Well I'd made a decision to try playing an easy version without any
saves including just before heroquesting. Six years in and I'm
surprised the clan hasn't starved to death although the clan raids
are generally a nail biting experience. The map seems to have a
rather large amount of pink clan names, however, it was surprisingly
easy to develop alliances to buffer around the clan land. THe two
feuds that were there at the start have not resulted in much apart
from the odd curse and sporadic raid nothing you can't handle with a
stone wall.
After six years I sent the clan chief on his first heroquest.
Somehow he survived although he only succeeded at two of the
stations. Maybe a bit too early I'll try and do another death
defying act in two years time in the game. No way do I dare to do
the Uralda "cow quest".