Stay nimble in that regard.Įdit: After having now played over 40 campaigns across all the expansions, I thought it would be nice to write down my thoughts on things to consider for optimizing success in Eldritch Horror. The takeaway is to make an initial specialized plan and then reassess 2 or 3 rounds in because, at that point, you probably have acquired assets, conditions (hopefully blessed), and spells that require you to shift your strategy to fully optimize your best chances of winning. These are only a handful of observations from 5 play throughs (1st loss, then 4 wins with very few players and an even number at that since I suspect the odd numbered teams have a tougher time after looking at the gate/clue spawn rate on the reference cards). Take the politician just sit in San Francisco with him for the first 2 or 3 rounds acquiring assets for your fellow team members and make the best of boosting their stats and equipment as early as possible where it will give you the best return.

This might be obvious to seasoned co-op gamers, but became more obvious to me when realizing how fruitless it was to try to clean the board systematically and how much more useful it was just to tune out what a creepy bug in south america is doing at the moment. Move the Psychic one space over and park her in Arkham to try to get spells and score the Clairvoyance spell likely to make her a clue factory (and pair with her ability to send clues to players around the world).ģ) Think about what your character does best and specialize. Example: Use the spy's special action to generate clues every turn keep a partner close by to hand them off.

Assess if you have a better plan than simply 'let's see where the clues fall and get there fast'. Some characters are particularly effective in obtaining, dispersing clues, which are generally good as dice saving graces and often essential for mysteries. Bee-line it.Ģ) Make your optimal clue-gathering plan. Think of it like you're standing at the doorway of the shack in the middle of the pen filled with walking dead zombies. You have so few turns before that mythos deck runs out, before that doom counter reaches zero. Think more about taking from it what's useful to you at any point in time. Accept that it is messy and will just get messier. I'll enumerate some general tips below (followed by keener insight after having played over 150 hours):ġ) Do not obsess about keeping the world tidy, clear of gates, of monsters, of clues.

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