I'm going to follow Roman's lead here and try to start posting some blog entires on a more regular basis. Hopefully, as has been hinted, the forum will be ported over here in the near future as well. So, now is as good a time as any to try to jumpstart my blog again. Recently, I've been working with a few Forum members on developing epic duels for the Resident Evil universe. I'm a huge fan of Resident Evil, and after my initial skepticism that it could be translated successful to ED, I think I'm close to having testable decks up for all the planned characters. I have a few kinks to work out in the extensions, but I will be finding a place to upload them shortly.
One of the "new" things we're trying with this expansion is a customizable approach to playing the decks. While this is not a totally new idea (Moonsyler and Sultan both put together "Customizable Bounty Hunter Decks"), the specific way these decks will be customizable is going to be totally new. I still have some work to do to make sure the customizable aspect is simple to understand, easy to use and fun. But I think we're on the right track. And the cool part is, the customizable thing fits Resident Evil perfectly. Since you can equip a large variety of weapons in the game, and most of the games and characters have access to similar weapons, there is a real reason we need to do it that way. Rather than create individual decks for every character, by making the heroes decks customizable, it helps capture the feel of the video game much better, and hopefully adds a little spice to the ED world of custom decks. Anyway, I'll be sharing more as we get into testing mode.
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Re: Resident Evil Epic Duels
Test Extensions have been posted. You can check them out in the Downloads section, under Custom Expansions->VASSAL Extensions. All decks are completed and ready for testing, but be sure to extract the zip file after downloading it. Each deck is an individual extension (I just zipped them up in a single archive for downloading convenience).
EDIT: figured out the attachment function...see below.
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Re: Resident Evil Epic Duels
In vassal, how do you go about selecting all of the cards for your deck? Do they appear as a seperate folder with individual copies you move to the board and then add to you deck? Do you have prefabricated general arsenal decks that add up to the listed numbers for each deck as an option instead of having to hand pick your talent cards each time? These Arsenal Packs would be great for quick games just to get going.
Re: Resident Evil Epic Duels
The short answer: check out the Help File that is included with the Maps Extension. As for "arsenal packs" there aren't any included at this time, but it's a great idea and one I had considered, so I think we should eventually include them. We can work on that as we learn more about the custom cards.
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