I would like to say that I hope your game is a big success and that this is only the beginning.
I am gonna make some historical leaders for this game representing the 100 years war timeframe. I will make control markers based on the painted shields and also introduce the “Black Death” and the crusades.
Philip VI ( france)
Edward III –AKA the “Black Prince” ( England)
Joan Of Arc (france)
Ivan the Great ( Ivan III)- Russia
Vlad III ( the Impaler)- Balkans
Louis IV ( Holy Roman Empire)- Germany
I found some nifty painted medieval figures in near scale
Also want to bring in Siege Towers ( tokens for these) and beef up the defense of Castles
Teutonic Knights and Mercenaries will also add to the game.
Welcome to the boards. This game looks great and I wish you the greatest success!
Any hope of a new or revised release of your other AAA related expansions?
I’ve already got my copy! Going to paint some of the units (probably not all of them though).
post the pics.
I have to say this is one of the most well-crafted medieval style games that I’ve ever seen.
I’ve already got my copy! Going to paint some of the units (probably not all of them though).
Have you painted any yet?
@Brain:
I’ve already got my copy! Going to paint some of the units (probably not all of them though).
Have you painted any yet?
Nope - sculpting some stuff and sticking with the A&A fest.
Any hope of a new or revised release of your other AAA related expansions?
Hope? Yes, some but not much and not soon. Hopefully we’ll reprint Warlords first, in larger numbers (current run is 2000). Then, we’ve got some new titles we’d like to see happen. But Operation Barbarossa and A House Divided The Brothers War are both pretty good candidates to re-imagine into full plastic piece games somewhere in the unknown future, all predicated on the success of Warlords.
Thanks all for the welcome and encouragement. I too am looking forward to seeing pics of those painted Warlords pieces.
Any hope of a new or revised release of your other AAA related expansions?
Hope? Yes, some but not much and not soon. Hopefully we’ll reprint Warlords first, in larger numbers (current run is 2000). Then, we’ve got some new titles we’d like to see happen. But Operation Barbarossa and A House Divided The Brothers War are both pretty good candidates to re-imagine into full plastic piece games somewhere in the unknown future, all predicated on the success of Warlords.
Thanks all for the welcome and encouragement. I too am looking forward to seeing pics of those painted Warlords pieces.
What about Conquest of the Pacific?
'fraid I don’t much care for the borders - NORTHumbria reaching to the channel?
I was meaning to do my own map, with historical borders and heraldry (my speciality).
How Blighty should look; except maybe Northumbria should be forest?
Flashman:
make the proper roundels for these nations based on 100 years war.
I am making them and they will look like shields ( coat of arms)
Make one for each section ( total 6)
I know you have some knowledge of this period. re-naming the territories offers nothing because the map is already done.
I am gonna make some nifty house rules:
Conquest of the Pacific is probably down lower on the list because it’s just 2 players.
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I had a tough time finding a good “all encompassing” place name for the Northumbria fief (because there isn’t one that I could find). But, we needed that fief to reach as far southward as it does so that it could be “adjacent” to the Champagne fief. I tweaked the shape of pretty much every historical area to fit the map that we had been test playing for a decade*, which was originally a total abstraction not based in any real historical period. But it was fun for gameplay, which always trumped historical accuracy. Warlords is not a simulation, but an abstraction that does somewhat fit into the fractured 1200AD political landscape (for instance, there were obviously a lot more than 12 castles in Europe…the number that comes with the game). We hope the gamers will agree that it plays well, and we hope the historians can suspend their disbelief for a few hours to enjoy a game.
When you do tweak the map yourselves, I suggest you try to keep the same fiefs adjacent to each other as in the original. A lot of care went into making sure the most common starting castle fiefs for the 4 corner kingdoms are spaced fairly, up/down/left/right/diagonally. Though the map is a visual rectangle, the movement spaces make more of a logical square. This way top/bottom players would not be encouraged to fight each other more than left/right players simply due to map imbalance.
*When I say fit, I really mean match the adjacencies of the old paper/pencil posterboard, and not the actual shapes.
Not to sidetrack this discussion, but on your Barbarossa game the site talks about optional rules but these are not found. Can you reprint them here or in another thread?
I play that game and i find it really fun. I hope you can redo that game next using FMG pieces ( they are redoing the entire line of AA style pieces)
A nice map of the 1941-45 conflict on thick cardboard and nice tokens… people would pay big bucks for that.
@Imperious:
Flashman:
make the proper roundels for these nations based on 100 years war.
I am making them and they will look like shields ( coat of arms)
Make one for each section ( total 6)
I know you have some knowledge of this period. re-naming the territories offers nothing because the map is already done.
I am gonna make some nifty house rules:
- black death
- adding kings
- fleets
- alternative mercenary rules
- crusades
- neutral armies
- ?
I’m fooling around with adding my “Age of Mythology” miniatures to the base set of this game. Not sure what angle to take yet but it should be interesting.
I’m fooling around with adding my “Age of Mythology” miniatures to the base set of this game. Not sure what angle to take yet but it should be interesting.
Are you going to paint those too.
@Brain:
I’m fooling around with adding my “Age of Mythology” miniatures to the base set of this game. Not sure what angle to take yet but it should be interesting.
Are you going to paint those too.
It’s #8 on the list heh. ‘War of the Rings’ is next.
It’s #8 on the list heh. ‘War of the Rings’ is next.
Have you seen the collector’s edition of War of the Ring?
