Arkham Horror highlight reels - Hastur and the Hound of Tindalos

You can't underestimate the importance of elder signs in a game of Arkham Horror. We had a recent game with Zim-kor's family, with the Elder one set at Hastur which we almost lost.

The last turn of the game, the doom track was at twelve! And we had to draw one more card, which, if it opened a gate, would end up with us fighting Hastur itself. If not for the three elder signs we'd dropped, we would've lost long ago - and of course those seals helped us to win by stopping new gates from opening on those locations.

There's a character in the game who basically looks like Indiana Jones, right down to the equipment he has - a Bullwhip and Revolver. See the picture here? Because of his special ability, he can cycle through the special items deck really quickly and help find those elder signs. However, he has one major disadvantage - his starting sanity is just three!


So in this case, he was in real trouble, running into a "Hound of Tindalos" - which is a really cute themed monster from the game. Kind of like Er-lang-Shen's Celestial Deity... except, of course, that it looks much much uglier!



The Hound is really special - it doesn't move along the streets, it just teleports directly onto investigators. Which is how Indy ended up fighting it in a science museum. It's a really bad matchup! Fail one horror check and Indy goes nuts, and in addition, the Hound is immune to physical weapons! Scratch one bullwhip and revolver...