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Middle-Earth => Lothlórien => Fellowship => Topic started by: Crainiac (The set 20 project) on July 16, 2022, 12:30:20 PM
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I have been struggling with winning games on GEMP. I have built countless decks but I keep getting beaten by other players. A player named Sentinell gave me some help on choosing cards but I'm still struggling. Can anyone help me? The cultures I've been playing with are [Wraith] and [Elven]. I keep giving my opponents too much twilight to work with and then I lose my companions especially when the player has a [Moria] deck they always use the Goblin Runner card which adds [2] and then they use the Host Of Thousands, Goblin Scavengers, Goblin Armories, Goblin Scimitars, Cave Trolls, and Balrogs. I don't know how to combat the players op strats and decks.
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I'm no expert, but I think ways to counter [Moria] in an [Elven] deck are Secret Sentinels (to take out Goblin Armory, Plundered Armories, Relics of Moria, Goblin Swarms and sometimes Depths of Moria and Dark Places); Dismay Our Enemies (against strong minions; this one isn't really useful most of the time, but can be every once in a while); Double Shot; Rumil, Elven Protector; Elven Bow; and Greenleaf (all of the last four are just to destroy their swarming capability).
If you're giving them too much twilight you could try NSttS (assuming you have an Arwen that isn't Lady Undomiel), and Lady of Light. Bill the Pony is also a useful splash, but you're probably going to need at least 3 giving he's maybe gone at site 4 and definitely by 5. If you have Merry, Sam, Pippin, or any Hobbit ally, you could also consider DiTM (note that this one only works if you can already see the site on the adventure path.)
Against SotBP (and definitely Durin's Bane) your best bet is probably Hobbit Stealth's and Hobbit Intuition's, and Lorien Elf's as fodder past the Bridge. Filibert Bolger is also a great counter to both of the Balrogs, the Cave Troll, Lurtz, non-twilight Nazgul...
I don't know what you're specifically struggling against on the Shadow side, but with the fierce Nazgul I've found Blade Tip's and Black Breath's are good against a lot of decks, but can often be useless if they have any condition discard, Athelas, etc... The Nazgul pumps can be very useful (Frozen by Fear, Threshold of Shadow, All Veils Removed, and Swarthy Sneering Fellow is basically a pump too, just don't use him at the Bridge). If you're running the twilight ones obviously include stuff like IWtbF and maybe HTS. Decks using Lord of the Nazgul and Ulaire Enquea, RiT can often get great use out of Dark Whispers, and for them you might consider Blade Tip to combo with Ulaire Otsea, RiT.
Maybe this was helpful, maybe you knew it all already, (and maybe it was actually bad advice, but hopefully not), but at the end of the day just throw spaghetti at the wall and see what does and doesn't stick.
Good luck on your endeavor!
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Yeah, it's hard to say exactly what you need without knowing what you're working with. If you post your decklist (the clipboard button right next to where you load your deck in the deckbuilder) then we'll be able to advise what cards you may be missing or need to cut. If you post a replay or two we might be able to offer some tips on what to do with the cards you draw.
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This is my Fellowship block deck, I took the advice of a GEMP player named Sentinnell and he gave me some good pointers.
https://play.lotrtcgpc.net/gemp-lotr-server/deck/html?deckName=Sentinnel%20advice%20deck
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That link won't work for anyone but you, you'll need to paste the contents of the deck with the clipboard button I mentioned.
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oh whoops ](*,) Here you go:
Ring-bearer: Frodo, Son of Drogo
Ring: The One Ring, Isildur's Bane
Adventure deck:
The Prancing Pony
Weathertop
Ford of Bruinen
Eregion Hills
The Bridge of Khazad-dum
Valley of the Silverlode
Anduin Confluence
Anduin Banks
Emyn Muil
Free Peoples Draw Deck:
1x Arwen, Daughter of Elrond
1x Legolas, Prince of Mirkwood
4x Aragorn, Heir to the White City
1x Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
1x Asfaloth
1x Bow of the Galadhrim
1x Elven Bow
3x Gwemegil
1x Aragorn's Bow
1x Armor
3x Athelas
2x Flaming Brand
1x Ranger's Sword
1x Sting
1x Mithril-coat
1x The Last Alliance of Elves and Men
1x The Tale of Gil-galad
1x The White Arrows of Lorien
4x Gondor Bowmen
3x No Stranger to the Shadows
1x Nice Imitation
1x O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
Shadow Draw Deck:
4x The Witch-king, Lord of the Nazgul
4x Úlairë Attëa, The Easterling
4x Úlairë Enquëa, Ringwraith in Twilight
4x Úlairë Nelya, Ringwraith in Twilight
4x Úlairë Otsëa, Ringwraith in Twilight
1x Fear
4x Black Breath
4x Blade Tip
2x Drawn to Its Power
2x Gates of the Dead City
2x His Terrible Servants
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Hi Craniac - don't get disheartened. There's always hope!
Overview
These main strategies in fellowship block - https://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php?topic=12083.0
I'd pay particular attention to Uruks, Moria Swarm, Sauron Wounding, Nazgul beatdown as if you aren't prepared for them they can cause a world of hurt!
Key cards
Frodo, reluctant adventurer
Filibert bolger
Sting
Legolas, Greenleaf
Armor
Flaming Brand
No stranger to the shadows
Condition removal (Sleep Cahadras, Secret Sentinels, Athelas, Bilbo (Well spoken hobbit)
Aragorn, Heir to the White City
Horn of Boromir
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
Boromir, Son of Denethor / Boromir, Defender of Minas Tirith
Sam, Son of Hamfast
Fellowship
I'm not saying you should play all of the above however there's some pointers. Looking at your list and not wanting to change the type of deck you have you may want to try:
Frodo, Reluctant Adventurer (saves 3 twilight over the course of a game for you)
Free Peoples Draw Deck:
1x Arwen, Daughter of Elrond
1x Legolas, Greenleaf
4x Aragorn, Heir to the White City
1x Asfaloth
1x Elven Bow
3x Gwemegil
1x Aragorn's Bow
2x Armor
3x Athelas
2x Flaming Brand
1x Ranger's Sword
1x Sting
1x Mithril-coat
1x The Last Alliance of Elves and Men
1x The Tale of Gil-galad
4x Gondor Bowmen
3x No Stranger to the Shadows
1x O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
1x Filibert Bolger
1x Sam, Son of Hamfast
1x Boromir, Son of Denethor
2x Bilbo, Well-spoken hobbit
The cards which have been added in will help against swarm, sauron wounding and uruk beatdown. The extra companions are for 'oh dear!' moments, swarm and to chuck under something big and smelly also they have great utility. You could take out one copy of gwemegil, no stranger, elven bow if you wanted to get the deck smaller.
Shadow
Twlight Nazgul are always fun when it pays off however I've always found the best strategy for them is to have a hybrid version with twilight witch-king.
Maybe some inspiration - https://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/index.php?topic=8674.0.
I've found the key to nazgul are they aren't great against choke, archery or flaming brand so need something to get them in cheaper, soak up archery wounds and get over flaming brand/get rid of it.
The best Nazgul by far are weapon cantea and shotgun enquea hence them being in EVERY nazgul deck until they rotated out.
Hope this helps!
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thank you for the advice, I'll start working on a new deck with these strategies in mind. :up: