The Cragheart stormed into the room and with his leftover retaliates from that one ability I managed to take down 2 monsters! I guess if I had not messed up the Spellweaver I might actually have taken down the rest and survived… the question is do I try again? I cannot.Įdit: this time I came surprisingly close, I just miscalculated on when I had to refresh the Spellweaver’s burned cards. I thought I could deal with normal difficulty. I am waiting to get to level 2 in hopes of defeating this scenario then. I have not ONCE managed to choose the side of the travel event that might give me a bonus. I clicked short-rest instead of long-rest and there was no possibility to go back. I keep making stupid mistakes like miscalculating the range on an attack and then having to skip my ability. So far on at least 5 attempts, I have never managed to kill one of the monsters in the final room. I chose Spellweaver and Cragheart 2 characters that have good enough synergy and I know reasonably well because it is what we played in our campaign. I am still on the very first scenario of the campaign. So everytime someone asks about the Steam game, I am motivated to try again. But I might, I think my partner bought the game way back as well. It looks lovely, is nicely animated and the campaign implementation seems really good, too. However, as many of us already know Gloomhaven constantly gives you new stuff to not use correctly. Obviously, I will not repeat those specific mistakes if I play again soon, which I am tempted to do, except I have so many things I want to do that I do not even know where to start. They just become more unforgiving and more difficult. This is exactly the thing with digital implementations of difficult boardgames. I also must have misunderstood or misread a Cragheart card because it just didn’t work when I tried to play it (something damages adjacent characters and when there is no character adjacent apparently the thing cannot be used, I really do not remember how we played it on the table). I forgot to rest with my Spellweaver and the app just didn’t warn me and with Cragheart alone I was unable to clear the last room. I created 2 characters and went for the Black Barrow. Ok so I used my lunch break to see how the 1.0 release really is. If you want to check it out or cannot get the physical game played… it’s probably okay. If you want it to replace the physical game: don’t. I think there is a campaign now and not just a few random scenarios and all the characters should have been added. I think there is an undo now–after much clamoring from the players. I long to find the time to go back and play the digital Gloomhaven maybe just to get back into wanting to play it on the table. The same issue I have with the Spirit Island app.Ĭooperative boardgames are often full of complex upkeep systems and on the table those are more forgiving of the mistakes we make, the wrong assumptions, the things we forget and go back and change. However… everytime I went back in the time since (2+ years) a lot had been added but I kept noticing how many mistakes I made and for a long time there was no undoing. I needed r/Gloomhaven to help me grok the game enough back then but it convinced me enough to buy the boardgame. I thought it was cheaper to try out that way and it was. I actually bought the GLoomhaven on Steam before I bought the boardgame. I liked what I played, but I want to play it with others, and so far that’s just not happening, due to a combination of very few game days, and the difficulty in getting new games to the table. Much like the physical version, as I have Jaws of the Lion, and have only played it once so far. I’ve pretty much gone to just Playstation when it comes to video gaming, so I don’t think GH on the computer would be a good fit for me, as it would not get played. We have set up some physical games and using the webcam played things like Lords of Vegas and Welcome to. We have not used it together at all (though I have with some old high school friends here and there). Near the beginning of the pandemic, I picked up a couple copies of TTS for myself and my wife, as did our friends who we often game with, in the thought that though we couldn’t physically get together for gaming, we could still do a little bit. I have not, and while I’m curious about it, I don’t think I’m going to be getting it.
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