by bigjohnson79
I am sorry to admit I laughed when I read your opening post Nano. I just play the intro a few days ago myself (as the OL) and it sounds like your OL had a similar idea to mine on how to use Mauler to stall the Hero from getting search tokens and stop them killing my Goblins.My strategy was to move Mauler down to block off the top and use his Throw ability to hurl the heroes over my shoulder into the pen behind me. Blocking them from being able to kill the goblins as they ran by and forcing them kill Mauler to get out. Then I put the other Ettin in Left side to block the Heroes from chasing and killing the goblins in the water. They thought they had to keep someone in the middle to prevent me from blocking it completely with the other Ettin, so, first 3 turns a hero went in the pen. I thought I needed 7 goblins instead of 5 to escaped, so on turn 5 they killed Mauler. But I should have won on turn 3 when the 5th one escaped.
Strategy wise, it worked great. I also had a lot of fun roleplaying Mauler "Penning up his piggies". I am sorry to hear you didn't enjoy the intro as much as we did, but to me, this is a good, fair strategy.
But, I would like to hear anyones opinion either way.