Arkham Horror: The Card Game

It is likely a case of not leaning in hard enough. I needed Oops and likely chainsaws to really get there enough. But yeah, its hard. Stella and Silas do it best I think. My deck was going in three directions, now that it is two its going better.

sornars wrote: Apparently Asmodee is raising prices to cover increased costs in October so the MSRP of Mythos Packs are set to go up by $2 then. It might be worth picking up any cycles that are in stock in the old format now if you intend to pick them up at all.

Instead of mucking about reprinting all those packs with all their wasteful packaging it'd be far better if they'd just hurry along with getting the big box campaign reissues on shelves.

I'm using Tommy and I've upgraded my two beat cops, got brother whats his name for guard dog, and got my first level of charisma. Any advice what to do next?

1) upgrade a copy of Greta
2) upgrade a Tommy gun
3) upgrade safeguard
4) police badge

...?

I’d probably look at improving your weapons at this point. That’s a solid bunch of allies, and once the enemy health pool starts growing, you’ll feel like you’re carrying water guns.

Thank you! I'm doing enchant weapon for Becky since I can reload it easily.

I'll probably graduate into a bigger gun later in the campaign as a Becky alternate.

I would do safeguard but a lot of the time Luke is heading where no one can follow him for efficient movement.

There are probably better cards, but Custom Ammunition is cute on Becky, too. Just have to draw them in the right order.

There is definitely a novelty/actual utility tension in the game, even if you were playing their taboo list of balance changes.

Like, should I upgrade my vicious blows? Probably. Should my first moves as a mystic be to upgrade 1 or more of maybe 4 different base spells depending on my main role? Often.

If it helps, they're designed to look like the left and right pages of a book opened up. So the Agenda always goes on the left and the Act always goes on the right. I agree with your complaint for this specifically; in general I find setup (especially if trying to avoid spoilers!) to be frustrating; however, I do think the graphic design in the game is generally quite good. This may be due to a lack of being observant on my part but for example, I only recently noticed how Assets, Events and Skills are differentiated by the shape of their borders which makes it easy to determine what they are without looking at them too closely.

ubarose wrote: I'm becoming annoyed at the graphic design of the Act and Agenda cards. They are too similar in both appearance and naming convention - two stacks of cards that look the same, and have a word starting with the letter "A" written in rather small type. And the color of the clue and doom icons on them are really rather close when looking across a table. It is far to easy to get those decks muddled up. I've done it a couple of times now. The worst was last night when the last Act card ended up under the last Agenda card. Just having the borders be significantly different would be so helpful.

Stuff like that gets into why I find getting the actual scenario pieced together correctly really hard. Sometimes I forget to execute a part of the back of the card. Or I move to the new agenda/act but execute the back but not the new card front.

Sornars and I are planning to do a new campaign at some point, we talked about Innsmouth. I'm going to do a pure fight/event cancel Diana Stanley as a paladin/knight deck and not worry about her will.

The fact that the character builds get me legitimately excited to run is such a huge sell on this game (WITH ENOUGH CARDS).

ubarose wrote: We got our asses kicked in Paris tonight. Neither Al nor I could draw for shit. We gave up and will take another run at it later.

I never liked that bag drawing mechanism (among a few other things) during my short time with the game ... but drawing intruders out of a bag in Nemesis is another level of shit !

Got another game of Forgotten Age today. It was one of those where it feels like you are spinning your wheels all game, and we were. Then in the last few turn we did all the shit. It was pretty close to perfect. Got 5 of 6 locations cleared. It did not feel like it was going that well for us.

Both of us had pretty great turns and plays at the end. Nothing quite as awesome as what i did the previous game. but pretty good. One more scenario before things get really weird.