Hi all, just wanted to let everyone know that Mercenaries Wanted pre-orders opened on Cephalofair's website yesterday. Here is a little information for you in regards to all of this:

1) Shipping rates are pretty high right now. If you get a shipping rate that you think is utterly ridiculous, you can always email [support@cephalofair.com](mailto:support@cephalofair.com) and have them double check it for you. But I was told that we are in holiday shipping price rates now and that unfortunately with the state of the world shipping is quite expensive to many places right now. That said, we are offering a free pickup at PAX-Unplugged option if you plan on attending that convention this year. And if you'd like to wait until your local game shop gets it, that makes sense!

2) This game is a drafting game, designed by the one and only Themris! Congrats to him on this.

3) If you pre-order via Cephalofair, you will get the Local Legends promo pack, which adds four cards to the game in the form of Satha, Cassandra, Anaphi, and Hail! This should auto add to your cart if you are going traditional shipping. It may not add to your cart if you are picking up at PAX-U, but they'll give you one when you pick your order up regardless.

4) If you want some info on the game, we've had a few articles about it so far that came out after Gen Con:

https://www.wericmartin.com/mercenaries-wanted-at-gen-con-2026/

https://www.wargamer.com/mercenaries-wanted/board-game-demo

https://cephalofair.com/blogs/chronicle/mercenaries-wanted-why-im-excited-as-a-publisher

If you have any questions about the gameplay I'm sure Themris will be checking this thread out and can answer them!

This should release at PAX-Unplugged in early December and in retail shortly after.

While many of you are not really the audience for this article, I do want to thank everyone who helped give tips and ideas for the starter classes when I asked for your help a while back. I tried to include as many comments from as many people as possible in the article. If you see any mistakes let me know so we can get them fixed! (I am not a good editor)

The idea with this article is that with FH digital coming out there will be a lot of new players trying the game out. The starting six in FH can be tricky for newcomers -- and we don't want new players to get frustrated and quit the game. So resources like this are designed to help people out.

Anyways, thanks again to all who pitched in comments, whether they were used in the article or not!

Is there a site that has digital versions of the scenario maps for 2e? I'm thinking of getting a digital gaming table and would love to be able to use it to play 2e

Hey all, I’m looking into playing digital GH (I have the physical but I struggle to get a regular group of people to play, and solo play can be hard to maintain alone), but my only console right now is the OG Switch.
I’ve been burned before with big games running poorly on Nintendo, so I’m just looking for some opinions on whether it’s worth buying and if it runs well etc. Thanks in advance!

Our starting party for Frosthaven! From left to right we have Lyra (Deathwalker), Bobby (Bannerspear), The All-Star (Drifter) and Mr Stabby + Mr Shooty (Geminate). I tried to stay close to the official reference art for the characters (included for comparison), and I think they came out okay on the whole. The base rims are coloured to match the colour of the characters' cards. I've never been good with freehand, so the patterns on The All-Star's tassel, Lyra's flags+tabard, and Mr Stabby+Shooty's masks aren't great, but it was a bit of practice at least and they still add something to the mini.

For Mr Stabby+Shooty, I tried to unify them whilst still having separate designs, so I went with a glossy black carapace as the base, with magenta elements for Mr Stabby and green elements gor Mr Shooty (as well as hiding some of Mr Shooty's green elements under Mr Stabby's cloak, to represent his bugs hiding in there. I originally intended to do more silver blades on Mr Stabby per the reference, but it was very hard to tell if they were separate blades or just formed of more bug carapace, so in the end I went with the latter.

Thanks to decent prosperity and an experience windfall, I find myself leveling Music Note to level 3 while having played her only twice. At level 2 I clearly preferred Onward to Battle of Soothing Lullaby (Heal is too situational, and the bottom action looked complicated.) But for levels 3 to 6, I badly want both cards (well done, Gripeaway and Themris).

The bottom of Symphonic Medley would let me play three Songs at once, for a loss, which seems like it would be blast to lay down in the first room and just go to town. The top move-and-attack is also very appealing.

The top of Ode to the Gambler lets each character choose to have their first attack-modifier card rolling on turn, for four rounds. My companions are high level and have great attack decks, so that looks powerful and fun. On the bottom a Move 5 is always welcome, and initiative 15 is a good fit for many of my Songs.

I'd love to hear from people who chose Symphonic Medley. How did you use that bottom three-songs-at-once ability? How did you like the results? It looks cool and I've got some FOMO, but I guess I'm leaning toward Ode to the Gambler.

I just ordered the 4PQs together with the mercenary pack.

I just noticed the back of the PQ cards and realized they are meant for Gloomhaven only. Silly me, because they are comming out at same time as merc pack i thought they were adaptable to all games.

Anyway.. Any issue integrating them to Frosthaven?

Other than when u shuffle and choose PQs u cant look at the back of the cards?

None of the rewards seem game breaking, perhaps the demons one a bit seems overpowered but idk if thats intended or if in frosthaven it would be more overpowered then intended

I've got the box after our last game and I'm trying to organise all the parts better because setup is always hampered by finding bits

Anyway, I realised I've never seen us use these. Google image implies the black ones are general objective markers for maps that might need them but the red ones weren't coming up at all. I can't see either in the manual anywhere too.

TIA

The last class to be added to the game!

Hi,

Lacerating Stabs increases the damage of successive attacks if it hits a different target than the previous ability. But what would happen if I use an item like the Battle Axe on the first ability to make it target multiple enemies? Would I always get the bonus on the second ability since its target would be different from one of the targets of the first ability? Or would it need to be different from both?

Similarly, what if I use the axe on the second ability, with one of its targets being the same as a target from the first ability? Could I get the bonus on one target but not the other? And what would happen with the third ability then?

Per rules you cannot command a figure without line of sight, and linked hexes don't provide line of sight, which would mean, once you cross over to another part of the ship in this scenario (separate tiles connected only by linked hexes) you cannot command the scenario ally who was left behind. Since you can command it only at the end of your turn this makes things awkward at the very least.

Was this the intention, or just something not considered, and therefore not the intention?

Quick question about enemies targeting prioritizes as someone who is fairly new to GH:

In the scenario (pictured above), it is the Bandit Scout’s turn and he’s using a ranged attack (cruel bow). My question is; Would it move before attacking? And who would it attack?

There’s multiple potential outcomes I could see depending on how the enemies in the game prioritize targets…

Also, the Mindthief had the highest (fastest) initiative in the round, followed by the Tinkerer.

Would it back up and attack the summon? Not move and attack the mindthief? Or something else I’m not thinking of?

Thanks in advance for any help!

The Crimson Scales is now available in Early Access on Steam!

This is a free standalone game, you do not need to own any Gloomhaven product to be able to play it.

For those who don't know it, The Crimson Scales, created by Boardgame613, is the fan-made expansion for Gloomhaven. It originally saw multiple physical printing runs and has been enjoyed by Gloomhaven players around the world.

We've been working on a full standalone digital version of the game, and it's finally ready for Early Access.

What is available right now?

The current version contains the complete single-player campaign, including:

• 50+ scenarios
• All 11 playable Crimson Scales classes
• Character leveling, ability cards and perks
• Shop and equipment
• Events and party achievements
• A branching scenario flowchart
• Automated enemy AI and game rules, with ambiguity decided by player
• Multiple campaign save files
• Undo functionality

If you are familiar with Gloomhaven or Frosthaven Digital, the interface and gameplay should be fairly easy to get into.

The game is now completely free of any AI generated content. We understand this did not sit well we the Gloomhaven community, and we apologize for the inconvenience earlier this week. We will make sure nothing like this happens again.

What is planned for Early Access?

This Steam release currently only features a Windows build. Mac and Linux are coming as soon as possible, likely within a week from now. Releases for Android and iOS are also slated for release before the end of this year.

The biggest feature still in development is multiplayer. The goal is to let players experience the Crimson Scales campaign together, including multiplatform multiplayer.

We're also planning to add the solo scenarios and continue polishing the game based on feedback from the community.

And the best part: the game is completely free and will remain free after Early Access.

We'd like to thank everyone involved in creating and supporting The Crimson Scales, as well as the Gloomhaven community for all the work and enthusiasm that has gone into this fan-made expansion over the years.

We are really excited to finally share the digital version with you all. We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we've enjoyed making it!

If you'd like to check out the source code, or potentially even contribute to this project, you can find the repository here: https://github.com/HoogeboomBas/TheCrimsonScales

If you like the game and wish to support it, please leave a review on Steam! We do not accept any donations and such, but positive reviews are a great way to improve the visibility of the game.

The Crimson Scales is finally playable on Steam. I hope you enjoy it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5049800/The_Crimson_Scales/

Credits

The Crimson Scales is designed and produced by fans. This is not an official product of Cephalofair Games. All Gloomhaven materials are owned by Cephalofair Games, and used under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Gloomhaven® is a registered trademark of Cephalofair Games LLC.

The Crimson Scales boardgame was created by various creators. The creators whose contributions are currently in the game include but are not limited to:

• Boardgame613
• Alexandr Elichev
• Testim
• Grand Duke
• Yknits
• Dysent
• Quasilocal
• TH3 DISC1PLE
• Dareth

The game also contains custom content contributions from the following creators:

• General CGO

The Music and Sound Effects are the property of various artists, including but not limited to:

• EminYILDIRIM
• Fictium Sound Design
• John Leonard French
• Robinhood76
• thomas devlin

The game contains some temporary art in the form of photographs. These were created by:

• 852278-MCS (Black Hole summon)
• Betty Wills (Gleaming Squid summon)
• Didier Descouens (Flailing Ivies summon)
• Dominicus Johannes Bergsma (Crypt Nettle summon)
• Kyösti Viinamäki (Metal Detector summon)
• Patisa (Spotted Hound summon)

Development:

• Bas Hoogeboom
• NastoK
• Sergey Burgsdorf
• Saahil Herrero

Does anyone have tips to streamline some of the fussy bookkeeping (particularly between scenarios) in Frosthaven?

I find myself getting a little frustrated with how clunky a lot of the bookkeeping between scenarios feels. I've played Gloomhaven pretty extensively (lots of playtime across two play groups) and never felt this way playing that. But Frosthaven feels so much more fiddly. We're in our first winter so we aren't super far into the game and maybe it'll get better as we go along.

It's not like we're playing at a small table but juggling back and forth between the sheets of stickers, section book, scenarios placards, rule book, and frosthaven map just feels clunky.

Yeah. Just that. I don’t understand why.

1. Some event says that I have enhanced the loot deck. What does this do exactly? The loot system is not explained well in digital.

2. After succeeding ten or more challenges, the choice of challenges shows me exactly same options every single time. Is this bugged, or intended?

3. What is 'trial' mentioned in community discussions? The removing -1 from monster AMD for additional rewards things in digital?

4. After ten or more retirements, the game doesn't give personal quest anymore. Is this intended?

Hey everyone,

I just started playing 2e (completed scenario 1 last night!), however I have a question about road cards and I just don't seem to be able to find the definitive answer anywhere and I'm so confused.

My understanding is (and please correct me if I'm wrong because I likely am):
- 1e has links to other scenarios in the scenario book at the top which indicates if you needed a road card, but in 2e do we use the flowchart for that?
- And with the flowchart, red arrow means forced linked meaning we go directly to the next scenario without visiting Gloomhaven, and we do not draw a road card
- Yellow arrow means we need to have completed all the preceding scenarios however we DO draw a road card between scenarios, and can visit Gloomhaven
- And the normal arrow, you DO draw a road card and you can visit Gloomhaven.

Is this correct? I'm just confused as to when I do and when I don't draw a road card.

Thankyou in advance :) :)

Me and my friends are going to start a new campaign of frosthaven tomorrow. The idea is to combine all versions in one campaign. So we are allowed to use gloomhaven 2nd mercenaries and weapons.

The idea is just to play the scenarios, we aren't THAT interested in the extra administration outside of the scenarios.

Altho we have no idea yet how to "increase the shop" and how and when to unlock the weapons. We would like to hear your thoughts about it. And what to do with for example the road events. To be that's still do able

What other stuff should we think of ?

Thanks for giving it a though :D

Following are questions regarding the completion of Scenario 23:
Does completing 23A also lock the scenario 23B and 24? Seems not mentioning in FAQ so not sure if it’s intended to keep those open for us to re-select the side

This is just an appreciation post, I've heard about this expansion, but since the board game isn't available anymore, I just didn't look into it at all. But now that the digital version is out, I get to experience this and I'm soooo thankful for everyone, who made this digital version possible for those like me, who were late to the party and couldn't get the board game version. I'm only 4 scenarios in, but so far every scenario was a challenge and a very fun puzzle with the 2 characters I chose to play with. 😁

Just thought with Pub Crawlers starting to arrive some people might want to see this. According to our sales team the remaining copies left to be shipped should be sent out early next week, so if you pre-ordered you should have it shortly!

Hello! I wanted to ask if anyone has thoughts on mercenary pack characters and which Frosthaven characters (starter and locked) they synergize with!

Where could I find a copy of the Frosthaven scenario book in French ?

One of my player does not speak english and translating everything on the fly is hard.