The Western Shores Board Game Project — Card Revision IX Starting

Greetings, fellow sentient beings!

Our Western Shores board game project about Vikings exploring the unknown continues.

Those are nine of Hive account@silver.art's original watercolor illustrations.

Her latest post about our Viking friends going along the Silk Road you can find Here

After some play testing I reached the conclusion the game was flowing too slow for my taste (and initial intentions to which I am still bound) and part of the reason for that was calculating available resources was too hard. There are five types of resources a card could cost in Revision VIII.

I think of Revision IX rather as a Soft Fork in that regard, meaning I want to try a version of the game with less types of resources to pay attention to.

So far, the five have been...

Wait for it...here are the ridonculous images I painted with a digital brush (not vectorized because they are not final) and used for the purpose of play testing.

So,

The Resources in Revision VIII:

Wood;

Axes — Brute Strength or Fighting Capabilities. Not clear yet what the proper word would be if those remain in the game;

Food — Depicted by my poor attempt at drawing a bowl of soup. A.K.A. "Soups" or "Ducklings", the latter due to my botched steam coming up from the hot soup. I agree the whole thing resembles a duck rather than what I tried to draw;