Tibs said:

Welcome on the top of the world!

As a side note, I did some excel (yeah, nothing better to do at lunchtime), studying submissions of top contributors with at least 100 games logged (yes, I download & archive every month the report); only 6 of them have been active in the last 5 months:

ArkhamRel, 2 games logged in november 2011
Hyou, 3 games logged (Nov, Dec 2011, Jan 2012)
Partizan, 1 game logged (Dec 2011)
Solan, 1 game logged (Nov 2011)
Julia, 25 games
Tibs, 34 games

So it seems like a natural process that I climbed a little the stair to the Olympus and you're sitting on the throne, from now to eternity

The stats report is up!

April 1 stats report

Someone named "John Dee" got the 8th Joining the Winning Team. And for this report, I've decided to add the names of all contributors, rather than the top 25. Give it a look!

Tibs said:

We need more of these  !

Tibs said:

Tibs, there is something wrong. Dunno if it's just me, but in case... in your latest report, these seem to be the most winning investigators ever:

George Barnaby 77%
Charlie Kane 76%
Skids O'Toole 72%

and the worst ever are:

Carolyn Fern 55%
Patrice Hathaway 55%
Mandy Thompson 54%

Is this an April Fool? Or did something went wrong in some other way?
 

Hahaha... it is an April Fool. I'll set them back now

Tibs said:

::laughter::

Hey hey… the new stats report is up. Have a look!

Julia said:

Good grief!  I haven't played Arkham since NOVEMBER?!?!  How on Earth did that happen?!?  I suppose I was too caught up in the magic that is Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, with both expansions.  A truly wonderful board game, but no excuse for completely neglecting Arkham.  This is an error that must be rectified! 

Solan said:

Ouch, I think I too haven't played since November. Or maybe it was early December. I guess that means I have to go on an Arkham binge soon, complete with ordering Miskatonic and leaving the boards deployed on my kitchen table for weeks on end :)

Tox said:

That is indeed the required ritual.  And though its value depends in part on how many expansions you use, I predict you'll be quite pleased with Miskatonic Horror; I was.

Stats report is up:

01 Jun 2012

It appears I have internet service in the WV mountains, so I can continue compiling these reports.

Likewise whilst I was never going to climb the dizzying heights, entering in our game tonight made me realise just how long it had been since the last. In my case, roughly since the week before Mass Effect 3 came out. I plead correlation but not causation…

Whoops, reporting two errors: in my second-to-last game (Rhan-Tegoth) a Rift opened, and in my last one (Abhoth) Wendy was amongst the investigators (although she turned into a fish-girl pretty soon =P )

Cheers!

Tox said:

Oh, and in the last one it was Patrice, not Carolyn. Yes, Patrice lost a game =P

Played again tonight, against Eihort.

Damn him, and his spawn, forever >=/

I wanted a particular theme for this game, so I semi-randomly drew mostly "crime" themed investigators, and used the Organized Crime institution. Game opened extremely well, I put the Neutralize the Yellow Sign card down at Devil's Reef and soon had two seals down. From there one I struggled a bit to put the next two seals down, due to the Environment card that doesn't let you seal lasting for at least 5 turns. Jacqueline became a true killing machine but succumbed to Eihort's brood when she used her Elder sign card to seal Dagon's Order and got her 2nd brood token…rolling a 1. Fortunately Marie was drawn as a replacement and she immediately removed one doom token. From there on it was a panic to keep the investigators one step ahead of the Old One. Two seals were broken at the dark cave AND the Order, which brought me back to three on the board. Unfortunately, since all the focus was on keeping gates closed and seal some with low-brood investigators. Skids did not risk a seal at the Science Dpt since he already had 2 brood tokens but he was forced to close since another open gate meant an awakening, and that proved a mistake. The next gate bounced harmlessly off the seal at Devil's Reef. From there until the end, two Rifts opened and once again I found myself on the brink: one more doom token was needed for Eihort's return and Skids tried and failed to roll a success to seal! The next Mythos did not open a gate but moved one Rift that was open on Devil's Reef…and the color matched. The final token was placed on the doom track.

The battle came VERY close to be won…by the investigators! Michael was devoured through Eihort's sinister plot, Skids did all the work by himself and I got to say that the new battle conditions helped a lot. From halfway on he was blessed and kept rolling a lot of sixes, which counted x2. Marie was also good since she had the ability that increased by 1 all her Fight throws, thus never rolling a 1 (minus one success). Unfortunately, Jim could not help at all since he had no magical weapons. And when he was devoured, he added 3 brood tokens on Eihort's sheet. Skids and Marie kept at it, with Skids rolling a 4 on his 4th brood token, and finally Eihort was down to 1 (ONE!) doom token after an exceptional throw by Skids. But then…with both of them having just 2 sanity and 2 stamina, the final green card reavealed was…anyone who wants to attack has to lose 2 sanity…Helpless, Marie received her 3rd brood token and promptly rolled a 1. She was devoured and as Skids was preparing for his final stand against a 4-doom Eihort, the first red card drawn was…the End of Everything.

I love this game =P