Ah that explains it! Yeah killing the tentacles make them respawn at one of the board edges in the DeAgostini version, which is quite the delay.
That's interesting, in the DeAgostini scenario the tentacles have strength 2 (defence 5, so only needing 5s to kill for Legolas) and can choose to try to kill Fellowship members as normal, or ensnare them to abduct them to either board edge (which will take multiple turns with moving and all), after which the abducted Fellowship member is automatically slain.
There's no mention of Strength 8 hits in the version I played, I can imagine that would be devastating on those poor hobbits!
Anyway I can now completely understand why this scenario would be very hard on the Fellowship.
Looking forward to your future plays of scenarios in the journey book(s).
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