The afternoon began to transition into night as Trish jumped over at the end of Small World to a game of 7 wonders that was about to start up. So, with three of us remaining, Brian was interested in playing a game of Elder Signs with he, Allia, and myself.
Currently having a crush on Elder Signs due to the great and addictive Elder Signs: Omens tablet ap (Ruling the Board to come) I was ecstatic to get a game of this in. With the only other group starting a game of balance on a ship, the three of us started setup for Elder Signs.
Having played the tablet game a number of times and watched the Table Top game a few times as well, I was familiar with most of the game, while not being sure of the differences between the board game and the ap.
Fortunately, the differences were few and after a long setup session (about the same as Small Worlds) we were up and running. Luckily, after the extended setup, there was not the first turn or two learning curve, so we went from zero to 60 mph on the first turn.
We randomly chose investigators and took on the following personas:
Allia - Vincent Lee
Brian - Ashcan Pete
Stanley - Carolyn Fern
Early in the game, things went very well. Over the first few turns Vincent was able to defeat numerous Rooms and monsters and build up his character while keeping everyone topped off with Stamina. Carolyn Fern was able to do the same while keeping everyone topped off with Sanity. Ashcan Pete had a rough start, failing 2 of his first 3 rooms.
In the second section of the game, we began collecting Elder Signs. Everyone was rolling well and we went from 1 Elder Sign and 4 doom to somewhere around 8 Elder Signs and 5 doom.
The Mythos cards were fairly weak and we were rolling well. The gaming night was quickly waning and we began to push towards end game. Vincent was able to defeat a room and Carolyn was able to do the same while having to sacrifice multiple Stamina and Sanity. However, I had a card to top myself off on both and Vincent was later able to top off my Stamina.
In the third section of play, we were probably 90% assured of success as we zeroed in on our needed total of Elder Signs. However, we began to falter as Vincent and Carolyn both failed to defeat rooms. Ashcan Pete stepped up and was able to defeat a room an earn an elder sign. Carolyn was then able to turn in trophies to earn an Elder Sign and get within one of the needed tokens to win. Allia then turned in trophies to purchase the final Elder Sign and locked the portal attempting to call Hastur into the museum.
Final Thoughts:
In the end, we were able to quickly gain resources and then blast through Elder Signs leading to a very quick and fairly easy version of a game that can be very challenging. Brian and Allia had played numerous times and were able to speak towards the ease that we had in a normally difficult game.
I hope to be able to play this again soon to see how thing will go in another play. However, after one play, I am more excited about the tablet ap than the board game.
The timing did work out very well for the time limit that we had with the game store soon closing due to the Packers playoff game and me still needing to look around and take advantage of the discount on games offered for the day.
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