is a Blood & magic game from tachyon studios, absolutely same terminology and gameplay
Combat info 36:00 ;)
'80's not eights -.-
Hah, ridiculous complications to basically do the same thing Talisman does. Talisman better. ZING!
Fails to do what Talisman does.
@@calandale Well... I feel like it tries. It just has so much baggage from wargames with the chits and complications. I guess grognards might warm to it more easily for that reason, but... if all you want is a rousing adventure with some pals, yeah... but from reading comments and other pages, it sounds like people just love to solo this.
Frankly, I'd prefer something more like Heroquest. But this was a fair amount of fun opposed. Mainly because of a couple people who tried to nerf the system more than the actual narrative.