Managed to get in a game of the first "Living Fiction" scenario, "The Battle of Two-Rock", this weekend. Lots of fun. Its a victory point scenario so killing your opponents force isn't necessarily the best way to go about winning. Some of the Gudanna forces start near the Durani side of the map, controlling the gates into the city of Two-Rock. The remaining Gudanna start on the far side and are reinforcements that are arriving to help defend the city from the Durani siege. Deployment zones are tight for the Gudanna, so they often have to deploy part of their forces after the game starts and when their initial forces move off of the deployment areas...coming in as even more reinforcements.

In addition, each side also receives an optional in game quest part way through the scenario. You can ignore the quest or take it. Taking the quest diverts some of your forces away from the battle, but will yield rewards if you complete it.

The scenario is still available for a couple of more days. If you have GA, make sure you get in a game of Two-Rock before its complete. If you don't have it, see about tracking down a FLGS and/or Emissary to show you how it works. Once the allotted time passes, results will be totaled which will drive the next chapter of the story.

So will you side with the Durani Empire and try to take the city of Two-Rock, thereby ensuring the Empire has a vital path to the Gudanna territories? Or will you fight with the Gudanna Dominion in protection of the city? And if you fight for the Dominion, will it be for the Spider Prince and his network of spies or for his half-sister, the Princess Nandanna, who promises to keep the Dominion intact...whatever the cost.

According to the HeraldofEretsu twitter feed, the Gudanna forces were able to repel the Durani invaders and even managed to fell a few Jagara colossi during the conflict!

No word yet if forces loyal to the Spider Prince were able to retrieve the spy and the info he carries or if he was captured by Princess Nandanna's troops.


Next up in the story arc... The Caves of Matis!

And here's the official post about the event...

The data info should be pretty neat to see.

Lots of info about what's coming soon found here... http://comicbastards.com/golem-arcan...nd-app-update/

It includes things like a scenario builder, up to 8 player free for all support, and save game feature. Also there's a timeline for the next 7 release items.

Played part two of the current three-part storyline event (The Battle of Two Rock was part 1). This one is called "The Caves of Mahtis" and if you want to see a really funky, really fun map layout, check out this picture! Red squares were my deployment zones and white squares were Alex's.

Here's one of the things I love about Golem Arcana... http://golemarcana.com/2014/12/08/re...ves-of-mahtis/

This was for the latest two week storyline event that finished last Wednesday. Because of the app, the company is using the stats collected to drive the storyline. And you get some nice little tidbits of interesting info to boot!

Imagine if something like this could have been done for the No Man's Land storyline and the gang war that supposedly went on during that campaign?

FYI, in case anyone is interested...

HBS is running a 20% off Christmas sale on their website. This applies to all of the web exclusives...

Charred Reavers elite set
Black Widows elite set
Gilded Band elite set
Winged Vanguard figure
Carapace Brute figure
Earthfall Titan figure
Stylus pen

New update was posted. It includes a save game feature (Can't finish your game? Save it and you can rebuild it later exactly where you left off!) and a very intuitive scenario builder. Now you can create your own custom maps and victory conditions. Nice!

Great "Watch it Played" play through video with Rodney and his son...


Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6QYj8T_Bu0

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpmg1Z4Kfhc

Lords of the Line, the final part of the first "Living Story" arc just completed this past Wednesday. Today, HBS put out a blog post with the results and stats.

Some interesting info...

These were hidden "encounter" squares. You didn't know where they were on the map until you walked into them. I hit them a couple of times and they were annoying!

A random encounter that cropped in-game. You had to make a choice on whether you accepted the smuggler's offer or not. If you were playing Gudanna and accepted, they showed you a "short cut" route to the castle.


Stats from the battle:











As I said before, I love that these kinds of stats are collected and shared. It really helps you feel like you are impacting the world!

My LGS ordered a good bit of Golem Arcana when it first became available at the distributor level, and not a single box of it has sold. It's kind of depressing really.

They really should have someone demoing it then.

Pick it up, sign up to be an emissary, and get to work!

That kinda seems like a lot of work. I work at my store, and it'd be adding an extra thing I have to do twice a month. I'd be all for it if a customer in the store were willing.

Well, only if you call playing games and getting free stuff "work".

Unlike with HC, the folks that make GA are encouraging their emissaries to play in their events. They understand that we all got into this because we like to play games.

Emissaries gain points for running events and can use those points to buy product from the GA webstore. That's a pretty nice perk. Maybe talk to one of your friends/local players and see if they'd be interested if you don't feel you can do it.

Very interesting discussion on the first storyline series. Some lore, some data, some upcoming things, some "backend" stuff. Its a good insight into how this game is more than just the miniatures on the map.