Gloomhaven - 9 Essential Tips New Players Must Know!

today i'm super excited to bring you some gloomhaven beginner tips and strategies that are really going to help you out so without any further ado let's get started and go to tip number one tip number one the organization in gloomhaven it is real it's a huge game it's 22 pounds there's tokens there's components there's a ton of things going on there's monsters everywhere so there's kind of you know some different parts to this first is set up and take down you're gonna need to be really organized around those sorts of things i have a pretty cheap storage solution i use these plastic plano boxes um go down into the description i've got a link to my recommended gear page there so go ahead and check it out if you're looking for that type of solution and then also if you're having trouble running the monsters in the scenarios uh there is gloomhaven helper app i have no affiliation to this it's just a really good app that's really helpful so go ahead google it check that out and it should help you tip number two and hopefully you haven't put any of your stickers on at this point gloomhaven is a legacy game you're going to be altering the state of the game as you play and that's one of the things i actually really love about it however if you ever want to play it again you're going to need to have reusable stickers so there's a company called sinister fish they put out a really good reusable sticker set go ahead down in the description i've got a link to my recommended products go ahead and check it out and this will allow you to replay the game over again if you want alter things and it also reduces the risk of making errors on sticker placement so i really recommend this even if you don't think you're gonna play the game again but if you are gonna play the game again 100 go get this set of stickers tip number three you can adjust the difficulty and especially in the beginning when you're playing your first scenario black barrel i recommend that you go ahead and you turn the difficulty down to zero unless you're an experienced board gamer but if this is you know one of your early forays into a dungeon crawler type of game like gloomhaven go ahead turn that difficulty level down there's a chart in the book that will show you exactly what trap damage is for every scenario level and this will help it uh to stop from being so frustrating i think a lot of new players get really frustrated at the first scenario because it's so hard tip number four monsters focus on the closest team member first so when you're going in there and you're attacking it fast initiative be very careful that you know what's going to happen with the rest of the monsters because one of the most common early mistakes i see is somebody wants to go really fast to beat a monster to the punch and go in and they kill that monster and then the rest of the monsters all focus on that one person because they ran up and they had the fastest initiative so just think about that when you're making your move maybe try and move to the side or something so that some of the monsters are closer to another ally tip number five killing monsters before they can attack and using initiative so you want to use your initiative proactively to go fast before a monster the ideal scenario is you go fast you attack you kill a monster it never gets a chance to attack you if you can do that a reasonable amount of time you're gonna get through scenarios fairly easily in gloomhaven however it's not always easy to do don't get caught in the trap of gambling on your initiative don't go at 30 or 32 or or whatever and hope that your plans are gonna work out and that the monster is gonna go slower because very often you make a sub-optimal play when you do that instead you can go later sometimes if you need to and just try not to get caught in that trap of always gambling to go first tip number six is when to play your lost cards lost cards are generally more powerful cards but because of that you only get to use them once barring items and other things what you want to do is you want to play a lost card when it's going to be most effective bearing in mind that playing a loss card early affects your longevity so the earlier you play the card the more it impacts the total turns that you can play so keep that in mind but here's my advice play a loss card when it makes sense and when it can be most effective i see a lot of advice online saying don't play your lost cards early but very often that means later in the scenario you're playing them sub optimally i like to play a little bit fast and loose i play my lost cards a little bit earlier if the opportunity presents itself one other thing on lost cards double loss cards so a loss on top and a loss on the bottom are not as good because you can't play them for anything other than a move to or attack too early on in the scenario so you're gonna maybe have some ineffective turns that being said if you have a class that has an odd hand size then you you don't need to use that double loss the first rest cycle so you're gonna use you know two cards two cards two cards two cards this is with a nine hand size then you're gonna have one card left in your hand that's the double loss so you won't have to play it so for classes that have odd hand sizes you can go a turn without that double loss affecting your ability your power whatever it is hopefully that helps tip number seven take enough move make sure when you're out there theory crafting and you're looking through your cards and you're looking at all those fancy attacks and stuns and cool abilities that you take into account how many move cards you have you should have like three good move cards minimum um like three move plus because nothing hurts more than having a juicy situation where you can you know attack a bunch of enemies but you can't make it there and so be very very careful that you don't get caught up in just picking flashy cards that look cool and theorycrafting all these combos and you don't take into account that you've got to be in the right position to pull those combos off okay before we get to the last two tips if you could go ahead please hit that like button it really helps me out a lot and subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications so that when i publish content you're notified also this channel i need your support i've got a recommended gear page the link is down in the description go ahead go to that recommended gear page check out all the cool stuff i have around 3d printing and gloomhaven and everything else and go ahead if anything you know catches your eye go ahead and click on it even if you just click on the link it really helps me out a lot thank you so much paying attention to card combo initiative you need to pay attention to what the initiative of cards that you're going to play together is so that you can determine when you're going to use it in this example here we've got a couple of very middling initiative cards and you never know what's going to happen when you play this combo you don't know if monsters are going to go first and move you don't know if ranged monsters are going to go and step back to so they avoid disadvantage essentially you don't know what's going to happen you don't know who's going to go first and who's going to go last so when you're theorycrafting and you're really thinking about combos and you know what's going to work with each other make sure you're taking into account when you think you're going to play that combo in the turn whether it's early or late and manage it that way tip number nine stamp potions are the best stamp potions are one of the best items in the game period i think some beginning players overlook how powerful this is and let me explain why so gloomhaven is balanced around playing lost cards once and playing discard cards once per rest cycle and then you get them back when you start to alter that balance and you get to play your best cards more than once it becomes sometimes unbalanced even it's so powerful so take that stamp potion it's amazing any class does not matter thank you so much for watching the video this is it again if you could subscribe to my channel like the video thanks again

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 24 2021