New video showcasing Rune Age
June 14, 2011 by dracs
Back in May we covered the Release of Fantasy Flight Games' new card game Rune Age. Recently Fantasy Flight have put up a new video to help you find out exactly what Rune Age is all about and to help you get to grips with the mechanics of gameplay, so we decided to dig this article out to let you guys take another look at this great piece of work from Fantasy Flight. Enjoy.
Fantasy Flight are returning to the world of Terrinoth with their upcoming card game Rune Age!
Rune Age is to be Fantasy Flight's first entry into the deck-building card game genre. Here's what they're saying about this system.
Gameplay in Rune Age centers around players working to develop their individual deck of cards. At the beginning of the game, each player begins with a small assortment of cards in their deck, drawing five cards each turn to carry out their actions. Each player’s deck represents their faction’s military strength and capabilities. These decks will be formed with their faction-specific Unit cards and a central collection of Neutral Unit cards, Tactics cards, and Gold cards.
I've never been particularly interested in card games. However, I am really tempted to give this a try when it comes out. Fantasy Flight are very good at creating rule systems which are simple enough to pick up, yet with enough complexity to allow you to develop your strategies.
On top of this is the art work, yet another aspect to tempt my money from my wallet.
All in all I can't wait to see how this turns out and I really hope to get my hands on it when it comes out. What do you guys think of this? Is it showing promise? Let us know your thoughts.
BoW Sam
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Great artwork as always from FFG.
I’ve got the call of Cthulhu card game from ffg – stunning artwork. I found rules were hard to pickup from the rule book, but a quick YouTube search found me some ‘how to’ vide. Just like Andy said, simple enough to start with but the complexity and replayability comes in deck building and strategies.
I can also comment on the Cthulhu card game – I really like how the mechanics translate into almost narrative gameplay; it probably shows the game was developed somewhat simmultaneously with the Arkham Horror game.
An interesting aspect of the newer FFG card games (like Warhammer Invasion), that might not be apparent at first (or even that dramatic), is that these cards are printed without border, which gives more space for art.
Runeage is always one of those games I want to pick up, but never get round too – so need to go for it lol.
It’s already on my must buy list.
I like Dominion a lot, but I don’t think I’m all that interested in another deck building game. I’ll never get through the gadzillion card pool combinations in Dominion as it is.
FFG makes awesome games!!!!!!! They always seam to do everything right. Keep an eye on this company they are going places and probably will end up being a force in all kinds of gaming. I like how they have licensed GW’s IP and are making more money with them than GW that should tell you something.
I do have to disagree about the artwork part, is pretty ” meeeh” there are lots of games out there with far better artwork than that, this is actually quite bad . But thats just my opinion, still like the game as such ^^
sorry not bad …average that was the word