Hello everyone,

i have just acquired the expansions i was missing for AH, and i ran through the rules again. Truth is, we haven't played for a long time (that's a great game, but that's a huge game too... we lack room!)

So rereading, and looking through the forum, i asked myself (and then I ask here) two questions.

1. First one seems to be implied in a lot of comments, but just to be sure : when a monster surge occurs and town expansion are used, , do monster appear on every gate in every town, or just the town the surge occurs in ?

2. i'm confused about this one, i found apparently contradictory comments. When a Investigator is devoured while the AO sleeps, the player gets a new Investigator. When an Investigator is devoured while battling the AO, the player is eliminated. What happens when the Investigator is devoured because (s)he's LITAS when the AO awakens ? Is the Battle considered to be started already ?

Thanks,

P.S. please excuse any awkward wording, english is not my mother tongue.

Hi, and welcome to the Carnival

1. Monsters appearing via surge are to be divided as evenly as possible among all the gates in play, regardless of the town they are in

2. Investigators devoured while LiTaS due to the AO's awakening are not replaced, but remember they do count towards the total of successes needed to remove 1 doom token from the doom track (e.g: you have 4 investigators against Yig, which means a doom track of 10. 1 investigator's devoured because he was LiTaS at Yig's awakening: you still need 4*10=40 successes to win the final battle)

Hope this helps! And don't worry, your English is perfectly fine

Think of investigators in Lost and Time and Space as entering the battle and then immediately dying as part of the Ancient One's "Start of Battle" ability. That's why they still count toward the successes required.

I like to think of it as the person who is LiTaS is unable to return home due to the cosmic forces that allowed the ancient one to awaken.... but that might just be me.

Thank you everyone.

I may have other questions in the future .

Oh, and we played again ! Base game only, Amanda Sharpe, Carolyn Fern, Jenny Barnes and Mandy Thompson against Ithaqua. My wife (as Mandy) explored a lot of Gates, i (as Amanda) explosed a lot of Monsters, there was a lot of surges in the two last thirds of the game... So with the surges, few portals, few Doom tokens. Lot of Monsters, that's why i began hiting them. We reached Terror 3... but after that, we controlled the flow.

Ithaqua didn't awaken, but it was close. It had 10 Doom tokens on its Track when we laid the 6th Elder Sign on the board... We were just lucky, but great game anyway.

Sounds you did a good job there. Now the question: have you understood which locations are more likely to surge / have gate openings? It's a good start to step up your strategy to the next level

Now the question: have you understood which locations are more likely to surge / have gate openings?

Well, at least, i figured i should think about it. I DO think about it... To be lucky is fine, but not really gratifying

Well said There are two specific patterns to look at:

a) locations where is more likely / less likely for gates to appear (clearly, if you seal immediately the more likely, then it's all downhill to victory)

b) the way clues appear

once you have these clear in your mind, you'll win most of the times (with core set only)

Have fun