by jekface
So I just played my first game with the base only. I was the Overlord, my sons and niece (12,10,10) were the heroes. We played the recommended beginning mission from Heirs (the one where you escort the acolyte).I forgot to draw and use cards as the Overlord a couple of times, but I'm glad I did not. After a couple rounds in, it was clear that I could have stomped them, so it brings me to the subject of this thread. Was I playing wrong?
They each got two actions on their turns, but with the base skills/weapons, they were largely uneffective against me. The Berghast (sp?) have the ability to add a brown die against ranged attacks. Plus, they got a +2 to their health from the setup. 2 white, 1 red.
The goblins are basically endless waves, but come out up to 2 at a time. So against 3 players, I used 3 white and 1 red.
I got them close enough to ping the players with 2 actions each turn. Maybe I was lucky with the dice, but with surges, I was hitting the heroes with 3 damage or so each shot. It got to the point where I just made the archers wait instead of pressing on. And I brought the berghast out of cover to get in close to the action. I used one overlord card.
Are the rest of the quests going to be this way?