Daemornia: Battlegrounds Online

Welcome to Battlegrounds Online - FREE TO PLAY!

Daemornia: Battlegrounds Online is a massively multiplayer browser-based strategy card battle game of skirmishes between rival armies.

It takes place using a series of cards depicting creatures, scenarios, equipment, skills, events and more. It is played between two or more players using a deck of 40 cards each and requires a degree of tactical thinking in selecting the right force. Through careful deployment and equipping your warriors the objective is to defeat your opponent through winning battles, raids and destroying scenarios.

Preview of the New card design going to print

Here's a preview of the new card design for print, once all the images are scaled down they will also be passed on to the Battlegrounds Online site.

The colours are more vibrant and clean, the images are much higher res (each card image is about 1MB in size but I scaled it down for this news post) so should look great printed... they'll also breathe a bit of life into the old cards which now look dull in comparison in my opinion
New Card vs Original Card

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Posted on 06 Nov 2008 by ShavenLunatic

Battle Changing, Printed Cards and other madness

A whole pile of big news... I'll break it down into sections:

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Section 1 - Battlegrounds printed cards available soon

Section 2 - BIG Changes to Battlegrounds online coming

Section 3 - Other Daemornia news
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Section 1
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We are proud to announce that we have made the decision to take battlegrounds to the 'real world'. We have been in discussion with a printing company who can offer high quality printed cards at reasonable prices so we decided to bite the bullet and start making these cards for real. Initially the cards will be available to buy via our websites (will be setting up an online store) but we dream of the day when people could walk into a gaming store and pick up a deck.

We will be (when the decks and changes are ready) be taking pre-orders if anyone wanted to ensure they were one of the first in the world to own a deck of Battlegrounds cards. We are also looking into custom made items (e.g. branded dice boxes, custom dice etc.)

Gaeokerena is spending a lot of his time increasing the resolution of the cards and tweaking the colours (or colors if you're in the US) so we get the best possible quality prints. We couldn't simply up-scale the cards to the resolution required so they are basically being re-made from scratch. I'll post some scaled down images of the new cards online asap.

While we were discussing this, we wanted to cut down on the number of dice needed to play the game (Currently D4, D6 and D20) so we had a play with the idea of only using a D6 to play. Which links me nicely to the next section.

Section 2
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To test the idea of playing with a D6 (6 sided dice) we changed the combat rules, increased the capital and tweaked a few cards and the result was amazing. The game is a lot faster, creatures attack and defence rating make a massive difference in battle (rather than even the weakest creature being able to easilly hit the best defender).

This in turn makes small things like the 'Elite Fighter' card make a massive difference to battles. Hard hitters will come into play more as FULL 'damage' will be dealt to the capital. There will be a lot of changes required to balance the game but we are very optimistic about this change.

Game times are reduced, and playing with untweaked random decks our average game time was around 18 minutes with 30 Capital. We will probably make the standard starting capital 40, with it increasing higher for 'epic' games and reducing lower to further reduce gametime to a massively short game.

We can't wait to get these changes play tested by the masses so we will be working as quickly as possible to update the Battle code online to accommodate them and allow people to start playing the new '2nd Edition' rules.

We hope you join us and test out the new rules, I'll update as soon as they are ready.

Section 3
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The Original PnP RPG:

The Daemornia Pen and Paper RPG will have a new supplement in the next few days, 'City Guide', if you are interested in the Daemornia RPG it might be worth your while checking out daemorniastudios.co.uk

DemonWar Online RPG:

The DemonWar game is progressing well, albeit a little slower than we planned. Everything is working well and the new inventory management pages work fantastically and are looking good. If you haven't signed up for the beta yet, it will be starting soon so get signed up at www.demonwar.net. We try to keep the Developers Blog updated as often as possible so people know what stage we are at.

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Posted on 05 Nov 2008 by ShavenLunatic

World Domination Results September

September World Domination Results

During this time all games were played on a number of home worlds and success or failure determined you standing on a domination chart. We can now reveal who controls the World Dominations cards for this month......drum roll........