Finally beaten the game after a week of trying with 3 investigators sealing away Shub. Thought game was too hard until I realised i miss read the rules, was drawing a mythos card after each investigators turn (2 more than i should be!). Nearly blew it mind, sealed 5 gates then drew the rumour : "good work undone card", managed to seal 6th gate just in time .

Welcome to the carnival!

Congrats, and may luck be with you for your next many horrors...

Defintely enjoy the base game...for awhile. Don't feel compelled to add to your collection just yet. There's a certain rhythm to the board with regard to gates opening at particular locations, etc. It's a great game...quite immersive and a replay value beyond compare. Welcome to the Forum!

Oh no ;') it sounds like it's going to be too easy for you now. Go check out what I just posted in the other thread about two player consolations ;'D that'll fix it for you just fine.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=5&efcid=1&efidt=596264#596809

Just to ensure, that some misunderstandings of the rules do not remain: There is no such thing as an individual investigator’s turn in Arkham Horror. Instead, in each turn, the phases (upkeep, movement, Arkham encounter, other world encounter, Mythos) follow one another and in each phase except Mythos the investigators act one after another.

If there is one thing that Arkham Horror has taught me about board games, its to read and re-read the rules!

It sounds painfully obvious, but even after several plays I would still suggest picking up the rule book (ideally when a game is not in progress) and reading a section or two. The amount of small details I have missed by thinking that I understood the game is shocking.

Krawhitham said:

Well i've learnt my lesson here, I made it sooo hard for myself, i thought "should get easy with 3 rather than 1?"