I think this have to be the most epic Arkham Horror game I have played yet.

I can't belive I did it. I beat Chaugnar Faugn in Final Battle.

The boring part is that I was solo-playing, so I have no one to share my joy with… well, except for you guys

I played with every expansion except MH and had 6 investigators: Monterey, Amanda, Norman, Lily, Tommy and Rita.

First I tried to seal as normal, but with some setbacks I had only sealed 3 locations when the doomtrack was almost completely full. I then realised that I would be really lucky to seal those final 3 locations before the AO awoke, so I tried to go for a closing-win instead. At the same time I was trying to gear up for final-combat to, and with all clue-tokens saved from not-sealing gates, I thought I could have a chance against the AO.

Actually I was really, really close to a closing all gates victory. Monterey was trying to close the absolute last one, but failed with all 3 dies.

At the Mythos face a new Gate opened and Chaugnar Faugn awoke.

The things that made me defeat him was:

1. Lilys Personal Story. 2 Doomtokens was removed at the start.

2. Sealing the Beasts Power. It was really good that I wasted time with this mission

3. Monterey buying all Magical Weapons he could find at the Curiosity Shop.

Also Lily and Rita had 12 clues each so they lasted for 4 rounds. And I can say that they needed it. The fight was down to the last round. All other Investigators was already devoured except those two fine ladies. The Elephant God had only 2 doomtokens left. I needed 12 hits….

Rita goes first… rolls 6 hits.

Then Lily…. rolls 5 hits with 10 dies. 3 dies left to roll… Need one more hit… 1 hit!!!

I'm flying out of the chair chearing!

Honestly, I would never have made it without Lilys PS and Sealing the Beasts Power-mission. I was really hard. I can't even imagine how hard it will be playing with Epic-Battle cards… And no, I didn't use them, It's hard enough without them. But maybee the next time

Congratulations! As someone who solo plays 4 Investigators quite often…it's tough when you have no one with whom you can share the victory.

Thanks.

Yeah, I know. When I have friends over we only play 1 investigator each, and I usually only have one or two friends over at the time.

And when we play 2-3 investigators we often lose, so playing those 6 investigator-solo games have really made wonders to my morale

Congrats Nidhögg!

Chaugnar Faugn isn't an easy one to take down! I often play solo so I understand the feeling of not having anyone to share the feeling of winning with. At least my girlfriend is sympathetic when she isn't playing! I have a game coming up against Chaugnar Faugn soon so wish me luck! Did you log your victory in the Arkham Horror Statistics sheet yet? Thanks for sharing with us and congrats again!

Full Doom Track said:

Thanks!

Yes I did report it to the statistics sheet.

Good luck to you taking on Chaugnar Faugn. Hope you defeat him before final combat, because he's tough!

Impressive! Very well done! Now that you killed your avatar, you need another face ::laughter::

Anyway… interesting to notice that whenever Monterey can fail, he fails…

Julia said:

Don't be to hard on poor Monterey. At least he managed to contribute to the game by finding a Yithian Rifle and a Golden Sword of Y'ha-Talla at the shop

Nicely done! The skin-of-the-teeth victories are the best ones. And all expansions except Miskatonic? That must have required quite the table space. Plus, the card piles must have been rather big. And quite a lot of different game effects in play over the course of the game.

Nidhögg said:

::laughter:: yeah, sorry, it's something personal between me and him (I've always had an incredible bad luck every time I played him…)

eiterorm said:

Hehe, yeah I have put two tables together to make the necessary space for the expansion-boards. The card piles on the other hand doesn't become that large as I groom them quite a bit after I have shuffled them.

And all the different game-effects are often nothing to worry about. There is just the Rift-track in Kingsport to keep an eye on. The other boards are a bit to diluted I think…