card & board strategy
“Balancing these competing expectations is one of our greatest current challenges, but I can assure you we’ll come up with a distribution model that will address players’ needs,” he said.
gets the types of cards that they want and need without overpaying is difficult with the existing distribution systems available.
The distribution system for Conquest Tactics is a hot topic among the team at Zeitgeyser, as it’s a major challenge due to the structure of the game. With eight different card types and three of those card types each have three subtypes, Mr Niggles admits ensuring a customer
my groomsmen in my wedding, and we’ve only strengthened our friendship by undertaking a challenge like this. We couldn’t be more thrilled to launch, and we can’t wait to see where the game goes in the future,” Mr Niggles said. B
“Recognising we may have a dichotomy For the initial release they decided between board gamers and CCG to stick to pre-constructed decks, a players, we’ve tested the pres-orted familiar territory for most gamers, a faction deck against customised decks standalone product for board gamers which included cards that haven’t been and an introduction to the game before released yet, and still saw the pre-sorted more cards are released for card gamers. faction deck able to come out on top. Therefore, we know its possible for a “We believe we’ve taken the best superior player to win using only what elements from card games, board is found in this initial release.” games and miniatures games and combined them into something that The team working on Conquest Tactics could appeal to any of those three is small but they have a close bond with gamer types. More precisely, we believe the momentum of the recent release Conquest Tactics will appeal most to behind them. two kinds of gamers: hybrid players “It’s been over two years since we who play two or all of the game types, started this business, and we couldn’t and players of one game type who are be more excited to finally be bringing curious about another type and are it to consumers. These are my best looking for a comfortable transition.” friends I’m in business with, they were
Conquest Tactics’ ‘Knowledge Pool’ is one of the features the team is most proud of. Positioned to one side of the game board, the pool allows spells to be used over and over, as well as allowing different troops to use the same spell. “So if your mage is killed, that fireball spell he had cast isn’t wasted, the fireknight you have can cast it as well,” Mr Niggles explained.
“To give you an idea of the level in which it’s present in the game, we’ve seen testers grow their Knowledge Pool to over 10 cards in a single game.” While it might be tempting to stockpile a large pool of spells, is it an effective startegy? “We’ll leave that for players to figure out,” he said.