Power Card Diggers:

Rock Solid Defence:

Speed Boosts:

Too Good To Not Take:

Board Layout

I went for the board with the large piece of blocking terrain every time.  In an ideal situation where you get to place three objectives they can be placed as below, with one nicely hidden behind the wall and all well back.

I also always placed the boards with the full length of the long edges touching.  You may be tempted to go for the long thin setup to hide your objectives further back, but you will need to reach the enemy territory objectives yourself so the long distance hinders as much as it helps.

For deployment, Hakka and Basha sat at the far back ready to walk onto objectives, Gurzag went up front (though probably one row back from board edge) ready to dash into enemy territory.  And Bonekutta either stood back ready to take the third home objective or stood with Gurzag ready to move forward depending on the situation.

General Tactics

Don’t be afraid to dump your initial hand of objectives if they aren’t looking achievable within the first turn.

Almost always dump your initial power cards if they don’t include Shardcaller, unless they include a key you already have the right objective for.  I’ll occasionally go against this for a couple of the vital ‘Movement Shenanigans’ cards listed above if the objectives are already looking nice and achievable.

Discard objective cards in the end phase that you aren’t confident you can achieve next turn.  Aggressively discard power cards to try and draw Shardcaller and the keys.  I would often run out both decks by the third round.

Unless a strong enemy is stood next to you ready to attack (in which case go first to try and push them back and at least force them to use their charge), always pick to go second when you get the choice so as to get the last activation to take a contested objective.

Plan out how many moves are required to get your planned objectives for the turn and aggressively draw objectives/power cards with the ‘spare’ activations rather than taking pot shots at the enemy.  You want to score at least two objective cards a turn.

Make your push forward into enemy territory to take an objective as late in the turn as possible so as to minimise your opponent’s opportunities to push back and knock you off target.

Only go for  charge if it is part of a move onto an objective, or a possible kill late in the turn when you have your objectives already sewn up.

If an enemy charges one of your Orruks then you are hopefully now inspired and can bash back to push them away.  If they charged and so can’t activate again, and you can two shot them, consider not pushing away and swinging again for the kill.  Bonekutta is especially good at reactively punching back with his enhanced damage once inspired.

If there’s any way the enemy could interfere, then save your key upgrades to the last power phase of the game.  Doing them earlier just locks you in to a single one of your fighter’s being the scorer and gives the enemy more time to thwart you.  But if they are rock solid safe on the back line, putting them out before round 3 will let you draw more power cards.

That said, don’t forget to save enough unspent glory to put on the keys!  That’s not a mistake you make twice…

Good luck!