This is how my path looks like. Only 5 refugees back.

Same here

We lost all of them...

idk if we played it correctly, but we had 14 + 5 rations and had to feed everyone three times

yeah...that story was the first (up to now the only - being at chapter 10 now) story-part that was a little frustrating.. second time i played that story part (run it up to ch5 and then did a restart with hardcore) i just used my knowledge of the first time, to pretty much skip through this...

This is also how my map looked.

So you don’t count every time you move? We did and still finished with getting the extra unique item. Does it say this on the rules card?

You do, but the picture in question laid out the cards differently

Ah I see it now. That makes sense. Thanks!

Skyflight's map is correct. Each move shows you the 5 tiles around (one of those 5 will be the one you just cane from).

Oh. I guess I read into it a little more than necessary.

I wonder more about why you don't have any waypoint on your map?

The Waystone is at 2. 2 isn't actually the start of the map, but we ended up using all of the tiles for the map and had to recycle some. So we took down the stuff from the beginning and moved it to the end.

Chapter 4 encounter is ready! Time to bring the pain!

Ahh that makes much more sense.

Break time. 1 Berserker down. Trying take down the Shaman so that we dont have to deal with Chain Drag (or whatever it is called) and b locked down with the cripple tokens. That will take us to stage 2.

Solo I got ambushed, group game tonight got ambushed, is there even a way to get out and get the extra unique item

My wife and I did not get ambushed and got the extra item. So in guessing you either failed a critical Basic Check, or got lost. Both are super easy to do in that story phase.

yeah failed checks

That story phase was a real gauntlet. Brutal.

All of our Oathsworn went into the fight down on HP. Some down by 2.

Wow, that fight is no joke. Experienced our first knock outs. Scar Tribe Leader got Stage III Fury and ran through the Harbinger and Witch like a wheat thesher.

Buffed our defenses as much as we could, but didn't matter.

yeah...they were my first fight as well, where i thougt "dang...things are getting tough from now on".. their rule "getting stronger with each one down" really kept me struggeling between "lets get hit less often" and "lets get hit a little softer" (let em live one round longer)

Yeah, I figured to the route of target elimination, but that proved to be a difficult strategy.

anyone know if the peasants pop off their bases? i've been trying to wriggle them but i don't want to force them...

The look connected to me. But I haven't really tried to remove them.

Pretty rough encounter on account of starting with half HP (bad rolls and poor choices during the story)... Only one Oathsworn was knocked unconscious, but then Stage 3 triggered and he opened with a chain attack, which immediately killed one. Then the next stage card targeted the one with least HP and the Witch companion fell. My Priest companion was the last one standing. He would've died if not for 3 yellow blanks on the next stage card and then the Scar Tribe chief got swarmed by 3 allies. Pretty intense.

That certainly sounds like a dramatic ending to the fight 😁 glad you were able to pull it back

how many hit dice did the Chief have before he got swarmed?