Some epic questions

By berto, in Runewars

I had yesterday another session and there is outcome from it:

1. Can I move using Fortify in epic version one rune to another empty area? This part of Fortify order was supposed to work between false and true rune tokens I'm curious how it can be used in epic mode.

2. We play with Heroes advance tokens. There is one called Dragon Throne which gives additional dragon rune. Can I put one dragon rune there?

3. What do you think generally about Heroes advance tokens. In our play we had mountains in the middle so was not easy to attack each other. Unfortunately on my opp area there were two "Dragon Thrones" . I had no chance to win. What do u think generally about this advanced rules. I think now that they give more random in game which is bad.

berto said:

1. Can I move using Fortify in epic version one rune to another empty area? This part of Fortify order was supposed to work between false and true rune tokens I'm curious how it can be used in epic mode.

Yes. You can do that in regular, too. What you do is pick two areas; you then move any runes between those areas as you see fit. If only one of the areas has a rune, that essentially means you can move the rune from one area to the other area.

berto said:

2. We play with Heroes advance tokens. There is one called Dragon Throne which gives additional dragon rune. Can I put one dragon rune there?

Yes. While the Dragon Throne itself counts as a Dragon Rune for victory, it's not itself a "rune token", thus you can put an actual rune token there (and thus make the area essentially worth two runes).

Remember, too, that the Dragon Throne is a "destructible location", meaning that you can destroy it. Why would you want to? If you don't think you can hold it, and don't want an opponent to get it, destroy it (you have to have at least 6 units in the area to do so, though).

berto said:

3. What do you think generally about Heroes advance tokens. In our play we had mountains in the middle so was not easy to attack each other. Unfortunately on my opp area there were two "Dragon Thrones" . I had no chance to win. What do u think generally about this advanced rules. I think now that they give more random in game which is bad.

I personally like the Exploration Tokens, though after having used them quite a bit, we've decided to only include 1 Dragon Throne token in epic games, and remove them completely from non-epic games, just because they can make the game end a little more abruptly. The other tokens can make things intereting and fun. Yes, there still is randomness, but by limiting the Dragon Thrones, they don't directly become game winners.