by Mythical
We played our first games last night. We played the Fat Goblin and the Castle Daerion. I was playing as the Overlord and feel it was way too easy.It was pretty one sided the whole time and I never felt in danger of losing an encounter.
I'll use the Castle Daerion (the second encounter of the second full quest). I won this one on the second round. First round, the group cleared the hallway and moved towards the throne room. First round I reinforce with a zombie, then move the ettins in and take some swings at Sir Palamon doing some damage. Second round, they move in and shoot at the zombies and clean up the remaining stragglers from the first room.
My second turn, I use the ettins to attack again, double attack, use a frenzy and the card that adds a surge to the attack (only one swing) and no other cards. I manage to pull off the 25 damage needed to kill Sir Palamon. I think I hit once with a zombie for 2 damage, all the rest came from the ettins.
Now, admittedly the group could have ignored some of the hallway monsters and gone straight for the ettins. But even if they had, I still had zombies and the enemy lieutenant, whose name escapes me at the moment, left to attack Sir Palamon. Even if they had somehow managed to rush past everything and get some hits on the ettins, I'd have them surrounded with the open group in the hallway, the lieutenant, a laboratory spawn, and the zombies from the previous encounter.
I feel like we must be playing something wrong, because I don't see how that encounter could be won, even if they had several militia men.