Stuck on Scoundrel first scenario

[Ryan Dorkoski]

I cannot loot 5 gold.

I do a short rest, and I have to either burn move on top card, or loot 2 on bottom. I feel I need both.

Any advice?

[overmind]

you should be able to grab the gold piles with the loot 2 card

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Originally posted by overmind:

you should be able to grab the gold piles with the loot 2 card

You can only get 3 if you don't move. I need 5. How do I move AND use loot 2?

[overmind]

short rest on your first turn, keep the top move, that way when you short rest on your second turn you can keep the loot 2

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Originally posted by overmind:

short rest on your first turn, keep the top move, that way when you short rest on your second turn you can keep the loot 2

Wait. So you lose after one turn. So you can short rest twice in one turn?

[overmind]

short rests happen at the start of your turn in digital, short rest turn 1, then kill the bandits, then short rest on turn 2, then move and loot

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Originally posted by overmind:

short rests happen at the start of your turn in digital, short rest turn 1, then kill the bandits, then short rest on turn 2, then move and loot

Sorry I don't understand that.

[overmind]

before you select your cards when you start the scenario, short rest your character, make sure to keep quick hands. then, select throwing knives and smoke bomb, pull 1 bandit into the trap, and kill the other two with throwing knives. on turn 2 select short rest again, this time making sure to keep throwing knives. then, play throwing knives and quick hands. use quick hands to move two, then loot 2 with throwing knifes

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Originally posted by overmind:

before you select your cards when you start the scenario, short rest your character, make sure to keep quick hands. then, select throwing knives and smoke bomb, pull 1 bandit into the trap, and kill the other two with throwing knives. on turn 2 select short rest again, this time making sure to keep throwing knives. then, play throwing knives and quick hands. use quick hands to move two, then loot 2 with throwing knifes

This feels more puzzle-like than it should. In the sense that I couldn't know to do that without failing once really. Or get lucky. But thank you.

[FroBodine]

I actually think this tutorial tells you to short rest at the start, doesn't it?

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

I actually think this tutorial tells you to short rest at the start, doesn't it?

Well, thats a good question. I don't remember offhand. I will say that I do tend to get lazy and skim text, so maybe its my fault.

I start to read very critically when I lose a bunch of times, but I thought I had the first part down.

[Brad Grenz]

I got stuck in this as well. It's very frustrating. There is no mention in the tutorial that you will need to short rest the first turn. And since it's easy to figure out the first part without doing so, you get stuck in the second turn with no way to play both the needed cards. This early in a game it's very unclear how/when/why a card will get burned or how to plan for preventing it in future turns.

[bausl]

Also got stuck at this point, very frustrating. Without the hint here I would have dropped the game.

[Ryan Dorkoski]

Yeah in hindsight I'm not sure the lesson was worth the trial.

[charlierose415]

I was stuck on this one as well. It does not suggest a short rest at any time. I'm still confused why I was unable to use the bottom action "Loot 2" - it was greyed out and disabled. I used the top default 'move 2' action from a random card to get my character in position and then I'd like to do the bottom action and I was unable. Until reading this post, I did not short rest in the beginning at all but did short rest after killing the 3 archers. Weird.

Update: I figured out that the default action 'Move 2' I used was a bottom action and so was Loot 2 so that's why it was disabled for me and only the top action was available.

[elasair]

I realized why this is so challenging and confusing. Loot 2 does not mean loot 2 spaces. It means to loot all spaces within a 2 space radius. Once I understood this difference, the scenario became much easier to solve.