I'm trying The Battle of Lake-Town for the first time.
Question 1: During setup, I drew Town-Baiting , which says Smaug makes an attack. However, Smaug is not in play. So, should I just ignore that card?
Question 2:
The active location is
South Pier
, which says "When faced with the option to travel, players cannot travel to other locations." Meanwhile,
Fisherman's Dock
says "Travel: If there is 1 active location, exhaust a hero to travel here". So, am I able to exhaust a hero to travel to Fisherman's Dock or not? Or does South Pier prevent me from doing that?
Question 3:
Can I travel to 2 Fisherman's Docks in one turn? Or can I only perform one "Travel" per turn, in which case I need to wait until a later turn to travel to the 2nd Fisherman's Dock?
Question 4:
Can I use 2 Travel Actions per turn? Example:
Merchant's District
has a Travel Action which lets me remove it to the victory display. Can I remove 2 Merchant's Districts per turn, or do I have to wait until the next turn?
Question 5:
Can I do a Travel Action in the same travel phase that I perform a normal Travel? For example, can I remove a Merchant's District and travel to a Fisherman's Dock in the same travel phase? Or does a Travel Action "consume" the entire travel phase?
Question 6: When the locations in the staging area get too numerous, we just don't have a chance, because staging threat increases, burn damage increases, and we're too busy "fighting fires" to defend effectively against Smaug, let alone hurt him. I'm guessing this is a normal experience for first-time players. Is this one of those scenarios designed to force you to build a deck to beat it? In other words, is it a "puzzle" scenario? And are most of the standalone scenarios "puzzles"?
Edited by tripecac