The necessity to skirmish came earlier than I had understood. V2:B6 iirc has several skirmishes (I need to defend the deep way, 21st hall and some other place).
This is terribu. And I was so enjoying the Epic story in Moria too.
Edit: saying that though, Deep Way was fun alone with my shity skirm npc thingy, although i need to redo it as the stupid Brogur guy died literally 2 swings before the final npc....