Age of Conan

Age of Conan is a boardgame which puts players in control of one of the major kingdoms of the Hyborian age, in the period of history well known through the tales of the adventures of Conan the Cimmerian, the barbarian hero created by Robert E. Howard.

You will fight with armies, sorcery and intrigue to make your kingdom the most powerful of its age, and to secure on your side the mightiest hero of all – Conan the Cimmerian!

Game Contents

The game includes:

• 1 Rulebook
• 1 Game Board
• 2 Punchboards of cardboard counters and tokens, containing:
  • 10 Raider Tokens
  • 56 Adventure Tokens
  • 20 Bidding Tokens
  • 38 Gold Tokens
  • 15 Sorcery Tokens
  • 15 "Crom, count the dead!" Tokens
  • 4 Empire Point Counters
  • 1 First Player Token
• 7 Fate Dice
• 6 Contest Dice
• 168 Plastic figures in 4 sets. Each set includes:
  • 18 Army Units
  • 6 Emissaries
  • 9 Towers
  • 9 Forts
• 1 Conan Figure
• 1 Conan Destination Marker
• 165 playing Cards
  • 27 Adventure Cards
  • 12 Objective Cards
  • 37 Strategy Cards
  • 84 Kingdom Cards (21 for each kingdom)
  • 3 Artifact Cards
  • 1 Conan Bonus Card
  • 1 Conan Player Card
• 4 Reference Sheets

How to Win

Victory is achieved by subjugating vassal provinces using military strength, creating alliances using your emissaries, fighting the other players, and by achieving specific objectives which become available throughout the game.

You can benefit from the adventures of Conan, by accumulating adventure tokens and, at the end of the game, by trying to make Conan the ruler of your kingdom.

The game ends at the end of the third age, or when, during the third age, a player attempts to crown Conan as the ruler of their kingdom.

At that point, the players measure their achievements by calculating their final scores and the winner is determined.

Gameplay

The game is played over three ages, each composed of a variable number of individual player turns, which are based on the roll of the fate dice.

The duration of each age is regulated by the adventure cards mechanic: when all four cards in the current adventure deck have been revealed and completed, the age ends, and all players engage in a series of activities (called the age change phase) during which they build up and prepare their kingdoms for the battles and conquests of the next age.

A new adventure deck is composed and a new age begins.

When three ages have been played completely, or when there is an attempt to crown Conan (during the third age), the game ends.