Yig's doom track progresses if a cultist is "defeated".

If a cultist is "returned to the cup" by an effect such as closing gate with matching symbol, does that count as "defeating"?

Rob

No, you need blood on your hands for that (see what I did there ?). Beating a Cultist via combat check that is (or Flute).

Although if you have any gates with the moon symbol on them, give me some, I didn't get any

Joseph_Lavode said:

Dark Druid packs a Hexagon .

Ack! I'll assume thats from Black Goat of the Woods, which is the only expansion I don't yet have. I forgot there was stuff that "counts as a cultist" or something similar in that expansion though.

Thanks again for the answer. Alas, no gates keyed to his cult guys came up.

Yig beat down my team of 4 (mid-ranked investigators - Vincent the Doctor, the student who starts at bank, Gloria the author, and Monteray J. the 'indiana jones' guy). 'Helpful effects' tanked me in a way (twice investigators with clues to seal a gate saw the gate closed by other effects that didn't seal it, letting new gates later open on hot spot), an encounter card opened a gate for an extra doom token on the short track, and Yig's curse at start of the final smack-down was very effective.

Yeah I know, he's the "easy one". Plan a rematch on the weekend, maybe swapping out Vincent for another quasi random (I do draw 3, pick one)

Rob

In my experience, it's easiest to think of "defeat" and "pass a combat check" to be identical. So beating it with your bare hands, or any item that says "defeat" will trigger the doom token.

Nah, Azathoth is the easy one.

valvorik said:

Don't know about mid-ranked, swap Monterey for Dexter Drake and you have my base-AH's crappiest of crap team of 4.

re lower than mid-ranked, looking at Tibs' stats-page, yup they do seem lower. Dropped Dr. Vincent and M. Jack for Sister Mary and the Darrell the Photographer.

13 turns till Yig came out and then was defeated with two investigators left standing (Gloria and Amanda), mostly courtesy of Amanda's shotgun and having a wack of clues (a few turns with gates closeable but not unsealable left a clue surplus as it became clear sealing wasn't going to get done in time). Getting the hang of it, keeping people healthy once they get low on stam or sanity and blessed when possible. Have to credit the feds though, they raided Arkham just when every monster was in the streets blocking up movement and cleared 'em all out to facilitate folks getting to the hospital and asylum to get healthy for the final showdown.

Will try Azathoth next.

Weird, I was just getting on to ask this. We were playing with Yig and Tzulcha (mean combination) and two cultists were in the same neighborhood as two elder sign tokens. I used plague of locusts to off them both, and later used a time bomb to kill another. We ruled that Yig didn't care, because he didn't necessarily know I'd done it, and it said "return to cup". However, later on, another player used wave of destruction, which specifically says "defeat" so she made sure not to target the child of the goat monster on the board with that.