There are plenty of play-thru videos of Eldritch Horror available on TH-cam. But the BGG gang is one of the most hilarious to follow. So sad you only play every game only once. I would have enjoyed a second game so much.
This game is awesome! Thanks for the video! Tip: We usually play it so that player on your right reads your encounters and keeps the pass/fail effect secret until you have rolled the test. It adds nice sense of mystery ;)
Yeah, not knowing what will happen on success/fail can cause som serious angst. Is this check important? Important enought for the focus I really want to keep for later? Important enough to spend a clue? Highly recommend to play it that way!
1:33 Active mystery get solved at the end of the mythos phase and not the moment you have the required amount of clues Great show! this game is my favorite game of all time!
Love this. I've got every expansion up until Masks of Nyarlathotep mixed into one and occasionally play solo with 4 investigators. It's definitely a long 6 hours where I usually lose, but I love the thematic side of this.
I play with my daughter (she's 6 ... I'll admit, she's a very strange 6) and we've only won twice - the first time against Azathoth, and then about the 15th time against Azathoth. She refuses to be any character except Lily Chen though .... I blame Lily, myself. She still refers to Cthulhu as "Ktulu-chan" so ... I don't know ... am I a good father, although we lose?
Aww...Aaron's back, but Dave's gone! I am both happy and sad at the same time… But YEA! Eldritch Horror! One of my favourite games! I love the HP Lovecraft related board games so much! I've bought all the expansions so far!
This is great!!! I am so happy an Aaron episode posted. I don't know Lincoln if this was done last year b4 Aaron move away from your area, but I am so happy to see Aaron again. Because I like him and the type of games he likes to play and teach. I really enjoy watching these deep involved story adventure game he likes. I wish I had a boardgame friend like Aaron, sadly I don't, :( , lol
No this was semi recent. It was just a long edit so I did not have time to tackle it until now. We have another long one with Aaron and a couple others we need to put together plus we are planning some filming with him when he is town a few times in the next few months.
Aaron's really good at book keeping and you guys did a great job! Just a little reminder, not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but you're not supposed to finish the current mystery and reveal a new one until after the end of the mythos phase, and this rule applies to all mystery cards. It doesn't really matter too much most of the time, but there are a few mythos cards that will cause the investigators to undo finished mysteries. If you finish a mystery during the encounter phase and then draw a mythos card that asks you to undo 1 mystery, it would be a pain in the butt. I know the chance is slim, but I really hope you guys can play Eldritch Horror again with other expansions! I really love watching you guys play co-op games that involve role-playing and story-telling!
This rule also means that you cold lose the game before getting to that last mythos phase, never getting to solve the third mystery. I speak from experience on this one.
Glad to see Aaron back. I did not realize that he had moved away - I thought maybe he got burnout or something from doing the show. I missed Dave though and his "This game is easy" comment that seems to come up in every cooperative game on the show :) The co-op games are by far my favorite play throughs!
Great to see Aaron again! I am glad that on solving the final Mystery that you finally realised that Mysteries aren't solved until the end of the Mythos phase! It's really important to play that out properly - especially that final one that you "glossed over" because - for instance - an Investigator that is Defeated causes Doom to Advance. While you were quite a long way away from 0, it's amazing how a single bad Mythos can shove Doom all the way down the track. In fact, that's one of the things that I'd take issue with in your game: you really had it easy with the number of amazing dice rolls you had, the fact that you already had the trapezohedron when you needed it, the ridiculous number of Improvements to Skills and the almost non-existent Impairments that you suffered. You also spent a long time with your Investigators in "the Kill Zone" (Valens' term for any Investigator on 3 or less San/Health, 'cos there are a quite a few Mythos than can Defeat you outright once you enter the Kill Zone); generally speaking, Eldritch is pretty capable of a rapid and nasty end to the game - almost as much as Arkham Horror. It was interesting that you played without the Focus mechanism, which was designed for those turns when you can't do anything useful. Overall, a fun playthrough, but one that IME wasn't a typical game of Eldritch Horror.
This games good but having an expansion with focus is needed. Focus allows a player to reroll without spending clues and can be done in any space, monster or not.
@@Willemguitar when you spend focus, the chance is still the same, 33% for success. I had games, where focus has saved my ass numerous times, so yes it does make a hard game easier. Also, you don't lose any actions. Focus is a part of the game and it does make it easier, than playing without focus (free rerolls).
I will comment more later, but travel tickets are only available in cities. Edit: slightly later, he does mention it's cities only. Great playthrough, with statistically better than average rolls. =D The mythos deck may have been staged (easy encounters on top, medium in the middle, and hard on the bottom). Green cards are always monster surges, but are not necessarily harder than others. Easy ones have blue/white elder signs on the sides, and the hard ones have tentacles on the sides. A small timing issue: the mystery is not solved until the end of the mythos phase, so you don't see the next mystery until the end of the mythos phase. Seeing it early gives a slight advantage to the investigators since they know what's coming up a bit early.
"The mystery is not solved until the end of the mythos phase" I don't think that's true. Page 16 of the rulebook states: "As soon as a Mystery is solved, immediately draw a new Mystery card from the deck and place it faceup on top of the old Mystery card."
The mystery card itself says that it is solved at the end of the mythos fase, so it cannot be solved prior to that. After it is solved, you reveal the next mystery.
That final mythos phase was rough - really cancelled some of the delight in winning. I quite like how many different ways they can make dice rolls work as exciting checks.
And... don't they pay attention to the cost of assets? Your rolled successes on the Influence roll determines your "buying power" for that acquisition. So if you roll 2 successes, you can get one item that costs 2, or two items that costs 1.
Have you guys played Spirit Island? If you want your mind to turn to goo with the possibilities in a coop, that's the one...but it's so great! Any chance you could play it on GameNight?
Oooh, that's a tough one. The only one I haven't played is Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, played 1st though. For sheer variety I would say Arkham Horror LCG but all of the rest offer fantastic joy when playing them. -Lincoln
So I was playing this and does the Adventure token come out based on the plot card, cause I couldn't find anywhere in the rules when the Adventure cards come or or were the token is placed.
@@floodkevin4716 The Ancient God was shown at 4:45 into the video clearly indicating a 12, yet it wasn't until nearly 28 minutes into the video that it was corrected. After 10 minutes of waiting for it to be fixed I left for another EH video.
can you skip 1 action in the action phase or both actions in the action phase in this game to go to the encounter phase faster? (lets say i want to stay on the location i curently am to finish of a monster but the only option is to move or get a ticket (wich i already have 2 of), also can i get 2 tickets of sea and 2 railroads as a max amount or any combination of the two (i.e. 1 railroad, 1 sea)? I'm new to this game
@Sall Banjoman during the action phase, you can take one action and pass or take no action and pass, although you probably won't do it often since there is lots of actions you can take that are beneficial. Also, you can have either 2 train, 2 sea, or 1 sea & 1 train ticket, but not 2 of each. You can only have a max of 2 tickets (of any of the above combination I named) at anytime.
I'm all in on these things. I just started buying all that I can get of Elder Sign and I'm going to start buying all of this as well. Getting ready to buy all of the new Arkham Horror as well. I know I am crazy.
Francisco, those are from the BGG Store. They are awesome. There are 2 sizes now and 13 different colors. You can get them here: boardgamegeekstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/bgg-folding-bit-bowls
At 2:51:05 when discussing fighting the last monster, there seems to have been a mistake. " ... but, if one of you dies, the other can pick it up ..." If one player dies fighting the monster it was suggested that another player could simply pick up the weapon and continue fighting. That would be a character encounter, and in order to do any encounter you must defeat the monsters at that location. That would put them in a Catch-22 situation -- They can't defeat the monster without the weapon and can't get the weapon without defeating the monster. The Mystery card said you could gain this particular artifact in place of another one, but that assumes it is in the deck, not in active play with a (defeated) character. It seems to me that the monster defeating a player would lead to the game being lost.
According to my rule book (just had to recheck) you can buy tickets in cities, no matter if they are connected to the type of route you are buying or not. But it must be a city. And, you can only spend one ticket, unless the rules is VERY vague on that point, which (reading it four times) it is not... so only one ticket.
What's the record for most number of times attempting a lame "Wie gehts" pun and having no one acknowledge it whatsoever and yet continuing to attempt that same joke again and again?
Wrong. The only limit is that you cannot have more than a total of 2 tickets at the same time, but they may be tickets of the same type. There is even a character (in one of the later expansions) that automatically gains an additional ticket of the same type when he prepares for travel.
There are plenty of play-thru videos of Eldritch Horror available on TH-cam. But the BGG gang is one of the most hilarious to follow. So sad you only play every game only once. I would have enjoyed a second game so much.
One time my friends and I were playing this and some hitmen came after one of us on R'lyeh. That's dedication.
Dedication that could rival Upgrayedd from Idocracy.
"I don't know where I am or who I am, all I know is I must kill!"
This game is awesome! Thanks for the video! Tip: We usually play it so that player on your right reads your encounters and keeps the pass/fail effect secret until you have rolled the test. It adds nice sense of mystery ;)
Yeah, not knowing what will happen on success/fail can cause som serious angst. Is this check important? Important enought for the focus I really want to keep for later? Important enough to spend a clue? Highly recommend to play it that way!
I think it should be in the game rules, great idea!
It’s recommended in the game guide if I remember right.
same same
Aaron is back!
Yes ,I missed him too its always fun to watch him
1:33 Active mystery get solved at the end of the mythos phase and not the moment you have the required amount of clues Great show! this game is my favorite game of all time!
Love this. I've got every expansion up until Masks of Nyarlathotep mixed into one and occasionally play solo with 4 investigators. It's definitely a long 6 hours where I usually lose, but I love the thematic side of this.
I play with my daughter (she's 6 ... I'll admit, she's a very strange 6) and we've only won twice - the first time against Azathoth, and then about the 15th time against Azathoth. She refuses to be any character except Lily Chen though .... I blame Lily, myself.
She still refers to Cthulhu as "Ktulu-chan" so ... I don't know ... am I a good father, although we lose?
Same here, only had won twice.
Do you still play Karl?
Aaron “this is not a scary game” 30 minutes later, Kevin is cutting flesh from his body and Aaron is having runes carved onto his head.
Welcome back Aaron! :D Great game choice!
Looking forward to watching this as I liked this video before watching :D !
Aww...Aaron's back, but Dave's gone! I am both happy and sad at the same time…
But YEA! Eldritch Horror! One of my favourite games! I love the HP Lovecraft related board games so much! I've bought all the expansions so far!
Exactly what I thought! I really like both those guys...
Dave's the one Nikki failed to save on the bridge.
That is scary.
Every time I hear Monterey Jack in this I keep thinking of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers.
Welcome back Aaron! Missed you!
This is great!!! I am so happy an Aaron episode posted. I don't know Lincoln if this was done last year b4 Aaron move away from your area, but I am so happy to see Aaron again. Because I like him and the type of games he likes to play and teach. I really enjoy watching these deep involved story adventure game he likes. I wish I had a boardgame friend like Aaron, sadly I don't, :( , lol
No this was semi recent. It was just a long edit so I did not have time to tackle it until now. We have another long one with Aaron and a couple others we need to put together plus we are planning some filming with him when he is town a few times in the next few months.
Awesome!!!! I'm glad to hear that! Please let him know that he is missed when he is not on an episode for awhile!
Lincoln Damerst Yay, cool! Looking forward to those episodes.
Aaron's really good at book keeping and you guys did a great job!
Just a little reminder, not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but you're not supposed to finish the current mystery and reveal a new one until after the end of the mythos phase, and this rule applies to all mystery cards. It doesn't really matter too much most of the time, but there are a few mythos cards that will cause the investigators to undo finished mysteries. If you finish a mystery during the encounter phase and then draw a mythos card that asks you to undo 1 mystery, it would be a pain in the butt.
I know the chance is slim, but I really hope you guys can play Eldritch Horror again with other expansions! I really love watching you guys play co-op games that involve role-playing and story-telling!
yeah, cause some mythos card can be really sneaky!
Vivian LO 13 likes, 13 people agree with this wrong comment. Mmmmmm
This rule also means that you cold lose the game before getting to that last mythos phase, never getting to solve the third mystery. I speak from experience on this one.
that Toto moment from Lincoln at 1:21:25 just killed me... KILLED ME, JERRY! KILLED!
Wish you guys played with the focus action it makes up with those slow turns.
Yay - one of my favourite games and one of my favourite group of people playing - looking forward to this 😁👍
What a great episode! Glad to see Aaron back. Been waiting for this game for a long time. Thank you for all that you guys do!
So weird watching people play without focus tokens
Really like the editing! Good work. Must have taken forever with this one. 😮
Glad to see Aaron back. I did not realize that he had moved away - I thought maybe he got burnout or something from doing the show. I missed Dave though and his "This game is easy" comment that seems to come up in every cooperative game on the show :) The co-op games are by far my favorite play throughs!
I could watch a whole series of people playing this game. it's always fresh and fun.
It's so fun watching Kevin hahaha
Wow, you had a huge amount of luck in dice rolling. We weren't nearly that lucky when playing this game. :D
This game needs focus tokens to offset this. I play with them no matter which expansion I use. The game is still HARD even with this improvement.
HYPE HYPE HYPE - Aaron's here!
Favourite 4 have to be Lincoln, nikki, Dave and Aaron!
Nikki has the best shirt ever
"It's like this game went to high school with me." LOLOLOL best quote of the episode.
Nice to see BGG doing a deeper board game … and with Aaron. My day is made!
Great to see Aaron again! I am glad that on solving the final Mystery that you finally realised that Mysteries aren't solved until the end of the Mythos phase! It's really important to play that out properly - especially that final one that you "glossed over" because - for instance - an Investigator that is Defeated causes Doom to Advance. While you were quite a long way away from 0, it's amazing how a single bad Mythos can shove Doom all the way down the track. In fact, that's one of the things that I'd take issue with in your game: you really had it easy with the number of amazing dice rolls you had, the fact that you already had the trapezohedron when you needed it, the ridiculous number of Improvements to Skills and the almost non-existent Impairments that you suffered. You also spent a long time with your Investigators in "the Kill Zone" (Valens' term for any Investigator on 3 or less San/Health, 'cos there are a quite a few Mythos than can Defeat you outright once you enter the Kill Zone); generally speaking, Eldritch is pretty capable of a rapid and nasty end to the game - almost as much as Arkham Horror. It was interesting that you played without the Focus mechanism, which was designed for those turns when you can't do anything useful. Overall, a fun playthrough, but one that IME wasn't a typical game of Eldritch Horror.
Really enjoyed that. Watched the whole thing, good stuff 👍
Glad Aaron is back! I've never played Eldritch only Arkham horror, this game is so huge and seems more complex comparison to arkham lcg.
actually, the rules are much simpler. It just has more stuff
glad to have Aaron back! woot! 🎉 but Dave is missing
Dave's the one Nikki failed to save on the bridge.
😂
you guys are my favorite. 💕 did i mention you are the reason why i now have board games instead of books on my shelf? 😅
@@reneejuneculaway7084 One of us! One of us!
Wow this is so cool! Great idea! going to be a great episode
Great playthrough, I was confused as to how this differed from Arkham Horror and now I have a good idea. Thanks! 😎
I know this is an old video, but just so you know: as soon as you solve the 3rd mystery, the game ends.
This games good but having an expansion with focus is needed. Focus allows a player to reroll without spending clues and can be done in any space, monster or not.
@@g2828cc nobody sane would use a clue to reroll, in most situations.
@@g2828cc the game is unfairly hard without focus, at least from my experience.
@@Willemguitar when you spend focus, the chance is still the same, 33% for success. I had games, where focus has saved my ass numerous times, so yes it does make a hard game easier. Also, you don't lose any actions. Focus is a part of the game and it does make it easier, than playing without focus (free rerolls).
Eldritch! Yes!😊
Aaronnnnnn. This is a good day.
I will comment more later, but travel tickets are only available in cities.
Edit: slightly later, he does mention it's cities only.
Great playthrough, with statistically better than average rolls. =D
The mythos deck may have been staged (easy encounters on top, medium in the middle, and hard on the bottom). Green cards are always monster surges, but are not necessarily harder than others. Easy ones have blue/white elder signs on the sides, and the hard ones have tentacles on the sides.
A small timing issue: the mystery is not solved until the end of the mythos phase, so you don't see the next mystery until the end of the mythos phase. Seeing it early gives a slight advantage to the investigators since they know what's coming up a bit early.
Aaron corrected himself later in our play through. Thanks for the note and for watching.
"The mystery is not solved until the end of the mythos phase"
I don't think that's true. Page 16 of the rulebook states: "As soon as a Mystery is solved, immediately
draw a new Mystery card from the deck and place it faceup on top of the old Mystery card."
The mystery card itself says that it is solved at the end of the mythos fase, so it cannot be solved prior to that. After it is solved, you reveal the next mystery.
Did anyone else notice Lincoln's shirt? Very appropriate for the game.
Cthulhu is watching yooouuu!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT AARON! Always fun to see Kevin too!
I didn't know Scully and the Lone Gunmen love boardgames!!!!
That final mythos phase was rough - really cancelled some of the delight in winning.
I quite like how many different ways they can make dice rolls work as exciting checks.
Great Aaron is there.
How did you edit CGI Aaron into this?? He looks so real!! 😉
UH Oh! Gonna watch this one.
I still have this and the expansion collecting dust, i still know how to play, we use 2 characters each when we play 2 players.
%10 of things kevin says and does are entertaining
Rude
When Aaron said "It is not a horror game, don't worry, your underwear is safe", Kevin should asked "What underwear?" :)
Nice reference to Indiana Jones with Cairo.
WHATTA TABLE!!
Ha! You Don’t Know Jack reference at 23:00!
And... don't they pay attention to the cost of assets? Your rolled successes on the Influence roll determines your "buying power" for that acquisition. So if you roll 2 successes, you can get one item that costs 2, or two items that costs 1.
I love Nikki's shirt. Where can I get one?
Where do I get that dice tray?
I wanna smoke weed wit these people and play games all day 😅.
What dice were you using? I’ve never seen so many successes for every player like every roll in this game!
Probably the dice from the game
Have you guys played Spirit Island? If you want your mind to turn to goo with the possibilities in a coop, that's the one...but it's so great! Any chance you could play it on GameNight?
35:12 is actually the start.
So what are your favorite Arkham horror games? Eldritch Horror, Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, Arkham Horror LCG, Elder Signs or Arkham Horror?
Oooh, that's a tough one. The only one I haven't played is Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition, played 1st though. For sheer variety I would say Arkham Horror LCG but all of the rest offer fantastic joy when playing them. -Lincoln
So I was playing this and does the Adventure token come out based on the plot card, cause I couldn't find anywhere in the rules when the Adventure cards come or or were the token is placed.
kevin rules!!!!!
Where did you get that bag for the monster cup? It looks pretty cool.
We got those from Artscow. There is a list on BGG that has the links to a bunch of custom bags for different games.
were you not supposed to lose the eldritch tokens from the rumor card because of the reckoning symbols from the last 2 mythos cards? 🤔
Doom tract was suppose to start on 12, not 15.
They did and corrected it like a second later. Does anyone actually finish these videos before commenting
@@floodkevin4716 The Ancient God was shown at 4:45 into the video clearly indicating a 12, yet it wasn't until nearly 28 minutes into the video that it was corrected. After 10 minutes of waiting for it to be fixed I left for another EH video.
Curious. Should the last Eldrich token be removed from Rumor card, when the second Mythos card was drawn on last turn? Investigators lose?
No
can you skip 1 action in the action phase or both actions in the action phase in this game to go to the encounter phase faster? (lets say i want to stay on the location i curently am to finish of a monster but the only option is to move or get a ticket (wich i already have 2 of), also can i get 2 tickets of sea and 2 railroads as a max amount or any combination of the two (i.e. 1 railroad, 1 sea)? I'm new to this game
@Sall Banjoman during the action phase, you can take one action and pass or take no action and pass, although you probably won't do it often since there is lots of actions you can take that are beneficial. Also, you can have either 2 train, 2 sea, or 1 sea & 1 train ticket, but not 2 of each. You can only have a max of 2 tickets (of any of the above combination I named) at anytime.
*I BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN AFRICA*
I am one of those people that have spent about 500 dollars total on the game. No shame.
I'm all in on these things. I just started buying all that I can get of Elder Sign and I'm going to start buying all of this as well. Getting ready to buy all of the new Arkham Horror as well. I know I am crazy.
Good luck finding all the expansions for this game, fantasy flight is really slow on the boat with their products.
Definitely played with an easy mythos deck.
Did the team get lucky? It seemed a good deal easier to win than Arkham Horror.
Lincoln's too fucking happy!
You won't bring me down, I love games! :-) -Lincoln
ROLL player pls pls play roll player
aside from Wil Wheatons tabletop and watch it played, you guys are the only group I enjoy watching playing boardgames
Where can I buy those token holders?
Francisco, those are from the BGG Store. They are awesome. There are 2 sizes now and 13 different colors. You can get them here: boardgamegeekstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/bgg-folding-bit-bowls
Right here! boardgamegeekstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/bgg-folding-bit-bowls
Thanks Lincoln! I just bought a few.
No Dave ... they've won already!
The spawning would be greatly assisted by an App. Mansions of Madness succeeds with this digital match up of the ether and tangible.
At 2:51:05 when discussing fighting the last monster, there seems to have been a mistake. " ... but, if one of you dies, the other can pick it up ..."
If one player dies fighting the monster it was suggested that another player could simply pick up the weapon and continue fighting. That would be a character encounter, and in order to do any encounter you must defeat the monsters at that location. That would put them in a Catch-22 situation -- They can't defeat the monster without the weapon and can't get the weapon without defeating the monster. The Mystery card said you could gain this particular artifact in place of another one, but that assumes it is in the deck, not in active play with a (defeated) character.
It seems to me that the monster defeating a player would lead to the game being lost.
I thought defeated player are moved to another location?
@@pixxelwizzard They move to the nearest city, but that monster was already in a city so they would stay there.
George Lucas saved the world!
According to my rule book (just had to recheck) you can buy tickets in cities, no matter if they are connected to the type of route you are buying or not. But it must be a city. And, you can only spend one ticket, unless the rules is VERY vague on that point, which (reading it four times) it is not... so only one ticket.
Kevin is pretty funny.
DAMN STRAIGHT!
the fart jokes were a bit lame but other than that he is funny...he and Lincoln make a quite good comedic pairing
@@danteshydratshirt2360 They turned me completely off. Like nine-year-olds...
need to see new games rather than an expansion to an existing game...but if I am correct I think they streamlined some of the rules
What's the record for most number of times attempting a lame "Wie gehts" pun and having no one acknowledge it whatsoever and yet continuing to attempt that same joke again and again?
The lady reading stuff just frustrates me. I think she should wear glasses.
Her name's Nikki and, yeah, she seems to struggle with the small text.
You can't have more than one of each ticket, so you can't get a ship ticket if you already have a ship ticket
Wrong. The only limit is that you cannot have more than a total of 2 tickets at the same time, but they may be tickets of the same type. There is even a character (in one of the later expansions) that automatically gains an additional ticket of the same type when he prepares for travel.
Twenty minutes in still learning rules is a bad sign.
Can't handle it? Lol
55:06 listening to Nikki read her encounter cards was really painful. Why does she drag her voice so annoingly?