GloomTactics | Gloomhaven strategy and tactics

Continuing with our Jaws of the Lion campaign, we move onto the first Scenario outside the teaching games: Scenario 6.  Of course, SPOILERS AHEAD. Stop reading now if you don't want spoilers. Last chance. For this scenario we switch out Crushing Weight for Level. Read on and the reason will make sense.

Welcome to another Gloomtactics special where we continue our Jaws of the Lion campaign run. We're about to embark into Scenario 4 and 5, the last few "teaching" scenarios.  Once again spoilers for Jaws of the Lion Scenario 4 and 5 ahead, so continue at your own peril. 

It's difficult to get your usual group together for some Gloomhaven adventuring during the middle of a pandemic. So the two of us started a Jaws of the Lion campaign at home. Despite being experienced Gloomhaven players we decided we would play through the tutorial portion of the game as a warm up and to get a feel for the game.  TayTay and Vengaboy - the two Jaws and alleged musical sensations. More painted minis on Instagram . We didn't put much thought into party composition, and grabbed the characters we liked best. My partner picked up the Voidwarden and I grabbed the Demolitionist, naming our characters TayTay  and Vengaboy  respectively. Jaws of the Lion spoilers ahead, stop reading now if you don't want Scenario 1-3 spoilers. 

So you got your 3 checkmarks... or  you leveled up. Amazing! But there are so many perks... which one do you choose? 

Time for something a little different! I know this is a Gloomhaven strategy and tactics blog, but due to lockdown and the pandemic it's difficult to get Gloomhaven games going.  So instead we will do a painting guide for the Jaws of the Lion - Red Guard :)  Painted minis improve the Gloomhaven experience by adding color to the grey blobs representing your adventuring mercenary. It's a worthy undertaking to splash that color on and make the experience awesome for the entire group.  The Red Guard in all it's glory @jackogoeswacko4smackos

Each room in Gloomhaven is filled with incredibly dangerous enemies and traps. With a little bit of strategy, Gloomhaven can be a little safer. Split those enemies up and make adventuring in Gloomhaven less dangerous! Divide and Conquer (also sometimes known as Defeat in Detail), is a strategy to split up your enemies and fight them in smaller groups. We can use this in Gloomhaven to great effect to help win more scenarios.  Lets dive into the first room from Scenario 1. In a 4 player Scenario, there's 6 Bandit Guards deployed right in front of your party! That's a tough wall for a bunch of level 1 mercenaries. 

Gloomhaven rules you probably got wrong at some point Right so you've read the rulebook, and you've played some games, but Gloomhaven is a monster of a game and there are probably rules you've gotten wrong or might not know is even possible. I've put in some the ones we've come across before. Chances are you may have run into these too!