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No Finer Blade: OK for
Glamdring only, but what about the
damage bonus?
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Burning Fir Cones: "Discard this possession
to reveal your hand." In order to reveal ONLY FP skirmish events, in order to wound minions. Why not skip the revealing of
your whole hand, and instead reveal merely the FP skirmish events you need to get wounding? That's all I'm saying.
If you reveal a hand with little Shadow power, and don't use/discard most of it before ending your turn, your opponent will have a much easier decision as to double move or not in his/her own turn. There's no need to reveal so much information.
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Bill Ferny Sr.: I like your new version a lot, it's clear and simple!
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Scouting Warg: But what about Yazneg? Does he take the limelight when bearing it (which I believe was one of the goals)?
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Rivendell Scout: as archer.
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Dark Sorcery: Threat of the Unknown is an event, but costs
(and most of the times, you'll want to draw at your first chance just to set up sooner). Exerting 2 Orcs isn't so easy (Orcs are easier to wound and have small vitality), and means losing a lot of strength versus direct wounding (think about
Osgiliath Crossing vs direct wounding like
Greenleaf or
Rohirrim Bow, it's setting up but doing zero damage!). That'd be powerful to set up at the early and perhaps middle game, but later it's totally detrimental.
Without twilight addition, drawing cards cannot overcome the cost of crippling vitality (you'll need twilight to play the things just drawn to hand). Moria Swarm can create twilight, but they have no extra vitality to spend!
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Thrór: I always interpreted your self-SFTF starting-companion Thrór as the easiest way of affecting the game (and sending him to dead pile) without adding weird texts (like "While in your dead pile, Thrór's gametext remains active") AND also from the very beginning. He is played and dies at site 1, before fighting or shooting, merely as a representation of him being dead and affecting the Longbeards before Bilbo starts his journey.
So he only needs to 1) be a starting companion, and 2) die before moving to site 2, as a cost to get his profound effect. That's alright, but there's no need to kill another Dwarf! Nor to change the story.* (see below, it's somewhat long but I think is worthy!)
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Ori's Slingshot: Ok. What about something milder, like "Ori can be attached for free"? He's the weakest of all followers, and although his Aid cost is mild, he'll be using a
follower slot so making his attachment free makes him more appealing (and will synergize with Balin a lot more).
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Catapult Troll and Bridging Troll: Ok then for the identical base attributes. But if attributes won't change, what about a keyword (fierce or dmg+1)? Their cost is high, and outside the Trolls or Azog's Army packs, they have no support (except
Anger).
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Dwarven Warhammer: -
Eager For Brawl: Great!
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The list is ok, I lack only the review of He Is Summoning His Servants from that list. But is coming, along with others that I'm yet missing, just wait one or two days and every detail should be reviewed.
Careful with These (no need to change the image?)
Yes! There's a lot of good pictures that can be used, anything will work well (except Óin playing the teapot!
). I took these 2 snapshots in a quick review, those look good (but my talent for this is negative, you'll do it much better):
0:27:45 EE
0:27:46 EE
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I will not be at home before Monday, I won't change the card images before Monday evening.
Btw, all these card changes will be made without any further tests.
Before Monday should be posted the last of all the reviewed cards. I know that most cards cannot change anything but lesser parts of their functionality (in case it's needed). I'll wait for Bombur blowing the Horn then!
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* If keeping Azog alive was a huge mistake by PJ,
keeping Thrór alive is even worse: no War of the Dwarves and Orcs, so Sauron's many huge Orc armies in the Misty Mountains aren't swept by the
vengeance-thirsty Dwarven host. Thus he can assault both Lothlórien AND Rivendell as he wished (according to Gandalf, in the Unfinished Tales) -even simultaneously, thus blocking any reinforcements-, to get an Elven Ring or two and by the way erase his old and mighty Elf enemies. Then the Dúnedain, the remaining White Council, Thráin and his Ring, Gollum with The One, and the Shire, all are left to their own luck against the
Dark Lord of the East... and North.
That's the importance of Thrór entering Moria "as an heir that returns", moved by some irrational desire that he never understood.
It's an eucatastrophe at its full expression: Thrór first, and then more than half of all the Dwarf warriors gathered "from the four corners of the world" died in a bitter war in a lapse of 9 years. Drawn from poorness and
exile to the battlefield, just to gain
nothing. But as a result, Sauron's plans to conquer all Northern Middle Earth and get back the Rings of Power, all bled out as his Orkish strongholds and armies were swept one by one from the secret positions he needed to assault the Noldor (his ambush to Celebrian in the High Pass serves as a good example).
It was the wicked cruelty of his lieutenant Azog which created a
totally unnecessary war with
the wrong enemy, and his clumsy underestimation of that enemy's power what turned his northern legions into dust and bones: believing the Dwarven Host would be stopped after assaulting a few Orc strongholds, he kept the secrecy and didn't gather them all until it was too late. And so his war schemes were forced to turn down south on Gondor, and he left the North alone for a good time. Which allowed Bilbo to find The One, and the Shirefolk to survive, and Elendil's Heir... And so Thrór's death and the Dwarven blood at their pyrrhic victory bought Middle Earth a new chance, that's the eucatastrophe hidden here!
"It means, master Baggins, you should never underestimate Dwarves."So no! It's not a good idea to change the story and keep Thrór alive. Nor to kill his shieldman!
(That's the background that made me want to create a "War of the Dwarves and Orcs" Supplementary Pack, with Nár and "Burned Dwarves" and "Azog, King of Moria"... PJ should have given Orlando Bloom a cameo merely, and use a 10th of that paycheck instead to surround himself with good Tolkien scholars!)