by Pete_R
I almost always play 5 investigators in solitaire mode. I have played against Azathoth twice so far. Both games were Season 3 Episode 1 Top of the Mourning.For my first play against Azathoth, he practically flew over the Summoning Track! At 27 turns into the game play, Stella finally Disrupted the Ritual but then drew a Mythos card with the third Summoning Symbol, moving the token onto the final (deadly) Summoning Track space. A truly dismal Loss!
During my second play, my team did much better. On turn 16, Agatha managed to flip the final 2 jurors to innocent with Azathoth on the last green space of the Summoning Track! But then on turns 18 and 20, Sandra and then Huikong were killed, just after drawing a third Summoning Symbol moving the tracking token onto the first red space. With the entire red portion of the track ahead of them, the remaining 3 team members had more than the usual number of turns available! On turns 24 to 29, Agatha gave Stage III 2 wounds, Stella gave 7 more to eliminate Stage III. Ruth gave the Final Stage 4 wounds, and finally Agatha in two shots gives 2 plus 6 more to finish Azathoth whilst still only on the 2nd red Summoning Track space! A spectacular (but lucky) Win!