Hi Everyone!
I've been a lurker on this forum for a long time, however, since the Lotr sbg never took off in SA (some 40k with a few fantasy players), I only got to play 2 games total so far about 10+ years ago
I'm hoping to change that by running The Misty Mountains Campaign published in WD312+WD313 for my friends. It only needs small armies so I thought it would be ideal. I just have a few questions.
1) How balanced is the campaign? And is it any fun?
2) All the scenario objectives state that the game ends when all Evil models are slain or have left the board. What happens if the Evil side wipes out the Good side which seems probable giving that the Evil side can get matchups where 150 points + a goblin captain face off against a Good force of only a captain and 50 points? Also, what about loot tokens? Do you only get the tokens that you have managed to remove from the board prior to the wiping out of the forces of Good? Or do I get a loot token for each goblin still alive and on the table since all Good models are dead so I can just loot everything and move off the table since I have infinite time?
3) In the Pillage scenario it says that you can set fire to buildings. The victor is determined by how many buildings are left. However, what does it matter when only the final game determines who has won or lost? Basically, only Loot Tokens matter since they allow the Evil player to increase the size of his army for the final battle. So why would the Evil player bother with trying to burn down the buildings they are looting? And why would the Good player bother to try to put out the fires, when they have better things to do (like stop the Evil models carrying loot off the table)?
4) In the Plunder scenario it states that after Evil has deployed their forces, good then gets to place halve his models as sentries anywhere on the board no closer than 6" to an other good model. What stops him from putting it 1" away from the forces of Evil and then automatically discovering them the first turn since Good always have priority the first turn?
If any of the above are actual problems (and not just me being making Newbie mistakes/assumptions) are there any easy solutions?
Thanks for taking the time reading this! Happy to finally have a chance to be apart of this awesome game!!!