Yeah, you'll discard items from your bag before progressing. Decided not to replay it and not lose the characters huh?

We decided to continue on and lose all 4 characters, yes!

Was it a good death?

The first one🥰

Question: when creating new characters, I will have to “quick levelling” them. Do I follow the rule equipping them only from gear cards from the common decks, or I can choose also items from my backpack? Or I swap gear with the backpack after having them choose their equip?

Get the items from the previous chapter to equip your characters. Then you can freely swap stuff out with your backpack.

Free loot🤩

At the cost of 4 lives lol. You can only make that trade one more time.

The book says you can only backpack swap items when you receive them (and I thought you could only backpack items already on you that are replaced by something you just drew), or during the story. If you fail a chapter and swap in a new character and restart encounter, you aren’t during the story. So why in this scenario could incoming new heroes take from the backpack? I would think the swapping in heroes here would have to do the encounter with whatever they take from the previous chapter deck and only when they are during the next story could they take from the backpack.

Characters die in Chapter 6. You start Chapter 7 Quick level new characters to level 7 Fully equip them with Chapter 6 Common Items Start Chapter 7 Story, then can swap with backpack

I presumed the situation that @Kuraudio was talking about followed a similar pattern to what @huperniKao described. If Kuraudio was just replaying the chapter then you wouldn't swap out the backpack, but from the sounds of it their group just moved on and took the 4 character loss.

Well connected free company trait, it reads no longer costs additional iron. Does this mean 0 iron for all "send a runner" actions? Or am I missing initial cost and additional cost somewhere?

Yup! 0 cost to send a runner.

Noice

It’s super nice. Long time savings - same as the cost an item! Was first i got.

For resources it's HP > iron > everything else

Hi, got a couple of questions after first encounter: 1. Warden's ability "Reclaim Ground" (or something similar) - you roll dice for each adjacent enemy, any 2 will deal 1 damage. Do you roll an extra dice if you roll a critical? (we concluded that you do. Because there is no rule saying otherwise) 2. Weapons such as Cur's bone knife - if you crit, you may battleflow one card. Can it be used to battleflow the card that was used for that same attack, or is that card still "resolving" and thus not on your board yet?

3. Let's say you attack the left flank, but it's broken. The rear still has a die. So you choose to damage the rear die. Does this count as an attack from the rear, even though you've attack the flank? I assume not, because the opposite is correct (if you attack broken rear, you get the bonus even if damaging flank)

Attack location is different from the die you are aiming at. Look at diagram in page 14, shows you which hexes are considered an attack from the front, rear or flanks. So even if you hit the rear die because the flank is broken, you need to be in the rear hexes to be considered an attack from the rear.

@Notter #2 - The card is still resolving, so can't be batteflow'ed.

1. Yes, you can use criticals. 2. Skyflight answered this. 3. Your assumption is correct, you aren't attacking the rear.

Thanks for the answers 🙂

btw, reason for question number 1 - that ability is worded in a way that sounds very deterministic. only rolling 2 matters. We also concluded that rolling 2 blanks is not a miss. maybe that's wrong.

You're correct. You only miss attacks by drawing 2 blanks. That ability isn't an attack. This also means you don't get the benefits of the determination rule if you don't do any damage.

its is something diffrent to attack the rear die or attackong it from rearangel. for some effects you need to be in the right angel so when rear dice is destroyed you still can attack from rear angrl to get bonuses on other dice

Pls let me know if I got this right: enemies blatanty ignores allies during targeting except for reaction. So they dont work as a bait, enemy also ignore allies when they couldnt reach any oathsworn and could Attack the ally, even if this would mean losing the Attack?

Yes, enemies are trying to defeat the Oathsworn, so you loos the encounter.

is there some way to change equipment mid encounter? (i.e from bow to 2h sword) Or am i stuck with the loadout i chose at the beginning?

You're stuck with it unless you restart the fight

They will target Oathsworn unless there aren't any in range. Allies can be viable targets if there aren't Oathsworn around to hit