Has anyone replaced the mage cards with actual miniatures? I've been thinking about doing it and wanted to find out where people got there minis from and if it worked out for them.

So I like the terrain cards a lot and I was talking about how the zones should be able to change into different things soon after getting into magewars. There is one issue with the terrain that I have with and that is conjugations that are in a zone and then have the zone's landscape change and be unaffected. For example if I have a battle forge in a zone and then shallow sea gets played nothing happens to forge even though it has a hydro +3. There are other examples with this but I wanted to see what you guys thought and wither terrain should affect conjugations that are in the zone prior to a terrain card being played.

Ok thanks. Have you heard anything about arena?

I'm just wondering why there hasn't been anything posited in the news section in almost 6 months. Is there really no nothing going on? 

I didn't notice that to cast those spells it would cost a full action. that is a big difference and a game changer. Thanks for all the info guys.

True, there are other games out there that can scratch that itch of a campaign in a board game format (i.e. decent, imperial assault and arkham horror LCG) The thing is I don't know of a miniatures game with powerful mages like mage wars. It would just be awesome to have you start from 0 and become this super powerful mage that you created. Mages Wars has a lot of this set up as well with the leveling system and the different kinds of schools. All in all you can think of it as a different mode to play the game and you would be able to think about that academy is the small light version and arena is in the middle and the campaign would be large muilti-day/week game.   

I've looked into doing a RPG for mage wars and think it will be a great idea. My version had us collecting experience at the end of each match. You would start off as a level 1 mage and pick one school of magic or element. Everything else would be triple the cost since you just starting out and you would only be able to place cards into your spell book. You would gain experience from the spells you would cast and the creatures you would defeat; this was based of the level of the spell and creatures you defeated. After each match you would go and spend your experience however you wanted, increase health, SBP, level up your mage unique ability and so on. The issue I ran into was how much should the upgrades cost. Also, I didn't know what would happen if a mage would die, does that mean that player has to make a new character and start from zero and if they do how can they still be competitive. Another idea I had was that a mage could leave the arena if they could make it to one of the doors and then have another move action to move out of the arena.

I was thinking mages would start with 5 channeling, 15 health and 40 SBP. This way when your character get huge and powerful it feels like your guy really improved over time.

We were playing a three player game and it happened to be going pretty slow so I started out bringing out the seedling pod tree and continuously bringing out pods while planting mana flowers and summoning some creatures. Very slow build, but it ended up working out great.