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It was awful.

Nyarlathotep's doom track rose to 9. The terror track rose to 6. I spent most of the game with 5 or 6 gates open on the board, 4 or 5 monsters on the board, and the outskirts nearly full. We faced and passed three rumors, ended up with a whopping score of 16, and Monterey Jack elevated uselessness to a profound, new level.

A brief summary of Monterey's game: Find an elder sign; fail to trade it; go crazy; search for more money; Find an elder sign; fail to trade it; go crazy, lose an elder sign, etc.

In the end, I found that it was more useful to have Monterey draw the elder sign, not purchase it, and have Ashcan come scrounge it up. Of course, that required Ashcan to have money. Luckily, he and Amanda "I can lose two retainers on the first roll in one game" Sharpe had will enough to make the trades.

On a positive note, Sister Mary may have found reason, since she ended the game with two Lucky Cigarette Cases and a Whiskey. I took that to mean God was not enough during this trial, and she had lost her faith. Hallelujah!

And on a final superbly horrible note, I also realized after my game that I had not subtracted any sanity for the two maniacs I drew (and killed), meaning my score wasn't even official.

So I get to do this again tomorrow, and it will be worse.

Solid.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194131.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194131.page GMT ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194259.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194259.page GMT
The Arkham Avengers: Mandy Thompson, Bob Jenkins, Wilson Richards, and Darrell Simmons started off with very weak items as everybody had things like tomes and motorcycles instead of good weapons. We figured this was not a good start for a scenario so monster oriented.

We were quickly in trouble. We read our tomes right away before we lost them but still were without much fighting prowess. Thankfully Wilson Richards comes with his own shotgun and Mandy snagged an enchanted knife from the get-go.

However, sanity consistently bled away in buckets and Simmons and Richards couldn't get through an Other World to use their elder signs. Simmons, Jenkins, and Richards seemed to spend most of the game at the Arkham Asylum as later on in the game they had no money (Simmons lost his retainer very early) and couldn't max up in one turn.

The other bit of good fortune we did have was we found 3 elders signs throughout the game. Things looked particularly grim as we also failed two rumors: The Southside Strangler Strikes and the Great Ritual. A quick summary of the rhythm of our game was characters quickly lost their sanities and basically ended up with only one item, no money, and difficulty in holding on to clues. Meanwhile the outskirts filled up like an ice cube tray and the terror level was at 6.

There were many monster surges but after we used our elder signs on several hot spots Nyar's doom track was only at 4 or 5. We were much more worried about the terror track; a nice change of pace actually. Ever resourceful Mandy was able to use sneak and focus to scrape together clues and she sealed two on clues while the other three sealed one each per investigator and Arkham seemed to settle down a bit. I guess no more "spoilers" on how we did it but we ended up closing all of the gates with 5 unspent gates in front of us.

Our final score was a robust 17

We played about 26 turns in total I think and it took about 3.5 hours.

We really like the scenario and how it affected the investigators and the overall play of the game. I wonder, though, if it added a great deal of time to the game. We will certainly play this scenario again, hopefully tomorrow, but I would like to see it clock in around 2 to 2.5 hours instead of 3.5.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194514.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194514.page GMT
Heh... But I am glad I read them ;') they made me reconsider a part of my strategy (I'd thought a bit about changed game dynamics last night).

::laughter:: thinking back on it, I'm really glad I left Leo Anderson on my team, oh wait, no I didn't ;'D whoops.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194526.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194526.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194641.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194641.page GMT
Probably will be :'\ I'm annoyed. Usually at this point in a game I would forfeit, but it looks like I'll need to play another couple turns just so I have the game to report. [Oh wait, apparently reporting a loss is optional].

::laughter:: I forgot to mention that in this game. My first monster draw was God of the bloody tongue. The next two (which came out on the second turn with one of the release two monsters into the streets cards) were cultists ;'D ::insane laughter::

Oh yes, and it was on Unvisited Isle (where a gate opened on the first turn), you know, the place where I had planned to get the ally that would let me capture endless monsters ;'D

::hangs self::

Blarg. I could possibly win this game. With a terror track at 10 :'\ No thanks. Time for a do over.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194643.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194643.page GMT
edit: heh heh heh... Five gates sealed, one character with 26 monster trophies. Yeah, I think this is under control. Vengeance is MINE Nyarlhotep!

Done :'D Final score, 46. I would've gotten higher, but unfortunately I failed all my south church rolls this game :'\ Seriously. (Heh... Actually I had one success on my ninth roll there). And who was the conquering hero you wonder? Heroine actually. Daisy, with 6 gates and... Drumroll please... 38 monster trophies (these kills were obtained without a blessing btw, just in case you were wondering). Beware the wrath of the Librarian! Hear that, monsters? Return your overdue books (Nyarlhotep got his library card revoked)!]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194719.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/194719.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/195010.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/195010.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/195361.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/195361.page GMT
...but Nyarlathotep woke up on turn 4 and ate everyone. [b]GG[/b]]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198225.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198225.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198358.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198358.page GMT ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198398.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198398.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198408.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/198408.page GMT
I have to admit the first time around we only got 10, but we felt we could do better. It was only because we got the Stars Are Right (I think) rumour and he woke up really early. Also, getting given a healing stone in an encounter was excellent luck.

Bring on the next one!]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199761.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199761.page GMT
Before Naryly woke up it was just chaos. Our first monster on the pre-game draw was a Cultist, and it was all down hill from there. Michael went insane early, and Darrell followed suit a few rounds later when our third Cultist and first Maniac were drawn. We never saw any Mask monsters, but we aren't crying for that. It seemed like we had bad random equipment draws (except for Michael, who started with a Sword of Glory that he then lost when he went insane) and horrible luck with die rolls and encounters from there. Our terror level finished at 3 since we seemed to have at least three gates open at any time and numerous monster surges.

Edited to add: We ended with 18 points, having few monster trophies and used one Elder Sign.

Still, it was fun in ways that AH always is! I want to retry this one, since I know it can happen better, dammit.

Side note: Waking up at 1am to hear [i]something[/i] running/skittering across the roof is really not a comforting thing after such a game.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199880.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199880.page GMT



Btw, I was just reviewing the later games. So what do you guys think the KiY scenarios will be like? Yes Herald or no Herald? Hmm... I wonder how they'll ramp up the difficulty on them ;') regardless, I have Charlie on my team, so I'm not too worried.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199919.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/199919.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200046.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200046.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200067.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200067.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200092.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/200092.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/201036.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/201036.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/201167.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/201167.page GMT
I did see another way to handle the endless in the end game without Legrasse. There is a Graveyard encounter that lets you draw a monster trophy even if it has endless (there is also a OW encounter that lets you claim one). Darrel wasn't part of my team, but he could abuse that once the monster cup was getting low.

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Yeah, we came to that same decision. We kept getting location encounters that gave us Allies, but always with a character that was at 1 or 2 Will at the time. Figures. Those cards always ended up being a fancy way of saying "Nothing happens..."

Started replaying the scenario last night (only about half-way done, due to after-work tiredness), but we are doing much better than our initial run through. No one has gone insane yet, and we're keeping it down to 2 open gates at a time. Even managed to seal a couple with Clues. I think we learned a few lessons from the first go around.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/202045.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/202045.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/202539.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/202539.page GMT Redecorated Arkham Asylum since it was my home sweet home. I got stuck in LiTaS for awhile with a couple investigators, I'll just say 7-8 players good luck!!! The number of times I was on the edge of losing were uncountable, only phenomenal luck countered the bad luck and viscous sanity loss, like randomly visiting the Unvisited Isle with Pete and snagging Lagrasse, which was the turning point of the game, just took a long time to turn it around. Kudos to those skilled players out there that navigate this challenge! ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204177.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204177.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204227.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204227.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204326.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204326.page GMT
As for the others, they had enough sanity to shrug off the losses until they sealed/closed gates. Harvey especially, since he has his 'strong mind' ability, was perfect for this scenario.

Of course, my luck can't last forever. Here's wishing everyone else the same amount of luck. ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204347.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204347.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204350.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204350.page GMT
And I wouldn't necessarily consider my team 'odd'. Monterey was chosen to be my 'tank' because he already starts with two weapons in hand, and he has his unique item ability, which is a plus. As I said before, Harvey Walter's strong mind ability made him a no-brainer choice. Kate Winthrop's flux stabilizer was a nice addition, since I would park her on one of the "hot spots" until other gates were closed/sealed. And what's a horror game without the chesty "Daphne" type character. Mandy Thompson's special ability helped with some of the more horrific rolls I've come across.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204368.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204368.page GMT
Yeah, Mandy, Jenny, Darrell, and Joe would've been my four :') Mandy and Joe, means you can start off almost ready to seal two gates, and Darrell and Jenny means you'll be rolling in cash (and will be able to get good equipment and elder signs/old journals/kings in yellows, whatever you need, really).]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204407.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204407.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204418.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204418.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204430.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204430.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204634.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204634.page GMT
I played with Daisy for the first time the other day. The shrivelling spell in each hand, oh yeah. Of course then all the monsters were magic resistant....]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204910.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/204910.page GMT
Yeah, Mandy, Jenny, Darrell, and Joe would've been my four :') Mandy and Joe, means you can start off almost ready to seal two gates, and Darrell and Jenny means you'll be rolling in cash (and will be able to get good equipment and elder signs/old journals/kings in yellows, whatever you need, really).[/quote]

Right on. But I'll still stick with my crew until they get devoured. So long as they survive to fight another day, I'm a happy guy. ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/205000.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/205000.page GMT
Mandy got silver twilight membership on turn 2. went into a gate, sealed it, went back to silver twilight, and got kicked out for not having enough money. then a Dhole moved into French Hills, so Mandy stays at the silver twilight, is asked if she wants to re-join, doesn't have the money and is shown the door (and the Dhole).

Dexter went around like a killing machine with the Lamp of Al-Hazred and collected enough monster trophies to try for an ally at Ma's Moarding house. it was worth the 2 clues he used on will (-3) checks to grab a hold of Prof Armitage, just before the terror ctrack started going crazy.

Both Dexter and Mandy had 2 trips to the asylum due to low sanity (paying for full treatment), thanks to the amount of cultists (endless) and later, maniacs (who became endless due to terror track).

Terror track got to 10, there were 10 monsters on the streets, and Nyarlathotep lumbers into view starting a 6 turn battle in which poor Mandy gets devoured, and Dexter finally triumphs over Nyarly, thanks mostly to Prof. Armitages ability to ignore magical resistance.

Dexter is looking for a new "Eileen" for the next scenario.


(for those that don't get it, the group name is based on "Dexys Midnight Runners", who had a hit with "Come on Eileen")]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/206032.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/206032.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/206873.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/206873.page GMT
Daisy started with an elder sign and our first gate was, once again, The Witch House and a Witch?!?!? Seriously, how many times can this keep happening? Daisy rushes through the gate and comes back out and closes it. But not using elder signs?? This was going against everything I knew and I kept itching to use the thing. What a wierd feeling. No sooner than she gets the gate closed, another pops open on her and shes sucked right back in.

Meanwhile, after Leo's stroke of bad luck at the beginning of last game, he has amassed a small fortune of gate trophies and monsters. He was tearing through everything with an enchanted knife and the .45. It helped that he started with Tom Mountain (+2 Fight).

The only ally encountered was by Daisy and she failed her roll and got booted into the streets. The cultists, maniacs and Masks did appear but they were so spaced out that the sanity damage wasnt really a factor. Leo was in danger once but after getting the healing stone he was able to maintain and then restore fully without ever slowing down. Dasiy did happen to go insane once with only 3 items on her and again I had to question our methods when I discarded the Elder Sign instead of Shrivelling or whatever else she had. It was also made easier by the fact that Wilson stayed most of the game in the general store, spending all of our money on weapons. Many trades were attempted (as there was no real penalty for failing the attempt, we tried alot) and enough were made that we could get the job done. The last trade actually happened in the first round of the Final Battle to give Leo another .45 for a massive 10 dice vs the GOO. With the whip to re-roll one failed dice and Mandy's ability to re-roll the final battle was pretty easy. Each investigator had 5 clues and only 2 or 3 attacks from Nyarly actually landed. The kicker was that even Mandy with only 2 dice was rolling at least one success every round.

The key to this victory was strategy and timing. Our strategy made sense and we stuck to it, even when things began to fall apart a bit, but determination and some lucky draws made it work out in the end. There was one rumor out about halfway through the game that started brining up the terror track, but by the time the store closed, Wilson had pillaged almost everything we needed from there. The game was over just a few turns after that, the terrror track only reaching 4.

At one point, we stopped closing gates just so we could get a few more turns in from monster surges for preparation, taking an obvious gamble on the cultists, maniac, mask appearances. By then we had 2 healing stones and were not that concerned with the sanity loss.

The scary part was when the Doom track was at 8 or so and we knew we only had a few turns left, as we were closing gates as fast as they could open, and we still needed a few more weapons to round everyone out. Daisy had been in the OW so long that she had only the 1 clue she started with!! The last few turns for her were to rush around and get the 2 left on the board and a fortunate environment in Rivertown Street where she could pass a check and get 3 more, bringing her up to the 5 requirement we placed on ourselves. Not only that but our physical weapon hoarding had left a bunch of Immune baddies out, with only Leo and his enchanted knife and pal Mr. Mountain able to do anything about it. Some selective gate closings and Leo clearing the way, we even overcame even that small obstacle.

All in all the Doom track moved quickly and if we hadnt decided right from the beginning to take Nyarly on head-to-head, been able to keep the terror level down and cause a few monster surges by not closing a few key gates, I think this plan could have easily blown up in our faces. It was great to end it with everyone alive, a score of 23 and a feeling that we had executed our plan perfectly as a team.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207040.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207040.page GMT
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@Bravo McWilley ::facepalms:: okay... Hrm... First of all, you shouldn't have 2 healing stones in your deck (especially in a league game), what you apparently didn't know is that the extra cards that came with Dunwich (flesh wards, lanterns, and a healing stone, I think those were all) were all intended to replace the original versions (as was stated in the errata prior to Dunwich's release). Okay. On to strategy.

Considering your strategy, you should've used the elder signs. Here's why. Every time you use one, you lose one point. BUT, they remove one doom token. This gives you more time. And, of course, this now enables you to close (not seal) one more gate per elder sign (which balances out the score loss), BUT, it does more than balance :') it gives you more time to battle monsters before the GOO wakes up (so you would've been able to raise your score higher).

::shrug:: you also should've traded tokens in order to get legrasse, it would've paid off in that scenario (14 more potential captures means 4 more points, minimum).

That being said, I enjoyed reading your recap, it was very detailed.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207070.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207070.page GMT
First of all I should say that since my past games were "ruined" by getting too many elder signs (we got 3 in our last game without anyone fishing. I was so annoyed cause I had bought 3 great allies from Ma but never really got to use them). I wanted a genuine challenge so I removed all 4 elder signs before the game began and its a good thing I did cause I would have gotten all 4 of them by the end of the game. I know this because I cycled through the unique Item deck twice before the game was over (I'm glad I wasn't fighting Y'gorec or whoever that tome AO is, we prolly would have had to fight 5 of him by the time I was done ) The reason I went through so many unique items is that M Jack is much too big a risk to send to OW or go monster fighting. So I had him hang around the curiosity shoppe, asylum and Newspaper most of the game. He even got a retainer relatively early that he kept (and in fact still has) as well as a few charitable donations by Jenny when that trust fund built up. I think it's also worth noting that my team starts with 8 random unique items between the six of them, I completed a rumor that game each investigator a unique item and there were a few Mi-Gos

I at first thought that getting the Clue tokens necessary would be difficult but in the first few turns clue tokens literally rained down. I'd say about 80% of my encounters gave me some, many gave 3 or more. Kate had the most at one point with 18 a number I've only reached in the past with Coded message or Rex Murphy. A funny thing that happened to me was that I completed a rumor that gave each investigator 2 clue tokens and the very next card was another rumor that did the same thing. It was actually a card from CotDP that I had accidentally left in but it was still funny that it showed up then (No, I didn't resolve it).

Early on a lot of gates were opening out of control. When I got 3 high activity locations sealed it settled down and I had time to heal up and take a few turns to try and trade items Jack with his 3 will and 3 sanity always passed items bought the first chance he would get which was a fairly nice haul ranging from weapons and other things.

Now the really annoying thing is near the middle - end I was very well equipped but nothing was happening (About half the turns were gates on sealed locations rather than monster surges). The Mistress of pain Amanda Sharpe had 6 skills (remember how I told you I cycled though the Unique item deck twice? She got the Skill tome 3 times) including Lore +1 (great for reading the tomes) Marksman ship (while a nice backup don't believe I used this once) and 2 fight +1s and 2 will +1s maxing both her fight and will at 6. I never really got to take advantage of the +2 extra dice while fighting but she dual wielded enchanted knives for a +6 and had a shotgun for the magically immune.
However this paled in comparison to the Master of pain "Ashcan" Pete. On turn two he acquired Mr Legras and later on Senor Murphy also came aboard (and I don't mean the reporter) giving him a max will and fight of 7. Rather than Wielding a pair of girly knives Mr Pete dual wielded a pair of blades (cycled throught the deck twice, remember?) for a whopping +8. He also had a shotgun of his own (both shotgun were supplied by their dear friend Bob Jenkins, The Weapons Dealer) for the Magically immune. As everyone knows Mr Legrass has a Hunting permit so Mask and Cultist season officially started for Pete ([color=red]WARNING: [/color]puns much worse than any I've tried to get away with so far follow). So first they bought 10 plagues upon their enemies till finally parting the red sea of their blood to victory. Then the monsters heard the fat lady singing as she was gunned down. Finally He-Who-Bit-Down-Too-Hard appeared but Pete was lazy so he had the Orange Listeners of the Cube (hmmmmm something doesn't sound right) help him. (Bad Puns Over)

I acquired a ton of fire power but I never had a challenge to use it on. The final mask monster only appeared cause I prolonged the game in hopes of him showing so I could murder him.

Ultimately I ended it when the AO was 1 away from being summoned having closed all 10 gates that had opened since then. Kate with her 5 gates is technically first citizen though Pete With his hordes of dead corpses could take that title from her.

For the final score do I instantly get 11 points from Nyethrotep or does it matter where the doom track and how close we was to being summoned?]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207257.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207257.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207271.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207271.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207334.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207334.page GMT
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I used to wonder if madness cards affected this (You only get points for surviving SANE investigators). But since there is no direct correlation between the ´language used for these two game effects beyond one of intuitively logical association, I've never allowed this to affect the score.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207335.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207335.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207342.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207342.page GMT okay... Hrm... First of all, you shouldn't have 2 healing stones in your deck (especially in a league game), what you apparently didn't know is that the extra cards that came with Dunwich (flesh wards, lanterns, and a healing stone, I think those were all) were all intended to replace the original versions (as was stated in the errata prior to Dunwich's release).[/quote]

Oh man, now that you mention it, I remember that. I checked the errata and see what you are talking about. I will make sure to trash those old card first thing! Ehh...figures, I knew we had to get something wrong.

The only thing that would have made a difference would have been the 2nd healing stone. Daisy ended up with 4 flesh wards but never used any of them and didnt have to toss anything out when she did have them. That second heal stone was actually never used. The first one was handed off to Leo who used his like every turn, but the second one was not used. Still, I may have to go back and play this one again now. This should be in the dunwhich book correct?

Also, thanks for the tip about the elder signs. I never thought of it that way. Plus I was figuring that in this scenario sanity was a precious commodity and I really didnt want to lower it by using them. We dont really play to maximize the score anyway, its more about having fun and pulling off a victory. We are happy that we not only won but won by how we planned it. I know its League play but Im not really gunning for first place anyway, so that doesnt really matter. But I will keep it in mind when we replay it, maybe to try for a higher score.

I didnt undserstand the quote "you also should've traded tokens in order to get legrasse, it would've paid off in that scenario (14 more potential captures means 4 more points, minimum)." How is this possible? Isnt an ally chosen at random when you buy them? maybe this is something else we are doing wrong? Plus it costs 2 gates or ten toughness monsters for an ally, and then you would have had to make the -3 will check just to keep him, seems like a big risk for only a 2 point gain. (4 points you quoted - the 2 points for buying him)]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207615.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207615.page GMT
Just double checked our score before sending it off and we had miscalculated. We beat scenario 1's score by 4 points! ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207793.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207793.page GMT No, Allies are chosen when "buying" them at Ma's. And Mandy helps make friends. ]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207997.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/207997.page GMT
If you're not playing competitively, I wouldn't go back and replay the scenario, why waste several hours? Unless you really want to :') but you should still change your decks to normal for the rest of the games.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/208802.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/208802.page GMT
We have always played random draw of allies, Isnt there an encounter that says you can choose any ally you want? This is probably why we always assumed it was random otherwise. I dont believe the Ma's Text makes it clear one way or another, maybe it does though. I will have a look at it this weekend also.

So this begs the question then for Leo: Does he get to choose any ally he wants to start with? or is this random? Geez, now Im all confuzzed!!]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209097.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209097.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209235.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209235.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209398.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209398.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209446.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209446.page GMT
QFT.]]> http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209724.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209724.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209755.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/209755.page GMT http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/211509.page http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffgforums/posts/preList/10013/211509.page GMT