Insula Primalis is clearly among the easiest one.
Obsidian +1 Damage help the heroes A LOT.
The T Rex and other can be used and abused as extra damage on the villains and villains target.
No real bad cards or unmanageable one.
Megapolis have some cards that can just SCREW the heroes if drawn at a bad time (No cards draw when you need to discard).
Rook City is among the hardest and the tomb of Anubis can sometimes get out of hand.
Ah right remember we cycled through environment deck 1.5 times and had Anubis showed up 3-4 times while playing against Baron Blade with 3 players. In that scenario the Environment was just so much more dangerous than the boss itself.
Oddly enough, Megalopolis is our hang out for when we're playing a new villain or tackling a 4 and we don't want the environment to get in the way. I can't tell you how many games we've drawn Close quarters combat for the last round. But that's luck.
Last night we played Voss on Insula Primalis and my boyfriend spent the entire game swearing he wouldn't play IP again (it was brutal, the T-Rex thought WE looked like tasty lunch, though wraith did decrease enviromental damage). Argent went down early-despite our best efforts at minion-management he just. kept. getting. hit. But once we flipped Voss he never flipped again (wraith being the real hero on that issue). Then we had Mr. Fixer with the highest HP at 7 and here comes the darn T-Rex. Voss is higher than the T-rex, but it doesn't eat itself, so hey old mechanic flesh! Mr. Fixer has his pipe wrench out, so between that and Wraith, he only takes 3, leaving him and Ra at 4 and Wraith at 2. It came down to math, but we managed to get Voss under 15, so that got the T-Rex's attention. We lost Wraith in the final villain turn, but Mr Fixer took Voss out the very next turn with his pipe wrench (and alternating tiger claw and harmony) It was glorious.
So now my boyfriend doesn't think the t-rex is ALL that bad. I think it depends on whether you can handle environment targets, and I think they just stress him out.
Why would Voss being under 15 make him a target for the T-Rex? The dino ignores itself, doesn't it? So Voss would still have been the highest and from the looks of it that would mean Ra would have been the target.
We read through the card a couple of times and decided that if T-Rex is the second highest he won't deal damage to himself but that the language didn't preclude T-rex from being counted as something with hp. This might be wrong, but this is what happens when you play with a 3rd year law student who spends all her time doing statutory interpretation work.
I seem to recall that the T-Rex's card says that it deals "the target, other than itself, with the second-highest hp", meaning it ignores itself - if it has the second-highest hp out of everything, you ignore it and hit whatever has the next-highest hp instead (ie third-highest overall).
That is what it says (minus the comma), but like I said, I'm a law student. I can argue anything. And that's how we interpreted it. The issue was if it has the HIGHEST hp, do you hit the second highest or the third highest?
I read the "other than itself" part to be tied to what it hit, not in determining second highest.
It doesn't matter what hp the T-Rex has, you just ignore it entirely as it can never attack itself. I read the wording as "Apart from the T-Rex, which target has the second-highest hp?", meaning ignore the T-Rex.
That is also a potential interpretation.
Basically, this game is to law students like methadone is to heroin addicts. For someone who's been trained specifically in interpreting text exactly the way you want it to be read, these cards are dangerous. (no surprise that my fellow law students love it?)
I remember asking.Christopher about this a long time ago, and I’ve forgotten what he said.
(Congratulations, I have managed to contribute absolutely nothing to the conversation.)