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| BattleWarg |
![]() Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:05 pm |
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And I mean, if you look at mine as examples, there are a number of things that can boost him even higher. There’s really no limit to the highest possible strength.
Ulaire Attea, Desirous of Power - The twilight pool boosts (limitless potential)
Covetous Uruk - Each possession boosts him (limited potential based on number of posssessions in existance and number of players in game)
Hunting Herdsman - Very high potential (as above, but with followers)
Assault Denizen - Culture tokens (limitless potential)
Crooked Townsman/Corrupted Spy - Each ally, companion and minion boosts him (limitless)
So for minions...
I’m sure others could improve this much more but:
Corrupted Spy (6 strength, 2 vitality, +1 strength per other character)
Chieftain of Dunland (Remove twilight to boost by 2, 3 or 4 - for max, assume 3 sites are controlled)
Strange-looking Men (Exert to transfer a Flaming Brand to Corrupted Spy for +1 strength)
4x Ferocious Haradrim (+12 strength to all your  minions when a Free Peoples character is killed)
Easterling Host (+1 strength to each other minion for each exertion)
4x Column of Easterlings (Discard for +4 strength each)
War Trident (assuming he skirmishes a companion with 3 or less resistance, he gets +6 strength)
1x to 2x Pavise (+2 vitality - play on Corrupted Spy if you want, Easterling Host is a definite)
Long Battle Bow (+1 strength)
Stragglers (+2 strength, +2 strength per token)
Transfer Lying in Wait to Corrupted Spy (+1 strength per other minion, +1 strength each time a minion wins a skirmish)
4x Fires Brightly Burning in the discard (+8 strength total)
4x Bring Down the Wall (+1 strength per wound on a companion)
4x Gathering Strength (+6 strength each)
Add it all for:
68 strength
+1 for each other non- character
+1 for each time a minion wins a skirmish
+2 for each other minion (this is including the characters needed to do other steps in this - so they are not added into the base)
+2 for each token on Stragglers
+4 for each wound on a specific companion (ideally the most wounded)
+4 for each  removed.
+12 for each Free Peoples character killed (although they don’t then add the +1 for being a character)
So, while 68 may not seem large, he gets a boost for each companion (obviously at least a +1), ally, minion (which is +22 at least just from the minions listed - if there’s more, it’s a higher boost), for each wound on a single companion, for each token, for twilight, and much more if they kill a companion or ally.
So, really, the lowest this combination would produce is 81 strength minion, and could be limitlessly higher. |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:02 pm |
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| ditto my previous offer, make a deck of that combo BW, and 2 GP coming your way |
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| BattleWarg |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:53 am |
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sickofpalantirs wrote: ditto my previous offer, make a deck of that combo BW, and 2 GP coming your way
Well, I’m not sure if I have the required cards (Uri/Corrupted Spy), but I could build a decklist... The key of course is getting the cards to pull this off. But I’ll work on a deck for the casual section (although, if it happens to qualify for another section, that makes it better)
Thinking about it, though there’s a nice Strange-looking Men / Ferocious Haradrim combo with vitality boosting cards. |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:39 am |
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I would love to play these colossal deck with my deck.
Ulaire attea, Wraith on wings + Ring of Rancor + Shadowy Mount + More unbearable + Courtyard Parapet + 4x Gates of the Dead City = 20 exertions + Ulaire Enquea, Lieutenant of morgul = 4 dead companions + 2 Nazgul on RB and almost corrupted RB. Stooping to the kill... |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:12 pm |
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it would be fun, make uri huge, with killing everything in one combo that takes 10 sites to set up  |
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
![]() Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:38 am |
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bibfortuna25 wrote: You can easily get over 4000 strength using the Boromir, Son of Denethor / Merry, Friend to Sam combo.
All you need to do is do everything possible to boost Merry’s strength and heal Merry and Boromir several times.
You can use Cast It Into the Fire! to have an unlimited number of cards in your hand, so you will be able to play every strength pump in the game.
Did you mean over 400 strength? Anyhow...nice idea! I’m thinking now...Hobbit Sword, Concerning Hobbits, Sworn Companion, Dagger Strike, yah, that could be fun. That’s 19 strength already, not counting Sudden Fury. All that added to a Boromir who’s potentially 10, 11 strength. Or if you have Gandalf, Leader of the Company to boot... |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:39 pm |
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| to make any hobbit huge, all you have to do is have hobbits consistently lose(but pack enough healing and bounders to survive) and then on site7-9 use all the tokens on your strongest beast. (problem is fitting them on the card) |
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| NBarden |
![]() Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:48 pm |
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Here’s a slightly simpler dwarven combo that is enough to kill anything, pretty much, but it exhausts the dwarf. If you want to keep him full vitality, cut all the Battle Fury, and that loses him damage +3 and strength +13.
Here goes.
Start with Thrarin, Smith of Erebor. Give him
Dwarven Bracers
Hand Axe
Book of Mazarbul
Gimli’s Battle Axe, Trusted Weapon
Ring of Fury
Belt of Erebor
Arod, Rohirrim Steed
Endurance of Dwarves
Assume 3x Battle Fury and 4x Cleaving Blowstacked on Here Is Good Rock, and Sindri, dwarven Lord in play. 4x Lord of Moria in play, and Proud and Able.
He is currently damage +20 and strength 13.
Stack 4x Flurry of Blows and 4x Honed on Here is Good Rock to make him damage +8, He’s now damage +28
Play all four copies of Flurry of Blows to make him damage +4 and strength +16. He’s now damage +32 and strength 29. Now play the four copies of Battle Fury, he’s strength +9 and damage +3 = damage +35 strength 41. Then all your cleaving blows, strength +8, damage +4 which is now strength 46, damage +39.
4x Honed = strength +156 for a total of strength 201 and damage +33. |
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