• Every hero in the game now has two unique cards in their starter deck, making them stronger and more unique.
  
• Wolfhawk, a ranged and movement specialist who enjoys running solo.
  
• Krang, a goblin shaman who can recover his skills mid-round and screw with monsters.
  
• Tons upon tons of new actions, spells, artifacts, and monsters.
  
• Ranged/Siege builds now have a reason to fear - elusive monsters have double the hitpoints if you don't block them fully!
  
• The big bad Volkare.
  
• New map tiles with new location types: walls to fortify roaming enemies, mazes and labyrinths to get lost in, refugee camps offering a large array of troops.
  
• And more!

• This will be a four player co-operative game, using the Volkare's Return rules at TBA Combat, Fair Race levels. In this version, the players must work together to roam the land, trying to beef up and race Volkare to the end of the tile stack where a single high-level city resides. They must take over the city before Volkare gets there, then use it as a base to defend against his enormous army. Full rules for this will be in the second post.
  
• As such, PVP is off. You may move into each other's keeps, but being in or adjacent to a conquered keep will only give you a hand size boost based on how many you yourself have taken over.
  
• Same houserule as before: If your first hand each Round has no Move, you may mulligan it until it does.
  
• When deciding your actions, please do as many actions as possible at once in bold. Obviously stop if you need a tile revealed, or an enemy piece - otherwise, try to bundle as much into a single post as possible. I'm only going to be double-checking your moves, rather than providing blow-by-blow feedback.
  
• Off-turn posting and COs are allowed. This is obvious, because sometimes you'll have to pick level-up choices or artifacts and plan your cooperative tactics.
  
• Audience posting is allowed, as ever.

• I'm looking for four players. I kind of wanted to take a slot for myself, but I think it'd be better for me to be on the side looking in.
  
• PMs are required. Sorry! I need to PM people hand links, and it's going to help a lot both for sending in COs if that's your thing or else for me to poke you if you disappear.
  
• When signing up, please list your two preferred characters in order, and also give me an idea of your experience level. I will be selecting the difficulty level based on this in hopes of pitching a good battle!
  
• Lost Legions knowledge is not required - I will explain any expansion items as they come up - but it would help if you know the base game, at least.
  
• Recruitment will be open for 24 hoursish, whereupon selection will be by random draw. I have it on good authority that if I close it early I may get lynched.
  
• I would like players who can check in at least once per day. The first game happened at a blistering pace, and I'm not about to expect or mandate a repeat of that - but by the same token MK is a long game and I'm going to want to keep it moving where I can.

Stelas fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Nov 8, 2014

• The map is limited to four columns, with Volkare's camp as one of the starting tiles. In terms of the map, the players have a little more space to explore to the bottom-right.
  
• Time limit is standard - three days, three nights.
  
• 12 countryside tiles, 2 placed at the start.
  
• 4 core tiles.
  
• 1 city tile, at level 16.
  
• Volkare's army is at level 32, giving him a lot of units.
  
• Volkare has a deck of 38 cards - a standard 16 card deck, plus the four competitive spells, plus 18 wounds.
  
• The first four unit offer slots are Indecisive, marked with a mana crystal. Units in these slots may join Volkare as the game goes on.
  
• Players always pick Tactics first, then Volkare will choose a random one from those remaining.

• Players may not end their turn on the same space as another player. They may move into Volkare, but this is considered an attack on a site and their turn will end after the attack.
  
• Players may move into keeps owned by another player, but they will only earn bonus hand size based on how many keeps they control. They may buy units as normal.
  
• The city has no limit on the number of players allowed in it.
  
• If a player attacks the city or Volkare - or if Volkare attacks a player - and there are other players also adjacent to the battle, they may give up their next turn to spend appropriate move points and join in the assault. This is treated as a full turn, including any levelups that occur, but players may only move into the battle. The source is not rerolled until everyone has had their turn in this way.
  
  • If fighting the city, players agree how many tokens they will take on, and they are distributed randomly. (e.g. 'I'll take three, you take two'.)
    
  • If fighting Volkare, players agree how many normal (green/grey) and how many elite (red/white) tokens they'll take on. Same deal, except you don't get to pick exact colours. Note that Volkare also adds his own attack - rolled randomly - to every player's battle.
    
  • All tokens must be accounted for.

• Players take their turns in order, revealing tiles and taking actions as normal.
  
• On Volkare's turn, he takes a card from his deck.
  
  • If it is a wound, he rests for the turn, and rolls one die. If he rolls a colour matching an indecisive Unit Offer, and the unit in that slot has not been bought, it is thrown away and Volkare gains an extra keep token.
    
  • If it is an action of a colour other than red, he moves in that direction as noted on his card. Volkare automatically reveals tiles and ignores all terrain or tokens. If he is up against the edge of the map, he moves as close as he can to the direction chosen. If Volkare moves into a player in this way, they are attacked.
    
  • If it is a spell of a colour other than red, he moves twice in that direction, using the same rules.
    
  • If it is a red action, he attacks a Mage Knight adjacent to him, prioritzing by highest Fame.
    
  • If it is a red spell, he attacks a Mage Knight within two spaces, again prioritizing by highest Fame.
    
  • In all cases, if he drew a colour and there is an appropriate die in the source, it is rerolled. This includes gold during the day.
• If Volkare attacks a player, they may either stand and fight - against the entire army - or take a number of wounds based on the round number: 2 during the first day or night, 3 during the second, 4 during the third.

• Volkare now moves towards the city if he draws any colour whatsoever - he no longer looks for people to attack on a red. He always takes a path that brings him closer to the city, even if tiles in the way are unrevealed.

• When Volkare is next to the City and has to move (i.e. draws a non-wound card), he assaults the city.
  
  • If the city is not yet conquered by the players, the city grants him entrance. The players lose.
    
  • If the city has been conquered but no player is present, Volkare destroys the walls and begins to plunder the city. Interaction can no longer be performed there, and the city offers no bonus hand size. If he does this twice, the city is annihiliated and the players lose.
• If there are players to defend it, they resolve a battle with Volkare's army.
  
  • If the players do not kill a combined total of four enemies, Volkare has not been fended off - the players lose.
    
  • If they do managed to kill a combined total of four enemies, Volkare moves one space away from the city.
• If Volkare's army is completely destroyed, the players win.

• Don't reveal the city too early, or Volkare will rush your poo poo.
  
• But don't reveal it too late, either. You still have a three day, three night time limit - if you're not done with Volkare in this time, you lose. Allowing Volkare to roam randomly for too long will leave him with too few cards in his deck to reach you, and you'll have to burn away a lot of time letting him come to your position. You'd think this would be good, but it doesn't really work out that way - it means you're having to discard a lot of cards you'd rather keep.
  
• Pay attention to tile placement - you know that the city is the last on the stack. Put it somewhere beneficial to your team.
  
• Work together to facilitate your builds! Communicate and figure out what to take for yourself, what to leave behind for other people.
  
• By the same token, consider buying contested units as a matter of priority so that Volkare can't get them. His army is already pretty big - you don't really want it to swell any further.

• Arythea - focusing on spells and red mana.
  
• Goldyx - focusing on mana in general.
  
• Norowas - focusing on troop use.
  
• Torak - focusing on block and not using mana.
  
• Wolfhawk - focusing on ranged and not using troops.
  
• Krang - focusing on refreshable skills.

Stelas fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 20, 2014

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 5 hand, 11 deck.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 5 hand, 11 deck.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 5 hand, 11 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 5 hand, 11 deck.
Volkare - 38 deck. 4 city, 4 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Oct 21, 2014

• Volkare's camp is technically a core tile but doesn't count as one. It does nothing special in this scenario, just denotes his starting position.
  
• Walls, as you can see on his tile, cost 1 extra move to cross. If you fight something by crossing over one of them, it is fortified - if it is a site, then it counts as doubly fortified.
  
• The dragon on Volkare's Tile has a little purple symbol next to its health. That is the dreaded Arcane Immunity tag - it is functionally immune to all effects except for any type of Attack or Block. Any other card text is completely ignored. That said, its attacks are not immune, and can be stopped or messed with.
  
• You'll notice the dragon and the orc also do multiple attacks. That's a thing now, but it works no differently than fighting multiple enemies.
  
• In the offer, the Magic Familiars are marked with a Healing Glade symbol, meaning they can be recruited there. The exclamation mark means they can only be recruited by normal means - no Call to Glorying these guys. The mana symbol means you also have to pay a mana to recruit them, with a variety of effects based on how often you cram crystals into their mouth. If you stop at any time, they vanish. Frankly, I love crystals and think familiars suck.
  
• Finally, you can't see it because his fat rear end is sitting on it, but Volkare is hiding a Refugee Camp underneath him. These are locations where you can hire any kind of troop whatsoever, but at a higher cost - +0 if village, +1 if mage tower, monastery or keep, +3 if city.

Stelas fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Oct 20, 2014

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 0/5 hand, 11 deck, yet to draw.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 3/5 hand, 11 deck, yet to draw.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 5 hand, 11 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 7 hand, 9 deck.
Volkare - 38 deck. 4 city, 4 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Oct 21, 2014

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 5 hand, 1 deck, 1 gold mana.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 5 hand, 8 deck.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 6 hand, 8 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 6 hand, 6 deck.
Volkare - 37 deck. 4 city, 4 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Oct 21, 2014

• We get our clearer view of the camp, now that Volkare isn't sitting on the only one we can see. Again, recruit any unit, just at slightly higher costs. +1 for keep/tower/monastery, +3 for city. Handy, when you need to take away Volkare's recruitment options.
  
• The odd structure in the bottom-left is a Maze. Move onto it, then as part of your action play 2, 4 or 6 move. You can take a single unit with you, and you'll face a dungeon enemy. If you win, your reward depends on how much move you played - 2 crystals of your choice for 2, a spell for 4, or an artifact for 6. Sadly, each player can only go down it once, which means I was cheating like a fucker for many of my solo games. Oops.

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 5 hand, 1 deck, 1 gold mana.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 5 hand, 6 deck.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 6 hand, 5 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 6 hand, 6 deck.
Volkare - 37 deck. 4 city, 4 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 22, 2014

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 5 hand, 0 deck.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 5 hand, 6 deck.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 6 hand, 5 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 6 hand, 3 deck.
Volkare - 36 deck. 4 city, 5 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Oct 22, 2014

Arythea (Fat Samurai) - 5 hand, 0 deck.
Wolfhawk (Bubble-T) - 2 hand, 6 deck, yet to draw, skill choice, advanced action choice, artifact choice.
Tovak (Gutter Owl) - 6 hand, 5 deck.
Krang (Tekopo) - 6 hand, 3 deck.
Volkare - 36 deck. 4 city, 5 keep, 8 dragons, 8 orcs.
Unit Offer | Fame/Reputation Track

Stelas fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Oct 22, 2014