by jhwedmd
Ok, so we had our first play through of Chapter 4 and had some questions and difficulties come up. We appreciate any help.First, our setup. In order to make dealing with the initiative track and tiles a little easier, we decided to put the Collin's group in the first 4 slots of the track. Collin's team and their minions. Then we put Nez's team and their minions in the next 4 slots of the track. The idea being to keep the tiles played upon separately without hopping back and forth between tiles.
When you are running two tiles and two teams, how does the cheese wheel, encounter cards, and surge's work? For instance, we had Collin's team in the King's Tunnels and Nez's team in the pipes. Do we draw two different encounter cards, one for each team? If one team finishes off their minions before the other, how does the cheese wheel then work? And if the Cheese wheel is filled, who gets the surge?
This came up because Collin's team got surged on the King's Tunnel tile but managed to wipe out the King's Tunnel enemies with one great Chain Lightning spell, then teleport across the water very quickly. So, they were ready to enter the forge long before Nez's team. So, Collin's tile had no minions. Meanwhile, some bad rolls on the pipes added a lot of cheese back to the wheel. So, since Collin's tile already had a surge, but they don't want to enter the forge alone, they had to wait in their tunnels. Since they have no minions, do they add cheese? And if the wheel fills again on their turn, what happens to the surge since Collin's team already had one but Nez's team didn't?
Next, Collin's team did a search and got the Treachery card 'They Know We are Here' or something. This card tells you that on the next encounter card draw, you put all the minions right next to the exploring mice. It just so happened that Nez's team entered the forge first. Does Nez's team get the treachery card even though they didn't draw it?
And finally, when entering the forge, only one team can enter at a time. So, that first team enters, draws the encounter cards and sets up the board. Do they then have to face a round of all the minions going after that one team prior to the 2nd team coming in? And when the second team comes in, do they just add their cards to the bottom of the track?
Sorry if this is confusing, it was confusing for us as well.
Thanks!