Empires and Generals

Friday, January 10, 2014

5 New Art peices... 2 New Cards

Viking Resource is 5 Minke Whale to Play. Can be traded for Coin.

Carolingian Resource is 8 Denier to Play. Can be traded for Coin.

Poster from 900 AD

1-10-14 HUGE UPDATE

Busy busy busy recently

1) Am in contact with Vetrux about the Software development. The lead developer/owner is busy with school these next couple of weeks so I am sorry, whenever they can get to it, they will let us know.

2) I released some elephants into the game.

3) Revamped Carthage and Maurya sites to reflect others.

4) Made links to those sites on all the others.

5) Reached out to over 20 artists to get some more art for the game on Deviant Art (my go to place for grabbing artists), Several have written back, I have made one card so far.

6) I added Gencon 2013 Cards to correct areas, cause people were tired of hunting for them.

7) Tweaked the old website and repointed EmpiresandGenerals.tk over there.

8) Put up a bunch of t-shirts online with our first logo and made an ad on this site to reflect that.

9) Made some prototype mounts cards. Horses, Camels, Donkeys... etc...

10) Finishing up some stuff for Naval on Carthage, Persia and Greece.

All in all, groovy things and chicken wings are rolling along. I hope to hear from you at https://www.facebook.com/EmpiresandGenerals - come join us! We have CAKE!

-GAME ON!

-Pauly Hart

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

ELEPHANTS

Introducing Elephants!

You are going to have a lot of fun figuring things out with these guys.

There is a couple of things that you should know about elephants!

1) The cost is pretty high. Instead of the basic 1/3 rule on total life+strength, I went ahead and made it 1/2 the total.

2) They are a dime a dozen. Each card released today is a common card. That means that you may have five of each card in your draw pile.

3) Each Elephant has two sub-categories. So, anything affecting an animal, affects an elephant.

4) Elephants are NOT mounts. Mounts is another sub-category.

5) They need training! Without a Mahout (an elephant trainer) you can pretty much do nothing with them except hide behind them. Here are some finer points:

A) When they are attacked in the Warcamp without a Mahout, their counter attack is 1/2

of their Strength (rounded down)... So the Armor Plated Bull instead of being a 13, would be a 6.

B) They cannot leave the Warcamp without a Mahout in the Warcamp

C) When there is an Elephant in play, Mahouts are always free to play

D) You may band a Mahout to an Elephant, but once he leaves into the Battlefield, there is no

longer a Mahout in the Warcamp for your other Elephants.

6) Resources needed are:

A) Maurya Empire - Indian Rice

B) Achaemenid Persia - Daric

C) Phoenician Carthage - Mediterranean Agriculture

7) Remember, you can always trade silver for these resources.

8) Two new abilities have been introduced: Stomp and Ram. See the cards for more details.