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I want to play through this as well. I'll have to work out how to get the jungle map, but I'm sure I'll manage. I'm hopeful the Kickstarter campaign scheduled for next year will include a jungle map.

I just read it and it appears as though a special rule is missing on how the tentacles are treated. I would assume that you can activate the tentacles somehow, probably at the same time as Thaug is activated. l also suspect that each time you destroy a tentacle, Thaug's life point is reduced by 1. That's just a guess on my part, but otherwise the rules don't quite make sense.

It’s embarrassing to admit but I didn’t think of that. It may have worked.

One option is to make it that the plus 1 amour does not apply for spell attacks.

Ok, finally finished The Streets of Khemi. The OL won at the start of turn 11. Shuang Muan had all his lives but Thoth Amon was down to his last life. Niord had the sceptor but was blocked from getting to Shuang by the Dark Demon and the Demon’s 4 armour made it very hard to hurt. I didn’t have Atali as the heroes had won the previous scenario and both sides had plus 1 armour from accrued Victory Points. The plus 1 armour along with Set’s Halo made Thoth very hard to injure. If I didn’t throw a 6 with Lightning Storm then it was almost a wasted throw (I spent a lot on rerolls). Bori’s Rage is not helpful as the maximum throw is 4 which means Thoth couldn’t be hurt if he had Set’s Halo cast. Also the sacrifice skill of the Bossonian Guards is very handy for the OL (I assumed that if the OL activated the event card but did not use any gems for Mind Possession the OL still got the reinforcements). Basically both sorcerers are VERY hard to hurt. This one is not impossible for the heroes but it is very difficult, it may have been different if the plus 1 armour wasn’t there but that was the way the Victory Points went. One issue, this scenario uses the Stygian Artifact, but this card is also used to represent the Medallian ( which I didn’t have in this playthrough). That may need to be looked at. This is good final scenario. A very tricky encounter and one in which the heroes have to be on their best game. I will have to go through the campaign again and replay it after the lessons I have learnt. The campaign is fun and I congratulate everyone on the work done. Hopefully Monolith promote this once it’s finally ready and others can get the same level of enjoyment I did.

One question, I forgot about the bonuses for Victory points🙄 The campaign book does not show the ratio I have. OL has 3 Victory points, the heroes have 2. So I have assumed the bonuses are the same as if it was 2:2.

Nothing has happened yet. When they become available notification will come via this forum.

I am about half way through the scenario. I have had trouble finding the couple of hours or so required to finish this one. But I will get there. I had planned on playing over the weekend but things got in the way. So far it's been interesting. Haven't been able to do much damage (none actually) to either sorcerer as yet, but we'll see.

They're not available as yet.

I was just about to start this scenario when I read this, excellent timing. I will incorporate the changes.

Wow😮. That's incredible generous. I do live in Australia and am concerned postage may be a bit high. I'll accept if you let me pay for postage.

Thanks, it’s been fun.

I played Dreams of Atali. I’m not sure about this one. I didn’t really know how to play this. The winning conditions were unusual and I went in to the game without really knowing how it would go. The heroes ended up winning but it was much closer than I would have thought at some stages of the game. At the start of turn 10 I had all the heroes, the Frost Giants and 1 Vanir Warrior in the zone with Atali. Thoth Amon managed to move all the miniatures except one which meant the heroes won. However, thinking about now, I think I may have erred in my play as I didn’t consider moving Atali with Push Back. If I had realised that then the OL probably would have won. I spent a few turns biding my time, both as hero and OL, waiting for Atali to show up. I didn’t mind as I like having ‘restful’ turns but I could see that some players wouldn’t appreciate it. The heroes managed to get both Giants and it didn’t seem that difficult, however the OL did have trouble killing the heroes and allies, he had terrible Lightning Storm attacks. Also I ran out of red gems, with bonus gems and hearts I was 2 short, I ended up using tokens for the last 2. I suggest that you put info on using the Vanir Warriors as allies in the set up info. It took me time to work out who those 4 additional characters were in the hero starting zone. I also recommend listing Thoth Amon’s Spells in the set up info, not just in the Special Rules. I prefer finding out what I need from the set up A couple of grammatical errors, in the third special rule “Smoking Hearts for Ymir’s Board” add the word ‘neither’ before “the command ability” and change the word ‘is’ to ‘it’ in the fifth line of this condition (after ‘places’). Overall I think this is an interesting scenario, but one I would have to play a few times to really understand the tactics needed. After 4 scenarios, Heroes 2 - OL 3 (carry forward item Spellbook), the heroes also carried forwards one unused bonus gem.

The ‘Sword’ has the same stats as the ‘Khitan Sword’ so you could use that. With the extra yellow die I ended up putting a yellow die on his melee attack space to remind me.

Ok, I just played scenario three The Fate of Yag-Kosha. Wow what a ride! The heroes won, but only just. Ikhmet dropped the idol into the fire at the end of turn 8. The heroes had basically nothing left and it was an incredibly close thing. Having said that the OL had it tough as well. The heroes were unlucky in that the idol was only found in the last chest. It may have been very different if found earlier. The idol was in area 3 and the OL spent most of the time blocking the way with the Scorpion Broodmother. The heroes spent a lot of gems attacking it and the OL defending it. It was a game of attrition toward the end. The events were clever and could change things drastically depending how they are used. I killed the giant scorpions early so the antidotes were useless when I found them. The heroes had to get them out of the way because the OL was using them to hinder. The rock slides and bat swarm event made it tough moving around, and hindering by the OL made it even harder. A well thought out scenario that had a bit of everything; attacking, defending, hindering, searching and strategy. The only thing missing was stealth. I had one problem, I kept forgetting that Yag had an extra yellow die! One question: the scenario says that Shentu has 2 Khitan swords, I only had one card, is that an error? Also “Carried by the wind” should be “Borne by the Wind”. So after 3 scenarios, heroes 1 and OL 3.

@Epakadoes that mean you have the fabled Savage Tales #1?

I would be able to test the remaining scenarios by then.

Ok, that’s fair enough.

I’ve said this before but I think it needs repeating. This is not a Monolith product but a fan made compendium Monolith agreed to put together and print for free. Blaming Monolith for postage issues is stretching it a bit.

Thanks for your kind words. Also my playtesting is on hold as I am currently holidaying in Vietnam.

As someone who has lost the 1st 2 scenarios as the heroes, the opportunity to gain 1 point would be tempting.

I am a bit of an ambiguity nerd so was just suggesting a rewording. No biggy if you don’t want to.

@Neil Amswych could I suggest a change of wording for the event: "The Dark Demon Arrives". The way it reads at the moment it could be taken to mean that it only costs 1 gem to activate at any time. To be clear that it can only be activated when it is in the far left space maybe use something like this: "The OL cannot activated the event tile until it has flowed (floated?) down to the first space (1 gem). When this tile...." I think this makes it a bit clearer.

Just finished Fight or Flight a win for the OL. I thought the heroes were looking good. One more turn and I think they would have made it off with the merchant, however the Dark Demon attacked the merchant and scored 8, 3 orange defence dice only managed 3 (that was all I had left in gems), mercifully the merchant didn’t feel a thing. I almost made an error, I was about to activate the Dark Demon for a cost of 3 gems until I reread the Special Rules and realised I had to wait until it was at 1 gem. I picked up the medallion but didn’t need it in the end but if I had managed to escape I would gotten 2 Victory points, it was close. I missed out on Xuthal’s Crown as well. Yogah, Ikhmet and Hadrathus copped 1 wound each, Shentu had 1 gem left and I ended up using Gift of Life to save him, but it didn’t make a difference as he wasn’t used again. The heroes could have played it slightly differently and could have won so I am not concerned by balance. The game ended on round 8. I made slight changes to the set up from your scenario. As mentioned the green tile is shown incorrectly so I used the grey tile, and, because there were so many grey minions, I used the purple tile for the Javelin Throwers. A fun scenario. After the second scenario the heroes have no Victory points, the OL has 3, carry forward item: the Spellbook.

The asset deck is a pile of equipment cards shuffled and placed in a pile. Each time you open a chest you pick the top card from the deck and that is what you have found in the chest. The blue gems are for heroes and the red are for the Overlord, except for the stance notification (ie active or cautious) where one red gem is placed on the hero cards to show which stance they have chosen. Do you have version 1 or 2 of the rulebooks?