Just played my first game of Mice and Mystics since I've seen it demoed at Gencon, very awesome game.
One thing I noticed is that it was very easy and, since we were more experienced gamers there feels like a few things we exploited but I wanted to double check we didn't play a rule incorrectly.
One thing we did was kill all but 1 minion in a room, then kited him around while searching. Since there was not zero minions in the room at the end of the round, we did not add a cheese to the wheel of doom. Since it never got close enough to us it never attacked and also never added a cheese.
Also, when we had a tough room, due to an unfortunate surge, we just left the room. It doesn't appear to be anything against the rules to just leave the room with undefeated minions which makes me wonder - couldn't it be a strategy just to run past everything until the last room?
When do you add the "difficult" encounters? We may have to do that every game since the ones we played with are super easy.
If you can equip items for free, it doesn't seem to matter which weapon/defensive item you have on you at any given time (so long as it was changed completely before the end of your turn) which lead to some interesting thoughts on stacking offensive items during combat and defensive items afterwards (again, for free).
Cheese seemed very difficult to get in large quantities. You only get it when you attack or defend and get a cheese symbol?
Some people were discussing how difficult/impossible this game is and I simply don't see it unless we played something drastically wrong. Either way, I'm sure there are other things we missed and I've checked some of the other rules posts but if anyone has some pointers on something we missed I would appreciate it.
One thing I noticed is that it was very easy and, since we were more experienced gamers there feels like a few things we exploited but I wanted to double check we didn't play a rule incorrectly.
One thing we did was kill all but 1 minion in a room, then kited him around while searching. Since there was not zero minions in the room at the end of the round, we did not add a cheese to the wheel of doom. Since it never got close enough to us it never attacked and also never added a cheese.
Also, when we had a tough room, due to an unfortunate surge, we just left the room. It doesn't appear to be anything against the rules to just leave the room with undefeated minions which makes me wonder - couldn't it be a strategy just to run past everything until the last room?
When do you add the "difficult" encounters? We may have to do that every game since the ones we played with are super easy.
If you can equip items for free, it doesn't seem to matter which weapon/defensive item you have on you at any given time (so long as it was changed completely before the end of your turn) which lead to some interesting thoughts on stacking offensive items during combat and defensive items afterwards (again, for free).
Cheese seemed very difficult to get in large quantities. You only get it when you attack or defend and get a cheese symbol?
Some people were discussing how difficult/impossible this game is and I simply don't see it unless we played something drastically wrong. Either way, I'm sure there are other things we missed and I've checked some of the other rules posts but if anyone has some pointers on something we missed I would appreciate it.