Hahaha great start dachshundstudios! That's a real tough choice! :D

Thanks for pointing tat out, it never happen such a start in all my test, I guess you got the one on million chance! :D

In such case, the only strategy you can try at the moment, due to the limited CPU skill, is to advance with the Bear that has armour 1 and try to kill the enemy's Skeleton Avatar. Leave the eventual cards you have in the defence line and give preference to deploy Troll or Ogre as defenders in order to absorb as much hits to protect your Avatar, otherwise deploy units that have high Defence value and have more chance to evade enemies' attacks. I did won some "impossible" battles in that way, but dice roll are still a part that might fail the plan. However fighting all the way try to kill every single enemy opponent will require way more luck with dice.

By the way, if you enjoy the game, you can vote the next feature you would like to see developed first in my first funding Goal: https://www.patreon.com/posts/goal-1-choose-to-121904287

The current development for core mechanics includes the features mentioned in this post: https://biim-games.itch.io/grim-grimoire/devlog/881615/core-game-development-roa...

If you feel like to support the game development, you can access to the Supporters Files that give more detailed information about the game mechanics, so you can plan better your next move both on the Battlefield and while in the Map screen: https://itch.io/t/4553727/become-a-supporter-and-get-access-to-the-supporters-fi...

Thank you for taking the time for playing the game and following it, I really appreciate it!

Thank you very much for your kind words and support! I should release a new version by the end of the week, so keep an eye on the game page for little improvements.

I thought it was possible to vote on Patreon without being a member, I need to find a workaround. Unfortunately itch.io doesn't support polls yet, despite people have asked it many times. I prefer to don't use too much external websites for polls and such, I just tried with Patreon since I have already an account for it. I was thinking to collect manually votes on itch.io reading comments, but it will work only on small scale. Alternatively I can open a post with the poll, then add replies and let players upvote/ignore/downvote replies/choices, but it might become messy, especially if someone start to add their replies to the vote section.

What do you think?

Thank yo again for be the first supporter of the game, let me know on this post, what do you think about the Supporters Files, so I know how to improve them. I will add more content to those as the game keep evolving:
https://itch.io/t/4553727/become-a-supporter-and-get-access-to-the-supporters-fi...

EDIT:
I just tried to vote on the Patreon poll your choice with a private page, only now I found out that it asks the registration. I didn't want to try to click to influence the vote. Sorry about it, I need to create a workaround for the problem.

I have created the poll on itch.io directly, as I was mentioning before, you can go ahead there to vote, now you can vote more than one thing if you like. Upvote the priority ones, Downvote the ones that yo think are not good for the game (if any) and leave the rest untouched, that means "nice to have, but not a priority".

It's not great, but it should work.

Maybe, my issue with Discord is that it becomes hard to follow and find topics. Also, because of that, I would need moderators and such that read all the chat, because people tends to write much more and go off topic. Therefore it will take lot of time away from developing to go through all the writing. It might be not an issue at this stage, but it could be in the future.

I could use maybe partially Discord for some features and leave the rest here.
The poll issue however remains, people needs not only to register on Discord, but also to be a member of that channel just to be able to vote.

Thank you for your feedback dachshundstudios!

I wasn't sure if it was more convenient a single "instruction manual" or separate files, both have their benefits, like having all in one place in case of a single file, or have the chance to get quickly the information you want using separated files. In addition, in the second case, opening 2 or more files can let the player check all in one screen what stats has a creature that can be found in the location X.

I might end up in trying to have both single files and an instruction manual with all in one single PDF. I can imagine that have all in one file i probably better for mobile users.

By the way, I just uploaded version 0.15.0, if starting the game you still see an old version, try to force to refresh the game page.

You can check what's changed in the Game Versions post.
For more details and an updated bug list, check the Version 0.15.0 post.

Thank you!