Sherwood Bandits

Merry Men
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:39:21 PM

Hello Bandits,
We are nearing the end of our journey together, and the road's end through Sherwood Forest is in sight. The last 3 days of the campaign are all that are left to see this fun and fantastic game come to life.

Crossing our fingers today  we will keep the funding, and then we can point decisively to the final rush to the first SG.

At the moment over 1500 people have clicked on the reminder button for this project.
It's impressive to think that 6 times the current number of backers are observing us with interested, but that they still have not decided to participate. Come joins us; you will have wagon loads of fun!

Tomorrow will be the day we announce the all-in. We will reveal the last 2 add-ons and we will insert a pledge that includes them directly.

But today I want to talk to you about the Merry Men.
These nice characters serve to put pressure on the players by observing them, but in fact, exploited properly they can be the key to winning every game.
Their powers can be used in specific phases of the turn and their current type of help (their revealed action) can change from turn to turn thanks to the wagons you find on the road. Random wagons will reveal a new card of the indicated character, replacing the older one and its power.

Lady Marion, for example, spies on the wagons that are arriving at the castle, allowing you to look at wagons before placing bandits or even change their value, increasing or decreasing the difficulty of a single wagon.

Little John will allow you, thanks to his impressive bulk, to scare the opposing bandits and steal their place in ambushes in many different ways. He will help you immediately after revealing the value of the wagons but before rolling the dice.

Thanks to his charisma, Robin Hood is able to influence the bandits, both his own and the opponents' bandits, effectively changing the results of the dice and throwing bad shots at the opponent's exploits.

Last but not least is Friar Tuck. This particular friar has the opportunity to help you during the Sheriff phase, to prevent your leaders from ending up in prison. Increasing the gaming experience, you will soon realize the usefulness of this character and he is the key to being able to always exploit your gang leader.

We will have an update on Wednesday to tell you about the special wagons.

See you soon Bandits.

Something is changed.
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:37:28 PM

Hello Bandits,
We had a certain type of campaign in mind, avoiding the notorious feelings of FOMO, in order to give everyone a chance to consider the project without  the fear of "needing to" fight for each SG level.
As reported on the home page, we have 15 SGs for you, all aesthetic and only one, the final one we have in mind for you, being exclusive.
Throughout the campaign, we have collected your feedback on our social channels and through the project page and we have decided to implement a small change of direction.
All the SGs that we can unlock and that are not upgrades of the core box will be exclusive to show a clear sign of gratitude to those who support us and help the project become realized.

Voting went great, better than any of our expectations.
Today we close the first voting session, announcing that Lady Marion is the winner, and have decided to provide the first SG that will be unlocked at € 12K, not at 15K:

Here are your new Gang Leaders in an amazing customized shape that are waiting to be unlocked.
They are beautiful wooden meeples printed on both sides, about 20mm high and of different colors, that will bravely lead your band of bandits.
 

So what are you waiting for? Spread the word to achieve this fantastic goal.

Today is also the day of our first add-on announcement.

This add-on is a KS exclusive, the only one. These are the fantastic wooden fake coins that can be used to replace almost all the tokens in play, including the players' score markers.
They are printed on both sides and will give a touch of class to your game.

We have uploaded new versions of Eng and Ita rulebooks plus an Alpha rulebook in French, thanks to François.

May your hand be strong and your aim worthy, as in archery the dice roll deserves concentration.

Welcome to Sherwood!
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 04:36:13 PM

Hello Bandits,
Welcome to Sherwood, one of the most beautiful and characteristic forests in the world, where Robin Hood and his fellow Merry Men have once resided.

This is the first game of the Ludus Magnus Lite series.
As discussed on the Home page, this brand will stand out for those players looking for a more accessible game, but will retain all the passion that the Ludus Magnus Team puts into its products, the quality of the materials and the originality of the rules.

This game was intended for the retail market; we were already finalizing commercial deals, but Covid-19 blew up all our plans. Between closed shops and distributors with full warehouses, we would have needed to wait for the new year to determine how best to put the game on the market.

KS is the tool we have always used at LMS for two reasons. The first is that we are a small company with limited resources, which needs your support to retain the high quality of the games  we develop. The second reason is that we make high value games,requiring a great economic expense, which would never see the light except thanks to your support.

From these considerations, and the idea of ​​going back to our origins, we did not want to wait for next year's developments with a game ready since the beginning of this year to decide if and when we could put it on the market.

We want to spend a couple minutes discussing the SG system we will use for Sherwood Bandits.
We thought that involving our backers not only economically but also with choices on what we can unlock would be a good initiative to establish what you really want to see arrive in your homes later this year.
We plan to unlock all the SGs, but in case we don't succeed we want you involved to choose what you would like. To make this possible, we will identify the goal to be reached from time to time to unlock the next SG: € 15,000 is the first, and through a button on the home page and in the updates you will be directed to our web page where you can vote among all the SGs available for that level of funding.
The SGs will be relatively visible in groups of 5. Once the first group is finished, we will pass on to the second and then to the third, the last one.

Why "relatively" visible?
Because we wanted to create a small game within the KS project.
Each character to whom the SG is associated will give you clues through a sentence, but it will never be absolutely clear what it relates to. It will be your job to decipher what everyone says.
Well, the time has come to take action:

See you in the forest! Spread the word, Robin Hood is back!