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Originally Posted by werewolves of london

The only sad and proven fact the first person to go first usually wins the game, because his first move will move and kill something, you follow up with one less piece or squad sometimes, his second move will move and kill something, you follow up with one less piece or squad and so on.

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There are many things wrong with that statement.

First, it presumes you can even reach your opponent on the first turn. It's been a long time since I've played and an even longer time since I played using the pre-made scenarios, but I seem to recall the battlefields tending to be large enough that it was not feasible to attack an opponent's unit on the first turn if that unit is still in the starting area.

Second, it presumes that it's possible to kill a unit on the first turn. A member of a squad? Sure. A hero? Much less likely. Losing a member of a squad isn't so bad, you should still have 2-3 more.

Third, it presumes that you always attack the unit the opponent was going to use next. If you get lucky and destroy my archer, that doesn't bother me too much if my robots are going next. They can hit you just as hard as you hit me, and potentially kill one of your units. In fact, if you killed my archer and I had the X order token on him, you haven't impacted my turn at all.