Conan: Collectors Box
BGG rating
8.2

Expansion for Conan

Conan: Collectors Box

2016

Rules assistance for Conan: Collectors Box

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–5 players
  • 60–120 min
  • 14+
  • Complexity 3.0/5

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Conan: Collectors Box is an expansion for Conan released in 2016 for 2–5 players, 60–120 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Antoine Bauza, Frédéric Henry, Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc, Laurent Pouchain, Pascal Bernard, Croc, Jérémy Pinget, Itai Perez, José Chaves, David Bertolo, Jeröme Soffietti, and Julian Lemonnier and its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Area Movement, and Dice Rolling.

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About the game

Collectors box set that includes all of the Kickstarter stretch goals that were included in the King pledge for the original Conan Kickstarter campaign. Conan, designed by Fred Henry and based on the Conan universe by Robert E. Howard, is a scenario-based semi-cooperative asymmetric miniatures board game. One player is the Opponent, playing the Opposition forces, and the other players (1 to 4) play Conan and his companions: Shevatas the thief, Hadrathus the Priest/Sorcerer, Belit the pirate queen, Valeria the warrior, etc. The game is based purely on Robert E. Howard's novels and short stories (and not the movies or other non-Howardian material). The publisher has hired Patrice Louinet, a Howard expert, to make sure the art and the scenarios are compatible with Howard's vision. Each game is a scenario, played on a map. There will be several maps — Pictish Village, Underground temple, Tavern, Pirate ship, etc. — and each map can have several scenarios set on it. The game is fast, one hour approximately. It's possible to play several scenarios in a campaign, but you can also play each scenario individually. There will be a dozen playable scenarios in the base box. In a typical scenario, the heroes need to accomplish something and the Opponent wins if the heroes fail to reach their objective — but in some scenarios, the Opponent has his own objectives and the Heroes win if they prevent him from accomplishing his goal.

Questions and answers

Conan: Collectors Box supports 2–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.