Glad it was helpful!

Wow! You got ACG to watch your channel! The man is a legend in the video game community.

Fully agree. Probably my two favorite aspects of the game

Expansions or rule clarifications ir houserules… there’s already a lot of content here to start with!

So the official difficulty modifier mainly makes the missions take longer to complete. I think if you added on a houserule to spawn more enemies at the same time, that would probably be enough to check the snowballing in an easy direction, but I haven't tested that. I've found the balance at player counts 1-4 to be similar. More enemies spawn, but you have more life and actions to spread around and attack. The most interesting cooperation was found at 3-4 players/characters though. I didn't try 5 players, but I don't expect it to alter the game significantly.

I appreciate the thoughts and the response, Mike. The way I read the rulebook, increasing the difficulty does actually increase enemy spawns…in a three or four player game. That’s because you treat the enemy spawn icons as being for a one higher player count, and that only increases the amount of enemy spawns if you have three or four players (thus using the spawn icons for four and five player games). That more enemies don’t spawn in a two or five player game is weird and arbitrary and probably just down to the iconography on the cards themselves, but at least there’s that…

@@steves1092 yeah, I honestly wasn't clear on how to apply the "+1 player count" thing, since spawns use different iconography, but there's a good chance you're right. And it's simple enough to say 1-2 player games jump to 4 player spawns as well, since they already balance the game by giving 1-2 players an extra action for each hero. I think that WOULD address some of my snowballing concerns, though it might push things too far in the opposite direction!

Yes, could be. I’m mainly just thinking of things to try when my copy arrives this weekend. Because from your experiences, my guess is that the default difficulty is tuned for groups of fairly casual players who tend to play pretty sub-optimally, which would obviously not be your group, and my group will likely blow through a difficulty level that is tuned in such a way. Interesting to see if the official difficulty slider makes it work better for my friends and for me.

Amazing Game!!

I’ve heard of that one but haven’t played it

Darkest Night got me into it and it’s been hard for me to justify wanting anything more when there’s so much to explore there and I’ve barely scratched the surface

I don’t remember it being quite as pronounced in EH, but I suppose you’re right!

I didn't notice that at all with Eldritch Horror. There's strategy to that if you catch it. I never had it that bad. EH is one of the best out there.

Sounds like this will be much more up your alley

I heard a lot of people looking for a more narrative experience like Eldritch or Arkham Horror, and for better or worse that isn't what this is :)

I agree. It's not /enough/ different from Marvel Champions that I feel the need to own both, although if I was starting fresh I think I might have went with Dagger instead

You could also ask why they would release more than one Arkham-themed cooperative game, and yet here we are with Arkham horror, Arkham LCG, Eldritch horror, final hour, elder sign… I don’t think one game using this IP negates or cancels the other

@@OneStopCoopShop good point.

Probably because this isn't a card game / lcg...

Just means more room on the shelf for something more to your tastes ;)

@@OneStopCoopShop I'm just sad they went from Starcraft, Lord of the RIngs LCG, Gears of War (aka truly innovative games and the first of their kind) to this. PS. Just got rid of Mistfall, but nobody wants to buy Robinson Crusoe with Voyage of the Beagle expansion 😓

Depends on your tastes. I’ve had quite a lot of fun with it, despite the frustrating aspects

Vindicated again in your marvel disdain

Well, to be fair they play and feel very different. Also, while DAGGER has it's warts and flaws, I would ALWAYS choose to play this if I had 3-4 people in my group. Marvel Champions turns into such a slog, in my opinion, the moment you go above 2 players 😅

@@OneStopCoopShop well solo it then, no one play marvel champions above two players anyway