I'm trying to work out how Lord Aktar has any chance of being summoned on this level. Has anyone played it - what happened.

The way I see it is the OL has to place all his monsters right on the eastern side to start with. The heroes then can rush in doing run actions or spending fatigue and get in the way of the villagers. Any melee monsters cant get to the villagers anyway, and the ranged monsters are going to have to somehow get LOS to the villagers.

However, I dont see any way that the monsters can ever kill all 6 villagers to summon the demon.

In my campaign, I basically lose about 4 monsters per turn on average, not counting those that I lose on my turn because my group pretty much alwasys go on guard and have 2 magic and 1 ranged character who generally kill whatever it is with 1 attack. So to me, this level looks like the heroes getting about a nice easy bunch of XP for activating the glyph and most of the villagers still being alive.

My team got careless and allowed a pair of hellhounds to be summoned nearby the villagers. The paired breath weapons would likely have wiped out the lot if the OL hadn't botched the rolls.

Otherwise, yes it is highly unlikely that the big demon guy is going to make an appearance. Use this time to load up on threat so that you can make the heroes terribly miserable in the next dungeon