ONUS! Rome Vs Carthago: English Version of the game

[jmkinki]

Greetings friends!

I’m Jose Manuel from Spain. I’m part of Draco Ideas, a new Spanish publisher. We publish last year our first game: ONUS Rome VS Carthago.

We introduce you this game that is very well known in Spain, has good reviews and that we will produce in English after summer, along with two expansions


ONUS! is a wargame similar to miniature games, where both sides fight an old age battle. The game is based on the II Punic War mainly, although battles from III to I B.C centuries could be simulated. The game concept combines both orders and events cards, that makes each game different and each combat unpredictable and exciting.

YOUTUBE (texts in Spanish)
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nn2MBx9pQkw[/url]

The game has:
A rule book with some battles (40 pages)
A quick guide (4 pages)
1-player rules (4 pages)
90 unit cards
6 help cards
72 action and event cards
4 wooden dice
Cloth bag
Over 130 counters
Rules
Box size: 23x15x5.5cm
Number of players: 1-4
Play time: >30m
Minimum age: 12
Box weight. 0,6Kg



ONUS! has a strategic component similar to that of a miniature game such as Warhammer Fantasy, Fields of Glory or the like, because it allows us to extend formations, change them (wall of shields, phalanx, arrow, square formation), or flank enemies using a special counter. In addition we have to decide how to play the order/event cards. They will allow us to give orders to our army and to change the combats and shootings with special features such as ambush, lancers against mounted units, wounding the officials or the general, reinforcing a unit, making a unit veteran, etc.
ORDERS allow us to activate units in order to be able to charge, move, heal, change formations, shoot, etc...
EVENTS allow us to change a combat adding bonuses or penalties to the dice rolls. For example we can play the event "Wind changes” when the enemy shoots us and she will have some penalties. Or if we charge against a most powerful unit than ours we could use the event "Harangue" that means that our official cheers up our soldiers giving us some attack bonuses.

HELP CARD with bonuses/penalties and turn phases: [url]http://onusgame.com/juego/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/help-card.pdf[/url]

We will launch a Kickstarter campaign in a few months in order to get enough financial support to produce it in English. And to produce the Persian and Greek expansion and the Scenarios one (with fortresses, woods, assault towers, rams, fire shooting, assault rules, etc..(similar to the Total War videogame! )



Here you can download the quick guide to know more about ONUS!: [url]http://onusgame.com/juego/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/quick-guide.pdf[/url]

[jmkinki]

Greetings friends!

We will post more information here and you can also take a look in [url]www.onusgame.com[/url] and [url]www.facebook.com/OnusWorld[/url] and @ONUSenglish in Twitter.



We want to let you know what and how it is ONUS. We will launch a Kickstarter campaign in a few months in order to get enough financial support to produce it in English. And to produce the Persian and Greek expansion and the Scenarios one (with fortresses, woods, assault towers, rams, fire shooting, assault rules, etc..(similar to the Total War videogame! )
Here you can download the quick guide to know more about ONUS!: [url]http://onusgame.com/juego/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/quick-guide.pdf[/url]

HELP CARD with bonuses/penalties and turn phases: [url]http://onusgame.com/juego/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/help-card.pdf[/url]

Battle pic



Some pics of the game



Have a nice day!

[jmkinki]

Grretings friends,

Here you have more photos of the released Spanish version of the game.

Map of the Mediterranean Sea with the 5 more important battles during the II Punic War, included in the game:





Game festival in Spain







Other pics of ONUS battles!

[jmkinki]

Salutem Civium!

In this message, we are going to introduce you 3 of the units of the game:
Sagittarii was the name given to archers during the Ancient Republic of Rome. They were part of the auxiliary troops giving support to the legionaries. Most of the archers were infantry and therefore pedestrians.
[url]http://onusgame.com/juego/reviews/sagittarii-archers/[/url]



Los Punic archers of Carthage: Carthaginians should know how to use the composite bow, of Semite origin, although its use was not very common among the mercenaries.
It has been written about Cretan archers among the defending army at Siracuse, during Marcus Claudius Marcelllus siege.
[url]http://onusgame.com/juego/reviews/punic-archers/[/url]



And the Lusitan infantry of Carthage: Lusitan infantry is a skirmisher unit, light and fast, skilled for ambushes and fast retreats. Anong their equipment they had a small shield, concave in the front and with a diameter of 2 ft, that they carried over the shoulders with the help of straps. They also had a dagger or a knife and several javelins. Most of them had a linen armor.
[url]http://onusgame.com/juego/reviews/lusitan-infantry/[/url]

[jmkinki]

INTRODUCTION TO EXPANSIONS

Hi all,

We are back to inform you about the new ONUS projects we are working in. We don´t have new illustrations but nevetheless we give you some tips about them


EXPANSION Greeks vs Persians

It will be a small box, more or less half sized of the original ONUS box. It will have around 100 unit cards, including some generals. We will be able to play historic battles , those of the Persian wars (499 to 449 BC)) , of the Delian League against the Persians and of the Peloponnesian War (431 to 421 BC) between Athens and Sparta

. Generals: there will be 6 generals: Themistocles (Athens), Leonidas (Sparta), Miltiades (Athens), Xerxes (Persia), Mardonius (Persia), Demosthenes (Athens). These generals will have the same skills as Scipio and Hannibal (leadership and moral influence) and at least another special skill. All the information will be written in a general card that wil have an illustration as well.


. Counters with new skills and new generals.

. Units: There will be 4 new armies. Some of them will have new skills.

We will update this expansion regularly

EXPANSION tscenery and fortresses

The box will be similar to the original ONUS box

It will have:

Woods
Hills
River: They will be split in several parts including bends. They will have jigsaw connections
Village
Bridges
Towers
Rams
Walls and destroyed walls
Barricades
Fire damage counters
Siege towers
Unit counters to place them in closed places
A wooden fortress, with jigsaw connections, similar to a Roman camp that we will be able to design as per our wish. With doors, towers, walls....
Stone fortress, similar to the wooden one

There will be new weapons and special siege rules.

We hope you will enjoy them.

We can show you this sketch



and this roman camp cloth we are using for the playtestingy

[jmkinki]

Hi all!

We are working in the illustrations for the ONUS! expansion 'Scenery and fortresses'

Here you can see a testing version of the wooden fortress. It will be made of small pieces that you can assemble together creating the fortress you wish.

In the enclosed image there is a Roman triarii ready to begin the assault. Once it touches the wall it faces it using the marks that the wall has. These marks allow both the defender and the attacker to line up with the wall.



Defenders inside fortresses can overlap themselves. In the image 3 sections of the Celtiberian infantry and 4 sections of the Sacred batallion defend this area of the wall. The section that is below the friendly unit due to the overlapping can't attack or be attacked. It would be similar to beingpositiones behind the friendly unit. Defenders are placed both over and behind the walls.

If the wall is attacked by onagers or ballistas then the defenders will suffer collateral damage.

In the image's example, when the Roman faces the wall she can decide whether trying to damage the wall with fire or other means or climbing it. In this case we will use a counter to show that the unit is climbing. The defender, in her turn, will be able to attack the Roman from above (she doesn´t need an action to do it) and there will be no counterattack by the Roman.

In her next turn, the Roman will have climbed one level (being on top of the wall) and she will be able to attack (without using any action cards) but after the defender´s attack. So the deffender attacks first, then the Roman makes a morale check (if wounded) and finally she will attack. At the end of the turn the unit most wounded will make a final morale check. The defender has +1/+1 to armor values due to the wall's cover.

These are the general guidelines for assaulting a fortress.

To be continued...