My brother rarely plays with me, but this is one of the few games he asks to play consistently. Such a fun puzzle and so thematic with plenty of luck to keep it interesting. I think people miss a lot when they don’t take time to read the flavour text and get immersed in the theme. Would love to see more of this on the channel 😊
I'm so with you! The flavor text makes the immersion work in this one!! Without it, it's nothing! Thanks so much for watching and more to come for sure
This is my absolute all-time favorite game. It is a lot but I do have all expansions! There's some really cool storage solutions for everything that I have yet to get. I'm talking about the massive crate that holds everything!
I like to build the mythos deck a bit more randomized, so that you don't know when easy or hard mythos cards will come up. I usually take 1 easy and 1 hard each of yellow and green and use mostly normal ones for the rest. For the blue ones I draw them randomly but avoid getting 2 hard or 2 easy ones. You could also compensate an easy blue with one more hard green or yellow maybe, depending on how difficult you want the game to be. But the hard ones can be really really mean, so I can't recommend including too many of those.
My fave game. I still play it solo when the opportunity arises. I have incorporated elements intended to cut down on the set up and put away time like the two apps card clerk and eldritch horror. Love watching playthroughs to enhance my play sessions. I almost never win a game but do an almost completely random set up including investigators.
FYI, you are considered to have passed a test if you roll at least 1 success. This is true even for tests where you want more than 1 success (combat, acquire assets, spells, etc.). So, you did pass the willpower test against the ambushing Elder Thing even though you want 3 successes to avoid sanity loss. However, you should have also done the fight test as you do both parts of combat when ambushed.
@@OneStopCoopShop Round 7 at around 1 hr 12 min mark. Also, I noticed later in round 8 that you spent 1 action to stand Lily up from being delayed and then took a second action. Delayed is worse than that. You lose all actions (even if another character tries to give you an action) and instead just stand up. This happens around 1 hr 23 min mark.
Thanks Colin. I love playing this game and, equally, watching others playing it. Your channel is one of my favourite. I suggest that you reverse the difficulty of the mythos deck. Like a 50-50 hard and normal at the top and 50-50 easy and normal at the bottom. You have done a couple of rules errors I think. When an investigator gets a condition during reckoning, they don’t resolve the text during that reckoning. Also, when a monster ambushes, I don’t think you can put it on the card that says put the monster on this card when you defeat a monster during combat.
Nice one Colin, one of my favorite games of all time. Just a clarification, you can only buy ship and rail tickets in city spaces (maybe you clarify this later on), Ursula wouldn't have been able to take that action in the Pyramids. Perchance a passing Bedouin had a spare one.
Also my favourite game, I've got all expansions, Arkham dice, custom dashboards and tokens all set up at the moment. I use a 60/ 40 mix of standard mythos cards and random easy/hard .
Awesome to see a playthrough with all the small box expansions. I like the mythos deck "ramping up" idea. Small thing: you can only take tickets on cities, so I think the ticket taking in the pyramids at the beginning may not be allowed. No ticket booths in the pyramids in the 1920s I guess!
One other thing at 44:30. The will test that you failed should not have been performed as on my understanding reckoning effects don't chain; the madness card came out during the reckoning itself so it's own effect would not trigger until the next reckoning. At least that is how I read it in the rules ref.
When a character is using a spell or anything that requires flipping the card, if there are more available in the deck, I always switch it out. This rule is from mansions of madness and I like it a lot to keep things fresh so I am doing it for eldritch horror too. Especially with spells it simulates the unknown side-effect of what's going to happen once you cast it. Try it!
All those Illness Conditions! There were so many I came down with the flu watching. Must have been an internet virus! lol Thanks Colin, that was indeed great fun. I just go with the luck of the draw. As said that can be brutal at the start if you get a nasty Mythos Card. Don't mind too much as it's all part of the narrative. I say rude things at the time though! 🤬 lol
At 1:13:46 you only discard Martial Prowess you decide NOT to gain an Injury. Since you did gain an Injury you did not have to discard Martial Prowess. The Injury is the cost of keeping it.
Nooo don't play with three investigators Colin. It's a cursed number... oh I'm a couple of weeks too late. Watching with my fingers crossed for you! lol
@@OneStopCoopShop IIRC the Icon reference for 3 and 4 characters were identical, which was disadvantageous when playing with 3 characters. Nice draw with the 1st Mythos Card. I always seem to pull a blooming Rumour card out of the deck first up! lol Good first round, hope it continues!
24:47 one thing i have to ask, the easy mythos cards are usually referred to as snowflake cards in virtually all playthrough vids Ive seen, is that just a mistake someone made when posting a playthrough vid that caught on, or does everyone not realise the symbol is a derivitaitve version of the elder sign emblem? (The wonky 5-pointed star)
Going to book this one, grab a six pack of beer, and settle in to watch it. Is the storage solution from Laserox? Because that box alone makes me want to get into EH more...it looks fancy! I'm currently trying to show restraint with this game until I get a bit bigger table to play on. Even with a card hold er, this game is a massive table hog for me.
When are you going to do another one? I’m in the process of 3d printing inserts and player aids for this game. Also I’m about to order the missing expansions I need ;)
@@OneStopCoopShop I have to say. I love the fact that you take the time out of your day or evening to reply back to people who have left you comments. Please don't stop doing that. Thats what makes your channel great! And the play throughs and information you provide to the board game community!!
The prelude in the beginning allowed the lead investigator to start on the space with the adventure token or Miskatonic Outpost. The space with the adventure token was Sydney, as that is where your adventure is. You placed Ursula on the Expedition space. Expeditions are not adventures.
In the later expansions there is a staged mythos variant. Using this, you use easy cards for stage 1, regular for stage 2, and hard for stage 3. I always play with this variant (and often with the official sub-variant of a starting easy rumor and regular/hard rumors in stage 1 and 2 to make it just a little harder to compensate). The main reason I use this variant is the game becomes a complete waste of time and not fun at all if you get smacked around by hard cards in the first couple of rounds before you have a chance to build-up your investigators. I like the feeling of the building difficulty as the OO gets closer to awakening. It definitely makes the game easier overall, but the starting rumor variant mentioned above mostly balances this out. The game is also much harder (numbers round up) at odd player counts unless you use the alternate player scaling cards in the official FAQ.
I really enjoy your videos but you need to pay more attention to what you read. You scan the cards too quickly and make a ton of little mistakes. at 1:12:50 you could either take an injury or discard the card, not both!
@@OneStopCoopShop Maybe i did not pay attantion well, but I think you spend an action to move when on Arctica board at least once, and I'm almost sure that instruction say that you do not need to do it on local paths. Anyway super cool play! Super channel! Regards from Poland!
So, from what I understand it's a local path from Antarctica to miscatonic and you can move through a local path without an action one per turn! Thanks so much for watching!!
@@OneStopCoopShop Thanks for answer. I just took instruction. I played it all the time wrong. I always knew that watching your videos is helpfull. Thanks!
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Yes, more Eldritch Horror please!!
Oh more is so coming I love this game!!
My brother rarely plays with me, but this is one of the few games he asks to play consistently. Such a fun puzzle and so thematic with plenty of luck to keep it interesting. I think people miss a lot when they don’t take time to read the flavour text and get immersed in the theme. Would love to see more of this on the channel 😊
I'm so with you! The flavor text makes the immersion work in this one!! Without it, it's nothing! Thanks so much for watching and more to come for sure
My favorite solo game. Thanks for playing.
I can see why! How many investigators do you normally play with solo?
@@OneStopCoopShop I'd say 3-4 is best. With less than 3 you can't cover the world map good enough.
It's so ironic that Agnes specifically explored Hyperborea, given that in a previous life she was a sorceress from that civilization. Very thematic!
This is my absolute all-time favorite game. It is a lot but I do have all expansions! There's some really cool storage solutions for everything that I have yet to get. I'm talking about the massive crate that holds everything!
I JUST got the crate!! Going to showcase it next play cause it's awesome..... I love this game! Thanks for watching Dustin!
you had a 0.463 percent chance of rolling three 1's in a row. Thats some mad luck right there, you should be proud.
I felt like Bairnt there!!
The campaign in Masks of Nyarlathotep would be great to do, as well. Plus the Personal Stories it adds are so cool and thematic!
I'm doing it!! Might be the fan made one as it is just more in depth than the one from the box.
@@OneStopCoopShop can you try to select Calvin from that expansion when you do? In such a fan boy for him and Agnes! I can't find Masks
My absolute favorite Arkham Files game. Thanks for the video!
I can see why!! Thanks so much for watching!!
I like to build the mythos deck a bit more randomized, so that you don't know when easy or hard mythos cards will come up. I usually take 1 easy and 1 hard each of yellow and green and use mostly normal ones for the rest. For the blue ones I draw them randomly but avoid getting 2 hard or 2 easy ones. You could also compensate an easy blue with one more hard green or yellow maybe, depending on how difficult you want the game to be. But the hard ones can be really really mean, so I can't recommend including too many of those.
More Eldritch is always a welcome sight.
Yes!!
My fave game. I still play it solo when the opportunity arises. I have incorporated elements intended to cut down on the set up and put away time like the two apps card clerk and eldritch horror. Love watching playthroughs to enhance my play sessions. I almost never win a game but do an almost completely random set up including investigators.
Thanks so much for watching!!
Eldritch Horror never dies! Love your videos and content. More Eldritch/Elder Sign games /m/
FYI, you are considered to have passed a test if you roll at least 1 success. This is true even for tests where you want more than 1 success (combat, acquire assets, spells, etc.). So, you did pass the willpower test against the ambushing Elder Thing even though you want 3 successes to avoid sanity loss. However, you should have also done the fight test as you do both parts of combat when ambushed.
Got it that makes sense!! Any idea where I did that so I can drop a klingon subtitle?
@@OneStopCoopShop Round 7 at around 1 hr 12 min mark.
Also, I noticed later in round 8 that you spent 1 action to stand Lily up from being delayed and then took a second action. Delayed is worse than that. You lose all actions (even if another character tries to give you an action) and instead just stand up. This happens around 1 hr 23 min mark.
Thanks for both of those Kenny!!
I really appreciate how often you shout out other channels. Thank you!
There are so many good ones out there!! Thanks for watching!
I have been playing some older games lately rather than buying more. This game is definitely going to be played next.
YESSSSS!! There is something so.. I dunno awesome about this game? I love it so much! Thanks for watching and good luck on your play!!
@@OneStopCoopShop are the small box expansions good? I need to get a few expansions for this game at some point.
Yes! Forbidden lore and city of ruin are my two favorite. Forbidden gives you more of everything and city of ruin gives the destruction mechanic!
Ha!
This was my first ever game purchase when I got into the hobby. Eldritch+Forsaken Lore. Thanks for the video!
Awesome!!! Thank you for watching!!
Thanks Colin. I love playing this game and, equally, watching others playing it. Your channel is one of my favourite. I suggest that you reverse the difficulty of the mythos deck. Like a 50-50 hard and normal at the top and 50-50 easy and normal at the bottom.
You have done a couple of rules errors I think. When an investigator gets a condition during reckoning, they don’t resolve the text during that reckoning. Also, when a monster ambushes, I don’t think you can put it on the card that says put the monster on this card when you defeat a monster during combat.
Thanks for that and for watching!!
Nice one Colin, one of my favorite games of all time. Just a clarification, you can only buy ship and rail tickets in city spaces (maybe you clarify this later on), Ursula wouldn't have been able to take that action in the Pyramids. Perchance a passing Bedouin had a spare one.
Yes i even say that and then ignore myself haha!! Thanks for that and what a great game!
Also my favourite game, I've got all expansions, Arkham dice, custom dashboards and tokens all set up at the moment. I use a 60/ 40 mix of standard mythos cards and random easy/hard .
Nice!!! Which ancient one are you taking on?
The series of Arkham Horror games from FFG is the stuff of legends. Some of the best games in the history of board and card games. They are timeless.
Can't disagree with that! Thanks for watching!!
Awesome to see a playthrough with all the small box expansions. I like the mythos deck "ramping up" idea. Small thing: you can only take tickets on cities, so I think the ticket taking in the pyramids at the beginning may not be allowed. No ticket booths in the pyramids in the 1920s I guess!
Hahaha!!! Why not?? Great point I'll make a note!!
One other thing at 44:30. The will test that you failed should not have been performed as on my understanding reckoning effects don't chain; the madness card came out during the reckoning itself so it's own effect would not trigger until the next reckoning. At least that is how I read it in the rules ref.
This is Excellent, Colin! More!!
Will do!!
1:33:34 If Tokyo is a devastated space, you shouldn't be able to grab a travel ticket from that space, since it doesn't count as a city space.
Good point!
Great playthrough! Thanks for these videos.
Thanks so much for watching!!!!
Your luck in rolling is insane!!!
Haha!! I'm not so sure considering I killed Ursula!!
Somehow it's not the same when you don't have to babysit 9 bratty NPCs....
Haha!!
When a character is using a spell or anything that requires flipping the card, if there are more available in the deck, I always switch it out. This rule is from mansions of madness and I like it a lot to keep things fresh so I am doing it for eldritch horror too. Especially with spells it simulates the unknown side-effect of what's going to happen once you cast it. Try it!
Oh my goodness that is such a great idea!!! Imb doing that next time!
Great playthrough Mr C! Loved it, and made me want to play this great game again. 😄
Such a great game!!
Best game ever!! Keep them coming man! 🐙
So good!!
All those Illness Conditions!
There were so many I came down with the flu watching. Must have been an internet virus! lol
Thanks Colin, that was indeed great fun.
I just go with the luck of the draw. As said that can be brutal at the start if you get a nasty Mythos Card.
Don't mind too much as it's all part of the narrative. I say rude things at the time though! 🤬 lol
Hahaha!! I think ill change up how my mythos deck is setup for next time! Thanks for watching and sorry for the flu!!
Great fun, thanks Colin
Thank you so much for watching!!
At 1:13:46 you only discard Martial Prowess you decide NOT to gain an Injury. Since you did gain an Injury you did not have to discard Martial Prowess. The Injury is the cost of keeping it.
Yup I have that in a klingon subtitle make sure you have those on!
We want more, we want more! Love this game!!
Hehehhehehe! Got you!!
@@OneStopCoopShop Just bought the mountains of madness expansion thanks to your video, haha.
@@michaelernest5930 YESSSSSSSSS!!!!
Nooo don't play with three investigators Colin. It's a cursed number...
oh I'm a couple of weeks too late.
Watching with my fingers crossed for you! lol
Haha why do you dislike 3? I really enjoyed it!!
@@OneStopCoopShop
IIRC the Icon reference for 3 and 4 characters were identical, which was disadvantageous when playing with 3 characters.
Nice draw with the 1st Mythos Card. I always seem to pull a blooming Rumour card out of the deck first up! lol
Good first round, hope it continues!
That is true!! I think I just like having the third option!
@@OneStopCoopShop
Well it didn't stop you having a great game so you proved me wrong! lol
Thanks as always Colin, really enjoyed watching along.
@@pencilpauli9442 Thank you Paul for joining in the fun!!
24:47 one thing i have to ask, the easy mythos cards are usually referred to as snowflake cards in virtually all playthrough vids Ive seen, is that just a mistake someone made when posting a playthrough vid that caught on, or does everyone not realise the symbol is a derivitaitve version of the elder sign emblem? (The wonky 5-pointed star)
Not sure haha!
I wonder what eldritch horror second edition is going to look like, I’m ready for them to announce it.
That would be awesome!!!
Going to book this one, grab a six pack of beer, and settle in to watch it. Is the storage solution from Laserox? Because that box alone makes me want to get into EH more...it looks fancy! I'm currently trying to show restraint with this game until I get a bit bigger table to play on. Even with a card hold
er, this game is a massive table hog for me.
Haha that is so awesome Clay!! I have the broken token insert and it is also awesome! I'll show it next time. Thanks so much for watching!!!
When are you going to do another one? I’m in the process of 3d printing inserts and player aids for this game. Also I’m about to order the missing expansions I need ;)
Not sure when but soon as I also now have everything for the game!! Have fun making your inserts!
@@OneStopCoopShop I have to say. I love the fact that you take the time out of your day or evening to reply back to people who have left you comments. Please don't stop doing that. Thats what makes your channel great! And the play throughs and information you provide to the board game community!!
Thanks so much man!! I promise we won't the interaction is what makes this fun!! Have a wonderful evening!
The prelude in the beginning allowed the lead investigator to start on the space with the adventure token or Miskatonic Outpost. The space with the adventure token was Sydney, as that is where your adventure is. You placed Ursula on the Expedition space. Expeditions are not adventures.
Good catch it should have been the adventure token! I get those names of tokens confused!
We want Hastur!!
You've got it!!
I always set up the Mythos deck the way it was printed on the card
Yup but that doesn't say difficulty of the card. So it's still setup the same way just the difficulty of the card is different
In the later expansions there is a staged mythos variant. Using this, you use easy cards for stage 1, regular for stage 2, and hard for stage 3. I always play with this variant (and often with the official sub-variant of a starting easy rumor and regular/hard rumors in stage 1 and 2 to make it just a little harder to compensate).
The main reason I use this variant is the game becomes a complete waste of time and not fun at all if you get smacked around by hard cards in the first couple of rounds before you have a chance to build-up your investigators. I like the feeling of the building difficulty as the OO gets closer to awakening. It definitely makes the game easier overall, but the starting rumor variant mentioned above mostly balances this out. The game is also much harder (numbers round up) at odd player counts unless you use the alternate player scaling cards in the official FAQ.
Maybe i just got really easy ones this time. I do love the idea of it!
11:27 i thought u're only allowed to acquire ship tickets if u're in a city space?
Loving this. Are you sure the back half of martial prowess is an 'instead' and you don't just get +8 strength?
I am thinking it should be a +8 which is INSANE! That is amazing I will make a klingon subtitle!!
Oh wait no it is only +5, it says on the back "instead" in the last word of the first sentence! So that is right!
Turns out I'm blind. Thanks for the content.
I am too don't worry haha!!
Yay! I love this one!
One of the most fun for sure!!
Why did Lily start with Martial Prowess? It doesn't have that as a starting card on my version.
All investigators started with a talent from one of the preludes.
You've got it!
1:23:00 was brutal, i love it u just laugh about it.
So good!! And so bad!
Did you yourself gain a dark pack condition in order to be rolling so well lol?
Apparently!!! Haha!!
I really enjoy your videos but you need to pay more attention to what you read. You scan the cards too quickly and make a ton of little mistakes. at 1:12:50 you could either take an injury or discard the card, not both!
Is it not a free action to move on Arctica board?
It is for Ursula! Sure has that ability for uncharted paths!
@@OneStopCoopShop Maybe i did not pay attantion well, but I think you spend an action to move when on Arctica board at least once, and I'm almost sure that instruction say that you do not need to do it on local paths. Anyway super cool play! Super channel! Regards from Poland!
So, from what I understand it's a local path from Antarctica to miscatonic and you can move through a local path without an action one per turn! Thanks so much for watching!!
@@OneStopCoopShop Thanks for answer. I just took instruction. I played it all the time wrong. I always knew that watching your videos is helpfull. Thanks!