Hooray! I finally managed to beat Y'Golonac and the Dunwhich Horror. I didn't choose them randomly, I've just been picking out the unbeaten combos for challenge's sake. Also, I'm not 100% sure if it counts because we used Hypnos, and he really helps out a lot.

Four investigator game. My girlfriend got the enviable Daisy (you'll see luck played a large part in this game) and two buddies got Darrel and Carolyn. To round out this dream team, I drew Sister Mary (dang it, I don't have Innsmouth yet, so she still pretty much sucks.

Our starting equipment was strangely good, including a tommy gun, a healing stone, a golden sword and spectral razor. Later on Darrel bought a sword of glory and Daisy found an elephant gun. I was Mary, and had to trade away Spectral Razor in the rumor (I think the great ritual) to earn us all clue tokens. I found a magic knife, and later a ritual blade.

The Dunwhich horror was pretty sluggish throughout. Only three gates opened up in Dunwhich and we managed to seal all three pretty quickly, hunting down the monsters before they snuck into the vortices. We only drew one tome (even though Darrel insisted on shopping at the Curiosity shop, making us all nervous... he is just not a team player) and no cultists came on the board. Unfortunately we kept drawing two doom token cards and only once did a mythos hit a seal, so it wasn't too long before the AO woke, with four seals on the board (3 in dunwhich).

Fortunately, Daisy had stumbled upon a warding statue in her other world, which is essential for fighting Mr. Mouth-Hands. We also lucked out and drew the epic battle where you regain two sanity, and Darrel had two food items. We were all at pretty much full health and had just turned in most of our trophies for blessings (which we promptly lost all but Carolyn's almost immediately) and were able to beat him at the five round (not really sure if the warding statue means it doesn't increase, but I went ahead and said it did). One more epic draw and we'd be chewed up. Very close, very scary.

But an awesome game, probably the best one I've had for a very long time.

It doesn't matter to me (or to the stats reports) if you use a guardian.

Hmm. I seem to recall that if you cancel an Ancient One's attack, then that still counts as a round. I know that the relevant base-game AOs have attacks that get more severe by the round, but I can't say for sure if Y'Golonac operates similarly. I'd have to see if his sheet says the attack gets harder "each round" versus "each attack."

Nice job, though. Epic battle is tough to manage, and Y'Golonac can be nasty. Sounds like you knew what you were doing. I had to fight him in the first league, because someone insisted on shopping and a Tome was drawn; we would have won by seals if that had not happened.

Tibs said:

Are you positively sure he wasn't a cultist in disguise?  He could be insisting on buying so he draws tomes

Tibbs, I always thought AH stats were pure fan stuff, but now I ve seen your web page, I think it is really really interesting, and remarkable job you ve accomplished. I filled it for our last game, and I now really regret I didn't keep notes of our previous games (around ten so far) because I would have loved to help you contributing to your stats !

Can I make a suggestion to you ? could you please put the "job" of investigators after their name ? betwen "(" and ")", if you want, but at least something to help us reminding who is who, because for instance, I'm at work right now, and I forgot some of the names of our invests... but I clearly recall we used the private eye, the doctor, the psychologist and the photographer.

Keep up the excellent work, man !

I should be able to get a game going with my friends on Friday, since my friend's final test is on Thursday (mine's on Wednesday, so 1 day to prepare to face Azathoth's minions)

Hem said:

Thank you. It's all right if you don't have prior games: just keep playing them and keep submitting them!

The reason I don't put the occupations on the list is twofold: it would take up too much space, and the occupations would be separated by commas, just like the characters. It would be confusing to look at. Besides, this is a game of theme: it's better to remember the characters by name than by role!

Is it possible to see the victory/loss conditions on a god-for-god basis? For instance, would it be impossible to see the number of sealing victories, closing victories, victory in final combat, loss in final combat, etc. for Yig and the other GOOs?

I've added one of my own games.  Poor Azathoth doesn't know the meaning of 'THE LOCATION IS SEALED!  YOU CANNOT OPEN A GATE THERE'.

Acebob said:

My list of "hardest to fight" reveals the defeat percentage in final combat. From that you can extrapolate the victory percentage in final combat.

"Most restless" is the hardest to win by seals and closed gates. I could look into making two different lists for closing and sealing, but I probably won't do it next time because the data will be spread too thin on all the Innsmouth AOs.

Tibs will have to make a totally new table to incorporate that.  On one side are the win/loss situations, and on the top the baddies.

Tibs, when posting stats, what do you do about those double or triple-reports that seem to be the same game by the same player(s), every detail looks to be exactly the same? Maybe they are actual report that just happened to go precisely in the same manner (same time frame, etc.), maybe they are reporting errors (double-click at the wrong time or something), I don't know.

Usually, when I catch those, I delete the extras. If you spot any that I may have missed, let me know.

I just noticed that Victimizer left a string of games using Mandy and Lily against Tsathoggua. Funny thing is, he did the exact same thing way up near the top of the list. He must be playing Scenario 3 of the first League. I just don't know why he's revisiting that scenario now.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but is there any way to fix the headers at the top of the chart?  So that when you scroll down you can still see the name of each column.

Although I don't really play often enough to submit results, I do enjoy looking at the stats.  Thank you for your time and effort in putting all that info in one place.

@tibs

Sorry for the confusion - these were old games which I could not previously log (notice that the loss condition was not finishing the game). We played a lot of Tsathoggua scenario 3 games that day, and three of them were do-overs because we were obviously not getting anywhere fairly early in the game.

I logged them now because I had only now seen that the option for "didn't finish game" was available. Since they are still statistically relevant, I thought I'd put them back in.

Similarly, the slightly less recent Abhoth games were leftovers from the last thing I did in the League. The only games I have played recently was the 4 Investigator one against Quachil Uttaus and the 2x2 Investigator ones against Nyogtha and Chaugnar Faugn.

Again, sorry for the confusion.

placeboeffect said:

Jolly good idea.  It's possible since my Lord of the Rings army list in ExCel has the top row visible all time (dunno how, ask my friend)