We’re advancing the lurker sub-campaign as we still have a character to unlock in this one. We’re now playing with two new characters from the newly-available mercenary packs: Satha and Hail, former NPCs and now the real deal!

Characters

• Zam Boni the Frozen Fist (David) lvl 4, big dude but very graceful on ice
• Satha the Mayor of Frosthaven (Math) lvl 4, taking matters into her own hands
• Hail the Irritable Enchanter (Guillaume) lvl 4, will she get irritated enough to care?

A subaquatic scenario (in theming) where we have to loot the five objectives, of course with a lot of baddies in the way within a big map.

Closing Comments:

• It seemed like everything went our way this time around. We have three great characters that work nicely together, that helps a lot.
• Math already unlocked one mastery, « granting » to his allies every single rounds. Very useful character and will be great under Math, a natural puppet master :P.
• Hail has probably the best theming of any haven characters imo, with cards names like « beneath me », « crazy antics », « can’t be bothered » and her irritation mechanics!
• The Deep Terrors were pretty ineffective all along, attacking in straight line with no targets and so on.
• The brittle-giving strategy is proving to be absolutely brutal, doing short work of otherwise hard opponents.

We’re playing a random scenario, chosen mainly because it can advance both the Infuser and the Hive’s personal quests, with their subsequent retirements afterward. Also, I’m playing a new character fo this one, the Frozen Fist, with a huge mini compared to what I’ve got before (trapper and deepwraith were especially small).

Characters

• Zam Boni the Frozen Fist (David) lvl 4, big dude but very graceful on ice
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 7, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 7, no, no, not this kind of teabag or is it?

This a long one, with a strange premise of being invited to a kind of run the gauntlet game in 5 « episodes » and we could stop after any one of them and call it a day.

Closing Comments:

• We did all 5 episodes but it was a close thing, we did not have many cards left at the end at all.
• Stamina and mobility are obviously really important for this one if you want to go through in one go.
• Episode 4 in particular, with flaming bladespinners and boltshooters could be quite brutal I’d imagine with a bit of bad luck or if not handled carefully.
• I didn’t inflict a lot of damage with my Frozen Fist but I put a lot of BRITTLE conditions throughout that my companions could then use to do massive damage, very powerful ability, I like it.

This play report is in fact our second attempt at this scenario, we failed our previous one, our first failure of the campaign in 50+ sessions. It’s a tricky one for sure. The fact that I’m playing a brand new character didn’t help either. Interestingly, I’m playing a non-frosthaven character, one of the four newly-released « mercenary pack »s.

Characters

• Cassandra the Diviner (David) lvl 4, forgotten diviner (mercenary pack)
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 6, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 6, no, no, not this kind of teabag or is it?

We’re trapped in this underground Realm of the Endless Frost and its mischievious master doesn’t intend to make it easy for us.

Closing Comments:

• Well, the power of foreknowledge helped a lot. The altar must be destroyed without delay. The Boss is in the fourth room, after three big fights, we have to be careful with our cards management in this one. The fist time we tried, we lost too much cards in the second room and knew we had no chance against the boss.
• We’ve finished the town challenge deck but now have the Trials unlocked, which are even worse (more annoying). Mine isn’t combat-related but Guillaume and Math were and it further hindered our ability to succeed.
• The diviner is a bit different from the one in Forgotten Circles, a few tweaks here and there. A complexity 5 character, powerful enough from I’m seeing at the moment.

This scenario is linked with Carrion Ridge (21) in the algox sub-campaign which was pretty easy and straightforward (no play report). This one is neither of those things.

This is a Defeat the Boss scenario but with said Boss being physicaly split in two and defeating it forced to be made in three parts, each time having to destroy an altar so one of us (only one) can hurt the Harbinger for a third of its hit points. Phew.

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 7, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 5, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 5, no, no, not this kind of teabag or is it?

Closing Comments:

• Hard one, and quite a bit cumbersome as a scenario I feel, jumping through every hoops at the right moment-style.
• The Deepwraith was especially well-suited to kill the Harbinger really fast, that helped a lot I think.
• The Hive took on himself to do it once but in retrospect it wasn’t the greatest idea as it took (understandably) several turns to do the job.
• And with that the Deepwraith has achieved his Personal Quest and will retire. Very strong character, with a very high ceiling. Really enjoyable too, he’ll be missed.

Our fiftieth scenario of our frosthaven campaign! The three of us are each at our fifth character and there’s not many left to unlock. The eponymous town of Frosthaven is now pretty advanced in buildings/upgrades. On the other hand we still have many scenarios available (dozens?) and we haven’t put much time on the main puzzle recently so we still have a long way to go to finish the game if we wish to be completionists.

This scenario follows our actions last time against a villain called The Collector whereas we messsed up his collection pretty good. This time though we’ll be fighting him and try to put an end to this evil hobbyist.

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 7, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 4, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 4, no, no not this kind of teabag or is it?

Closing Comments:

• Easy scenario, the savvas are strong foes but without much time to summon they weren’t that bad.
• The Collector had 75hp but no shield or retaliate and so was a prime target for my Deepwraith. 8 attacks in one round boosted by a power potion, that was satisfying.
• Yet another scenario where we couldn’t pick the special item that was buried at the bottom of the loot deck.

A girl from town wants us to save her two brothers. They’ve been taken prisoners by this weird savvas dude, the Collector, as subjects for his experiments.

This a kill them’ all random scenario but with a twist at the end. It figures a mad scientist/evil genius villain but we won’t see him until next (linked) scenario. We’re accompanied by this enthusiastic militia man named Ormi (road event).

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 7, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 4, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 4, no, no not this kind of teabag or is it?
• NPC Ormi (Math)

Closing Comments:

• Not an hard scenario by any means but made way more complicated by two annoying town challenges cards and also, by the fact that me and Math were both going for masteries on our characters and thus were restricted on our actions.
• This scenario figured monsters from all 3 major factions, a rare event and a boon to Guillaume for his personal quest.
• Getting invisible is a big part of the Deepwraith’s abilities but that meant risking the NPCs lives (and getting penalties if they died) so I had to eschew doing it a few times in this scenario.
• The Infuser managed to fight two lurkers almost all by himself, a testament to this character’ strength certainly.

Hey, we’re back playing Frosthaven! And we’re having two new characters in the team as last time we played we had two retirement at once. Math is reprising his role as the unfettered Hive, a character that was as long-standing as a fart in the wind, so maybe we’ll see a little more of it this time. Guillaume on the other hand will play a brand new character, the Infuser, a character that plays a lot with elements. I’m still playing Schlurkt the Deepwraith; high level, well-equipped, impeccable deck, very efficient, feels good to be a killer crab.

Okay, so in this scenario we’re helping this guy, this Trenchcoat NPC and huh… Who the hell are you again and why does it matters to us? A cavern, an artefact you say? Gyah fekkit, just point us in the right direction…

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 7, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• 4H2 the Hive (Math) lvl 4, refurbished robotic assembly, ADHD
• Teabag the Infuser (Guillaume) lvl 4, no, no not this kind of teabag or is it?

No matter what, never turn left he says. Yeah, yeah, we can do that.

Closing Comments:

• We’re at our last few town challenge cards and they’re the most annoying as it’s those we kept delaying to do. We still picked two but it ramped up the diffulcty of the scenario quite a bit.
• But we went on not opening doors at our left and that probably saved us a lot of trouble.
• The gimmick with killing the monsters in a certain order in the second room, aside from being very gamey, made things a lot more complicated and one misplaced 2x hit on a bleeding (wounded) lurker meant that we had to rush killing the 2 others that were earlier in the order. We managed to do it but it was a close one.