The Books of Age of Annihilation INDEX

[Vydar_XLIII]

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

We were given express permission to share the current cards. Why you would want to display older cards, which were updated for good reason, is beyond me.

My thought for leading with the AoA card was to display what was official imagery first. Do do otherwise might have been seen as disrespectful to the AoA team. But DS' reasoning is sound. Those images have outdated information.

If we are to standardize, I think we should lead with Anitar's updated Classic layout card and move the AoA released card down with the other promotional images and still note them as having outdated information.

Thoughts?

EDIT: To whomever repped me to tell me there is no "official imagery," when I say "official imagery" I am using it as shorthand for "Promotional imagery distributed to the public by Avalon Hill employees" and I fail to see the distinction between my longhand and "official."

[Anitar]

I, for one, am in full support of proudly displaying the proof that I've created something worth creating.

[quozl]

Sounds good to me.

[Chill]

Originally Posted by Vydar_XLIII

My thought for leading with the AoA card was to display what was official imagery first. Do do otherwise might have been seen as disrespectful to the AoA team.

This is more what I meant

[orgsbane]

I shuffled them around and added the errata, how does everyone like this look?

The Book of Festering Honor Guard

Age of Annihilation

Made by @Anitar

Alternative Cards

Spoiler Alert!

WIP PROGRESS AVALON HILL CARD

AVALON HILL CARD ERRATA

• Class: Minions -> Guards
• PARASITE
  For the entire game, if one of your Festering Honor Guards is on a Unique Hero's Army Card at the end of the round, you must roll the 20-sided die for that Hero. If you roll a 17 or higher, destroy that Hero. If a Festering Honor Guard is on a Unique Hero's Army Card when that Hero is destroyed by this power, or by a normal attack, special attack, or leaving engagement attack, place that Festering Honor Guard on a space that Hero occupied, if possible.
• MOTHERLESS RAGE
  If Queen Maladrix is in your army, when Queen Maladrix is destroyed, you may move any unrevealed Order Markers from Queen Maladrix's Army Card to this card. Festering Honor Guard add 1 to their Attack value if your Queen Maladrix is destroyed.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and claim Queen Maladrix, I'll get her book up tonight

[quozl]

[Blue Trails]

Originally Posted by orgsbane

I wanted to bump this topic and get input from y’all other current book creators, @Vydar_XLIII @Chill @Blue Trails . I think it doesn’t make sense for the first visible card to have incorrect information and be unfinished, so I want to swap mine around, and do so for any future AoA books I do, but I also thinks it’s important to have consistency in the books. What do y’all think?

That logic tracks. I'll edit Xenithrax's Book to follow this idea.

Originally Posted by quozl

Yes!

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

They are safe for books, because we acknowledge what they are: Anitar pieced cleverly them together from information that AH put out into the world. Because they were never released, the same way the rest of the AoA units were, we on the War Council can't confirm or deny the fine work that she did, or answer questions about the designs.

Good to know! I'm glad to hear that, because those designs looked the most fun of any that had been "revealed." Here's Haluchott.

[Vydar_XLIII]

The Book of Cornelius Breech the Blackguard Prince is up!

Also, please update his name in the OP from "Derelict Prince" to "Blackguard Prince."

[Knox]

This is awesome, thank you guys! Some great work here.

I also am in favor of putting the units that were never released in any fashion into a separate list than those which were either officially released or pieced together by Anitar. I know I for one will be finding proxies for those that were released/ pieced together but not those that are fully "personal customs."

I also might change the terminology of those Anitar pieced together to "unofficial leaks" to distinguish it from the "personal customs" that have little relation to information shared with us by AH. The 3 categories of AoA books would thus be:
1. Official Reveals
2. Unofficial Leaks
3. Personal Customs

Secondly, would it be good to put a link to the proxy thread in this post? I for one would like that

[Dad_Scaper]

I propose that the index track all "revealed" units. Units were revealed in one of two ways: either released deliberately, or (in the case of 2) exposed accidentally. Either way, they were "revealed," which was good enough to unite them under that one banner. The OP of Anitar's two discovered units can and should include a note crediting her for the impressive work she did piecing those designs together.

[Dad_Scaper]

Copying & pasting my own post:

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

ANNOUNCEMENT INCOMING RIGHT HERE PAY ATTENTION FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE PUT DOWN YOUR COFFEE THIS IS SERIOUS AND I MEAN SERIOUS

Greeings, gentle reader interested in the Age of Annihilation. Thank you for your attention to this moment in the history of our beloved game. I would like to share something with you.

The Avalon Hill team released many units to the world - and to us, the community - including several even as the campaign was winding down, with no chance of success. I am fortunate to have been released from the NDA to discuss certain subjects, including the evolution of designs that have been released. To that end, I am permitted to say, and I do say, the following:

Every unit that was released was in final form to our satisfaction as designers and playtesters. The only changes that might have followed were cosmetic, including (1) names of units and powers, and (2) precise "height" value. Other than those two things, these units were all final, to our satisfaction and to Craig's.

I have heard, but not seen, that some expressed a concern that these designs were still "beta." They were not. They were finished. Were they released as part of a finished AH product? No. But they were finished.

Thank you.

[orgsbane]

I'll go ahead and claim Thyraxis Dragoon's book