Got my copy from my LGS today, and 3 buddies were more than happy to help me break in the game. Ran into a slight hiccup during set-up, though. On Hexes 2A, 3C, and 6D, each shows the symbol for Giants as a starting Neutral unit for that hex, followed by the number 2, which we had read as the number of the indicated units to be placed in that hex at the start (per page 7 bubble and setup phase 4). However, there are only 4 Giant figurines in the game. This lead us to 2 conclusions:

A) The afformentioned hexes should have only read as 1 figurine per hex, not 2. -or-

B) There should be 6 Giants in the box, not 4.

We ran under the assumption that option A was the correct one, and only placed one Giant in each hex. Just looking for clarification on this from the designers.

A thought has also occured to me that perhaps hex 2A should remain at 2 Giants due to the extra resource it produces, while 3C and 6D should only be at 1 Giant each.

Otherwise, the game ran very smoothly, and I managed to get completely demolished as the elves. ;(

Pfeiffer said:

Then, the game is, in fact, perfect AND realistic!

Pfeiffer said:

According to the component list in the front of the rulebook there are only supposed to be 4 giants, so it's the tiles that are misprinted. Hopefully Corey or someone from FFG can clarify which (if not all) of the tiles should be only 1 giant.

Map tile areas 6D and 3C should each list 1 Giant as their starting neutral units (instead of 2 Giants).

I smell an errata! Because printing out dev responses off a message board is just plain tacky.

Yeah, the errata will be coming soon, i'm sure. Give the community a few weeks to find any other issues (hopefully none).

Thank you for the quick response, Corey. =D

FAQ and errata are up.