I'm a newbie to Descent and have a few queries regarding whether the Overlord can place readied orders like dodge and aimed attack on monsters. There are a few examples in the rulebook that suggest monsters can do these things - yet there is no mention of it in the Overlords turn that these tactics are useable. I've not played yet and need clarification as some of the core rules seem a little muddied. Can anyone help me out?

Monsters cannot place orders*, but the overlord gets cards that can be used to allow a monster to aim or dodge a single attack.

* I think the avatars in the advanced campaign expansions can use orders, but if so, they're an exception.

Antistone said:

Avatars and LTs, IIRC. Of course, the AC expansions don't give you any extra order tokens that I can remember, so you either have to borrow the heroes' unused tokens or else make proxies or something.