To me, AH2 and EH are equivalent in terms of fun. They are telling a similar story but on two different scales. And the encounters with monsters make more sense to me on a town scale than on a world one. In that sense AH 2feels less abstract to me and therefore more immersive. FFG have a tendency to make okay core games (lack of variety and extra mechanics) that become really great the more expansions you get. It's true for AH2, EH, AH: the card game and Elder Signs (you might like those two as well but, once again, it's an investment if you want them to be at their full potential) Fully fledged AH2 sessions tend to be very involved but in a good way. You feel like the settings are getting alive and more immersive. Which means that the core box of AH2 won't compete with the whole EH catalog. But the contrary is just as true. Eventually, if you have all the expansions of both games, you'll enjoy both of them equally (I believe). I know that expansions for AH2 are hard to get nowadays but I think that you should consider this game as a work in progress while you chase some expansions here and there, knowing they will increase the fun as you get them eventually. But if you don't plan to do that, just stick with your EH collection, it will always be a better pick in terms of completeness. The core box alone of any of those two will quickly give you the impression of revisiting the same cards and do the same thing over and over. This completely disappears with more expansions as the games become endless and you rarely encounter the same thing twice. They become a universe in and on themselves rather than just basic mechanics. And the thing that makes them kind of equal is that, more often than not, people tend to slightly prefer the first one they played 🙂. People who started with AH and then played EH prefer AH and vice-versa. Which means that the difference is just about having one in particular as a reference to assess the other. Note that there are ways to decrease the doom tokens on the doom track. And each and every Old One has its own mechanics and, if I remember well, sometimes the ways you can decrease the doom tokens are also built in their own cheat. It's not easy to temper with that track (for a reason) but it's definitely part of the rules (or an option provided by certain cards). Anyway, the doom track resists you but knowing how to manipulate it and using it to your advantage is possible and should be part of your strategy. PS : I really love your content.
To me, AH2 and EH are equivalent in terms of fun. They are telling a similar story but on two different scales. And the encounters with monsters make more sense to me on a town scale than on a world one. In that sense AH 2feels less abstract to me and therefore more immersive.
FFG have a tendency to make okay core games (lack of variety and extra mechanics) that become really great the more expansions you get.
It's true for AH2, EH, AH: the card game and Elder Signs (you might like those two as well but, once again, it's an investment if you want them to be at their full potential)
Fully fledged AH2 sessions tend to be very involved but in a good way. You feel like the settings are getting alive and more immersive.
Which means that the core box of AH2 won't compete with the whole EH catalog. But the contrary is just as true.
Eventually, if you have all the expansions of both games, you'll enjoy both of them equally (I believe).
I know that expansions for AH2 are hard to get nowadays but I think that you should consider this game as a work in progress while you chase some expansions here and there, knowing they will increase the fun as you get them eventually.
But if you don't plan to do that, just stick with your EH collection, it will always be a better pick in terms of completeness.
The core box alone of any of those two will quickly give you the impression of revisiting the same cards and do the same thing over and over. This completely disappears with more expansions as the games become endless and you rarely encounter the same thing twice. They become a universe in and on themselves rather than just basic mechanics.
And the thing that makes them kind of equal is that, more often than not, people tend to slightly prefer the first one they played 🙂. People who started with AH and then played EH prefer AH and vice-versa. Which means that the difference is just about having one in particular as a reference to assess the other.
Note that there are ways to decrease the doom tokens on the doom track. And each and every Old One has its own mechanics and, if I remember well, sometimes the ways you can decrease the doom tokens are also built in their own cheat. It's not easy to temper with that track (for a reason) but it's definitely part of the rules (or an option provided by certain cards).
Anyway, the doom track resists you but knowing how to manipulate it and using it to your advantage is possible and should be part of your strategy.
PS : I really love your content.
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