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Played Jenny and Wini as a 2 handed first ever Carcosa playthrough and it was a riot of fun. Absolutely loved them both but Jenny with Adaptable is so strong, and big money with 2x Lvl 3 Cigarette Case is nutty strong. Really built around this and it did not disappoint, could go get 1-2 cards from pretty much my whole deck by mid scenario.

Guidance is a good target to make fast with parallel Roland

Mouse mask has been good with Luke, not only for the intellect but for willpower boosts as well. Agree even in 2 player and depending on when it is drawn, replenishing it can be challenging. I would give it +1

I've had this game on my wishlist for a long time now. I finally got it starting with the core set revised edition. These videos help out so much. Thanks for taking the time to help the new players learn. I'm a huge Love Craft fan so I'm already hooked on this game. Any recommendations on what campaign and investorgators to go for next. I'm looking at buying them by the box sets rather then individually. Thanks again and I hope you have a great day.

Um...you look at an encounter card when you draw them lol...so it's used every encounter step lol..I mean really...do you call someone else out of game to look for you lol?

Your videos make my day!

we love the kennedy dad!!!!!!!!!!

Holy moly when I looked at the chapters and realized yall only got through two cards 😂 I agree with many others that Veronica’s expertise has been a great addition. Every episode I learn something new from her.

Veronica was a great addition to the team. Thanks for having her! Regarding Guardian, I think of myself as a guardian main and how boy has it been a long time since a box offered an excellent set for the class. What I wouldn't give for a good combat guardian and a set of cards for them that worked with their design. Anyway, thanks for the interesting commentary and insightful videos.

Think you copied the timestamps from last video :)

Eyes of Vallusia can give Carolyn a weapon?

#JusticeForWilson

Eyes of Valusia absolutely can deal with Zamacona, just not starting from scratch. I don’t think this card should be thought of as your general use weapon for dealing with whatever enemies you draw, I think it makes more sense as a side carry/support tool that can help make regular enemies a little easier (either for your friends or whatever you’ve got in your other hand), that can transform into the kaiju killer when the big bad shows up later on. Which can be very handy when your regular enemy handler is prepared to deal with chunks of 2-4 health at a time, but the boss shows up suddenly with 10+hp and your enemy handler isn’t built for that much burst. I’m not saying this card is amazing, but I don’t think you recognized its proper home (aside from in Carson, which I totally agree with)

I’m coming late to this game. I find it a good solo game but it has a large learning curve. This video is the best I’ve found so far. One place that I’m having difficulties is when the enemy attacks me. Do I just lose the attack, can I commit cards to the attack before I pull from the chaos bag, or do I even pull from the chaos bag. Do you have that video? By the way I’m 66 years old and started to play as a brain activity. Now I’m hooked!

Looking forward to the return of Nate.

Flurry of Blows works well with Keen Eye.

Not sure I understand the comment about blessed blade - why are you saying when you miss you still get to do one damage? Even with weapon that does +1 damage (without saying 'if successful') we always played you only get the bonus damage if the attack is successful.

Naaaaaaaate

So much sour grapes for Hand-Eye Coordination! I hope ya'll are going to make vinegar.

Thanks for quick upload as a pod. Love what you guys do but I rarely watch stuff on CZcams and enjoy the audio.

Hand-Eye Coordination certainly makes the hammer less clunky, you could use the saved action to get into position, like Shortcut, if you don't have acces to it. I'd pay 1xp for Shortcut

Hand eye coordination is clearly designed for a tool based flex deck, It's as interesting as you build the rest of your deck. Also it makes Tony Morgan even more disgusting than he already is. If the only thing you play is way over curve, melee fighter of course it's not interesting.

A card, a resource and an XP to make one action fast is underwhelming. Maybe the lady is an FFG employee, like Olive McBride. I suspect Chuck Fergus is also an employee.

Mattastrophic, it's Marion Cotillard

From a game design perspective - at this point in the games lifespan if you have to think of a reason not to include a card in your deck then that should be rated a curse. At some point either you remove enough of the challenge from the game that it stops being interesting or you need to design the scenarios to be more difficult to compensate. With regards to "Hold Up" - there are two words on the card that completely change how you evaluate it - those words are "Trick" and "Parley". This card is bad if you play it outside of a trick deck or a parley deck, as it combos with cards like "Chuck Fergus", "Fine Clothes" & "Crafty". It also gets better if you have other cards that also trigger on succeeding by a certain threshold, which guardian does have some of.

Thank you for the reviews. A lot of cool ideas as always with you guys. I missed Nate here, but to be honest, I miss him much more for the latest Hemlock Vale videos. I was not very hyped for this box, but I'm going to grab a copy right after work. I need the Living Ink for my Lily deck, just for the martial arts theme

What's the reasoning behind the claim that Hold up needs to be a basic fight action? I was pretty sure that this is not the case. Not that it would make this card great or even good, but it does open some interesting combos. Particularly for rogues who can take this.

Wolf mask is the strongest card in this set.

Yeah I disagree, Wolf Mask is the strongest mask.

Whoa, I feel totally differently. Wolf Mask is definitely the best mask of the set. It makes 4 fist fighters extremely consistent. Even if you end up using it for just a fist boost, it can result in an unexpected courage per enemy fought. If you plan on using 1-2 attacks for most enemies, it's incredible. Just plays so well with Ruinic Axe with Hunter, so you get those engage triggers so easily. To expand on Ruinic Axe synergy, you can use wolf mask as a pseudo-charge counter on Ruinic Axe if you want to hit a +4 threshold on Hard mode token bags, but need to save a charge on Ruinic Axe for Damage/Hunter. It's just so powerful, tutored by backpack, which ultimately allows you to free up other icon cards for other fun guardian cards.

FFG: "Here's a card to get clues." Matastrophic: "Why not Dynamite Blast?" 💣💥😅

Hold up is definitely one of the cards ever printed....can't believe what a big pile of shi*t is it, and how nobody said anything before printing such a bad card lmao

I guess people will find ways to make Katana work by predicting the success by 2 with cards like Ancient Covenant. Be able to do 3 damage with just one action, without spending charge, is quite powerful.

Should the cleaning kit pictured be the level 3 version? 4 supplies & +2 to the test

Seriously! Get us a non-seeker researched card! A guardian weapon with some story behind it would be a solid candidate, and having a condition to research that’s something weird like katana’s perfect strike would be a sweet way to unlock the higher level

19:25 '''The elephant won't know what hit him'' brilliant, I cracked up so hard

RIP in peace Nate, this effect can cause the current agenda to advance :(

Cleaning kit has a couple of advantages over using extra ammunition. One of the less obvious is that because the ammo is not on the weapon card, you don't lose it if you swap out for a different hand slot card. So you don't feel so bad dropping that revolver to play your big gun. Another is that it combos with Emergency cache (3) so that that card can now also be used as ammunition. The Katana is designed for the science archetype. Which seems to be very specifically a seeker/guardian Archetype. Dr Charles West is the other half of this card, who gives you an additional hand slot for a tool asset and does an extra damage if you beat the test by a 1 or a 3. throw in steady handed and now you can shift your result up or down by one, and now you are doing at least 2 damage if you succeed from +0 to +4. You also heal a horror when you succeed by 2. Now the question you might ask is are you better off running something like the machete in the same deck, and I think the answer to that honestly is how important is that extra +1 to hit and how well are you able to take advantage of the extra attack. That might honestly make katana best for seekers who can take guardian cards who need the stat boost.

Nate noooooo... hope it's not permanent

I've been running a Blessed Blade Ancestral Token Mark Harrigan in Vale, it's been quite fun. The upfront 3 cost is nothing when you have the preludes

3:59 For those who don't know Return to Innsmouth Conspiracy is a fan made expansion, not an official product.

The podcast feed hasn't seen to have updated since Dec 31st? I use Pocket casts.

And imagine playing it on hard🥴

I don't think I ever played with vit but run for your life has one of my favourite art of the collection.

If the Desperate skills were designed today, they would have one icon and get three more if your sanity was three or less.

I don't think Key of Ys needs the Exceptional keyword from the Taboo list. These days, it seems overkill! 10xp is overkill for the effect and 5xp is no joke either.

My current collection is up to TCU and I'm playing a flex Carolyn deck with Meat Cleaver and Key of Ys in our blind TCU run. First time playing the Key and without taboo and I'm excited to see how it goes. The plan is to try to keep the Key in play with horror heal from upgraded Ancient Stone and The Star XVII. It sounds pretty wonky in theory and it's a lot of hoops to jump through but then again I can see why this card might have been too powerful in it's original state and sort of trivializes investigator's roles when everyone can get to 4's and 5's in any skill. Still, if you're relying on it to be good at what your investigator is supposed to do, it can turn bad pretty quickly with just one or two bad token pulls. All of a sudden you're Carolyn trying to hit a ghost with a cleaver at 3 or 4 fist.

I use a chance encounter to recur mysterious raven since survivors struggle with intellect

True Survivor is designed for Silas

An autofail across the board for Snare Trap just isn't the right assessment and it is rare you miss entirely with your discussions, usually someone has the right take. It's absolutely something that has really narrow uses, but characters like Parallel Ashcan (as you mentioned); Wendy and Rita all make really impressive use of this in some campaigns. Especially when you are replaying a campaign and have foreknowledge about scenarios. The definition of Blessed in your assessment system.