10-18-2014, 09:10 PM
So last night my wife and I got together with our neighbors and we pulled out ye old Touch of Evil. They hadn't gotten a chance to try out the Coast so we played a competitive game against the Sunken Seven, while leaving the Forbidden Lake board off to the side.
And it was the worst game I have ever played.
For me specifically, I got knocked out on my first turn and spent the next 8 turns getting knocked out either during the mystery phase or during my turn every round. And it wasn't the same effect every time either it was a variety of things from global events triggered from the minion chart to corner location minions to shadow cards but it would always end up with the same result. We never had all 4 heroes go down simultaneously but 3 down at one time made up about 1/5 of all turns total.
By the time the shadow track hit the final section we pooled all of our resources onto one guy and over the course of two rounds rallied against the darkness and fought valiantly to bring the shadow track back a full 7 points from 1 and get our man into position to initiate a showdown, only to have a series of 3 shadow cards in one round pull us back down a full 8 points and end the game.
Not satisfied with being denied victory after such a struggle we went ahead with the final combat against the sunken 7 and even then we lost!!!!
Worst game I have ever played. Even beats out our first go against the Necromancer where we got stuck in town hall with no equipment as a hoard of zombies bore down upon us from the country side.
I don't get beaten into a bloody undignified pulp by board games very often. It's always a memorable experience when it happens. Funny how that works. This will probably be in my top 3 aToE games I specifically recall.
Do you have a time when Evil won? A time when you wanted to call the game "A heavy handed application of evil," when you simply couldn't catch a break no matter what you did? Share below!
And it was the worst game I have ever played.
For me specifically, I got knocked out on my first turn and spent the next 8 turns getting knocked out either during the mystery phase or during my turn every round. And it wasn't the same effect every time either it was a variety of things from global events triggered from the minion chart to corner location minions to shadow cards but it would always end up with the same result. We never had all 4 heroes go down simultaneously but 3 down at one time made up about 1/5 of all turns total.
By the time the shadow track hit the final section we pooled all of our resources onto one guy and over the course of two rounds rallied against the darkness and fought valiantly to bring the shadow track back a full 7 points from 1 and get our man into position to initiate a showdown, only to have a series of 3 shadow cards in one round pull us back down a full 8 points and end the game.
Not satisfied with being denied victory after such a struggle we went ahead with the final combat against the sunken 7 and even then we lost!!!!
Worst game I have ever played. Even beats out our first go against the Necromancer where we got stuck in town hall with no equipment as a hoard of zombies bore down upon us from the country side.
I don't get beaten into a bloody undignified pulp by board games very often. It's always a memorable experience when it happens. Funny how that works. This will probably be in my top 3 aToE games I specifically recall.
Do you have a time when Evil won? A time when you wanted to call the game "A heavy handed application of evil," when you simply couldn't catch a break no matter what you did? Share below!