tomiterror

First things first – I hate this scenario, I simply hate it. You need to have enourmous amount of luck just to have a small chance of winning. And it’s almost all decided during the setup and first two rounds.

After around 25 tries from which I have won 3 or 4 here are my thoughts:

1. Do not haste with exploring – one tile per round. If you uncover a totem, your next round should consist burning down the village and exploring another tile. Its crucial not to sum up totems before burning the villages down as it makes them stronger, and dont give you a chance of moving your camp during next rounds. Remember that during the round, the fighting faze comes before the exploration one, use it as an advantage.

2. You need “bed” invention. In every attempt that I have succeded in I had this one. Either by obtaining it during set up or thanks to carpenters ability. This means that carpenter is an obvious choice as one of the “survivors”. The “sling shot” is also nice to have invention.

3. The obvious one – build up your weapon strenght. Its more important than gathering food – especially when you have “bed”.

4. Save one of your characters for the last battle. Do not risk his health with exploring or any kind of dice rolling.

Beside of the above you will still need A LOT of luck regarding the events cards draw. If some of you have any better tactics for this scenario I’ll be glad to learn them.

I played this scenario 15 times (in different variants – solo, 2p and 3p) winning 4 or 5 of them. Here are my thoughts, just please keep in mind that any strategy in this game can be completely worthless due to the initial setup of starting items, cards etc.

1. Keep exploring as much as you can as fast as you can – the totems no. 3 and 4 are your best friends. Just watch out with whom you explore before you find totem no. 1. Loosing Friday in a 2p game at the beginning is not the best idea.

2. Do not bother with building shelter or roof unless you really are in an extremely comfortable situation. You don’t have time nor resources for it. Try rather to use the natural shelter and add palisade.

3. Don’t rescue Jenny too fast – she’s just another mouth to feed. Do it rather in fourth/fifth round even if you have built the raft sooner.

4. This is obvious for most of scenarios but is very important – control your morale. From the start build up your determination points income, especially taking the totem no.2 into consideration. You will be loosing morale quite fast due to wounds, so building any item incresing the gaining of determination points is a good idea.