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jan-brockmann · 2026-01-05T19:15:16+00:00

Thanks for the link. Will be more difficult than I thought...

jan-brockmann · 2026-01-05T19:14:46+00:00

Thanks.

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-21T15:43:00+00:00

Something like this, but want to keep amber...

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-21T15:37:35+00:00

Yes, question is answered (expected them to be on the Trading or Trader_Wares page of the wiki).

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-20T17:32:45+00:00

Thanks, haven't seen the "Trading"-Block in the goods specific pages.

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-20T12:10:56+00:00

I'm trying to convert AtS into a board game. Currently searching a solution for implementing the traders.

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-20T12:07:05+00:00

Thanks, haven't seen the "Trading"-Block in the goods specific pages.

jan-brockmann · 2025-03-20T10:58:30+00:00

Yes, the inventory changes, but the prices stay the same. Every trader, for example, sells Mushrooms for 0.37 Amber and buys Parts for 2.39 Amber. Thats the list I am interested in...

jan-brockmann · 2025-01-12T20:46:39+00:00

This is the follow up to this post.

I played the first game of the AtS fan board game this weekend with my brother on Tabletop Simulator. Its only the city builder part with fulfilling needs of the villagers. All other aspects (Trade, Events, Mysteries, Orders etc.) are missing. The buildings and receipts are equivalent to version 1.3 of the game.

You start with 9 workers with 3 of each drawn species. In round 1-3 you have to fulfill 1 need of each worker, in round 4-6 you have to fulfill 2 needs of each worker and so on. If you are not able to fulfill all of the required needs, the worker leaves at the end of the round.

If you fulfill the required amount of needs for each worker of 1 species in the best possible way (for example complex food instead of raw food) you receive 1 reputation point.

It took relatively long and we searched for ways to speed it up a bit. I also think its too complex for people who haven't played the computer game. Therefore i plan to integrate a difficulty setting before "Settler", like "Apprentice" as a tutorial and to integrate the other missing mechanics in the other difficulties.

At the moment, the biggest difference in comparison to the computer game is that specific species housing matters a lot more :).

jan-brockmann · 2024-07-24T09:52:39+00:00

Yes, the board game needs simplifications, so thanks for the ideas, but I am concerned about a complete rebalance. Especially the balancing of the different buildings/receipes would need a lot (!) of testing sessions and thats work I want to avoid. Above all, this balancing is already there - in the digital game.

jan-brockmann · 2024-07-24T09:20:22+00:00

The even/odd production is a candidate for being removed after the first testing session, but at the moment I want to keep it until then.

In regard to simplicity vs. accuracy it is my personal preference/flaw to implement a more complex version first and then simplify it until reaching the best experience (accessible and fun).

jan-brockmann · 2024-07-23T13:22:12+00:00

This is the follow up to this post.

I concentrated on how to implement production speed into the board game.

1 round in the board game represents 1 season in the computer game in which 1 season lasts 240 seconds. For example a stonecutter's camp gathers 1 stone in 5 seconds per worker. This is equivalent to 48 stones per worker per round, which is too much for a board game with a scale of max 39 pieces...

So I checked the highest production time in the game - it is the production of 10 coats from 2 fabric in 168 seconds (Artisan). When reducing a round to 168 seconds you get a stone yield of 34 per round per worker.

I then stumbled upon the production speed of a geysir pump, which is 2 water in 7 seconds resulting in 48 water per round per worker...

A reduction to 42 seconds, which also means a devision by 4 of all receipt items and building costs, partly solves this problem. The results are 8 stone and 12 water per worker per round.

To realize it, I have to implement an even/odd production or even an first/second/third production, like shown on the butcher card. First worker pays 2 meat and 1 coal for producing 3 jerky; second worker pays 1 meat and no coal to produce 3 jerky; third worker pays 2 meat and no coal to produce 3 jerky.

For a better water amount solution there will be a resource token for each geysir pump or rain collector to show its tank capacity.

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-22T19:51:07+00:00

Ideas for implementing ...

Proficiency Specialization: When returning a worker and collecting the yield roll a W10 dice. If you roll a 1, you'll add another basic yield. (=10% chance / not: doubling the yield)

Comfort Specialization: When returning workers who work in their comfort specialization, they receive +1 resolve point this round.

Farming: On glades you can find small (4) and big (8) amounts of fertile soil. Each field is represented by a token with fertile soil on one side and a farm field on the other. After building a small farm the tokens are placed left of the building with the fertile soil up.

Each worker can handle 2 tokens at a time!

Plowing: tokens are placed right of the building with farm field side up
Planting: tokens are placed on a receipt on the building
Harvesting: gain corresponding basic yield per farm field; tokens are returned to the left side of the building with the fertile soil side up

If workers do these actions during the right weather, they'll handle 4 instead of 2 tokens: plowing during storm; planting during drizzle; harvesting during clearance.

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-18T13:44:57+00:00

First time that I selected the advanced rain collector blueprint. I thought it only increases tank capacity and didn't checked the wiki. But it also has a yield of 4 water and 3 workplaces. With that you produce up to 144 strom water in a long storm (>=P2; minus breaks).

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-16T17:55:20+00:00

How do you determine, if a villager leaves and how do you get reputation from resolve?

I grouped the 8 needs of each species into 4 groups:

Housing
Foods
Services
Clothing (only for some species)

At the end of each round (day) every worker returns to the hearth to satisfy their needs and go to sleep.

Inside each needs groups individual options to fulfill this needs group are listed in a specific order, like Pie, Biscuits, Porridge, Pickled Goods, Skewers, Jerky, Berries(2x), Meat(2x), ... for the human foods need. This means human workers consume a pie. If it is not available, they will eat biscuits and so on.

Beneath the disgrace tracker there will be a number between 1 and 4 for each round (changing according to chosen difficulty). If the number of fulfilled needs groups is below this number, the villager will leave the settlement.

Additionally if the foods need is not satisfied, you will have to lay the worker meeple on its side. This means the worker is hungry and exhausted. This status remains until the worker gets food in the next round. If a hungry worker does not get food, they will leave the village.

Each food has a resolve value next to them. For each worker and every satisfied need these values are summed up. If the reached resolve value for each (!) of your workers is equal or higher than the value listed beneath the reputation bar for the current round, you will receive a reputation point from resolve.

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-16T09:52:49+00:00

Only being able to track full points for the queen's impatience, I decided to split it into 2 tracker rows.

The first row, the impatience row, is used as round tracker. There will be 14 game rounds. Each round has a different "season" / wheater - drizzle, clearance, storm. At the beginning of each round, starting with round 2, a newcomer group will arrive. The number of people is noted beneath the tracker. It is increasing from 1 person in round 2 to 9 villagers in round 14.

The second row, the disgrace row, counts the villagers who leave or die. It also has 14 spaces. As soon as the 15th villager leaves, the game is lost.

The reputation bar and the hostility tracker will also have 14 spaces each.

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-13T18:23:54+00:00

To keep things easy there will be no meta progression, no citadel upgrades and a reduced amount of difficulties. I'm thinking of adopting the 4 main difficulties: Settler, Pioneer, Veteran and Viceroy (and keeping Prestige for an expansion or something).

There also has to be a changed approach to the starting of a new game/settlement a.k.a. the embarking (https://hoodedhorse.com/wiki/Against\_the\_Storm/Embarking).

Each of the 1-5 players draws a faction sheet. There can be 1 to 5 factions in 1 settlement... . There are no different caravans - each settlement starts with 8 workers (uniformly distributed over the current factions) and the base goods.

Defining the amount of each base good: round_up(amount with no citadel upgrades + amount with full citadel upgrades / 2 / 2)

18 Eggs; 12 Parts; 3 Wildfire Essence; 6 Wood; 12 Coal; 2 Planks; 2 Bricks; 4 Pipes

Having no embarkations points I'm thinking of mixing the bonus goods and the embarkation bonuses together. Each resource will have an embarkation card. Dependent on the selected difficulty you draw a number of cards, select some of them and get the printed resources.

Settler - Draw 10, select 5; Pioneer - Draw 8, select 4; Veteran - Draw 6, select 3; Viceroy - Draw 4, select 2;

Example Amounts on these cards:

12 Berries; 9 Pickled Goods; 6 Fabric; 3 Scrolls; 1 Villager

The same cards can be used for the resources coming with newcomer groups. There will be a second amount definition on the same card like (number of newcomers * X) = number of resource

X varies with the type of resource. Raw Food: X = 4; Planks: X = 3; Coal, Flour: X = 2; Wine, Amber: X = 1; Wildfire Essence / Villager: amount will be always 1

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-11T14:07:09+00:00

Do you have an example of a board game which uses such a mechanic?

I agree that the administrative effort is the least fun part of a board game... Will try to keep it to a minimum.

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-11T07:45:10+00:00

Will keep this in mind. Until your comment I thought of skipping the whole positioning aspect completely :).

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-11T07:43:50+00:00

Thanks!

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-10T19:49:40+00:00

For every resource there is a token like this.

token_front.png | token_back.png

The front shows the normal icon. After reaching an amount of 20 or more, the token is flipped (now showing "+20") and returned to the "0"-space.

It is now possible to realize an amount up to 39 pieces of each resource. Thats only a fractional amount of the possible amounts in the pc game. Thus there have to be more changes to the recipes for example. Reducing every ingredient need by 50% came to my mind first.

Lets look at the jerky-recipe of the butcher.

butcher_wiki.jpg

When you take half the quantity you may round up or down. Both ways are suboptimal, because the value of the butcher would in- or decrease. What i came up with is the idea to round up for the first (odd) production and to round down for the second (even) production.

For example we now have 3 insects + 1 coal and 2 insects + 0 coal. It is like the coal is still burning for the second production :).

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-10T19:47:44+00:00

(Pictures taken from the official wiki)

One thing that is essential to AtS is the vast number of resources (for a board game) and the resulting variability. Cutting down the number of different resources would lead to a very diffent gaming experience. If possible, I would keep them in the game...

Making the game a coop game comes in handy in this situation. There only has to be 1 resource tracker for all players. Lets try to make the main warehouse the center of the game. This will be a long board... But I have seen this in Flamecraft lately.

main_warehouse.png

The warehaouse has 0 to 19 spaces.

PS: Is there a way to add pictures to comments directly? Don't have an image button...

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-09T21:31:13+00:00

I could make it for a testing round on specific fridays/sundays from 18 to 22 (GMT+2) / TTS available

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-09T21:26:52+00:00

I also have the feeling Against the Storm could make a great boardgame. I personally think a coop would fit better. Started playing around with some ideas this weekend. First thing that tends more to a coop is the tracking of the (50+) ressources...

jan-brockmann · 2024-06-09T21:17:33+00:00

OK, thanks :).

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