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Ah, good points Ironhand. Do you imagine that Conan would make innovations or change things as he becomes king, considering his expirience and travels?

On the contrary, if an epic decent Conanmovie is made once more, interest will, I imagine grow for sword and sorcery style fantasy. Lord of the Rings was basically an industry for a couple of years and I doubt very much that Tolkien lost readers. Great ka-ching! for the investors and risktakers too of course.

But obviously the CGI made half that movie, they would never even have been shot without CGI. What? Gollum a naked guy in a loincloth played by Chevy Chase? I think there is a lesson there to be learned.

King Conan would mean epic huge battles, huge beasts and bombastic sceneries.

Pretty interesting read. Hope you do more of these.

Three thoughts...

1: Bossonia and Gunderland are frontiers. Barbarians may raid here so maybe they should have a lower settlement but with higher military prescence? In such area the population could also more frequently be armed and be a welltrained militia. Same could be said for Potain, although it seems to be a more wealthy province.

2: Should Nemedia really have a smaller population? I was under impression they were equals in might while Aquilonia was the supreme culture. Why? Perhaps due to trade and closeness to the sea but perhaps also because Nemedia has more dangerous enemies. When the barbarians are calm, then Aquilonia has its back free.

3: Climatewise, where is Aquilonia by comparison? I imagine it to be quite warm, but I don´t know if that makes any difference.

IMHO.

REH´s descriptions are very bombastic and romantic with silk and gold and gleaming steel in not so realistic settings. Maybe you can caputure some of that magic when painting the figurines. To me it would be kind of boring if you just "used vikings" for the Aesir and "Black Prince" for the knights of Aquilonia. I mean why? Then one might as well make a historical game. 100YW for instance...and say, well that is Conan the strategy game. But its not...everybody can see it is a historical 100YW game.

I realize this is a hobby project of yours but I am just discussing with myself here a bit. Would historical gamers buy such a game?..No, I think not because they would probably not like the weird mix of babylonians vs Swizz Pikemen and so on. (I would like it though...) Would fantasy-nerds buy such a game? ..No, because they look too realistic historical and not fun with pointy eared elfs and ents running around.

Everybody thinks of eagles when they hear Aquilonia, just as they think of grecoroman mythology when river Styx, Acheron and such appears in the Conan stories. Likewise the other national names, Mitra, Pictland, Ophir even Cimmeria can be said to be reminiscent of ancient historical or mythical lands. But obviously Stygia, Shem and the other nations are fictional fantasyworlds. They might look like whatever,

Obviously he must have read something, something of grecoroman myth even if he just used the names and cared nothing about the rest. Technologywise 100YW is probably a very good place to pick Aquilonian figures from. But no cannon then...

This is more interesting? Nooo, it will poison the well...look!!!