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Goat Round 4 Turn 7

Power: 5
Doom: 4
Signs: 1

ACTION: Capture Cultist in New Zealand (1 power).

1 power goes to Yellow for Passion.

Power: 4

This is a clever use of The Beyond One, but I'm not convinced it's a legal move. According to the draft of the Opener rulebook that you linked in the previous thread:

In addition, the rules text for The Beyond One, according to the spreadsheet and to this BGG thread state that TBO allows you to "move the unit to any area on the map lacking a gate," so even if Atlach-Nacho were able to use TBO to ride Yog Sothoth around like an interdimensional pony, I still don't think South Asia would be a valid destination since it contains a gate.

In theory, I like how the Opener faction shakes up the gameplay by making gates do weird things, but man, it really makes the rules a lot more confusing.

Dang, you're right. I missed that. There goes basically my entire strategy! Revised my move:

Yeah, it's frustrating when that happens. I wasted two moves during the first round because I misinterpreted a rule, and that was pretty painful.

Gerad, are you going to stick with the same move you posted before?

No, I'll move the Arabian Cultist to East Africa instead. Still Power: 4.

Map:



Opener is up as Yellow has no power.

Opener Round 4 Action 7

Power: 1

Move Atlach-Nacha to Europe.

Power: 0

Goat Round 4 Turn 8

Power: 4

Capture Cultist in New Zealand.

Power: 3

Yellow is up with 1 power.

Yellow Sign, Round 4, Turn 8

Power: 1

Battle against Black Goat in South America. I don't believe anyone has any pre-battle abilities they can use at this time, so I'll go ahead and roll.

Rolling for Star Vampires: 6 2 2

Star Vampires drain 1 Doom point from Black Goat

Since Black Goat only has 1 unit in South America, there's no point in rolling for the rest of my units. The Fungus dies and, unless I'm mistaken, gets to counter-attack with 1 die.

Power: 0
Doom: 4
Elder Signs: 3

1d6=4 for a pain.

Doom: 3

1 Undead retreats to the South Pacific.

I'm not certain Star Vampire attacks actually deal kills and pains in addition to sucking doom and power for kill and pain results.

Nevermind, they do.

Goat Round 4 Turns 8-10:

Power: 3
Doom: 3
Signs: 1

ACTION: Recruit Cultist in New Zealand and control gate (1 power).

ACTION: Move Shub-Niggurath to South Pacific (1 power).

ACTION: Avatar to North Atlantic, swapping with the Byakhee (1 power).



Power: 0

And that's Round 4.

Round 5 Gather Power

Black Goat: 6 for Cultists + 8 for Gates + 2 for Dark Young + 2 for captured Cultists = 18
Yellow Sign: 5 for Cultists + 2 for Gates +2 for Desecration = 9
Opener: 2 for Gates = 2, adjust for minimum power = 9
Sleeper: 3 for Cultists + 4 for Gates + 3 for Captured Cultists = 10

Does that all look right?

Also, for start of round, Atlach-Nacha is in Europe.

Looks good to me. Sorry about the map mistake.

No big (spider). We've been playing long enough now that I think we're all keeping track of progress in our heads with fewer map posts, but sometimes we'll miss something. For example, my entire round was spent in pursuit of an impossible goal!

Also, in the interest of keeping things moving tomorrow while I'm at work, if you're all posting, here's my Doom phase:

1 Doom point for gates, no Ritual.

5 Doom

So, to Doom. Let's go right again.

Goat Round 5 Doom:

Power: 18
Doom: 3
Signs: 1

4 doom for 4 gates. Perform a ritual for 6 power to get 4 more doom and an Elder Sign. Sac a cultist in East Africa per Blood Sacrifice for another Elder Sign.

Power: 12
Doom: 11
Signs: 3

On to Yellow.

Yellow Sign, Round 5, Doom Phase

I get 1 Doom point for 1 gate, and I don't perform a ritual.

Power: 9
Doom: 5
Elder Signs: 3

Opener's Doom, per Sarcasmorator's post:

Power: 9
Doom: 4
Signs: 0

1 doom for 1 gate, no ritual.

Power: 9
Doom: 5
Signs: 0

On to Sleeper.

2 Doom for 2 Gates, taking a Serpent Man in S.America.

Power:10
Doom:8
Signs:0

Goat Round 5 Action 1

Power: 12
Doom: 11
Signs: 3

ACTION: Summon a Fungus in East Africa (1 power).



Power: 11

Yellow Sign, Round 5, Action 1

Power: 9
Doom: 5
Elder Signs: 3

UNLIMITED ACTION: Battle against Sleeper in South America (1 power).

Periodical, would you like to use Energy Nexus before the battle?

Gonna summon my last Serpent Man.

Power:8

Yellow Sign, Round 5, Action 1 (continued)

Battle against Sleeper in South America:

Star Vampires roll 3 dice:6, 4, 2

Star Vampires inflict 1 pain and 1 kill, stealing 1 power and 1 doom from Sleeper.

Hastur rolls 7 dice: 5, 3, 3, 5, 6, 2, 5

Hastur inflicts 3 pains and 1 kill. I use Hastur's Vengeance ability to assign the 2 kills to the 2 Serpent Men, and assign the 4 pains to the 2 Cultists and 2 of the Moonbeasts. It's now Periodical's turn to roll.

(Incidentally, when I started typing up this post, the wording for Hastur's Vengeance ability in the spreadsheet made me question whether it applies only to Hastur's dice, or to all dice Yellow Sign rolls while Hastur is present. In this BoardGameGeek thread, Arthur Petersen states that Vengeance applies to all the dice, not just Hastur's.)

Rolled 5,5,3 so 2 pains.

I'll have 1 Cultist retreat to the North Atlantic, and 1 Cultist retreat to the North Pacific.

Is that it, or are you taking a further action?

Sorry, I should have specified. I will probably be taking further action; right now, I'm just holding off until Periodical decides which area(s) to retreat to, and until Gerad tells or whether or not he wants to use Necrophagy.

No Necrophagy.

Sorry guys I've been laid up with a fever the past day and a half. I'll retreat to North Pacific.

Sorry to hear that; hope you're feeling better!

I should mention that (unless I'm misremembering the rules) the attacker's units retreat before the defender's units after a battle, and I'm retreating to the North Atlantic and North Pacific. I also have units in the South Pacific at the moment, so it looks like the only valid retreat locations for the Sleeper units in South America are North America and South Atlantic.

I apologize for any delays, but I've been almost entirely without internet for the past couple days, and the problem has just gotten fixed. I have a few higher-priority things I need to take care of at the moment, but I'll post my remaining action a little later tonight.