First off just wanna give props to fantasy flight for making this amazing game. just finished our first playthrough and we had a blast. our game group owns many FF games and i have to say this one is definately the most fun for me thusfar. We ran into a few situations during the game that we werent 100% sure how to handle just wanted to post them up here and see if anybody had any input.

1.) How exactly do strongholds work. If you win a battle against an enemy in a space with THEIR stronghold token and stay there, do you get to use the damaged stronghold strength against them? can you repair an enemy stronghold or only your own? when you recruit units can you recruit to any stronghold in a location you control or just to your own faction specific strongholds?

2.) If i do a mobilizie in the spring and activate an area, can i do a conquer in the summer and move some of my other units THROUGH the activated area without stopping or does the activated area rule still apply and my units have to stop once they reach the activated area? Also does the Activated Area rule apply to JUST MY FACTION SPECIFIC activation tokens or to ALL FACTIONS activation tokens?

3.) When i do a rally support and I own a city with a "1" next to the nuetral unit icon, do i get to just pick 1 of ANY neutral unit i want from the unused neutral unit pile or is there something that tells me a specific neutral unit i'm allowed to recruit?

4.) Am i allowed to mobilize/conquer to an area that contains only ROUTED enemy units? If so does combat still proceed as normal and my enemy just doesn't get to draw any fate cards? And at the end of the battle does my enemy just retreat his remaining routed units as normal to a legal space?

Thanks for the help!

oh and objective cards.... you only get one per game right? when you complete it you don't draw another one right?

1) If you conquer an enemy stronghold, take it from the board and simply replace it with one of your own strongholds (damaged side up).

2) You can always move through your activated areas. Your activation tokens don‘t influence other armies at all.

3) The cities show the base-shape of the neutrals you can recruit (circle, triangle or rectangle)

4) Yes, you are allowed to do that. A normal battle will take place (So your opponent is allowed to play tactic cards that might desl damage to your units or that might un-rout his own units). If you win this battle (and you will win it in most of the cases) all enemy units that were routed at the start of the battle will be destroyed.

5) You get only one objective card and you don‘t re-draw another if you complete your objective. However, there are some spring-season-cards that allow players to draw new objective cards. These season-cards would allow you to get a new objective after having completed your first one.

Thanks so much Graf!! We're looking forward to playing again on game night this week!

Just to add clarification to #4 (which answer is correct) - The attacker DOES draw cards for all units. Most of the time, this will just burn cards, but for the Knight and Necromancer units, it can have other effects that last outside the battle, so it's not always just burning cards.