Hi Ettrian, thanks for your compliments and also for the feedback regarding Vehemence. By the sounds of it, you have correctly interpreted the rules as written on the board (bravissimo!), but I'm guessing you didn't notice the Caveat I put in the project page text:
"Forgot to add the caveat that Vehemence cannot be lower than 2 (so wolves can actually do stuff in rounds 1 and 2)."
This means that even if factions aggressively try to crowd wolves out of clearings, they can still take a few moves per round to start building their Vehemence engine :)
Hope that clears things up! Thanks so much for your interest in this faction, it means a lot to me! 😍🙏🏼