Looks like the kids found the ketchup bottle. ;}

Like the scarred look

I agree with the different actions. Might be hard though because you don't know who might be dead by the time you pull their card. It seemed a bit Berserker heavy, tbh. Like you know you have to kill them first. Overall though, it was fun.

Thanks, good to know. I used the map tiles and I thought I was doing it correctly. I even wrote down my moves but eventually, as I said, just gave up and let it ride out. I'll try to do better next time.

Well, finally wrapped up this one. I enjoyed it but it did seem a bit easy to make sure we were positioned for minimal damage. I think they only actually did damage on my Cur, that's it. Admittedly, he dropped to 1 HP left but overall, it seemed too easy. I think I'll try upping the difficulty for Chapter 5. The Deepwood/rations thing did far more damage to us than the Encounter did. Then again....maybe it's designed that way because they expect you to have lost some health in the Deepwood?

So you ended with 6/6/6/1?

No, the Deepwood and rations hurt me in the story. We started with 4/4/4/3. It was more like 4/4/3/1 at the end . Everyone got hit at least once but they were all able to shrug it off, mostly. The cur got mobbed once and had a bad roll against him, hence the 1 HP left.

What order did folks kill the tribe in? We went leader > bone maiden > shaman > berserkers A&B

I went for the Shaman first - I think there was a hint she was more dangerous that she seemed? Plus I guessed she had potential to heal. Then chief as better to get him wit higher hp before escalation.

I remember we started with the shaman and ended with the leader but I can't remember the intermediate order Similar to JuanV, think there was a hint to fear the shaman so went for them first and then went through the others a bit more flexibly

Shaman > Zerker > Zerker > Boss. The usual WoW boss killing strategy. 😄 Take out the (potential) healer, etc

Shaman, Berserkers, Bone Maiden, Leader.

I went Beserkers first, because of the Stage 1 cards. Then after that it was shaman -> maiden -> leader. Shaman never got to pull off a heal because he was always so far from everyone. I used their targeting to my advantage and ensure they were usually too far from each other to mob or assist.

regarding targeting: does the target of an enemy change throughout the stage card? So there is this card that tells beserkers to do something, then all scar tribe to do something. Does the beserkers keep the same target throughout the whole stage card or does it acquire new target half way?

It depends on what the card says to go. Generally, they will attack the same character since they will commonly be the closest for an attack. However, there could be situations where that isn't necessarily the case (e.g. mobing)

when does an enemy acquire target? is it whenever the "step" says "target" ?

In this chapter, some of the enemies will be told to target specific Oathsworn and do some action. Then they might be instructed to attack. In that 2nd step of attack, they will evaluate it like a normal attack (unless specified otherwise) - meaning closest Oathsworn and breaking ties via NW rule

i see.

That's sort of strange. I assumed that the target line which is usually the first line of an Encounter card determines the target for all actions that the designated figure performs this round. Your answer indicates that this is not true. So is there a general rule when the original target command is fulfilled and default target rules kick in?

Normally that is true, but in the case of multiple enemies this isn't always the case. You'll do what the card says to do.

My question refers to the actions of a single figure and I think that the original question did, too.

This question also touches on the question what happens if the original target of a figure is already dead when the attack is performed.

Instead of speaking in generic terms, let's use an actual card as reference

Take Mutilate as an example. Here the Berserkers would move to a specific target. Then the rest of the Scar Tribe moves to their targets. Then mob attack is performed. The Mob attack could alter the Berserkers targeting. This is what I meant by you'll do whatever the card instructs.

Because of the way the Stage Cards play out in Chapter 4, you just have to take it line by line. However, the original assumption about target = attack is a good one to have, unless something in the Stage Card would alter that

Yes, it's good to keep in mind that mob can make targeting fluid. That's why I made sure to keep mob targeting down to a minimum with tactical positioning.

I have to admit that I am really baffled. It is my understanding that the list in the ERB p.19 is in fact a priority list. That means that as soon as a target is chosen in one step, the rest of the steps can be disregarded. The mob rule is a tie breaker in step 4 only. It not supersede any prior targeting. In your Mutilate example the berserkers would attack the target chosen in step 1) on the Encounter card regardless of mob rules.

You're correct. The mob is a tie breaker, but my point is that it could alter his target

Why should the mob rule be able to change a target and not the other rules in the list?

It's very similar to how minions move to a target but the mob targeting could cause them to strike someone else