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A little experimentation with the camera at the start, not happy with it though. Going on vacation for a week, but trying to get episode 12 finished before I go so it can be auto-scheduled for next Friday.

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 Its okay, I love the content btw. Been following for a bit

A long time ago at the dawn of Shadows of Brimstone, someone called Klutz made a really useful tool. If you search for 'Klutz Card Factory' there's a web app with a couple of templates for making Shadows cards...

@hefrvifamilygaming9540 they look great. Were they easy to do and what types did you end up making. Enjoying following your family adventures

@@nickgraney2119 Dead easy - you just go to the web page and type out what the card text you wnat is and it generates the image in SoB stye. We have cards for all our Madness, Mutation, Injury, Town/Camp Items/Abilities. I just print out the front and back, stick some card from cereal/pizza boxes in between and done. Not quite the same quality as the real deal - but good enough to save constantly dragging rulebooks and town sheets out.

Yup - comes up in a couple of videos time where we have a crashing realisation of how dumb we have been. Cost us the previous mission. Quite annoying as I'd read the new Adventures rule book before playing this campaign but only spotted the differences - and this is something we'd been playing correctly in previous playthroughs - no idea why it slipped the mind until we were half a dozen missions in :(

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 It can happen. I remember I ran the Rain Dance mission from th eBlack Fang Tribe set once, using a six person party and rolled double 1's. I immediately draw for an ambush (6 Bandits and 1 Serpentman Shaman), forgetting that doubles in the Rain Dance mission get a party member struck by Void Lightning. I also didn't realize I was supposed to pick one Posse member and have the Bandits appear on that map tile, so I had one Bandit on each member (with the Shaman popping up nextt to the Cowboy who lassoed him up pretty quickly). I just thought it would make sense to have the gang of Bandits appear from different spots to hold up the Posse. On the plus side, that was one of the best missions I played for Darkness rolls, I only missed once or twice

Yar - that was not a good start. Paticularly when we doubled down by treating it as a failed Hold roll. Hoenstly, that mistake probaby cost us thah mission :(

Gas Warfare has a ton of rules - one of them is that Encounters are only participated in by heroes on the initiating tile or adjacent. So in this case, only Sparky was elligible. Also - argh Raptor, just as we tried to get clever and left that barricade undefended

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 oh right, to be fair, that should be applied across the board, as so many times you have heroes one or more tiles distant from an encounter. As I don’t have Tredarran expansions I may house rule that lol!

@@marklong4317 We filmed the 8th campaign mission yesterday and it came up in there. The rule isn't there for that one - but it very much suggests splitting the party. "Hang on, so if I trigger this all the way over here - how come you lot over there need to check? Eh, *shrug*"

'Let's not deal with this primitive barbarian world any longer thanwe have to - pass those damn rolls and get throuhg the portal!'

Part of the mission rules for that mission are that all threat cards are one level lower (so the Medium they normally are becomes a Light)

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 You're completely right. I played this wrong where I only lowered the threat level of the ones that spawned at the start of turns (other sources stayed normal)

@@PiterMorbid I wince enough looking back at these recordings at how much we got wrong - but that's the perils of a near year long hiatus! We joked about it at Roll to Move that it's not a proper game of Shadows unless someone says 'hang wait a minute back up I think we did that wrong...'

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 that being said errors in gameplay videos really annoy me and sometimes make me wanna stop watching. I guess I watch it as if I was paying it myself and I try hard to play by the rules. You're right unfortunately most gameplay videos have rules errors maybe it would be worth it to read the rulebook and faq again before starting a new series of videos

Oh, yes. That would have been a more efficient first re-roll and potentially avoided the use of grit. I suspect it'll not be the first omission we make (Waiting for someone to point out the mistake with the spider hole...). There's a lot going on sometimes, but at least Shadows is co-operative rather than competitive so rules slip ups or misplays don't 'cost' anyone the game...

I know! Stuff like that is what makes Brimstone great. Couldn't have planned that, but so fitting when it occurs...

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 that's exactly right. Theme on sob is evoked naturally rather than textually, where the story makes sense and is narrated by what happens in the game

My eldest (Sparky - 12) loves it. Youngest (Raven - 10) is more variable, for a variety of reasons will play one game maybe, but will then shoot off to do something copletely different! (Minor Spoilers: Raven end up not being on every mission)

@hefrvifamilygaming9540 love your kids names, very unique. My lad (Finley) is big on Brimstone so it's usually a yes to a game, which can quickly turn into a campaign. We have quite a alot of content, so the hard bit is keeping him from switching to one of his other campaign parties and to keep play8ng through the current group we have in play

@@nickgraney2119 I should point out those are the character names :D

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I'm still in a SoB/FoFo mindest of thow the henchman at the Darkness which repeatedly solves the same problem for less, but need to play more Adv to get used to that new paradigm. I think I also suffer in the other sets from having a very diluted Darkness deck so it's rare absoluteley killer ones arise. But... I can see if I play more Adv there's going to be cards that are better within that context than the vanilla experience because of the different bounding constraints

I'm absolutely sold on plastic cement/glue (different brands call it different things); at least on the plastic models anyway. You only need a small amount, it creates an initial bond in seconds and when 'dry' it is the strongest bond I've found. But that's because it isnt drying as such - it works by melting the plastic and then letting it re-harden (hence the strength of the bond). But that also means it's still pliant for a few minutes too, if you need to pull apart/reposition. The only downsides are if there's any excess you don't notice fast and clean up, it can cause minor deformation/discolouration of the model; and is a right pain with transparent bases as if you get it wrong that's chucking the base in the bin and going again! The one I use at the moment is 'Contacta' by Revell, but not really found much difference between brands. The 'Archive Guardian Assembly' video shows me scewing up and rectifying using this. For the resin models though it doesn't work for fairly obvious reasons, at which point I'm using whatever superglue I have on hand and wishing the model was plastic!

Just annoying that stupid mistake... even after a dry run, putting all the unused spare bits to the side - I still went on auto-pilot for the old guardian!

Not going lie... unlocked half the stuff and moved on. But it had the advantage of being ludicrously cheap when on sale so - filled an evening I guess...

When I started, I only had the City of Ancients. In hindsight, I would recommend starting with the Samps of Death purely because I feel if you're restricting yourself to just 4 heroes the Swamps of Death ones are a better experience for learning the game. But I suspect there would be plenty of dissenting opinions!

Possibly. But previous tests weren't so rythymic as this one - you could go 9 attacks before it dropped back to the unbuffed number. Which would suggest not a cooldown, but something else awry...

Yes, it's hardly obvious from the name or the Lore in the game - but then again, 'not obvious' is the hallmark of Cultist Simulator!

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 haha fs man

I put about 180 in by the end, enough to 'complete' all the classes and races from the base game. Didn't feel the need to branch out with the DLC, as it's a bit formulaic once you twig how all the systems work. But, that's pretty decent value of entertainment for a fairly low price game and more than some of the other card builders have lasted...

Yeah... I missed the original KS, but managed to get a late pledge just as the campaign was finishing for FoFo. Like you went all in for the Adventures. I think with the Void Swarms that hit retail in teh Uk two weeks ago... we're finally clear of the original KS stuff making it to retail. And yes, the card packs are pretty expensive even if you get them in a 3 for 2 sale, just because the postage seems... disproportionate for what they are. I'm lucky that I have American friends who I get to post them on for me and avoid that.

i pre-ordered mine in Europe (online store fantasywelt.de) and Feudal Village is said to be expected in August. I just recieved Takubake Samurai and Odo Kuro (also wave 3). So you should be able to get them somewhere this summer i'd guess? The Oni Warlord is expected to arrive in this store in september.

24 hours under a Terraforming Mars big box is showing some promise. Radius of curvature is down by about a quarter....

Moved the mic to further into the table for the future videos, and swapped the USB ports. Try from Session 3, whine isn't around after that...

I am sure there'll come a day when I don't pull some ludicrous nonsense...

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 probably wont be vs me lol...glad even you make fangtooth mistakes

Sure, could do! Would have to wait till there's a tournament appropriate to use them, or were you thinking of a specific match up?

DAmn.... that would indeed have been a brilliant play! Good job I won anyway otherwise I'd kick myself!

If you think this was long, wait till you see the one going up tomorrow. Its twice as long. I'm going to put a warning at the fron of just how long it is! Some lessons were learnt...

Nice. Didn't know there was a route to one turn victory!

What I've been doing is every time an enemy has 'if they roll a six, they ignore defence' I have been treating that as a critical hit - because that's in effect exactly what a critical hit is. That certainly has been the case since the first Statue fight against the Raptor, and I think the very first because the Guardian can also ignore on sixes I recall?

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 ok lets say 6s are criticals. You never once even bothered to roll for the Onmorakes hits because you assumed it wouldn't break defense. Which would have been true except on 6s. Im going to go back to watch the statue vs the spider lady, i don't think you ever gave her a critical hit either. Yup. On very fist roll for Joroguma you treat a 6 like a normal hit. You also never bother rolling for the summoned spiders again assuming they cant get past defense. You also give the statue the critical damage when it rolls the 2 6s and the give it its grab and through damage, but it should only be the grab damage. 7:42

@@andrewchilton8181 But the Omnorake doesn't ignore defence on 6s? If it did, I would have rolled, because as you say the Living Statue is not immune to crits. I'm not saying all sixes are crits, just those that ignore defense because of the rules on the enemy sheet say 'if you roll a 6, ignore defence'.

@@hefrvifamilygaming9540 oh I see, but it still should only be damaged by the grab and through move. The ability also says "instead of normal damage"

@@andrewchilton8181 Ah - yeah. Damn, I wonder if I'd been getting that wrong with the Raptor and Spider, or indeed the other matches since Statue became champ? Though I suppose the Statue still lost the first two so doesn't matter. Would it beat the Omnorake without my mistake? I think probably? But definitely somethig I'll need to watch for in the next...

Ha so I did! Good job the tall fellow still managed to win even with a misattribution of that 2 damage otherwise I'd have to scrub and do over :)

Yeah, I think I twigged later on that it was a strategy to avoid the self sacrificing of mutants into your board, in particular Fanghouse. THe flip side though is it was one of the ways to kill Johnny maybe?