It is time to open a completely new chapter in our Frosthaven adventure. This is mainly driven by retirement by two out of three of our company members characters. Also, as we shall see below, one of our favorite multi-scenario side quests will come to its conclusion. Something ends, something begins.
Our Frosthaven Campaign in scenario order:
#1 Town in Flames
#2 Algox Scouting
#4 Heart of Ice
#5 Frozen Crypt
#7 Edge of the World
#8 Crystal Trench
#9 Glowing Catacombs
#10 Crystal Enclosure
#13 Frozen Fjord
#14 Jagged Shoals
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Let me start with our merry company composition. As hinted above, it changed enormously, as both Deathwalker as well as Coral went for a well-deserved retirement. Who joined us instead? Here they come:
So here is our team composition; thanks to high Prosperity, we were able to already start at level two:
- Frozen Fist – level 2 (me) – tank-like damage dealer. We shall see how that combination will work 🙂
- Trapper – level 8 (Kuba J) – our most experienced character, who can build deadly traps.
- Snowdancer – level 2 (Kuba G) – first and foremost support, but thanks to pulls and traps from Trapper, can also do decent secondary damage.
We were very curious how that combination of characters will play out.
Scenario Specifics
Time to analyze scenario, its set-up, win conditions and complexity levels:
It all started with Pinter Droman, the entrepreneurial Tinkerer. He was dreaming about building new way – a shortcut through the mountains – to help the trade reach Frosthaven. We helped him to cut the path through the mountains (#114 Work Freeze) as well as defend the pillars supporting it (#115 Pylon Problems). Today is the grand opening of Droman’s Path – but of course it would not be a highway if you did not have highwaymen! They attack caravan (5 carriages) and you need to protect them! Well, sounds like a fun!
PS. As always, feel free to click on below images for full details.
Session Report
Summary
That was really funny and special scenario; I like the “defend the caravan” theme and how you actually could use carriages to damage opponents. Me and Kuba G were also discovering strengths and weaknesses of our characters and it was sometimes exciting and sometimes painful exercise. Long path in front of us to become with them as proficient as we were with previous characters but we shall get there.
And Pinter? Well, he can be proud that his dream came through and now the Frosthaven can really benefit from his shortcut! Also, that was good adventure to test and try our new characters. We learned a lot and use it in next scenarios.
The Boardgames Chronicle 
Obviously that’s a scenario for specific characters and not all will be suitable. I don’t think that with previous team it would go much better. Neither Coral, or my Traper are of great mobility , Deathwalker requires time to create and move his shadows. Difficult ground(some obstacles, enemies blocking spaces) doesn’t make it easier. Here we had a good runner – Frozen Fist. Deathwalker wouldn’t be able to kill enemies by himself and his shadows wouldn’t be targeted by enemies, so in previous team we would loose early 2-3 carriages at least, after which me or Coral would jump to enemies at took hits instead carts. Same as with that new setup. We did fine here despite loosing 4 of 5. We hoped to secure at least 2 coches, but we were outnumbered and our attack capabilities were too small at this level (i had to focus on other things than preparing damage traps and attacking, i had to do little more healing than usually and act as a meatshield). Good start for both icy characters, Snowfist tanked and attacked well, and Snowdancer proved to use my traps efficiently, but it’s not going to last forverer, as with retirements we’ve leveled up the prosperity and can upgrade buildings, which may enable my retirement soon as well(sooner than i belived 1-2 scenarios ago)
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