by Juhiza
Hello! I've just taken on the mantle of Overlord after having been a player for our previous two campaigns. And I am HATING it!
First Blood I lost, but then again, I am yet to see and Overlord win that one. Then the players chose Fat Goblin. On the first Act, I managed to get one crop out. We are playing with four PCs, a healer, a thief, a knight and a necromancer. On Act One I had two Meriods as my open group, who worked quite well in holding back the heroes for the first round, and then that was it. They placed themselves in such a configuration that I could not get to them and attack, one of their heroes has stoopid amounts of movement when she activates her special, so she just dashed in, grabbed a crop and was ready to drop it in round one. The goblins barely reached the first crop on round one and as I said only one made it out, the others were filled with arrows and thwacked with various weapons.
So when I hear other people saying how they get all the crops and then just leave the last goblin carrier hanging around with the last bundle as the players are picked out, I just do not know how they do it.
Then on Act 2 I chose Ferrox for my free group. I managed to find my target in the prison by about turn three, but by then the heroes had already dispatched the spiders without much trouble, and were creaming the Ferrox tribe. So I had a dash card that got the Fat geezer all the way to the room where the Ferrox had been, and I have a tripwire trap (or maybe it was a pit trap) ready to stop the players from blocking my way out, I pick a second Dash card as I manage to drop one player, and then it all unravels as they place the reanimated corpse in such a position that means the players can all walk through the other figures to put themselves in position, so I cannot play my card because they are not entering an empty space until they are in position to block me, by which point there is no point in playing the card anymore, the Fat Goblin gets blocked in and creamed.
So in a couple of Sundays we will be reconvening, and I do not know if I am just using the wrong strategy here. I mean, it is pretty straightforward. Choose a group of monsters that can stop or slow them down, focus on a couple of them to make sure they go down repeatedly for extra cards and the annoyance of having to spend actions either standing by themselves or being picked up by their mates. Slow them down and take them out, I cannot think of any other kind of strategy to go with. And yet they still walk all over me and it is pretty demoralising, specially when I read on the boards how other people seem to be doing so well...
So any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers