u/Ambitious_Ratio2588

Hi everyone! New player here. Thanks for the love on my last post. It feels really good to be a part of this community as a solo player. 🙏 I am back for some guidance.

I just attempted scenario 3 of Perilous Dark, “The Dog Days”. I got absolutely massacred. To the point where I am just not seeing how it is achievable.

Although I beat the first two scenarios by the skin of my teeth, this is the first I have come across that I feel is just really not possible for my warband. The fact that the chronohounds always have line of sight and can move up to 12” using both their actions is just crazy. Then they respawn whenever they are killed. I thought maybe each crystal I killed would prevent the hounds assigned to it from respawning but according to the RAW it doesn’t work that way - they just keep coming till the last crystal pops.

I thought this encounter was going to be fine until slowly my warband members got picked off, then the hounds kept respawning and by the time I was down to two crystals left it was just my Wizard, a knight, and I think a thug and a Marksman and my prospects looked grim because everyone was separated and kept getting combat locked. On top of that, 16 armor on the crystals led to a few frustrating less-than-effective whacks. At least the crystals didn’t KO me (the hounds saw to that…) 🤣

This experience has left me feeling really frustrated and discouraged. The first two were intensely difficult but could be sort of manipulated due to LOS abuse. This one, we are just getting head hunted by x-ray vision time-bounding grey hound racing dogs with no respite!

I am starting to think this encounter isn’t meant for a low level wizard (I went into the third encounter at level 6).

For next time I am considering completely rerolling a new wizard and starting at the same level (6), or maybe getting rid of one dog and potentially making the crystals at least not do combat damage if I roll poorly. (That was an absolutely brutal design choice Mr. McCullough! 🤣).

Does anyone else have experience with some encounters seeming too difficult in Perilous Dark? What did you do to adapt and overcome?

Much love.

Hi everyone! Finished my first game ever today. Started with the Perilous Dark first scenario solo. (Honestly it took 3 attempts before I could coherently run the game). Barely made it through this one! Got a thug and my two casters through mostly thanks to the leap spell, although my character is an elementalist. In retrospect, I think I should have taken the wall spell. And probably the AOE lightning spell. I didn’t realize how much enemies could bunch up during later turns when they’re making a break for the door.

On the right you can see the Ruined Monastery set I bought (also my first terrain purchase lol). Thought it would be enough but had to improvise. Already ordered more terrain - so stay tuned! ;)

I pulled the trigger in this game because I started painting minis for my DND sessions a couple months ago and that sparked a spiral of looking into Warhammer, etc. but seems so prohibitively expensive to get into. I settled on Frostgrave mostly because of the sweet atmosphere. After reading about it I was hooked.

Any advice for a new player starting solo? This is actually my first skirmish game. (Is that what this game is classified as?). Looking forward to scenario 2! (I have a bunch of Gnoll Skinny Minis >:)

Nice to meet everyone here.