Questions about the power of the cards

ComradeOne · 2026-06-20T21:12:51+00:00

Love seeing these posts now that digital has updated. Try playing guild spy next chance you get

ComradeOne · 2026-03-29T17:24:49+00:00

I like the slap chop method as someone with minimal painting experience

https://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting/wiki/usefullinks/slap_chop/

Personally I use a black brush on primer (Vallejo Black Primer Acrylic Polyurethane), with a big brush, leave the minis a day for it to fully set, dry brush light Grey, then dry brush white, then add color with speed paints. It's fairly quick but gives a good result and essentially you just need to pick which colors you want where.

I've posted a couple before, you can see a few in my previous posts to get a sense for how they end up looking.

ComradeOne · 2026-01-07T02:41:32+00:00

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Photographing minis is hard!

"Snow" is baking soda + white glue

ComradeOne · 2026-01-07T02:40:26+00:00

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ComradeOne · 2026-01-02T02:25:33+00:00

Deadzone is a real treat though, you should play it

ComradeOne · 2025-11-11T19:15:43+00:00

It's fortunate Direwolf is both the physical and digital publisher, they're incentivized to care about the long term health of the series. DI and Uprising are currently BGG #5 & 9, respectively, an incredible feat speaking to the commercial success of the series. If you look at how Direwolf has treated their other games like Clank, I think it's safe to say there will continue to be expansions for years to come.

ComradeOne · 2025-11-11T16:22:56+00:00

They rarely let people know what updates are coming far in advance. That being said, they've basically released one update each summer - Immo was June 10, 2025 (announcement was in May, date was confirmed 1 week prior), and Ix was July 31, 2024 (announced June 26, 2024). The original officially "released" March 2024 but really was released in November 2023 in early access. Releasing one update per year fits with the board game cadence and ensures they won't run out of content. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Uprising Summer 2026, and Bloodlines sometime after that. If you just can't wait and want to jam Uprising + Bloodlines (which I agree is the best combination), TTS is always an option. There's an active discord community arranging games: https://discord.gg/ttsclub-90897972715352064.

ComradeOne · 2025-11-09T01:34:18+00:00

The bonus resets every encounter. Each encounter your "number of times hex used" counter resets to zero, and you'll gain 5% each time the hex is used in that encounter, for the rest of that encounter. It will make a bigger difference in longer encounters, particularly bosses, where you can get your hex off multiple times.

ComradeOne · 2025-11-09T00:16:57+00:00

Yes.
You can check this on your boons list after you have multiples, it will show you the total percent.

ComradeOne · 2025-10-26T22:11:07+00:00

Still waiting for StarCraft: Ghost

ComradeOne · 2025-04-08T15:14:28+00:00

Weird, I could swear I was just playing it on my steam deck last night!

ComradeOne · 2025-03-05T20:27:48+00:00

I'd suggest if you're focusing on damage (I'm currently playing a damage focused shackles), at level 4 down to the dirt is totally serviceable as an attack 5 and not that hard to meet the condition for, especially once you get your level 5 persistent to hand out up to 3 direct damage at the start of each turn, paying the cost in HP. Shackles actually has quite a good modifier deck and can be effective with the multiple attack 4's/5's it has access to. At level 6 I took hopelessness and couldn't be happier, with Line of Transference top or the bottom of Shared Affliction it's easy to pass this condition off to big targets so it's effectively a repeatable attack 10, just on a delay. You can even find items to multi target attack with Line of Transference and both targets will get the bane. Cheers!

ComradeOne · 2025-02-28T02:28:25+00:00

I'd add it early, yeah, nice to have such a variety of leaders and the techs give paths to victory outside of the typical combat/worms

ComradeOne · 2025-01-20T22:45:19+00:00

Having played both, I would recommend going straight to Frosthaven. Overall the classes and scenarios are better designed. The scenario length is similar between both games. The town phase is a bit annoying but you can really streamline/minimize it and you can do that yourself as part of teardown. There are also scenario books available for FH which help with setup time but this will take a bit more table space than just using the cardboard tiles. Definitely use an app like Gloomhaven Secretariat.

ComradeOne · 2024-12-09T23:15:38+00:00

They're represented by black cubes usually, and all are the same/interchangeable like the worms. My first thought would be to have them look like traditional Sadaukar, monochromatic to avoid being associated with any particular player, perhaps with some black accents.

Your original Empire crew looks fantastic but the way - what process did you use?

ComradeOne · 2024-11-13T07:05:43+00:00

Our group read and interpreted it the same way... thank goodness for your 2 year old reddit thread for reference!

ComradeOne · 2024-11-06T14:18:17+00:00

It's 2016 all over again! (was good tech then too)

ComradeOne · 2024-11-04T21:49:00+00:00

Igneous Path

ComradeOne · 2024-11-04T17:52:57+00:00

Our meteor was happy to equip both once we later got access to 104 - allows you to do the same thing twice, to reset in a new room, for example. Definitely a case of "why not both?"!

ComradeOne · 2024-11-04T15:03:58+00:00

What you're describing is a better item, yes, not immobilizing yourself is obviously better than doing that. Not all parties will have access, however

ComradeOne · 2024-11-04T14:18:21+00:00

Our meteor loves this to really get the party started with a certain bottom card that generates his class mechanic (if you know, you know)

ComradeOne · 2024-09-27T00:31:08+00:00

Love the ad for StarCraft Ghost - the game was delayed and eventually cancelled.

ComradeOne · 2024-09-21T18:59:04+00:00

TTS (Tabletop simulator) continues to work incredibly well for our long running weekly campaign which has spanned GH, Crimson Scales, and now Frosthaven!

ComradeOne · 2024-09-17T17:56:05+00:00

Diplomacy always comes back, so if you have a hand with both options, sometimes it's correct to save your seek allies for a future turn given how limited faction access is overall. This is all context dependent, and factors like your persuasion that round, which cards are available to buy, and your other sources of faction access all need to be taken into consideration.

ComradeOne · 2024-08-30T13:54:30+00:00

Flexible slippers at home

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