This video came with an additional tip: I never thought to use dice as health/sanity/resource counters instead of the standard tokens. Brilliant idea! I'm always looking for ways to cut down on table clutter whenever possible.
Started AH with my wife last week. Love it!!! So much to take in and learn and in truth it can be quite overwhelming. Your channel has been excellent in our enjoyment of this game. The story pulled us in right from the get go. Played the first campaign on standard as we didn't want to feel we set it too low :) Had a great time. Thanks for the vids. Blessings from Australia
This Video is exactly what I needed to see. I'm a role player primarily but I enjoy co-op board games...the tip "Play for the Story" is right where I "live". 🤓
Reframing the thought process to embrace losing, or at least not winning, was big for me. On some level, I think it might help break people out of a perfectionist mindset.
Great tips. I am new to this wonderful game and your tips were exactly what I needed to hear. I appreciate all the Arkham content you have consistently put out there to support this game.
I live the rant at the end lol. I had the same feeling and I'm so glad that this game is somehow cooler than I thought it was! Thank you for the helpful video!
7:20 resonates with all of us. Me: I have a plan. It's perfect! Chaos bag: Here's the autofail. Me: Well, at least let me evade so I can move and resign. Chaos bag: Guess what
Here here about 'Easy!' I have played 80 games of Arkham, but I still play on Easy because I typically prefer it, especially on first runs. If we're going in blind, we want to give ourselves the best chance of seeing as much of the story as possible. Sure, we wouldn't play 'Night of the Zealot' on easy anymore, but when we started Innsmouth for the first time? Absolutely. On Healing - I agree completely. Healing cards lost their spot in our decks as we got more experienced. However, I've recently come around on healing if you have a super-efficient healer like Carolyn and a very horror-happy campaign. I do think beginners are better off learning to use allies and assets as soaks, though, because that's generally the better strategy.
I think the key to having healing be effective is to be minimalist in healing with cards that allow you to search for a heal when its totally necessary. As a general rule though the only healing I will typically put in a deck is thermos in the event I've taken multiple traumas, using backpack in a deck helps you grab things you need including but not limited to thermos
@@christopherlarter4386 Hallowed mirror is my favorite. Guardians are also likely to actually need the healing, which makes it especially good. Can be hard to draw without search cards though.
@@lazulin its a helpful card or a decent second accessory with relic hunter I think you can make room for it in a deck if you've taken a couple traumas especially if it's mental trauma
What game would you reccomend me? AH 2nd ed or 3rd ed or eldritch horror? I prefer boardgame over cardgame but i want to have big replayability and i don't want to spend huge amount of money so the base has to be good enough for a long run. A nice story and theme would be big bonus.
Basically everything, unfortunately. New packs contain new campaigns and scenarios, new player cards (assets etc.), new characters to play with and new game mechanics as well. Core set is really just a demo version of the game, designed to teach you the core mechanics. And only for 1-2 players, you'll need more cards if you want more than two decks (booo ff games). So yeah, it's a bit of a bummer and the game is expensive in this sense. But at the same time the core is perfectly fine if you just want to try out the game, and provides almost enough to decide if you want to delve deeper
All that you really *need* to enjoy what the game has to offer is the core and a *single, full* campaign cycle. (by 'the core' I mean either the newly-released 'Revised Core' *or* 2 of the old-Core-sets, which contain only single copies of the class cards; the Revised Core is basically 2 old-cores in one box.) That's a significant investment on its own (a full cycle (campaign box + its 6 packs) is ~$120 USD), much larger than a generic boardgame, but it provides a full 8-part campaign to play through again and again, 10 investigators to mix and match in different teams, and a sizable collection of player cards from which to build different decks for those investigators. It's a board game that gets played over multiple game nights/weeks and offers a lot of variability/story/challenge/co-op-fun regardless of whether it's first-play or fiftieth. Also, since it is a team game, that investment could be made by a group of friends rather than a single person. Beyond that first cycle, what the other cycles/packs offer is kind of 'more of the same' -- another full campaign, more investigators, more player cards. After a certain point there's greatly diminishing returns from getting more player cards (there are currently so many in existence that probably almost no one with a 'full collection' has actually played with every player card they own) -- the internet tends to breed a 'you gotta get this card from this pack!' mentality but the truth is that there are plenty of great and fun cards that do the job just fine in any of the full cycles, and you don't need more beyond that to have fun. Investigators are somewhat similar, although they offer more variability, since even without extra player cards they change the way you think about current cards you owns. The extra 8-part campaigns on the other hand offer a lot more value as 'expansions', since they're essentially additional board games to play. The company is going to be changing how they release 'packs' in the future, btw, moving to releasing things as 'campaign in a single box' and 'single box full of extra investigators/player cards' (instead of the whole box+6packs scenarios-and-player-cards-mixed-together weirdness) so *eventually* it will be easy to pick up campaigns just like picking up a normal board game.
New style video, not to my taste. Still worth a watch and the tradition style of pbg video will still be around. Well done for trying something new, many youtubers are too scared to shake up their videos!
Justin is just too serious in this video. I appreciate the attempt at a new approach but I still prefer you guys to be frivolous and light-hearted in your videos.
Considering this is for the absolute new players with no clue what’s going on, rather than relatively new players with a bit of an idea of what’s going on, I think it’s for the best. Having a bunch of in-jokes is great for the long term viewers, but a straight faced explanation is better for people trying to get their bearings.
This video came with an additional tip: I never thought to use dice as health/sanity/resource counters instead of the standard tokens. Brilliant idea! I'm always looking for ways to cut down on table clutter whenever possible.
Started AH with my wife last week. Love it!!! So much to take in and learn and in truth it can be quite overwhelming. Your channel has been excellent in our enjoyment of this game. The story pulled us in right from the get go. Played the first campaign on standard as we didn't want to feel we set it too low :) Had a great time. Thanks for the vids. Blessings from Australia
This is a brilliant format for your videos that I hope you keep going forward, great production value. Congrats
This Video is exactly what I needed to see. I'm a role player primarily but I enjoy co-op board games...the tip "Play for the Story" is right where I "live". 🤓
You are my new favorite channel for AH:TCG! Such great videos for beginners - so much good content that goes beyond the initial tutorial!
Thanks for the kind words. :)
Reframing the thought process to embrace losing, or at least not winning, was big for me. On some level, I think it might help break people out of a perfectionist mindset.
Good video.
I'd add "make ArkhamDB your homepage". :)
Great tips. I am new to this wonderful game and your tips were exactly what I needed to hear. I appreciate all the Arkham content you have consistently put out there to support this game.
Great video. Very insightful and well made. Justin's autofail rant at the end really tied it back to all other PBG Arkham content.
What a great video for new players. I wish this video was around when I started playing.
I live the rant at the end lol. I had the same feeling and I'm so glad that this game is somehow cooler than I thought it was! Thank you for the helpful video!
7:20 resonates with all of us.
Me: I have a plan. It's perfect!
Chaos bag: Here's the autofail.
Me: Well, at least let me evade so I can move and resign.
Chaos bag: Guess what
The autofail is hands-down the shittiest part of the design.
Great advice. Good music, but I like when your visuals match what you are talking about. Generic gameplay doesn't reinforce your point as well.
Where was this video when i was just starting lol. Probably one of the best videos on this channel, nice work!
Here here about 'Easy!' I have played 80 games of Arkham, but I still play on Easy because I typically prefer it, especially on first runs. If we're going in blind, we want to give ourselves the best chance of seeing as much of the story as possible. Sure, we wouldn't play 'Night of the Zealot' on easy anymore, but when we started Innsmouth for the first time? Absolutely.
On Healing - I agree completely. Healing cards lost their spot in our decks as we got more experienced. However, I've recently come around on healing if you have a super-efficient healer like Carolyn and a very horror-happy campaign. I do think beginners are better off learning to use allies and assets as soaks, though, because that's generally the better strategy.
I think the key to having healing be effective is to be minimalist in healing with cards that allow you to search for a heal when its totally necessary. As a general rule though the only healing I will typically put in a deck is thermos in the event I've taken multiple traumas, using backpack in a deck helps you grab things you need including but not limited to thermos
@@christopherlarter4386 Hallowed mirror is my favorite. Guardians are also likely to actually need the healing, which makes it especially good. Can be hard to draw without search cards though.
@@lazulin its a helpful card or a decent second accessory with relic hunter
I think you can make room for it in a deck if you've taken a couple traumas especially if it's mental trauma
Really like this video and the format you have used here.
I am impressed! An Arkham Video with under 1h length ;)
No, seriously. Thank you a lot for the tipps.
Love this new format! Great tips for newbies
Excellent production and editing on this video Justin, good work
Love the music and the outro!
Great video guys. Just got the game last week after watching your videos 😊
this is such a great and useful channel! really great video here!
Thank you! :)
What a great video. As a new player, thanks for the tips ;)
Love your videos, guys, I'm learning a lot from you....Thanks, really really thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for the great video!
Great work, as always!
Very helpful tips, thanks.
Amazing video. Wish ive seen it a year ago :) Might feel trivial, but its not. I still struggle with accepting losses...
Thanks for the tips ! May I ask, what expansion would you most recommend (I've just started).
Dunwich Legacy.
Great video, as always
What game would you reccomend me? AH 2nd ed or 3rd ed or eldritch horror? I prefer boardgame over cardgame but i want to have big replayability and i don't want to spend huge amount of money so the base has to be good enough for a long run. A nice story and theme would be big bonus.
Well done 👌🏻
Hit that bell and subscribe! :) you guys are great; please keep it up.
As someone just starting, should I just get the core game or are there some must have expansions?
We recommend players start with the core, give it a few plays to see if they like it. Then, you could look at getting The Dunwich Legacy expansions.
Jajaja loved the ending! xD
The big thing that keeps me away is the extra card packs. As a new player how vital are they? Without them what am I missing?
Basically everything, unfortunately. New packs contain new campaigns and scenarios, new player cards (assets etc.), new characters to play with and new game mechanics as well. Core set is really just a demo version of the game, designed to teach you the core mechanics. And only for 1-2 players, you'll need more cards if you want more than two decks (booo ff games). So yeah, it's a bit of a bummer and the game is expensive in this sense. But at the same time the core is perfectly fine if you just want to try out the game, and provides almost enough to decide if you want to delve deeper
All that you really *need* to enjoy what the game has to offer is the core and a *single, full* campaign cycle. (by 'the core' I mean either the newly-released 'Revised Core' *or* 2 of the old-Core-sets, which contain only single copies of the class cards; the Revised Core is basically 2 old-cores in one box.)
That's a significant investment on its own (a full cycle (campaign box + its 6 packs) is ~$120 USD), much larger than a generic boardgame, but it provides a full 8-part campaign to play through again and again, 10 investigators to mix and match in different teams, and a sizable collection of player cards from which to build different decks for those investigators. It's a board game that gets played over multiple game nights/weeks and offers a lot of variability/story/challenge/co-op-fun regardless of whether it's first-play or fiftieth. Also, since it is a team game, that investment could be made by a group of friends rather than a single person.
Beyond that first cycle, what the other cycles/packs offer is kind of 'more of the same' -- another full campaign, more investigators, more player cards. After a certain point there's greatly diminishing returns from getting more player cards (there are currently so many in existence that probably almost no one with a 'full collection' has actually played with every player card they own) -- the internet tends to breed a 'you gotta get this card from this pack!' mentality but the truth is that there are plenty of great and fun cards that do the job just fine in any of the full cycles, and you don't need more beyond that to have fun. Investigators are somewhat similar, although they offer more variability, since even without extra player cards they change the way you think about current cards you owns.
The extra 8-part campaigns on the other hand offer a lot more value as 'expansions', since they're essentially additional board games to play. The company is going to be changing how they release 'packs' in the future, btw, moving to releasing things as 'campaign in a single box' and 'single box full of extra investigators/player cards' (instead of the whole box+6packs scenarios-and-player-cards-mixed-together weirdness) so *eventually* it will be easy to pick up campaigns just like picking up a normal board game.
DBBBB: DON'T BRING BACK BEARDED BRYN!!
NO! BBBB
New style video, not to my taste. Still worth a watch and the tradition style of pbg video will still be around.
Well done for trying something new, many youtubers are too scared to shake up their videos!
Big poggers
auto-fail damn.....
Justin is just too serious in this video. I appreciate the attempt at a new approach but I still prefer you guys to be frivolous and light-hearted in your videos.
Considering this is for the absolute new players with no clue what’s going on, rather than relatively new players with a bit of an idea of what’s going on, I think it’s for the best. Having a bunch of in-jokes is great for the long term viewers, but a straight faced explanation is better for people trying to get their bearings.
This video is not giving new players Tactical tips! To sum up, have fun and don’t be afraid to play the game 🤦♂️