<p>We played one game with this expansion on <em>normal</em>, feeling pretty confident that we can beat <em>normal</em> most times and the Wu-Feng player absolutely destroyed us. It feels like even on the easiest setting we would not stand a chance.</p>

<p>My question is, what is the balance between the two sides? How often should the Taoists be expected to win? Let's assume Wu-Feng has as much experience as the other players. </p>

<p>Also is there anything in setup that can even the odds and create a more balanced game?</p>

<p>Here is the basic breakdown of what we did. We had 3 Taoists. We did not have a red player and that may have been our mistake. Wu-Feng was able to focus dropping only ghost that had impact, and took away our resources. Any ghosts that would give us a break were instead dropped as curses or demons. The game was busted wide open when Wu-Feng got to haunt the key tiles directly with no chance of us to do anything about it. Once from rolling a curse die, once from doing it directly. We quickly got caught up defending our tiles, and instead got overrun, quickly seeing 3 flipped.</p>

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2020-03-03T08:05:15.960Z
It looks like you are not the only one: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/369624/negative-review-co-op-fan
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@ToonKrijthe to be clear, this looks like feedback on the main game, which I do not think is too difficult for a good coop. It's with the Black Secret expansion, and a human working against the other players who would get better, as we get better, where I had trouble understanding if we could ever win..
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In Ghost Stories Black Secret what is the balance between the Taoists and Wu-Feng?
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# In Ghost Stories Black Secret what is the balance between the Taoists and Wu-Feng?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-03-02)

We played one game with this expansion on *normal*, feeling pretty confident that we can beat *normal* most times and the Wu-Feng player absolutely destroyed us. It feels like even on the easiest setting we would not stand a chance.

My question is, what is the balance between the two sides? How often should the Taoists be expected to win? Let's assume Wu-Feng has as much experience as the other players.

Also is there anything in setup that can even the odds and create a more balanced game?

Here is the basic breakdown of what we did. We had 3 Taoists. We did not have a red player and that may have been our mistake. Wu-Feng was able to focus dropping only ghost that had impact, and took away our resources. Any ghosts that would give us a break were instead dropped as curses or demons. The game was busted wide open when Wu-Feng got to haunt the key tiles directly with no chance of us to do anything about it. Once from rolling a curse die, once from doing it directly. We quickly got caught up defending our tiles, and instead got overrun, quickly seeing 3 flipped.

**Tags:** ghost-stories

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It looks like you are not the only one: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/369624/negative-review-co-op-fan  
> **username_0**: @username_1 to be clear, this looks like feedback on the main game, which I do not think is too difficult for a good coop. It's with the Black Secret expansion, and a human working against the other players who would get better, as we get better, where I had trouble understanding if we could ever win..  

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