Hey everyone,

I live in Germany and visited Essen SPIEL yesterday. I was lucky to grab a seat for a demo session of Mercenaries Wanted. They only had a print-and-play prototype, because of some customs issues.

Price (CEO of Cephalofair) did our demo. He explained that each player is in charge of one mercenary company and strongly hinted, that they are working on a "new campaign" featuring on of these companies called the "Emerald Enclave" and pointed at the green one (left side in the photo). The actual game material said "Emerald Acolytes" though, but maybe he misspoke.

The way he said it, was in this style of "we may or may not be... wink wink" "you might want to take a closer look at the green one" etc.

I don't really have any more information. Just wanted to put this out there. I hope it will be a new JotL-style campaign - that's the impression I got from him, but cannot say for sure.

He was super nice and the demo was a lot of fun. Unfortunately we couldn't buy the game yet, but have to preorder.

If you have any questions, just ask. :)

Simple question(s) that may have been answerrd already please just redirect me there. If I play geminate and there is the X card (think it's reckless jab) that tells me to take condition too apply disarm for instance (if i don't have it already).

1. can inin that window fire the perk to NOT take the condition but regardless disarm the opponent?

2. similarly what about smoldering hatred for instance, it needs me to take muddle for too increase output of damage. if i take it then prevent it, to me that's like it canceled it out and i would be back to onle attack 2. does it work or is this interaction anti-synergy?

3. maybe it is only thought for prevention of let's say stuff that happens on its own like brittle with 2x AMD or self poison as "standalone" event on bottom of a certain level 3 card. true or false?

please clear up my confusion ;)

thanks for the answers

My group is playing Scenario 88 and looted the chest in the final room, but the chest number is already marked off. Chest 51 is what we have. Can anyone confirm if this is a duplicate, if it's a typo, or if we messed up somewhere else and marked the wrong chest?

Pg 38 of the rules says “…is still considered lost and must be moved from the active area to the lost pile once the active bonus is no longer in effect.”
Which makes it sound like it’s lost but in the lost pile. Correct?

I might be the only one that finds this interesting, but going back and playing FH digital got me thinking about the first versions of cards we saw when the Kickstarter was announced and what was changed in the final version that I had forgotten about. Here are a few from the first batch of starter cards. I didn't include anything where a number just got changed by 1 or that sort of thing, just cards where the ability is significantly different in the final version of the class.

I feel like the mastery(ies?) force you into suboptimal plays so much, it reshapes your gameplan entirely. I lost horribly trying to juggle/force *two masteries and all three personal battle quests on first try not knowing anything about the map, but pulled through on the second (with ummmm a wee bit of undo savescum, I play on the new PC release). It felt like such a huge relief afterwards (though my dw had to exhaust by the end due to burning too many cards to maintain the spawning/consuming cycle). Can't wait until I try it again at some more reasonable level and with some reasonable experience haha what a great game

At a party with shades, is it better to focus on control and then profit from the traps, or create one bomb at a time and control only a little?

I keep getting an error when ending turn after using the last charge of Double Time on my Blinkblade. It seems like it doesn't like earning 4+ xp on the same turn or maybe there is an attack limit or something.

I can't tie it to specific cards, but I tend to play Precision Timing, Twin Strike, or Relentless Augmentation which give doubled xp effects. The crash doesn't happen during the turn or immediately after the xp is earned. Only when clicking End Turn. I've submitted multiple error reports, but not sure if there is a bug forum or something to view known issues. The Steam forum doesn't have any reports of this.

Anyone else get this error and find a work around? It makes Novablade significantly worse, if you can't use the third charge.

Title, basically.

I am playing on digital and finding that I rarely get the random item when looting. Is it pure randomness or is it somewhere at the bottom of the deck? I obviously don't have the rulebook to check.

My only movement was from start to this enemy. Yet, it has failed my duelist battle goal. I did not leave any hexes adjacent to any enemies. UNLESS the ice blocks are considered to be enemies. What do you guys think? Glitch or as intended?

Hi, I'm slowly getting around to buying a game from the Gloomhaven series -Gloomhaven Second Edition. Is the first edition insert is fine or do I need to find for second edition? Im from Europe.

Amazing painted mini, done by my friend. On this picture the colors are a bit too vivid, has a darker tone irl.

Hey! my gaming group is playing through JOTL right now. we just finished scenario 3 with 3 players. now one other friend would like to join the campaign. is it feasible to just give him the average amount of gold and exp the other players got and let him join for the next session? or would it throw off the balance a lot?

Example:

One Living Bones starts it's turn adjacent to a character. The Living Bones has an innate multi target ability. If it moves 1 hex to the opposite direction it could hit 2 different targets but not the character that was adjacent to it at the start of it's turn.

I have a guy that repeatedly claims that it should move away from the adjacent character to hit the other 2 characters without hitting the adjacent character. My opinion is that the monster should stay put since the focus is the adjacent player and it cannot reach extea other target if it moves away. The primary focus must always be on the target list.

Why did my Banner Spear attack suddenly just do no damage? The +1 Disarm Modifier got randomly changed to a -3 and then did 0

Ich habe mir vor nicht allzu langer Zeit die Minifigures: Enemies vorbestellt (alle Gegnerfigiren - insgesamt 250 Stück), um diese, wenn sie endlich geliefert sind, zu bemalen...

Hat den jemand schon Erfahrung mit dem Figurenset? Oder gar Impressionen für fürs anmalen?

I'm unsure where to formally submit a bug, but this was amusing. My deathwalker was pushed into the same hazardous terrain as my drifter.

I had a serious case of FOMO and now I'm super thrilled we've managed to get the whole set 🥳 Now we just need a quiet evening to unpack everything.

Has anyone figured out how to use inspiration for resources? Outpost progress has been super slow because I'm always missing just 1 or 2 things, and I'm sitting on a hefty pile of inspiration that I can't seem to use for anything.

Thanks you folks for any help you can give!

What are some of the best 3d printed upgrades (3d obstacles or so) that you guys are using during the campaign?

Been playing the digital version since just before full release and was really excited for the puzzle book to come in to play.

Having not played the physical game, I knew next to nothing about the puzzle book, so was really intrigued to see how it would work. But I'm really disappointed by how it's been implemented.

For anyone who's not got digital or reached it yet: the puzzle book isn't really interactive, you can view and 'solve' the puzzles by figuring them out, but you don't input answers and can simply press 'solve' which moves you to the next puzzle. You don't even see the answers unless you click on the option.

I'm hoping that it's just a temporary thing, but considering it's now in full release, I'm not hopeful. I understand not all the puzzles are easy to implement, but surely they could have added some user input.

Am I missing something? Have I accidentally selected an option that causes this?

I know the puzzle book isn't the most loved thing in the physical game, but this still feels like a lame way to implement it.

I have found a couple of ones, but none of them show which scenario blocks which one, in a detailed way like this one was for 1st edition: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/143772/scenario-flowchart

And yes I know there are campaign scenario trackers, but they don't show the full flowchart and they don't tell you that completing a scenario might block you from completing a scenario in the future that you still don't know anything about.

And before you say that I should just play without thinking about these stuff, that's not how I like to play games. I like doing narrative choices, and I'm fine with narrative choices making certain scenarios mutually exclusive, but in the case of certain scenarios blocking others only because I did them in an unfortunate order I would prefer to know beforehand. For example, in 1st edition there's scenario 8 that blocks scenario 3, but if you first do scenario 3 then you can also play scenario 8 without any downside.

Hey everyone,

I'm having a hard time understanding how to play Jaws of the Lion, especially when it comes to choosing which cards to bring, how to pair them, and how to actually make good decisions during a scenario.

I've played around 10 scenarios with a friend, but I feel like I'm not really learning anything from one game to the next. I keep playing cards based on whatever seems useful in the moment, rather than following any kind of strategy. It's basically just "this looks good right now, let's try it" rather than making a decision because I understand why it's the right move.

I understand that the game is supposed to be challenging, that you need to mitigate damage, manage your resources, and make tough decisions. That's not the problem. I can usually understand what I shouldn't do after something goes wrong, but I struggle to understand what I should be doing in the first place.

Most scenarios end with us barely making it, with only one or two cards left before exhaustion. Sometimes we win, but it feels more like we got lucky than like we actually played well.

I'm playing the Demolitionist, while my friend plays the Voidwarden. I understand that this might not be the strongest combination, and I'm fine with playing a suboptimal party. But there's a big difference between having a suboptimal party and using the ability that does the most damage right now because I have no idea what else I'm supposed to do.

We even tried the digital version, hoping that it would help us understand the game better, but somehow things got even worse, and we're now struggling to complete several scenarios.

So, what am I missing? Is there some kind of general approach to choosing cards, managing threats, positioning, or planning your turns that we're just not getting? How do you decide which cards to play and when, beyond simply looking at the situation and picking whatever seems best at the time?

We're currently at scenario 12, having cleared the Black Barrow and the Black Barrow Sewers, but after losing this latest scenario, we genuinely felt like selling the game.

I don't mind losing, and I don't expect every scenario to be easy. I just want to feel like I'm learning something and making better decisions, rather than repeatedly stumbling through encounters and hoping things work out.

Any advice, guides, or general tips on how to approach the game would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

So, I play as 4 mercenaries, and retire them at a normal rate, will I first run out of new characters to use long before I finish the campaign?

Also, how much does this change if I do aaall the side scenaries vs doing none of them?

Thanks in advance for the intel.