The second module doesn't assume that Filge is with the group, and I imagine that most groups won't look to him for help (although mine has).
My best advice is to look over the areas of combat, and figure which ones will be the most trouble for your party. At any time that Filge thinks the PCs will lose, he can turn against them, hoping to join the other side's forces.
Now, if they make it through the entire adventure without even breaking a sweat, then Filge won't have a reason to turn on them. He'll try his best to try to get anything that is of intellectual value (spell books, notes on creating undead, etc.) that the party members themselves might not even want.
In that case, they may end up trusting Filge, coming to him at a later time in the adventure path, only to turn on them when he thinks he can get something from the other side. There are many encounters in the adventure path that involve powerful undead. Given the chance, Filge might want to learn from a dracolich or a powerful vampire.
Don't feel that you have to make him attack the party at all. If he attacks the party when they are not at a disadvantage, he will most likely die at their hands. Having run the SCAP twice, I'd err on the side of safety for the NPC, and keep the chance of having him do something later.
That's pretty good, sum. My PCs weren't near as ballsy. Most of them are deathly afraid of Smenk and when they defeated Kullen's gang, they let them all go (having killed only Kullen) and even let them keep all their stuff! In their defense, they did do it to get them to keep quiet to Smenk though, not like bad guys keep their word though. ;)
I have run 4 games of AoW and none of the bad guys have been killed. There has been battles and the PCs have won them all but the bad guys always escapes to fight another day. I'm not defending the NPCs in any special way but either the PCs just let them go or the bad guys got real lucky on rolls. When they fought Filge the fight almost emediatly turned against the necromancer and so I had him, in a momment of desperation jump through the window, relying on his false life hit points to save him from the fall. They also have tangled with Kullens gang but so far no one has been killed. Right now Smenk and Filge are using one of the PCs father as a bargining chip to get back Filges spellbook and also as a means to force the PCs to confront the cult. My game is starting to look like a chess game between the varios factions vrs a typical hack'n'slash will solve anything approach. I have plans for Filge but at this point the PCs have no illusions about this guy so him betraying them would be expected.
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...and I imagine that most groups won't look to him for help (although mine has).
No kidding! You trust an enemy necromancer with obvious delusions of grandure and and over-developed sense of vengance, you deserve to get a hand glowing with Vampiric Touch to grab you by the short and curlies when he has the opening!
No kidding! You trust an enemy necromancer with obvious delusions of grandure and and over-developed sense of vengance...
Yeah, but they felt pity on him for being so pathetic as to have created dead dinner guests. (They never sat in the chair to see what would happen.) I guess like Frodo having pity on Gollum.
Hmm... that makes me think. Maybe I should have Filge do something useful for that party that they wouldn't be able to do themselves. Then turn on 'em.
And that reminds me of Spike (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) singing "First I'll kill her, then I'll save her!" in Once More, With Feeling.