dwarven discard, beatdown.

Archery, telepathy, hunter

beatdown, splash

solo

knights, IB,

assign ring-bearer, beatdown

beatdown

I figure that these different cultures can focus on many different aspects of gameplay...for example, threats, burdens, different phases, different card types...

Definitly an interesting thought...

Perhaps:
- Heavy damage in fights (i.e. damage bonuses), knocking down opponent’s deck (don’t see it quite as much anymore, though...)
- Omniscience (revealing cards that aren’t normally seen), Archers, weaking minions without damage
- Support (Decent in most things, giving support to any culture’s weakness, but could be better)
- Sneaking in (small fellowship, has abilities to move quickly and surviving or evading minions when it should be impossible otherwise), Decent with Shire specialties
- Recovery (such as healing), skill (high strength and defender bonuses, but few damage bonuses)
- Backup (gets support out of fellowship phase), Defense (able to keep things that would be taken/discarded - keep possessions out, liberate sites, etc.)
- Resistance (burden control), Stealth (avoid battle, but few tricks once the battle starts)

What I meant with the giving support is something like this:

For any ability that a culture has, the order of skill should be something like:
Best - Pure [Culture]
Very Good - [Culture]/
Strong - Pure or [Culture]/[anything else]
Okay - /[anything else]
Bad - Pure [anything else]

So cards should duplicate most things, but not quite as well as any other culture does, and would be intended to be used to back up the weaknesses of another culture.
The reason pure and [Culture]/[anything else] are about the same, is that the Gandalf deck has more space for each thing it’s attempting, while the other has roughly half the space it normally would.

That’s what I was thinking, BattleWarg, except a scale of 0-4 might be easier.

0 - No Aptitude
1 - Very Little Aptitude
2 - Little Aptitude
3 - Moderate Aptitude
4 - Exceptional Aptitude

So, for directed archery-phase wounding:

- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3 I disagree. Ithilien Blade? Ring-bound wounding?
- 2 I disagree. 3.
- 0

And, for cancelling skirmishes:

- 0
- 0 1. They do have the voice of nimrodel
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 4

Healing during the fellowship phase:
- 2
- 3 Again, 4. Elves have legendary healing!
- 4
- 3 4. Definitely. Houses of Healing, Ring of Barahir, Athelas, Kingsfoil, etc. they got good healing.
- 2
- 4

And so on...