We played through scenario 4 yesterday. Here is a quick after action report.
We liked our investigator team from the last game, so we kept all four. Dexter Drake (with Calvin) for Magic, Michael McGlenn and Wilson Richards for Firepower, and Jenny Barnes for money. We had good luck on the setup this time. For the very first time this league, I did not draw Expert Occultist for Michael McGlen. Dexter Drakes player drew Find Gate as one of his spells.
Opening Strategies.. Well, we had no clues after that last scenario, so sealing 6 gates would be unlikely. So we would try to close gates, while prepairing for the final battle. Main problem I had was Ithiqua's start of battle rule that said we had to roll a success to keep each item before the final battle. To combat that, Wilson Richards handed his money over to Jenny, and she made her way to the general store to start buying all the guns she could get. Meanwhile, Dexter Drake started jumping into gates to close them. Michael McGlenn went on patrol looking for cultists, and Wilson Richards hopped on his motorcycle and started grabbing clues.
Jenny's max movement of 3 made getting to the general store interesting. Go to Street, go to next street, duck in building to avoid Icy winds.. repeat. She managed to get there eventually and build up quite a large arsenal. Michael was caught outside fighting monsters 3 times, Wilson Richards twice, and Dexter Drake once. We were very careful to kill all the cultists at once, because there were several cards that could get 3 cultists into the street on one turn if we drew bad from the monster cup.
We closed 7 gates before the end. Wilson Richards built up enough clues to seal the gate leading to the Witches House, and afterwards Michael, and Wilson all jumped into the 2 gates that were still open. The next turn a third gate opened and Dexter Drake jumped into that one, using his find gate spell so that he'd come out the same time as the other 2. The next mythos card was a Gate surge card, so all 3 investigators jumped out at the same time, and all 3 managed to close their gates. Leaving us with no gates on the board, and well over 4 gate tokens.. Game over.
Player of the match award goes to Dexter who closed 3 gates. Kudos to Michael McGlenn for killing 3 Cultists, Wilson for sealing a gate at a location that gets reopened alot, and to jenny for getting 5 guns before the end of the game. I think we would have had little problem with the final battle if the GOO did come forth.