first impressions

[Kiddarqo]

Well, that's the first AToE game, we played with 6 people, I played as the villain( The Horseman), the rest played a team match.

1:playing as the villain
that worked pretty good, that was one aspect of the game that I found was missing, giving the villain a face, so I'll probably keep doing this in future games, throwing for the co-op mystery chart, then draw a mystery card + fighting random fights that occur during the game, enough stuff to do as a villain. In the beginning I drew 2 mystery cards, kept one than discarded the other one, later on we changed it back to just drawing one card.

2 : my first impression is a little mixed, some aspects i liked, other aspects i have a few questions. Is it normal that the hero's have a though time collecting investigation because I found myself using the basic rules instead of the co-op rules because of this, 2 investigation to look at a secret, just collecting investigation on the board and not do the check to see if you can collect them.

3:Another question is it normal for the hero's to get KO'd a lot, at one time there were 3 players at the town hall + a couple of times the newly revived hero's were immediately KO'd again by the horseman therefor losing most or all of their investigation, items and allies, stirring up some frustration with some players and then having to skip their hero turn because their KO'd again, The Emp really had a hard time getting anything done on the board due to this + he was throwing really bad dice results too, so that didn't help either. Is this villain related??

4: The showdown, it took about 4 hours before the first showdown, seems a long time, my shadow marker was only at 11, I didn't multiply my wounds for the villain cause it just sounded so insane, Horseman wounds 24 (team of 3 + some bonuses) and getting to throw 5 combat dice so I left it at 11 wounds. I had like no trouble KO-ing the Hero's one at the time, ok I lost the battle but had I used all the wounds I would have KO'd the hero's in the first round, leaving them to start all over again, is that normal??

I'm not saying I didn' like it because I think it's a little early to make a" it's good, it's bad comment" because we've just played one villain and we've got a lot of villains to get through.

Anyway, I would appreciate some feedback on this thread so I can compare our scenario with some others.
greets
Da Kid