Conquest Alien Expansion

[zerodemon]

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This deck has been created so that people can do the following.
- Integrate the existing Alien deck at www.magiccarrot.com with quest and their new Conquest deck.
- Integrate the new Morden's Metals Exchange more completely with Quest by increasing the number of metals in the draw pile.
- Add a nice new P-card to use with your Alien pawn.

To fulfil these needs, the deck will contain the following cards.
001 Alien Hive High
002 Alien Hive Low
003 Alien Hive Closed
004-015 Alien Carrots 21-32
016-020 Gold Metal (standard card art as seen below)
021-025 Silver Metal (standard card art as seen below)
026-030 Copper Metal (standard card art as seen below)
031-038 Unobtanium Metal (a Beyea metal)
039-042 Mean Green Bean (An alien pawn P-card)
043 Free Spores
044-048 Conquest Alien Bunnies
049 Terrible Misfortune - The Common Cold (Kills all alien bunnies or spore bunnies on the table)
050-051 Additional Cyber Bunnies (started on my card art for these two boys. I'm doing a Borg (to go with the assimilation card) and a Cyberman (because why not.)
052-054 Undecided

If you have any ideas for card 052-054 drop it in the replies section and I'll consider it for inclusion. Below, you can see some of the cards that will be included in the deck.

This deck is meant to be an expansion to the original Alien Deck for people that want to combine Quest and Conquest. The inclusion of so many metal cards is to allow you to integrate Morden's with the following decks.

Killer Bunnies Quest Blue, Yellow, Red, Violet, Orange
Killer Bunnies Conquest Blue, Yellow
Magic Carrot Quest Alien Deck
This Conquest Alien Expansion

I have calculated how many metal cards I need based on the fact that the draw pile for conquest is 151 cards and there are 9 metals. This is almost 3 metals per 50 cards. As such I have added 3 metals per standard 50-65 card booster and 9 to the blue/yellow quest starter. The math isn't exact, but I'm sure it's about right. I haven't added any extra to the conquest starter as it already has its own complement of metal cards (obviously.)

[TheDavii]

Jul 14, 2011 5:51:51 GMT -5 zerodemon said:

Would anybody be interested in this (admittedly bland, but in my view, totally necessary) booster deck?

I think the idea is quite a good one. But how does one do that and not discourage people from buying Conquest? (under the idea that if consumers don't buy the products, they won't produce additional ones.)

[zerodemon]

Well, the idea is to add the new addition made to conquest in to the old quest game. The problem lies in the fact that if you want to get any effect of mordens and you mix it in with quest, you only have 9 cards out of 900 cards that are metals. That's 1 in every 100 cards. If anything, we'd be broadening the potential sales of later expansions by making Mordens (and by proxy this and later Conquest decks) more appealing to owners of Quest by making it a truer and more comprehensive expansion to Quest.

[TheDavii]

Sounds like a plan. Can you make it happen?

[zerodemon]

I'm just learning how to make cards to be honest. I can make it happen, though the art probably won't be the best in the universe. I can give it the college try though.

[legalbetter]

This is a great idea and one that I'd love to see fleshed out in a full sized expansion. I would also like to see some mixed feeding cards. Cabbage and Milk. Raddish and Water. Cabbage and Raddish. Milk and Water.

Kris

[zerodemon]

I'm putting together a Conquest Alien Booster which will contain some extra metal cards and class as an add-on to the existing Alien Booster. It will allow you to play up to Killer Bunnies Quest Orange + Conquest Blue and Yellow + Alien Booster 1 with enough metal cards to ensure you still get maximum use out of Morden's. Here is the card list.

1-12 Alien Carrots 21-32 (21,22,26 DONE)
13-17 Gold Metal DONE
18-22 Silver Metal DONE
23-27 Copper Metal DONE
28-35 Unobtanium Metal (a Beyea metal) DONE
36-39 Mean Green Bean (An alien pawn P-card) DONE
40 Free Spores
41-45 Conquest Alien Bunnies WIP
46 Suggestions please
47 Terrible Misfortune - The Common Cold (Kills all alien bunnies or spore bunnies on the table)
48 Alien Hive High
49 Alien Hive Low
50 Alien Hive Closed (These three cards have been outsourced to a much more experienced card-maker than myself)
51-52 Additional Cyber Bunnies WIP
53-54 Suggestions please

I have some cards done. The metals will have a standard art on them (the chemical symbol for each one.) I should have the majority done in a few weeks, at which point I'll submit them to magic carrot for your viewing pleasure as a whole.

[zerodemon]

Removed

[TheDavii]

Are you changing the chemical symbol for unobtanium? ;D

Nice card. The title text is only black (no white?). Was that intentional?

[zerodemon]

Un is better (probably)! I may change it yet! I've changed the title to white with a black background now and fixed the little inconsistencies (though I can't get the nice embossed look the metal cards have ) I've also done Gold, Silver and Copper now. That's 23 cards out of the deck done!

Here are the standard cards. Need to get the correct font to number them yet.

[zerodemon]

[TheDavii]

Very nice work! These are coming along nicely.

I hadn't noticed the "embossing" effect on the Conquest cards before (opened the box after your message; before I was looking at the thumbnails on the web site). That effect seems to be very similar to the one CTA (Jonathan, in this case) used on KB Jupiter. I created such an effect for my KB Jupiter template.

[zerodemon]

How did you go about that? What was the effect you used in Inkscape? I have both that and photoshop so I can do some modifications to the cards in there.

[TheDavii]

The process is a little tedious:

• Draw your shape to have a bevel. For this bit, we'll assume it is a rectangle, but it can be any arbitrary shape. In the KB world, this will be something like a 2 pt white line on top of a 4 pt black line. This gives the impression of two black lines parallel to a single white line. That's your basic shape.
  
• Make a copy of this shape and change the stroke to 8 pt. Change the color to something else (so you can tell all of your shapes and paths apart. I'll assume you color it Red).
  
• Use Path > Stroke to Path to change this shape to a path. This is the important thing.
  
• Push the path to the back (End)
  
• Duplicate the black stroked line (the 4 pt one) so it is on top of the red path.
  
• Select both the red line and the black line.
  
• Use Path > Difference to use the black line to cut out a hole in the red path. This will give you a path with a hole in it.
  
• Here is the next tricky part: Draw another shape that intersects that shape where you want it cut for the bevels. With a rectangle shape, you'd draw a triangle that extends from the (say) upper left to the lower right and extends beyond the red shape to the lower left. (This is hard to explain without pictures or video.) I use a very fine stroke (0.1 pt) to adjust where the cutting line intersects my red path.
  
• Use the triangle to cut the red path (Select both, with the triangle on top, and then use Path > Division).
  
• Finally, use Path > Break Apart to separate those two disjoint paths. These will be cut into the right shape.
  
• Select them individually and color as appropriate for your bevel.
  

Told you it was a bit tedious!

[zerodemon]

Wowzer, that is tedious. Gonna have to get more practice in with Inkscape for sure. Thanks for the tutorial. I'll give it a go tonight or tomorrow.