Im thinking about buying it i love Arkham Horror and i like the stories. Couldn´t you pay per month to get this game in the mail

monthly?

Every new expansion?

I suppose thats fine if theres no FLGS near you, but I'd rather help support my local games store even if it is only £9 a pack.

Amen to that.  Supportling the local game store means a place to play with other players and a chance to get into the Organized Play program that FFG has started.

I like to support my store to but it is long way from my home, cost like 30 $ each time i go there with fuel. So i buy alot of games on the same time got a group of people that am playing with but i dont fink they are willing to buy a copy for them selfs. I got the games and the play att my house. Thats why I would like to get it mounthly instead of waiting to got to the store. =)

Is the game good?

Elnisch said:

I happen to like it a lot. I've played lots of different CCG's and this one is my favorite overall. The important question is why I like it so much... Well, the game is set up so that you have to make a lot of (difficult) choices during gameplay, and the game also gives you the opportunity to actually make those choices. And I like the theme. So, I think the game is good. :D

ugh, I've seen that demo movie, and I liked it a lot.

another addiction on the way, oh noes .. :)

I'd like to add a few reason i like this game :
1) There is no gold screw (mana screw, whatever you are fluent with) ... that means you can't make a crappy start with no land / gold producing holding / ... cause any card from your hand can be attached to a domain if you need it to be so there are not à#!$%ù game where you watch your opponend smack you down with no way to counter him ...
If you gold screw, it's your very own fault, you should have placed your ressoucerses otherway : )

2) In multi-player, there is no "elimination" (well you can still empty another player library but it's the only way) so no one will get kicked of the game 10 mins in and have to wait for another 20 mins to play again.

3) Deck bulding is very interesting, much more than in any other game i've player so far (and belive me i played a lot of CCG/LCG) cause there is 7 factions + neutral and you can play any to all factions ... First you have to thing about what kind of deck you want and then you'll realise there is at least 2 factions that can do it (most of the times) and that both of these faction can be really cool with different others ...

4) I love white bordered cards ;op nah, nah, just kidding, i don't really care about the border : )

5) There is a constant need to make the right choice (espec reguarding to attacking and defending stories) but few of the choices you'll make might cost you the game ... a single error can always be overcomed (unlike few other games i've played) but ... well ... if you screw too much, you screw too much.

6) I have never, so far (in like 200 games with 6 different decks, playing all factions), seen a game breaker card ... Even the ancient one don't make you win the game if you manage to play it (Yog-sothoth is kinda game breaked if you play it turn 4 and the small shub ancient one is really powerfull tho).

7) A game called "call of Cthulhu" is always good : p

8) LCG aren't as much as a money sink as CCGs, and in this time of crisis, it's a good point for them

but now i must confess there is 1 drawback to the game
1) it is a LCG, so there is about 100 new card each years, as opposed to the 450 cards released for your average CCG ... When you love to play one deck in particular, you might have to wait for quite some time to find cards that suits you well

Other than that, i love this game

I like the game primarily because of its theme and its "story"-mechanics. Reminds me of the old Shadworun CCG.

that draw back isnt that bad, they hope to release a pack every month. so we should get over 200 cards a year. thats about an expansion box per year without having rare chasing making it more expensive. the whole cost for lcg is about $360 a year, the price of two and half boxes maybe but youll get a playset of everything. im sure there are sets that players wont find the need to get a playset of the one-ofs in it. plus you can trade the cards you wont use.

didn't knew they planned on 12 AP a year, thought that would be like aGoT, 5 to 6 ...
Yeah 200 to 250 new card a year isn't that bad : )

Since i still haven't got any AP yet, i had a small question tho
Since AP are 40 cards strong but only 20 new cards are released, do we get 2 of each or is it 1 or 2 or 3 and you still have to buy 3 APs ? 

Not that it'll prevent me from playing, but i was curious : )

sensei yaourt said:

well im assuming its every month, there might be a break between chapters but i dont think it will be 6 months. the packs have 3-ofs and 1-ofs. so to collect a playset of the one-ofs youll need to buy 3 packs

I've spent many many hundreds of dollars on CCG cards. I'm very excited to see a Lovecraftian themed deck building game that will ask somewhat less of me now that I've sworn off the standard CCG format.

That said, I love the struggle over stories rather than completely abstract points: the fact that success over a point of contention has a profound impact on the game is great. The four pronged icon competition elegantly provides for enjoyable fights while making a good effort to emulate the stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.

I also like the resource system very much in that it ought to allow me to make decks which include defenses against strategies I expect to run into trouble from without putting dead weight in my hand as I can always attach cards I don't expect to use as resources. I'm a big fan of card games which provide multiple uses for each card.

So overall, I think its a goodun. I've enjoyed playing with the core set by itself thus far and expect more fun from deck building once I get around to it.

FFG comes up with the most innovative card games ever. ^_^ I love COC. As a Lovecraft fan, the flavour and the mechanics are enough to get me hooked. I highly recommend this game. ^_^

It's a great game, costs a relatively small amount of money and it's fun.  That sounds like a good game to me.  :)

This is the only LCG I have not tried out yet. Might just get the core set to at least be able to play.

Toqtamish said:

this doesnt sound like a bad idea.