Arkham horror the card game in about 3 minutes
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2022
- Arkham horror the card game in about 3 minutes
To support us on Patreon please head over here www.patreon.com/user?u=9257332
Our website is here: 3minuteboardgames.com/
And, if you just want to buy us a coffee for a good job, pop over here ko-fi.com/B0B27OIZ
Designer,Nate French, MJ Newman
Artist,Christopher Hosch, Marcin Jakubowski, Ignacio Bazán Lazcano, Henning Ludvigsen + 3 more
Publisher,Fantasy Flight Games
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2...
You can also check it out here: www.boardgameatlas.com/game/4...
3 minute board games theme Music by Vic Granell
"gloom horizon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
incompetech.filmmusic.io/
"Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act
1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
Sound effects from www.zapsplat.com
3 minute board games are J Carmichael and S Rodgers - เกม
So yeah, Arkham Horror LCG. One of my favourite games and something a little bit different. A really rich and detailed experience. Now, we've only played the core and Dunwich campaigns. Any veterans want to share their favourite campaign and why, in a slightly non spoilery way?
Pick up the game here: www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgahc60.html and check out our next video where you may have a chance to win the game and a few other games as well
I'd go for The Forgotten Age. Wonderful atmosphere, beautiful artwork, fun theme and an interesting new mechanic that feels very thematical.
That's the jungle one right?
@@3MBG Correct :) It's me and my girlfriend's favorite one. We're currently playing the Innsmouth Conspiracy, and the Antartica one is also ready on the shelves. Very, very good game!
@@3MBG It is the jungle one. I did not like it so much partly as I did not like the extra mechanics partly because I got confused with the bad guys (not like when I merged Saruman and Sauron but close).
I liked Carcosa the best it had a couple of great scenarios and minimal extra mechanics to deal with. I have not played much - just with a friend's cards so also not for a couple of years. It is great but it took a couple of starts for me to think so, I don't think the starter scenarios are very good.
This sounds infinitely better than regular Arkham Horror on every level. I'm now very interested in it...
Who else loves reading flavor text in a spooky voice?
Just don't do what steph does, and swap all the adjectives for the word "spooky".
Very few games in my collection rated a 10/10. This is one of them. No game is perfect but this has been exceptionally fun for us. Glad you enjoy it, too.
Wonderful game, very atmospheric. Got it for my birthday, played solo during lockdown and loved it. Was hooked from the mystery of the first act, almost ran out of time during the second when I thought I’d visit the different areas instead of searching for the cult properly, and barely survived the boss at the end of the third act.
Got lucky and drew dynamite and then the shotgun. Eat that eldritch horror!
Think that’s why I enjoy this game so much: it tells a story with your actions as well as the narrative and choices you make.
100% that, by coincidence our Dunwich campaign was all female characters, so we treated the whole thing like some wacky girl detective adventure story that went off the rails. Great times
Damn, beating Umordhoth (sp?) on your first playthrough is no easy feat! Grats!
@@Dagens24 Thanks, though it was pure luck. One more turn and I was a goner. Still, that's what made it such an memorable ending!
@@3MBG The stories we create from these events and characters are what makes this game so fantastic.
When I taught a friend to play, I told him to imagine that the cards you draw or equip are what you discover as you search the areas for clues or avoid the monsters - coming across an ancient tome when you search the library, or finding a flashlight when you're looking for a way to escape your office.
I described my final fight as Roland throwing the dynamite at Umordhoth, only to be horrified that the creature survived the explosion, and wondering how he could escape the monster, only to stumble over a shotgun in his panic and desperately hoped it would be enough.
All true descriptions of how I felt, just from the character's point of view.
This isn't just a game to me, it's a story-maker that's different for every person and playthrough.
Nailed it wolf. We have so many stories from our games of it, and thats the key to its charm
I enjoyed the core set scenarios but it was only when I played "Path to Carcosa" that I fell in love with the game. The inventive marriage of theme and mechanics and the extraordinarily suggestive storyline very much impressed me. I also preferred the classical, art-house horror vibe of Carcosa as opposed to the more campy take of other campaigns. But it's all very impressive.
My crew also played through a year long RPG campaign called "tatters of the king", where we went from starting at an opera house with a madness outbreak, right through to Carcosa and many other places in between. So they will be super familiar with the story ideas
I own this game and yes the rules are complex. But it’s a great narrative game
Just got back from a trip camping and this reminded me of something.
It'd be neat to have compact and portable games to take away highlighted (for me anyway!). Stuff to take camping/ on holiday which doesn't take too much space.
Lots of good small box games out there
So I may have missed it in the review, but the most interesting part of the game in my opinion is building your decks from scratch. Rather than going in with the terrible starter decks, you spend time to decide what your investigator is going to be good at and how you will work as a team. The deck building sessions can even be their own game nights.
Legit. Although even with the starters you should be able to play through on easy. People gotta walk before they can run.
@@3MBG Oh yeah. I definitely started with starters, and build decks for people when showing them the game.
Running my tuesday crowd through Zealot this week. Making up decks tomorrow
Beautiful review. You convinced me to buy everything you are explaining
Your review gave me flash backs of the role playing game in the 80's...which was great. However, I do seem to remember numerous characters going mad from seeing things they should not have seen. Hope the 3 of you had a fab festive break despite everything you had going on.
Cheers Mr Dongle. We were actually pretty busy over the break doing house stuff, but it was all good and productive. And we did spend a lot of time at the pools with Anne.
I'm not much of a solo player but this one is good with someone else or on your own. Also... "go buy some stuff" made me laugh, best ad in a long time.
Ha, cheers. I mean, its an ad, might as well be honest with it :)
Yeah. Really well done.
Best thing imo is that losing feels good. You’re up against super powerful beings and it makes sense they’d wipe the floor with you. Thematically it works and just means a different end to the story
Playing a scenario and losing was definitely a fun experience. Having to play it a second time, however, did get tedious as we were able to anticipate some of what was about to be thrown at us. The flavor text also obviously loses its effect after the first time through
Woohoo! The game that got me into the hobby =)
"The closest a full role-playing game has come in card form and in a box."
The Storymaster's Tales says hello.
That's a pretty obscure title and i've not played it,
Yay finally, I asked for this in your arkham horror 3rd more than 2 years ago.
Felt like the time to do it with the revised box out.
nice review, but interaction at 2:36 seems incorrect (or maybe somewhat misleading). You can't decide to discard a knife after completing the check, you have to announce what action you take before resolving any of its effects
also a lot of people seem to place act and agenda decks like you do at 0:36, but if you place them the other way around they form a book, so I think the intended way is to place agenda on the left and act on the right. It doesn't effect anything really, just a small detail that a lot of people seem to miss
I had to explain that you normally do 1 damage, but weapons can modify it. So the way it is phrased is about the only way to do that quickly. Sorry for the ambguity, but the vid isn't really a rules video as such.
I think it's not "incorrect", but perhaps it *is* slightly misleading. I'd say it still communicates the main point accross
Yeah, it was a tricky section and i rewrote it a few times. I had to show weapons doing damage and special effects, while also showing 1 damage as well. Could have phrased it better, but after a while, you get annoyed trying to get things perfect :)
Despite being story-driven game, we can't get in role, and were just using cards and resources. We've finished base campaign and got no desire playing more.
Thanks for review.
I get you. I didnt like it also with 1 core. Later when i bought another, it was okayish (when they still had old cores). But i still wanted to try full cycle. I fell in love with the game then. But it IS really expensive. And it has so little replayability (i play it for story).
Great overview. Not for me, but do see the appeal for those interested in the genre.
Cheers. And that's the key aint it, finding out enough to know if a game is, or isn't your cup of tea :)
Good episode as always, bu tit's only now occurred to me to ask who the person in the gold medal is
Channel mascot, Carl von Clausewitz. The father of modern strategy and a board gamer from the 1800s
If I recall correctly, Arkham Horror (the big one, not the LCG) is one of your favourites. And yet you haven't reviewed it. Just curious. (I've found this out when looking for a decent *short* video tutorial, which seems it does not exist either.)
I've reviewed 3rd edition, which is not my fav. I deep a long review for 2nd edition called "arkham horror - the rear view". The reason I haven't done a 3 minute recap of the old edition is its out of print, and i try, where possible, to do recaps of games people can go buy or order. It's also why there's no review of Battlestar Galactica for example.
I disagree slightly, that the first time is always the best. True, the "blind run" always is somewhat special. But some campaigns get better appreciated on reruns. The Forgotten Age is particularly frustrating the first time around. Also, compared to other story driven games (most notoriously TIME Stories or any Exit Room game), this has tremendous replayable campaigns. The very different to build and play investigators are also a big factor, to keep well known scenarios fresh.
I agree. One scenario that my gaming group always talks about is "The Train from Dunwich". We recently began playing through it again and kept mentioning The Train is coming because that scenario is BRUTAL. It felt as if it was meant to knock the players on their asses.
My favorite game.
I want to start playing this game. Can you play the beginning campaign with investigators from later expansions? I would be interested in buying later expansions just to have access to more investigators from the start.
Oh 100% you can. The player cards really aren't that connected to the stories they come out with that much and any character can play in any campaign. I'm currently playing a Dunwich legacy campaign with characters from later expansions
Definitely a good game, and in my personal opinion, I actually prefer the card game over the board game. Probably my favorite "mytho theme" board game experience overall.
I agree, the only downside is i can play AH or Mansions in a session, and the card game really rewards campaign play.
@@3MBG I can see that; completely agree.
Funny how no one wants to play this coop game with me. But I have faith =)
Can work pretty well solo
0:36 But... but... you need to place them so they represent an open book :O
Its funny how much this has irked folks. When we play, they aren't even on the same side of the table. One player looks after one deck and another player the other.
This game make me bankrupt lol. I wait for Dunwinch Legacy Expansion Revised. Thx for review.
This is one of my top games ever. Odd that you exhausted Dr. Milan Christopher because you’re using the non-taboo version, which doesn’t exhaust. (Plus one to the best seeker stat and a dollar every time you take the best seeker action was obviously unbalanced.)
I couldn't find an exhaust card with a quick look, so just grabbed a random card to use as an example.
Looking into the lovecraft mthos games and this looks good. Not sure about arkham 3rd ed as it seems to have some bad reviews. Any thoughts on eldritch horror?
I don;t like Eldritch at all. I did a very big video on Arkham Horror 2nd edition, which i love.
@@3MBG yeah, I watched the 'rear view' you did on it. Arkham horror obviously means a great deal to you. Dontou mind telling me the main reason you don't like eldritch? Thanks
Mostly the changes between it and AH2 that i didnt like. The first one is the characters felt more samey. The 2nd is the dice pools got smaller, and so many rolls in EH come down to roll 2-4 dice and get 2 5's. AH had more variety than that, and more tools the players could pull to change their dice pool size. Finally, the clue economy in AH2 meant you could use clues to close gates, or risk them to roll an extra die. It added and element of push your luck entirely missing from EH.
Many others prefer EH as its slightly streamlined, but i personally feel that streamlining removed a lot of choices.
@@3MBG thanks for that. Sadly AH2 seems to be completely out of print, and so it has to be a choice between EH and AH3.....I'll have to think about that.
EH i would think. If you plan on playing it more than a few times
I loved this game, but wow! It's expensive. After buying the core and 2 expansions (not even getting a full season by a long shot), I did some calculations and decided I'd rather buy multiple other games then 1 season of this.
yeah, i mention that in the video. Its a potential money sink for sure.
So the revised set costs £50 on amazon vs £30 for the original. Now whilst I understand in pure value terms the revised set is worth it since its double the number of cards plus other features, genuine question, if there is zero chance of me ever playing a game with more than two players is there a compelling reason to get the revised set?
If you already have the original and are happy, not really. But the revised set does have a much better card pool, a single core in the original just wasn't enough to make more than 1 deck at times due to card limits.
@@3MBG and if I am getting into the game for the first time?
Most people who played the original ended up buying two core sets, I did. So its probably better in the long run
@@3MBG brilliant, thanks!
@@3MBG in fact, just got it for £42 thanks to your boardgameprices plug I saw on a different vid so definitely the better shout!
I much prefer tainted grail - better core gameplay and a much deeper, more rich story. I was always disappointed when arkham horror had my character collect a 'clue'. What's the clue, game? A bloody handprint? A lost slip of paper? Also, why were there sudden grasping hands during the mythos phase and what happened to the grasping hands immediately after the phase?
I'm quite story focused, I don't know if you can tell.
Fair, but i think there is context, like the first clue gathering exercise is finding the door mechanism to the room
But you have the act and agenda on opposite sides. They're supposed to form a book. :)
God i love the game, but storage and organizing is a complex game in itself....
Hair ties. Little colourful ones. It's how i store the individual story components.
Your top game
Is now!
Do You think those mechanics would be good for any other setting? They looks soooo good. But... I don't like this setting. Too "demonic" for my taste. I would love to play such game but in different setting. The Android games setting would be soooooo PERFECT for me. Pity we probably never will see such game :(
Marvel champions uses a tuned down version of the mechanics
@@3MBG I don't want to sound like complain-man, but... I'm also not so interested in this "super-hero" thing. But... I will maybe try it then:) Thanks a lot for answer!
@@piotrp6793 Lord of the Rings the card game?
@@3MBG That would do... but aren't they quite different in mechanics from AH CG? As far as I read/watched about it, it looked quite different?
@@piotrp6793 Not sure, not played it. But I know its pretty popular with folk who also like the arkham game
Not a fan of the theme 😭😭
And I'm sorry to say that but there are two ameritrsh mechanics that I hate : dice resolutions and skill checks. So the first one is not here but the second? 🤷
You didn’t show how to start the game up. This video is pointless
It's a review numbnuts, not a how to play video. I suspect arkham horror the card game might be a bit much for you anyway. I recommend starting with candyland and working your way up to checkers.
Lolol. Correct response.