Newbie Ancient One

By RedMageStatscowski, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

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jobroskie said:

for those saying that masks are easy to deal with and don't come into play regularly: are you playing with expansions? With vanilla AH I tend to see at least a couple per game and they re always something hard to deal with.

My advice though is to not worry so much with winning and losing. I have fun just playing and reacting to whats given to me. I normally play with randomized AOs and characters.

Well, adding more expansions actually lowers the frequency of masks (although the expansion masks admittedly are better). And no I don't mean that you still use only 5 per game.

"Just have fun" is definitely my mantra. But it becomes no fun when it's

  • Too easy (vanilla + dark pharaoh)
  • Too hard (League Chapter 5).
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I only got the vanilla version, I'm a 'newbie' at it anyway.

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I don't consider myself a newbie anymore since I know the rules and have played the game over than 10 times. I would say I am a novice. ;-)

I have won the game 3 times. Once against Yig and once against Ithaqua and once against Azatoth. Cthulhu and Hastur both raped us so I would say they are the hardest.

I would say also that Azatoth is the easiest one but Yig is the fastest. We don't often have much time to plan and calculate so we just play against Yig and usually end up dead. It is fun anyway. An average Yig game with 4-5 human players take about 2 hours after you know the rules.

Btw, if you really are a newbie I recommend you read the manual again a couple of times because you probably missed some rules during the first read.

Vanilla AH is quite enough but Dunwich adds some great game features like Injury and Madness cards. Every expansion is nice but Dunwich Horror is almost a must!

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I always had the rules open when I played my first game.

Maybe I'll have rankings based on the games played:

0-9 = Newbie

10-19 = Cultist

20-29 = Monster

30-49 = Mask

50-79 = Investigator

80-129 = First Citizen of Arkham

130+ = Ancient One

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BOOM-DIAH! Won my 2nd game (2-player game)

Azathoth track=6/14

Terror track=2

Elder signs used=0

Gate trophies=5 total

Monster trophies=1 (we kept dodging, and always count the mythos cards to kill the monsters)

Loans=no loans

Survivors=2

Victory mode A. We closed every gate in Arkham.

So using the scoring in the rulebook, my team (Joe Diamond [me] and Mandy Thompson [friend]) scored: 19 points.

I should try going against Nyarlahotep next. Azathoth is conquered.

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Knuckles Eki said:

Monster trophies=1 (we kept dodging, and always count the mythos cards to kill the monsters)

You mean those "return monsters from X to the cup" cards? Mythos cards don't themselves "kill" monsters IIRC.

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I think he meant he waits for Mythos cards to do the work (back to the cup).

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Exactly. those cards come up quite a lot in that game.

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Those mythos cards definately have it out for me. They only clear parts of the board that have nothing in them.... Typical. :)