•Long Been Friends
Condition • Support Area
Each time you play a Man, you may exert a Man of another Free Peoples culture (or spot 2 or Men) to remove .
“‘...their kinship is rather with the Bardings, the Men of Dale, and with the Beornings of the woods, among whom still may be seen many Men, tall and fair, like the Riders of Rohan.’”

Very weak Dain i wouldnt bother using it at all. It basically says exert a Man to make a man twilight cost -1. Way not worth it, id rather have the exertion back. The spotting makes it slightly more viable but for the amount of times you’d use it its a waste of deck space.

Question is: is it useful enough to really consider using? My original version worked ONLY with and , but I tweaked it to make it work with any other Men, mostly with in mind. Still, is it a decent card? Would YOU ever use it?

You’d need to alter the benefit OR the requirement to make it viable.

I THINK I’m done with villagers, but another idea or two may come to me. If they do, though, they’ll likely be at a later time. The trick is, I’m not sure QUITE what direction to spin off in now. I have a goodly amount of Helm’s Deep stuff, but until we get there...hmmm. I guess now’s as a good as any for this card. Consider it a filler of sorts.

•Long Been Friends
Condition • Support Area
Each time you play a Man, you may spot a Man of another Free Peoples culture to remove .
Skirmish: Discard this condition to heal X companions, where X is the number of and Men you can spot.
“‘...their kinship is rather with the Bardings, the Men of Dale, and with the Beornings of the woods, among whom still may be seen many Men, tall and fair, like the Riders of Rohan.’”

Tweaked the last couple cards a bit. And if ya’ll had paid attention, you would have seen that I already made the change you keep specifying for Sewel days ago!

These may be our last villagers, but even after all the villagers we’ve already posted, these are rather unique. Thran should be happy, if his comments a few days back are any indication. Enjoy!

Eastfold Farmer
Follower
Resistance +1
Villager. Aid – .
Each time you transfer this to a companion, except a companion, exert bearer.
Bearer gains muster.
The farmers and tillers of the grassy plains of Rohan know how to make the most of the sometimes infertile lands.

Methinks a strength +1 bonus would be better. As is, worthless.

Westfold Rancher
Follower
Strength +1
Villager. Aid – .
To play, spot a Man.
When you transfer this to a mounted companion, you may heal that companion.
Though the most regal horses are cared for in Edoras, the fine steeds bred and raised elsewhere in the country are treated like royalty as well.

Nice. Arod was also from Rohan, IIRC.

Rohirrim Peasant
Follower
Vitality +1
Resistance +1
Villager. Aid – .
Other cards borne by bearer may not be discarded by Shadow cards.
The citizens in Rohan’s many outlying villages were the first to suffer the full might of Saruman’s armies as the Riders slowly mustered their forces.

Broken as the day is long. Oh my gosh I can see so many ways to abuse this. Vitality for hobbit vitality decks, can you say UBER KILLER ANARION? Or how about loading him up on the RB to stop corruption and getting wounded to death as you double to 9? All for ! NO WAY!

NB has a good point that we’ve all missed about the lack of cultural enforcement on the last follower! I’d say ’Bearer must be a Man’

•Gamling, Defender of Helm’s Dike
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Théoden
Valiant. Hunter 1. While you can spot Théoden or 2 Men, Gamling’s twilight cost is -1.
Response: Each time another Man is killed, Gamling is strength +2 and damage +1 until the regroup phase.
“‘Helm! Helm! Forth Helmingas!’ he shouted as he leaped down the stair from the Rock with many men of the Westfold at his back.”
I think you should cut twilight cost to 2. then you can start him with theoden. as is he is horribly overshadowed by the other 2 versions

•Erkenbrand, Rider of the Rohirrim
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Signet: Théoden
Valiant. Hunter 1. While you can spot a valiant Man, Erkenbrand’s twilight cost is -1.
Regroup: Heal a minion to discard a Shadow condition. You may repeat this for each other valiant companion you can spot. If the fellowship does not move again this turn, wound each companion.
“‘Help now to repair the evil in which you have joined.’”

•Gamling, Defender of Helm’s Dike
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Théoden
Valiant. Hunter 1. While you can spot Théoden or 2 Men, Gamling’s twilight cost is -1.
Response: Each time another Man is killed, Gamling is strength +2 and damage +1 until the regroup phase.
“‘Helm! Helm! Forth Helmingas!’ he shouted as he leaped down the stair from the Rock with many men of the Westfold at his back.”

•Erkenbrand, Rider of the Rohirrim
Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Signet: Théoden
Valiant. Hunter 1. While you can spot a valiant Man, Erkenbrand’s twilight cost is -1.
Regroup: Heal a minion to discard a Shadow condition. You may repeat this for each other valiant companion you can spot. If the fellowship does not move again this turn, wound each companion.
“‘Help now to repair the evil in which you have joined.’”