How do you play "Siege Decks?"

[gambroe]

First of all, I have learned a great deal on most of the aspects of this game by reading the messages on this forum. Thanks to all for your insight! It has helped me understand this game greatly! There is one thing I would like some clarification on. That is playing against a siege deck (found in "Dragon's Demand" & "Fangwood Thieves"). I understand about separating the banes from their locations to form a siege deck, and that you should "explore" the siege deck first each turn. What is confusing me is 1. Do all story banes go into the siege deck and none into the location decks? 2. If that is true, when do you go from the siege deck to the location decks? I understand if all location decks are closed, the game is over and you lose, but if you are only playing against the banes in a siege deck, you would think you would never get to the location decks to acquire any "loot"? Am I missing something or misunderstanding something? Any help clarifying this would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!

[foxoftheasterisk]

gambroe wrote:

First of all, I have learned a great deal on most of the aspects of this game by reading the messages on this forum. Thanks to all for your insight! It has helped me understand this game greatly! There is one thing I would like some clarification on. That is playing against a siege deck (found in "Dragon's Demand" & "Fangwood Thieves"). I understand about separating the banes from their locations to form a siege deck, and that you should "explore" the siege deck first each turn. What is confusing me is 1. Do all story banes go into the siege deck and none into the location decks? 2. If that is true, when do you go from the siege deck to the location decks? I understand if all location decks are closed, the game is over and you lose, but if you are only playing against the banes in a siege deck, you would think you would never get to the location decks to acquire any "loot"? Am I missing something or misunderstanding something? Any help clarifying this would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Your understanding is mostly correct. All the banes do indeed go into the siege deck, and you never explore the locations (excepting in some older siege scenarios, where you had the option), and therefore never encounter boons (usually). Most siege scenarios (including Fangwood Thieves 1B), however, give as a scenario reward all the cards remaining in the locations, for you to use as "loot".

The Dragon's Demand siege scenario is an exception, probably because the reward is shared between the different versions of the scenario. I believe RAI is that this same reward is given for that scenario, but I don't remember if I've heard developer opinions on that or not. In any case, that's how I would play it outside of Society.

[gambroe]

foxoftheasterisk wrote:

gambroe wrote:

First of all, I have learned a great deal on most of the aspects of this game by reading the messages on this forum. Thanks to all for your insight! It has helped me understand this game greatly! There is one thing I would like some clarification on. That is playing against a siege deck (found in "Dragon's Demand" & "Fangwood Thieves"). I understand about separating the banes from their locations to form a siege deck, and that you should "explore" the siege deck first each turn. What is confusing me is 1. Do all story banes go into the siege deck and none into the location decks? 2. If that is true, when do you go from the siege deck to the location decks? I understand if all location decks are closed, the game is over and you lose, but if you are only playing against the banes in a siege deck, you would think you would never get to the location decks to acquire any "loot"? Am I missing something or misunderstanding something? Any help clarifying this would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Your understanding is mostly correct. All the banes do indeed go into the siege deck, and you never explore the locations (excepting in some older siege scenarios, where you had the option), and therefore never encounter boons (usually). Most siege scenarios (including Fangwood Thieves 1B), however, give as a scenario reward all the cards remaining in the locations, for you to use as "loot".

Thanks for the information! It has helped me quite a bit!
The Dragon's Demand siege scenario is an exception, probably because the reward is shared between the different versions of the scenario. I believe RAI is that this same reward is given for that scenario, but I don't remember if I've heard developer opinions on that or not. In any case, that's how I would play it outside of Society.

[gambroe]

Thanks for the information! It has helped me out quire a bit!