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Mage Wars => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fentum on December 22, 2015, 08:05:02 AM

Title: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: Fentum on December 22, 2015, 08:05:02 AM

Posting this up here as it is a summary of a couple of threads elsewhere, and General Discussion seems well visited...

Rules for solo Mage Wars (either version) would be FANTASTIC.

Looking at Descent 2, Gears of War, Galaxy Defenders,  D&D adventure board games,  etc, I am sure that a talented team of game designers could figure it out.

In fact, the Descent 2 model covers a board, with movement, and monsters, each with special abilities. You could imagine how that might work in a translation. Galaxy Defenders and the upcoming Swords and Sorcery use boss style monster cards which could be used for the Mage whilst general AI by 'monster type' could be used for the monsters.

Also, Card Hunter, Loot & Legends, Hearthstone, Magic, Ascension, etc from the video world.

If the official AW team have no time, then there's a guy on BGG called Redjak who writes very high quality solo rules for all sorts of complex games. E.g. Descent, Star Wars Imperial Assault. They create AI for the monsters (creatures) and for the big bad guy (the mage) which is comparable in complexity to Mage Wars. Give him a call!

Actually, I sent him a Geek mail and he came back to say that he may well do a solo Mage Wars rules set but hasn't gotten round to buying the game yet.

I say to Arcane Wonders... SEND HIM A SET RIGHT NOW!

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: jupiter999 on December 31, 2015, 08:47:42 AM

Really, really looking forward to solo version...

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: Torkijo on February 24, 2017, 11:08:49 AM

Guessing this never happened?

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: Sailor Vulcan on February 24, 2017, 02:35:12 PM

Quote from: Torkijo on February 24, 2017, 11:08:49 AM

Guessing this never happened?

If it did I never heard about it.

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: iNano78 on February 24, 2017, 03:44:40 PM

There are at least a couple solo variants on the BGG forums.

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1042763/solo-variant (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1042763/solo-variant)
-> https://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/94853/magewars-solo-variant-rules (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/94853/magewars-solo-variant-rules)

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1031340/new-soloco-op-variant (https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1031340/new-soloco-op-variant)
-> http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=12983.0 (http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=12983.0)

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: Chicken the God on February 28, 2017, 02:12:33 PM

I'd love to design a solo variant that uses an APP.....sounds like my dream job doing that for Arcane Wonders....

Title: Re: Solo rules for Arena and / or Academy (don't get TOO excited)
Post by: Marshie6071 on April 23, 2019, 10:42:49 AM

Hi guys have designed a solo variant for mage wars academy please check it out on board game geek