by Kasuya
So, I tried the tweaks.I played with core starter tactics deck (Gimli, Thalim and Legolas, as main heroes), and I didn't use the shadow rules (I always forget using it, I don't know why :gulp:).
The chosen deck was used specifically for trying the most weak questing deck the core set provides (so I could really feel if the "excess of locations" bug is solved or not).
I tried the first quest from the core set.
My impressions are:
- Attacking first (at the optional engaging) makes the game a LOT more easy, because you can avoid almost all the critical problems (ally looses, high damage to heroes from powerful undefended attacks, etc). BUT, I feel I can't value it very well, as I didn't use the shadow rule;
- Also the "attacking first" variant made the quick strike card almost useless;
- You still will need some luck while questing because you still can draw too much locations cards, but, if you are playing with a more questing deck you will make it without problem (come on, the only hero with willpower 2 is Gimli, the others have only 1, while ALL the tactics deck have zero, except for the dwarf who have just 1 and the Gandalfs you may put);
- Sentinels blocking together made the sentinel allies from the tactics deck very powerful, as you can do up to 3 (undefended) damage for free while defending, so you will prefer defend from high defense enemies than attacking them directly;
- The "ranged" variant rule I didn't had an unique use for that, as the high threat heroes and the very fighting deck both prevented the monsters from stay more than a while in the staging area;
- The last impression I had from this tweaks is: if the tactic starter deck had a lot of action cards too expensive to be using every turn, now they're mostly almost useless, so you still stay with a hand full of cards, but now you don't really want to use them so much.