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orian |
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:38 am |
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I loved the article, because it reminds me all time and indeed I used to play this deck
I would add to the comments:
- in expanded, there is a huge swarm deck mixing and , with a lot of cycling thanks to
abandoning reason for madness
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hate and anger
+ little guys such as goblin runner
and conditions to bring them back old style true such as they are coming
otherwise, I prefer swarm too and it’s really easy to do with cycling cards such as strange device and good minions like vigilant uruk and tyrannical uruk - you might eventually want to put some in it, like uruk regular
also, last possibility is to swarm thanks to lowered resistance with the new bloodlines :
uruk aggressor
uruk invader |
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:32 am |
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Overall a good article. I much preferred Uruks to the newer ones. That said, this strategy is a bit dated, but well explained. I always liked coupling swarms with hand extension through site control with cards like Attack on Helm’s Deep and Uruk Besieger, Uruk trooper and Uruk Veteran. With the twilight reductions of those cards and others, you can usually play minions off of controlled sites for next to nothing (or nothing!). Site liberation was always kind of weak and seems moreso now, so the danger of losing your stacked minions is nil. |
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Anonymous Prodigy |
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:06 pm |
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bobtheorc wrote: Also AP I was just wondering where my grammar was bad? Not an accusation or anything I just wanted to know so I can fix it.
I was hurry today to get my article finished so I guess I missed some stuff.
Not anything in particular, you just left out some punctuation and had a few run-on sentences. |
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bobtheorc |
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:38 pm |
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sperzdechly wrote: bobtheorc wrote: but I will admit that there are some very nice 3 twilight minions.
Well, in fact there are even nicer for 2 twilight - Vigilant Uruk (the best for swarms)! But he is more effective in only deck.
Quote: I also think that it is usually easier to get uruks that it is to get mnions. But that is all my opinioni.
I’d rather disagree. In my player community is easier to get . Mostly because we’ve got many beginners or players who joined LOTR year or two ago, so they don’t have older cards.
Quote: I will be taking the swords out of my other deck soon as I do see that they are redundant and I often ended up discarding them in the regroup phase.
But you see - problem with swords is like that: you set up a hand on 5th site to swarm opponent, you draw let’s say... the last 2 cards, and get 1 FP card, 1 minion and 1 sword and end with 6 minions on hand. If you put minion instead of sword, you would have 7 minions which is quite a serious threat, while 6 isn’t so... swarmy
Wow, Vigilant Uruk is good. I get your point about having newer players, but in my area it is the opposite. A lot of people have and few have . Also I thought I was saying that swords were bad for decks? I do know what the problem with swords is, maybe you were just showing me why?
donimator wrote: Overall a good article. I much preferred Uruks to the newer ones. That said, this strategy is a bit dated, but well explained. I always liked coupling swarms with hand extension through site control with cards like Attack on Helm’s Deep and Uruk Besieger, Uruk trooper and Uruk Veteran. With the twilight reductions of those cards and others, you can usually play minions off of controlled sites for next to nothing (or nothing!). Site liberation was always kind of weak and seems moreso now, so the danger of losing your stacked minions is nil.
That is one nice thing about the Uruk-hai swarm. It is very adaptable to different strategies. That does seem like a good one.
And finally orian, I did say that Goblin Runner was a good swarm cards, but I didn’t know much else about combining with .
Interesting idea.
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orian |
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:40 am |
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I’ll try to give you my shadow (although it was some years ago, I don’t remember everything):
4x goblin runner
3x goblin sneak
3x goblin scavengers
2x they are coming
3x goblin armory
3x goblin scimitar
1x the underdeeps of Moria
3x hate and anger
3x abandoning reason for madness
4x uruk regular
10x other uruks at or |
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fingolfin |
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:19 am |
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nice, but why are so many people posting swarm? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:43 pm |
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LOVED the article, I’d give it a five if my account is activated in time. I live close to bobtheorc and My brother and I don’t get very often, it’s more uruk-hai. |
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bobtheorc |
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:14 pm |
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orian wrote: I’ll try to give you my shadow (although it was some years ago, I don’t remember everything):
4x goblin runner
3x goblin sneak
3x goblin scavengers
2x they are coming
3x goblin armory
3x goblin scimitar
1x the underdeeps of Moria
3x hate and anger
3x abandoning reason for madness
4x uruk regular
10x other uruks at or
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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:20 am |
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fingolfin wrote: nice, but why are so many people posting swarm?
only 2 have that is not a lot. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:43 pm |
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I thought it was a great article, I’ll give you a five because I think it’s the best article this month. |
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