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Reply To: Beyond the Monolith? Confusion!?!

January 13, 2020 at 10:01 pm #1470375

limburger

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not confused … but yeah, they aren’t exactly communicating their intent as clearly as they could have.

The only system that is ‘easy’ to understand is Batman.
As it simply upgrades the versus mode to something that allows you to play Conan in vs mode.

The weird thing is that a lot of the MB:P monsters are in the monster expansions but no option to convert that system exists.
I kind of wished there was an cardboard/counter only option for MBP

Conan … I suspect if you’ve got that system then you’ve got all the plastic minis anyway.

The thing is that the core idea is pretty good :

– core box with dice and counters
– expansions provide the minis for a specific faction/theme
It is effectively a skirmish which uses a fixed board as terrain.
Probably closer to chess than the average skirmish wargame.

I think they tried to provide upgrade paths for both Conan and Batman as those systems share a lot of mechanics with this one.