Frosthaven – Ruins of the Equinox (105)

David Skelector Boardgame, Fantasy, Frosthaven, Play reports

This is the unlocked sequel to Ruins of Solstice (104).

In Ruins of Solstice there was a gimmick with the Earth and Ice elements, now is the turn of Wind and Fire.

Characters

  • Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 5, a crab that goes stab stab stab
  • Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 6, loves the pain, shares the pain
  • Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 6, the pressure is rising!

First area is a long corridor with gusts of wind pushing us backward (in one line at a time). More importantly there’s 2 Savvas Lavaflows, dangerous summoners, and 4 (!) Wind Demons. Not an easy crowd. Furthermore, to complicate things one of our town challenge will add 3 Hounds at the start of the third turn.

Let’s kill the summoners fast!
Pantherius start to work on them but also gets in harm’s way as the Wind Demons have both high mobility and are pretty rangy.
A big blow from Pearce but the enemy is not down yet.
Meanwhile Schlurkt has moved further and killed two Wind Demons and is finishing a third. This and Pearce’s efforts gives breathing room to Pantherius to heal himself back into combat shape.
Just in time as now the Hounds have catched up with us!
But Pantherius does short work of them.
Pearce and Schlurkt got across the interminable corridor and opened the door into a large and overly warm room (we take 1hp of damage per turn). We disturb angry Rending Drakes and Flame Demons.
Pearce is hit by an attack from a Flame Demon but reflects it back, killing his foe.
Pantherius was lagging behind a little but is still in time to capture a softened up Rending Drake to put in his pokemon ranch (his personal quest).

We’ve cleared the place!

Closing Comments:

  • Tense fight in the corridor, with the Pain Conduit in particular getting low in hps and pretty much surrounded.
  • A very possible outcome to this scenario is the Wind Demons disarming the player characters with one of their cards and Lavaflows summoning early, probably leading to defeat.
  • Not mentionned above but the Metal Mosaic opened the door and got immediately jumped by Rending Drakes and fired upon by Flame Demons and took heavy, heavy damage.
  • The Deepwraith then teleported in and had lot of options of crowd control and damage-dealing and things went well.
  • Another scenario that the Pain Conduit did heavy damage initially but couldn’t keep up with his low mobility and got very late in the second area,

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