by UwasaWaya
Some background... playing with four other friends of mine who are mostly all big roleplayers, strategy gamers and general power players. Probably the least experienced member is playing the Overlord. Our team consists of the Widow as Necromancer, Fairwood (?) as a Thief, the female cleric as a Disciple and the dwarf as a Berserker.We've played the introduction, A Fat Goblin and the first quest of Castle Daeron... and the players have lost each one. Not slightly, but an utter, horrendous crushing by the Overlord. In Fat Goblin, the OL used Merriods to jam up the approach, and we simply couldn't kill them before the goblins had made off with the crops. We almost saved one. In the follow up, the opposing Sprig had what... 29 health? Which didn't matter. His dragons kept up jammed in the hallways for the entire encounter. We killed one, but by the time we got to the second, the OL used dark charm cards to just move us and dash cards to run Sprig out of the dungeon.
But the Castle was the worst. Two shadow dragons at the entrance. The OL lines them up to form a meat gate and utterly massacres us. We barely killed one by the time the first three peasants were killed by her Merriods and then last one we just couldn't get through the last dragon (healed by the OL, btw) before the helpless victim died.
Now understand, we aren't stupid. We weren't rushing this and took a long time deliberating our actions, but we just could not damage the dragons, even using ranged attacks to circumvent their shadow ability. Couple that with the OL starting with something like 7 cards due to encounters along the way, I don't see how this is even in the ballpark of being possible for the humans to win. It wasn't even a close possibility. We were just utterly ruined every step of the way, even with upgraded equipment and skills.
Any advice? Has anyone else encountered this? I don't want to feel like I've wasted $50 on this seemingly well made game. We need help though!