good day- here are some of the beautiful locations from lake town- best art so far!!!! theyre high res. so knock yourself out

ps. this is impossible solo

rich

Thanks for the images rich!! They look great! So did you get a copy of it already to get these pics and try it?

absolutely fantastic!

Shockeffect said:

Shockeffect said:

a friend was at gencon and sent me a copy to try…..i have tried and failed everytime….its just so **** brutal!

rich

The quest does seem near impossible to beat purely solo. I have tried multiple decks against and have come close to beating half of it.

Amazing pictures. Really nice!!! I want this quest and i wont it now!!!

the problem with the quest is that it has the intensity of threat, locations and enemies of such a level that a usual quest would only have one of those aspects- ie. really hard locations or enemies….this has it ALL…..right from turn 1

Basically, this game is just going to win those Dice Tower Best Art awards as long as it remains in print.

starhawk77 said:

yep- sure will…….(or at least they better…..Mr. Vassel)

starhawk77 said:

I hope so. They've set a standard, One would hope they keep it. Altogether I see 43 quest points (only the left-hand card in the bottom two roads has duplicates, right?). So when a location is explored, those points remove damage from Lake-Town, right? So a total of 43 points of damage may be healed (in this manner) from Lake-Town?

John85 said:

dont let the picture fool you- most of the cards are stacked!!!

richsabre said:

That sounds like it might make the quest a little easier (laughable, I know), because of quest/heal points from locations.

You make it sound like it is a cake walk… trust me it isn't… it is hard to accumulate those and fight off Smaug and try to keep the town alive.

lpknight21 said:

I know it's no cakewalk, that's why I said a "little easier" and then called my comment "laughable." I look forward to owning this set, but I'm not sure about playing the quest itself. It has to be the most difficult to date (although from what others are saying about The Hobbit I and Shadow and Flame, I'm not sure which is worst.

I've played the first adventure of The Hobbit 5 times now and only lost it once. And that was to a complete bonehead mistake.

Bullroarer Took said:

You must have the right deck, b/c it sounds like many others are having mixed results.

Does anyone find all cards scanned somewhere ?

I have the full set from Gencon, I will try to take some pics of the other cards later tonight or tomorrow. The difficulty of this quest is off the charts. We got smoked every time we attempted it at Gencon.

As others have said, dealing with the questing difficulty while trying to battle Smaug is insane. You need an army of allies to feed him right from turn one. It is not uncommon for Smaug to make instant attacks against all players during the quest phase of the first turn.

You can find the full spoiler for The Battle of Lake-Town here.

Greetings

I look on the quest and encounter cards and it look really cool. But i dont understand 2 things

1 Resolve burn damage. What is mean?? I must to put this number f damage to the lake-town or???

2 Smaug had his own deck. So when you revealed him from this deck???

Glaurung said:

yes….location cards have Burn X on them….smaug and treachery cards will say resolve all burn damage in play

so if you have cards in play that amount to 5 burn damage, 5 damage goes on lake town

smaug has his own deck which you reveal seperate from the encounter deck. you have to state where he will go- staging area or engage you, then you draw him

basically you want to choose engage every turn….all smaugs have 7 ish threat so it gets tough with all the locations to quest

rich

richsabre said:

richsabre said:

richsabre said:

Kobby said:

Hi. Me Me Gaurung print out all the cards from this quest but cannot play it cose we dont really understand how Smaug deck working.
Can you be more specific and explain which phase Smaug come to the game when you change him and so on? And also about burn damage as well?
There is should be the rule sheet from the quest box but we didn have it………
Thank you Kobby and Glaurung.

sure

-during set up, set up the smaug deck which consists of all the smaug enemy cards, shuffle them

-the smaug deck has its own discard pile. effects that interact with the encounter deck/discard pile do not interact with the smaug deck/discard pile

-when smaug is discarded place it in the smaug discard pile. if the smaug deck is empty reshuffle the discard pile to make a new smaug deck

-at the beginning of the quest phase the 1st player must choose either:

1.his play area

or

2.the staging area

as the destination of smaug. then reveal the top card of the smaug deck and put it into play- either in 1 or 2 depending on what you choose.

if you chose 1 then smaug immediatly engages you.

-if another version of smaug was already in play (i.e after round 1) then move all damage from the previous version to the new version of smaug and discard the previous smaug.

BURN X is the burn numbers on the card in play. when told to resolve all burn damage, total the amount of burn damage in play and assign it to lake town.

when doing this each player may exhaust any number of his characters to assign any number of of burn damage to those characters, up to their remainging hit points.

any damage not dealt in this way is assigned to lake town

rich

PS- there is a location that allows you to have two active locations at once- i think its the warf….i dont know how to officially play this as it isnt mentioned anywhere.