Around a month ago we finally made the choice to start playing Kingdom Death: Monster after the arrival of the 1.5 version of the game (even though we backed the first Kickstarter campaign). What can I say, we've never gamed this much before, it's horrendously difficult and unforgiving and oh so addictive. The world Adam Poots has created is a true nightmare which you play through in an almost story like fashion, reading the rule book only when events or triggered in game.
Though we have watched a few play through's in order to get a grasp of the rules (the ones from Beasts Of War and Hit Points Gaming are well worth a watch, links below) you can never really prepare for the game.
Our first campaign didn't start well with two survivors only making past the prologue White Lion only then to be followed by rolling for the lowest population at the settlement phase and then having a full party wipe on the ensuing level 1 White Lion fight. That was the end of that settlement. However we started right back up again and with grim determination we've now made it to the Watcher (who we should be fighting over Easter) and though we haven't actually lost a monster or nemesis fight that's not to say we haven't had our share of death and misfortune, in fact I'd say more than our fair share! Come what may with the Watcher, as we don't have a Twilight Sword, we're already looking forward to our next settlement and how we can develop it differently using different principle and going after different armour sets.
Meanwhile as we've been playing the game I've been building the required monster and survivors which has kept me rather busy. The game isn't wysiwyg and instead survivors are built when you've made a specific build you enjoy or after a daring feat or a certain monster is taken down by said survivor etc. Here's everything I put together so far but this barely scratches the surface of the kits you receive in the game:
White Lion
Screaming Antelope
Phoenix (with a survivor for scale)
The Watcher
Gold Smoke Knight
The Nemesis'; The Butcher; The Hand; The Kingsman
The Starting Survivors
Intimacy Couple; Troy and Wade
Old Survivor
Riddick (who became Vinny), Figwinn and Gabrielle (who became Rene)
Cecil, Willow, Brent (who became Burt) and Michael (who became Gabriel)
Juan Garcia who received the Kings Curse
The game isn't easy, it's not cheap, it can be very stressful at times but would I recommend it? Absolutely!
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