The Last Homely House
Undying Lands => Valinor => Topic started by: NappyKorn on May 21, 2008, 11:39:39 AM
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Since no one else had made a thread to post game results I figured I'd start it up since I guess I would be one of the few remaining active players. Feel free to post all game results here. A game between me and G-E should be posted soon.
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2 games as a matter of fact. And both I lost, 1 for sure, the other was just a matter of time. First I played Smeagol/Frodo/Bilbo paired with my assignment mess-up. That is a deck which centers around Sense of Obligation, Gollum and Her Ladyship. Without that last one it is kinda hard to win.....Nappy played mountain loving dwarves with Smeagol twist with NG as a shadow. Well it was more than that, because he to pull of the Put Forth His Strength combo. Which is in essence a stupid card, because when you meet the requirements, you have already won...practically. Well he was doing his thing, wounding me and all till my connection fell out. He would have won, for sure!
Game 2. My Solo Smeagol/tentacles vs his Frodo/Aragorn/pippin twist choke with as shadow a Balrog Launch deck. Well I choked him rather good, but a Balrog paired with 3 runners at site 7 was more then I could chew! Well done, my dear friend Nappy and thanks for the good games!
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Yes great games always a pleasure to win a double header. Well as any LOtR player knows things can happen at any point in a game so the first game was a draw. I have played several games having the upper hand most if not every site until the one I lost at. The one in particular that springs to mind was my clobbering of Dain with my corrupting orcs that win by decking and spotting 5 burdens to corrupt. At the beginning of his next turn he would have corrupted by nay if puuled ashadow win of his own seconds before his turn would have begun. So in closing the first game wasn't a win for me but was looking good. And the second game took tons of holding and hand clogging for me to get it won. Great game andhope we have plenty more ;D.
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Stickied. Should help.
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Well it seems this thread si getting any posts so even though I normally don't post my game results I will give a brief result of my last game against G-E.
Game Results:
NK's Gandy Exerting RB with Tentacle Swarm
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G-E's [elven] events with [sauron] Beseigers
I bid 1 and he bid 0 so he went first. He played nothing at site one and moved straight to site 2. I played Green Dragon Inn as the site giving me only [6] to work with. I played Evil-smelling Fens (hoping he would double). We both passed the Regroup phase and he moved again. At Site 3 I played Huge Tentacle and used it's text to grab Watcher on the Water, Keeper of Westgate. He assigned Watcher to Glorfindel, Revealed in Wrath and Celeborn faced the Huge Tentacle. Glorfindel Took a wound and Celeborn pumped to keep from dying (I was hoping the strength 9 damage +2 tentacle would score an early kill).
On my first freeps turn I burned Farmer Maggot with Saved from the Fire to grab 2x Home and Hearth and a Scouring of the Shire. I moved and he played Siege Troop bearing Gothmog's Warg. For maneuver I played Be Gone! (exerting Gandy 3 times) to make the Troop strength 15 (would have been better having either the Herb Bag or Terrible and Evil in Hand). I assigned him to Aragorn Strider and lost the fight 8-15. I passed the regroup phase and he controlled site 1. I stayed.
He played a ring on his Galadriel RB (costing 0) and moved to site 4. I played Trollshaw Forest giving me [9] Twilght. I played Captured By the Ring (giving me a threat and Gollum). I then played Led Astray (replacing site 4). I now had 10 twilight to play some tentacles on his small fellowship. I played Another Huge Tantacle (used his text to Grab Watcher in the Water, Many Tentacled Creature). I used Watcher's text to grab my other Huge Tentacle from the discard pile along with a reaching tentacle. I was done. For Maneuver G-E discarded the ring on Galadiel to heal her and place a Siege Troop on top of his draw deck. During the assignment phase Glorfindel faced Watcher, Celeborn faced a Huge Tentacle and Galadriel faced Reaching Tentacle. I assigned the other Huge Tentacle on his RB as expected. Glorfindel took his wound and Celeborn took his 2 wounds. In Galadriel's skirmish he played Forearmed (as excepted with the ring being discarded in the maneuver phase) and reduced my huge tentacle to a measily 0 strength, but she was still overwhelmed 3-7 thanks to Reaching Tentacle spotting 3 other tentacles in play. Great Game G-E.
We continued to play after that so I could test the worthiness of my freeps. I believe they did pretty well, not as consistent as I would like, but fun to play anyway :up:.
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My second game back since my months-long break from playing (thanks a lot, master's degree! :evil:), and I got my first win in a LONG time, a matchup between two VERY interesting decks....
My WTG / BoQ / Bombadil with Expanded Forestguls (Link) (http://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/index.php?topic=415.0)
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AgentDrake's "Dwarven Swarm" with Gollum's Tentacle Swarm
I bid only 1 (should have bid more...it's been a while, folks!), but thankfully he bid 0, so I chose him to go first...very important for my deck and BAD for his, as it turned out. I make him raise an eyebrow with my starting fellowship of Faramir, Bearer of Quality and Aragorn, Well-traveled Guide...he makes me frown with his starting fellowship of SEVEN companions: Gimli, Bearer of Grudges, Thorin III, my namesake Dain Ironfoot, and four Dwarf Guard. Don't waste your time looking it all up: the [3]-cost Dain makes Thorin cost [1] and the Guards each cost (0). It works, trust me.
With Forestguls, I obviously play a forest first: Trollshaw Forest, which is (good for me) the same thing he had at Site 1 to benefit his possession-heavy Dwarves. Between the possessions (and Mountain Homestead) he played, the site I played, and the army of Dwarves he moves with, I got 16 twilight to play with at Site 2, enabling me to play Duplicitous Lieutenant AND Captain of the Nine Riders, even though both were roaming. I nixed his Homestead with DL, then beat up Thorin and Dain pretty good with the pair of Nazzies: two wounds each. He stayed.
For my first move, I did NOT draw a Tom Bombadil (a major key to this deck), but did get plenty of other good stuff: Faramir's Sword and a Ranger's Cloak (both of which I put on Faramir) and my first of many copies of Invigorated. I moved and he played Gollum, not betraying his tentacle strategy yet, and added a threat. Aragorn beat Gollum handily, but smelling a trap (and wanting more forests for my Nazzies), I stayed as well.
He moved to Site 3, and despite all the twilight, I could muster only one Nazgul. He handled it easily enough this time (though with Gimli to keep his other injured guys alive, so he had to add 2 threats) and stayed to heal next turn.
I got Tom out now, and one more Invigorated, but nothing else. The [5] added by Tom, combined with the [2] from companions and more from the site I had played, allowed him to play Evil-smelling Fens with a Goblin Runner and a tentacle...probably would have been more if they weren't still roaming. Faramir was forced to skirmish, and with a threat already added earlier, I had to add the burdens. But I got to remove one of them by exerting Tom with a Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom. I lost one of the battles, but I considered moving on...opting to stay when I realized there was twilight left and tentacles wouldn't be roaming anymore from here on out.
He healed up 5 of his 6 wounds, played some Endurance of Dwarves on a couple of his companions (including Dain), some more possessions, and gave me plenty of twilight to work with again. I took advantage, playing the site Buckland Homestead and two Nazgul to discard both of his new Endurances. One of the Nazgul played here was the famous "Shotgun Enquea", Ulaire Enquea LoM, so with plenty of companions to qualify, I exerted three times to kill Dain Ironfoot. He sacrificed one of his Dwarf Guards to make it out relatively intact after that, with just one wound on Thorin and another on a Dwarf Guard, I believe...and that includes the threat wounds. He stayed.
I followed with NOTHING played, giving him very little twilight to work with (thanks to my (0) Buckland Homestead). He played a Watcher with no tentacles, which I was able to best with Aragorn and an event. I wanted to move again, I really did, but I was terrified of tentacles WITH the Watcher already out and with Aragorn still "naked", since I hadn't gotten any cards to play on him yet. I stayed as well.
The next site was rather uneventful...I don't remember much of it, actually. I think I managed just one Nazzie and dropped another wound or two. That was about it. With twilight left over, he wisely stayed put.
I was in for a surprise on my turn. He played Gollum DaD again, adding another threat in the process, but more importantly he used DaD's Shadow ability to wound Faramir and slap a Treacherous Little Toad on him. Faramir, whose ability I rely on later in the game (and requiring wounding him to pull off), suddenly couldn't heal. Ruh-roh. He dropped another Watcher (discarding Gollum) and a tentacle after that, which forced Faramir back into battle. He won, and Aragorn took just one wound, but I had to burn a NfFatRoD to remove the 2 threats and add them back with Faramir's drawback.
All the same, he had drained the twilight pool and I had managed to exhaust the Watcher and kill the tentacle, so I took a gamble and moved again. Luckiest turn EVER: he didn't draw a single minion, and since this particular Watcher was the old-school Keeper of Westgate (rather than the Many-tentacled Creature he had used earlier), he couldn't pull tentacles back from discard either. I gladly stayed to heal Aragorn up next turn.
Poor Drake's next turn was disastrous. Unable to handle anymore wounds with Thorin, he was forced to sacrifice two more Guards and throw Gimli into battle as well, adding 2 threats again, then 3 burdens in fierce (aided by the fact he was forced to wear the Ring). He limped into the second and last sanctuary with six total wounds spread across his three remaining companions, and Gimli now forced to add burdens to fight...and only three away from corruption. And perhaps even worse...I managed to FINALLY pull a Lost n The Woods, which of course went on Gimli as well. Any Nazgul taking him on was now strength +4, as there were 4 forests out by now.
Now ahead in the race, I moved into Region 3. I FINALLY got a card to play on Aragorn -- a Ranger's Cloak -- and Boromir, My Brother to give Faramir a little more vitality...a godsend, since he still couldn't heal. Most importantly, I played Thrarin, Dwarven Smith to give me a throw-away speed bump and absorb a minion, and unknown to Drake, finally got two copies of what made Tom Bombadil great in this deck: One Whom Men Would Follow. I now essentially had the means to handle three minions (or four if Aragorn and his defender bonus could handle two) without Faramir having to fight. Confident for the first time in a while, I strolled into Site 7. Once again, I got very lucky, as he could manage only a Goblin Runner and 2 tentacles. Choosing to save my allies for now (for a potential game-winning double move next turn), I chose to throw Faramir into battle anyway, using him to kill a tentacle while Aragorn (aided by a Swordarm of the White Tower) handled the Runner and other tentacle, taking just one wound in the process. I stayed, prepared as I could be for one final push next turn.
As unlucky as Drake had been so far, he DID manage to heal all wounds as he moved on, thanks to the sanctuary, the one underground site he had managed to play at Site 6, and Till Durin Wakes Again. He also got several possessions on his companions and another Endurance of Dwarves on Thorin. But it was unfortunately all for naught.
I started by playing Ulaire Nelya, Third of the Nine Riders, then used his ability to replace his Site 7 with Woody-End. I played 2 more cheap Nazgul from hand ( Ulaire Lemenya, Assailing Minion and Ulaire Nertea, Dark Horseman, if memory serves), then exerted all three and made him remove a burden to play the toil 2 Witch-king, Captain of the Nine Riders from discard. He took a couple minutes to calculate everything, but with Lost In The Woods now making each Nazgul assigned to Gimli strength +5, and many of his pumps used up earlier, even with the weakest two Nazgul assigned to Gimli, he was forced to either let Gimli be overwhelmed or put on the Ring and survive, but corrupt himself when he lost and was forced to add a burden. He chose the corruption route, and a very good game between two evenly-matched decks came to a close.
I would have been VERY curious to see if I could have survived the next two sites. I still had plenty of burdens I could have added and been fine, but whether or not I could handled an all-out tentacle swarm...it would have been close. REALLY close, either way. His Shadow side was pretty much the perfect counter for my Freeps, but he was cursed by bad drawing. My Shadow side turned out to be a tough match for HIS Freeps as well, so it all came down to luck, in my opinion. For this game, I had THAT going for me.
Well played, Drake! Hope we get to play again sometime soon. :up:
EDIT by Kralik: Cleaned up autolink bug.
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Dain, I guess you have been lucky, because tentacle swarm must be the most NPE around. And I have seen many decks, played a lot but it is such an easy deck that hurts sooo bad....blugh
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Yeah, but I try to keep it from being too annoying. I really NOLINKhate anything NPE, so I try to add strategy. Hence the Gollum, DaD with Treacherous Little Toad, and et cetera.
Dain's got a really fun deck, though.
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Dain, I guess you have been lucky, because tentacle swarm must be the most NPE around. And I have seen many decks, played a lot but it is such an easy deck that hurts sooo bad....blugh
Actually, the right deck (elves) drops Tentacles immediately. Use some targeted stuff on Watcher, condition tossing on ESF immediately and suddenly, swarms disappear. That's how I've been able to crunch Tentacles.
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Wow this thread has crapped out. well at least Dain got a victory on my tonight so be prepared for a good report :up:.
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I'm waiting to see the report......
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As I'm I, I wonder where our Dwarf has gone.
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Caring for my wife most of today, who just had a wisdom tooth pulled this morning. Hopefully I'll get the report up today.
She's also insisting I stick with my normal game tonight, so assuming she doesn't end up needing me after all, I'll be up for another game this evening. :up:
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I hope your wife is doing well bro :up:. Can't wait to read the report when you post it. I have to work this evening so a game won't be possible for me ;(. Perhaps next Monday we can do it again, I had a blast losing to you :up:.
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NappyKorn's Underground/Mountain Dwarves with Machinegun Enquea
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My Frodo/Sam/Wizard Choke with Slowly Advancing Nazzies
NK's deck I'd seen before, and it's usually lethally effective. The Free Peoples side uses some of the Dwarves' heaviest hitters (Durin III, Dain Ironfoot, Gloin SoG, and Gimli FA) with Slinker, either winning skirmishes with the Dwarves or just negating minions with Slinker's skirmish ability. It helps that he uses Resolute Hobbit as his Ring-bearer, so he can add LOTS of burdens and use Slinker's text pretty much whenever he needs it.
He also slaps a Follow Smeagol onto Slinker and controls the sitepath, laying down mountains and underground sites for his Dwarves to use with Mountain Homestead and Till Durin Wakes Again. Nothing too fancy beyond that...just some basic weapons and rings to make the Dwarves bigger, though not enough to make Durin his normal beastly self.
The Shadow side is all about the famous Ulaire Enquea, Lieutenant of Morgul, pairing him with Ring of Rancor for maximum carnage. (Last time I played this deck, Shotgun Enquea slaughtered me almost singlehandedly.) It also has a smattering of other Nazzies and [Wraith] Orcs that harrass the Ring-bearer, get initiative to get bigger, and add some threats and/or burdens along the way.
My deck has a semi-choke for the FP side, with only Frodo, Sam, and Gandalf (with a Radagast tossed into the deck for potential help later in the game). It makes Frodo and Sam big with A Promise and swords, and Gandalf is rather large eventually as well with Foe-hammer, Gandalf's Staff, Radagast's Herb Bag, and Pallando.
Of course, it uses Saved From The Fire to help set all this up. The starting fellowship has Leader of Men, who is burned as soon as possible in favor of Gandalf Returned, who then loads up on the aforementioned gear.
Like NK's deck, my fellowship ALSO benefits from site control, with Concerning Hobbits being my prime Hobbit event. Other pumps come in the form of Servant of the Secret Fire and the token conditions (which Returned can reinforce) Sudden Fury and Not the First Halfling.
Once Gandalf and all his stuff are out, the deck chokes pretty well. The spells are all free thanks to Gandalf's Staff and Concerning Hobbits is free as well, so the only twilight added is during the fellowship phase...and again, once Gandalf is burned and resurrected, there's not much to be added after that.
My Shadow side is sort of a hybrid between my favorite Forestguls (who help set up Concerning Hobbits) and Shapes Slowly Advancing. I've used this condition before, but always as a sort of side strategy. This time, it's the main focus, with the goal not of possible corruption, but of forcing the FP player to take companions into hand and then, when they're replayed, hammering them with Out of Sight and Shot and Surrounded by Wraiths. It cycles like mad with Hatred Stirred, Ithil Stone, and lots and lots of Nazzies; like most of my Ringwraith decks, this one typically drops 4+ Nazgul by the latter half of the game. Dark Approach is a big help in this regard (especially paired with Black Shadow), but the cost of replying companions over and over helps out a lot too. :twisted:
Okay, now the actual game. I bid to make him go first. My Shadow draw was terrible, with NO Nazgul and Swarthy Sneering Fellow the only minion in my hand. But my FP hand was excellent, so I kept it. I put Ferny on Smeagol to force him to either exert early (he already had Follow Smeagol, which I knew would be problematic) or add a burden to win. He chose the latter, saving the exertion to use Follow Smeagol that turn and play Site 3. Somewhat surprisingly, he stayed, perhaps falsely thinking I had more minions in my hand. Lucky me. :D
My first turn, I played Not The First Halfling, A Promise, and used a SftF to pull Returned (using his text to grab Foe-hammer), Gandalf's Staff, and of course, Sent Back. I had the Herb Bag in my hand, so Gandalf started out fully loaded.
Unfortunately, so did the twilight pool...one thing I hadn't thought fully through. Between the condition and all Gandalf's tricks, I added 14 twilight before I ever moved! With it being Site 2 and all minions being roaming, he was a LITTLE limited in what he could do, but not enough. He made me pay for my oversight and got three minions out, including a Morgul Brute. Four wounds and a burden later, I stayed.
Site 3 was relatively uneventful. I only got one Nazgul out, but that was enough to also play SSA, OoSaS, and SbW. He took a wound from the Nazzie but managed to kill it before regroup (negating Shapes), used Follow Smeagol again, and opted to stay. As he did so, though, he used There's Another Way to replace Site 3 with my least favorite site in the game: Steward's Tomb. Not much healing in my immediate future.... :-\
My FP hand was awful, but fortunately I didn't give him much twilight, so I was able to limp into Site 3 without any further damage.
Site 4 began a slow, slow grind with my Shadow side. I got two out now, and while he managed to discard one with Dain's ability, he was forced to start paying attention to Shapes. He chose to take Gimli back into hand, comforted by the fact that he'd he able to play him next turn for only [2] (thanks to Dain).
Unable to heal, I dragged my small, wounded fellowship forward. Sam fell valiantly defending Frodo from further damage, and I stayed.
Next turn, he doubled for the first time, once again taking Gimli into hand to negate Shapes at Site 6. But my Nazgul began to get to him, and he was forced to keep piling on the burdens to protect Smeagol (Dark Horseman avoiding Dwarves helped) and taking some wounds with his other companions. He still only had one Mountain Homestead out, so only Durin was able to regularly defeat Nazgul thrown his way, and even he had to be selective. By the time the dust had settled, he had made it to Site 6, but Dain had fallen, Gimli was clogging his hand, burdens were reaching high levels, and wounds were starting to pile up...more by now than the sanctuary would be able to handle.
Unable to double myself, I forged ahead to Site 5, the choking my only saving grace. I FINALLY got my first pumping event, using Concerning Hobbits and Not the First Halfling to help Frodo and Gandalf avoid too much more damage. I think I had 6 wounds between them now...good thing my Ring was Ring of Doom and its vitality +2! I stayed.
NK replayed Gimli (now at [4] thanks to Dain's demise and Surrounded by Wraiths), finally got another Mountain Homestead, and moved forward. I hammered him again with four Nazzies, aided by the fact that he forget to play Site 7, allowing me to play Woody-End to combo with the two Dark Approach and Black Shadow I had in hand. Much of the healing the sanctuary had afforded was wiped out. Knowing Shapes wasn't going to be enough by itself now (the potential healing of taking companions into hand would help him a lot more than it would hurt him), I chose not to use it and instead forced him to stay with his wounds and ever-increasing burdens.
As per usual for my turn, I drew no more pumps (STILL had not seen a single one of my FOUR copies of Servant of the Secret Fire), no Radagast, and nothing else to really help, so moved ahead to Site 6. I took a little more damage here, but like I seemed destined to do this whole game, I simply survived. With what I believe was eight total wounds by now, I stayed, thankful to see no Steward's Tomb under my feet at THIS sanctuary.
Next turn, I claimed my second Dwarf kill, as Gimli became a speed bump over which my Nazzies sped. He managed to do some healing with Ring of Fury, but now down to four companions and only 2 burdens from corruption, things were still looking a bit dire. With Nazgul still on the table, he stayed at Site 8.
I healed as much as I could, healing Gandalf fully and leaving three wounds on Frodo. Why? Because I FINALLY got two copies of Servant of the Secret Fire, and I used them to fend off NK's next attack, exerting Gandalf each time I played SotSF to lay wounds on his minions (thanks to Radagast's Herb Bag). Even through there were now two Morgul Brutes on Frodo, with SotSF, another timely Concerning Hobbits, Sudden Fury, and Ring of Doom, was able to actually win and avoid any further damage. I was finally confident enough to double, and if I had drawn Radagast (and potentially been able to triple to Site 9 and win right then and there), I probably would have. But since NK was about to move to 9 anyway, there was no point, so I stayed.
It all came down to this. My own fellowship lagging far behind, and only one site left in front of NK's reduced and wounded fellowship, it was up to my Nazzies to settle this game. Unable to play Site 9 last turn thanks to an exhausted Smeagol, I once again got to play it myself, choosing to drop Sirannon Ruins with its Shadow number of [4]. Between that and another Dark Approach, I was able to drop only three Nazgul...but one of them was my trump card (which, to be honest, I'd forgotten I tossed in :P): Ulaire Enquea, Lieutenant of Morgul! That's right...I killed him with his own primary Shadow card, using Shotgun Enquea to kill off Durin. Now with more minions than he could handle, and Frodo unable to pump with The Great Ring enough to survive his skirmish because he was pretty much maxed out on burdens, I was able to claim the most improbable victory EVER.
It is only because I kept my burdens down that I survived. He had drawn his own Shotgun Enqueas plenty of times throughout the game, but couldn't use him because I kept my burdens low enough (though his Brutes and Ulaire Attea, Wraith on Wings sure tried to remedy that!) and obviously never had anywhere close to 6 companions. I thought I was done for from the moment I saw Steward's Tomb, but this game was a testament to never, EVER giving up, because you never know when a miracle like your OWN Shotgun Enquea might save your butt. :P
Great game, NK...probably the best I've ever played. Sorry it took me so long to report on it. :-[ If you want to add anything (I probably forgot some details since Sunday), go for it!
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Sweet report as always :up:. Yup sucks when your main shadow guys does your freeps in. Well it happens, had it been any other 3rd nazgul I would have had the game but that is the way it goes. It was an amazing game indeed and glad I played it even though I lost :up:.
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Nice report Dain, played a SSA/forestguls deck myself last week, and it was nasty. Will post my deck here as we speak.
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NappyKorn's Solo Smeagol with Sense of Obligation Enduring Nazgul
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My Smeagol's RB Hobbits with Gollum's Burdening Balrog (link (http://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/index.php?topic=532.0))
As always, NK and I seemed to have a deck well-suited to counter the other. Great minds and all that, I guess. :P
My deck is linked to above, so you can check that thread out for all the details. His is your standard solo Smeagol fare on one side (Safe Passage, There's Another Way, One Good Turn Deserves Another, Poor Wretch, Gladden Homestead, Nasty, etc.) and a strange mix of Sense of Obligation with enduring Nazgul, Shadowy Mount, and Between Nazgul and Prey on the other side.
I somewhat foolishly bid 2 (not really necessary, but oh well) and chose him to go first. As per usual with solo Smeagol, he left me practically no twilight to work with, but I was able to get a couple of my [Gollum] conditions out, then do the same when he doubled to Site 3. Didn't draw Gollum OR any Captured By The Ring, so I couldn't touch him. He used One Good Turn Deserves Another each time he moved and played his own sites, stopping at 3 only because the rules required him to do so. :roll:
I got some support conditions and a Hobbit Sword on Sam, then followed. We both quickly realized his intended strategy wasn't going to work very well. It relies on Sense of Obligation being played on unbound companions and Nazgul being assigned to unbound companions by way of Shadowy Mount and Between Nazgul and Prey. The problem: I didn't have any unbound companions! :P
Fortunately for him, he still had ways to simply beat companions down by using cards like Bent On Discovery and The Ring Draws Them to exert his enduring Nazgul, pumping them up to higher strengths. But unfortunately for him, Smeagol is able to get up to pretty high strength himself, and Sam is able to avoid being overwhelmed by all but the very strongest of minions, so I was able to fend off his attacks and get to Site 3 myself with no more wounds than the sanctuary would be able to handle.
His FP side continued to frustrate mine as well, since my Shadow side relies on being able to play the very expensive Balrog, and solo Smeagol is notorious for giving next to nothing in the twilight token department. I DID finally manage to bring Gollum out in Region 2, but he used a well-timed Clever Hobbits to discard all MY [Gollum] conditions and slaughter Gollum. Disheartened, I trailed him through Region 2, watching him creep further and further ahead by doubling. By the time he reached the second sanctuary, with wounds only from his own exertions, I was already 2 sites behind him, though my little Hobbits and Smeagol were performing most admirably in warding off his Nazgul with little trouble, removing burdens in the procsss.
I got quite lucky in Region 3. He moved to site 7, and I had nothing to throw at him. Confident that I didn't have enough in my hand to touch him (I had discarded 2 too-expensive Balrogs already), he moved to site 8...and left me with exactly 14 twilight. Overjoyed at my good fortune, I played Demon of Might (I had drawn yet another recently). As he tried to calculate whether he could muster the strength to survive (he DID have a Nasty or two in hand, apparently, so he had a pretty good shot at surviving at least until the fierce skirmish), I played Must Do Without Hope, and then another, to corrupt him. He'd been adding burdens throughout to keep getting OGTDA back into his hand--he played EVERY SITE during the game, believe it or not--and I had been patient enough to hold both MDWH that I'd drawn during the game, just hoping for a chance.
We played through my turn just to see what would have happened, and I actually made it to Site 6 with six total wounds, plus a couple Nice Fish with tokens. So again, can't complain about my FP side...it held up quite well.
AND, as it turned out, I had gotten another CbtR and two Look At Him in hand, which, combined with the 5 burdens he had before I corrupted him, means I might have been able to play Gollum AND The Balrog at Site 9 for only [6] twilight, sO I might have had him even if he hadn't doubled. I was rather disappointed at what I thought was a lucky win until I saw that, which helped me feel a little better about the strength of my deck (vs. what I saw as dumb luck).
Good game as always, Mr. Korn. :up: I look forward to seeing that deck of yours.
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Great Report as always bro.I beg to differ on a point you say your freeps wasn't having much trouble with my shadow since you were running Ring-bound comps, but when I died at site 8 you had 7 burdens on your frodo with just 3 until corruption. Another Enquea and you could have corrupted bro. Unfortunately for me that isn't how the game went and you got the victory. My shadow did show up to play though and had I gotten a luckier draw and stayed as I should have things could have been a bit different. Like you said though if I stayed and didn't get you on your next turn you more than likely would have taken me out anyway :up:. Can't wait until our next showdown and it was too bad our 2nd game of that evening couldn't finish as I believe I had you soon :mrgreen:
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Very true on the burdens, but remember that when we played the turn out, Bilbo was able to skirmish and survive, so it would have been down 2 more burdens from that. All the same, you're right...it was getting uncomfortably close. Probably wouldn't hurt me to pack another Not Listening.
And yes, you likely would have had me in the second game with another Saruon. I had another companion in my hand, but when you took out two, it was just a matter of time. On the other side, I had killed two of yours, so my Nazzies might have been able to wear you down and/or abuse your RB before long as well. So you never know.
GG, and I also look forward to our next match. Almost always close and hard fought, no matter who comes out on top in the end. It's amazing how often our decks are near-perfect counters to each other's. :P
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Great reads. The Ironfoot/NappyKorn matches are turning into classics. ;)
Nice work with Clever Hobbits, and to think Must Do Without Hope could be a kill card! Wow!
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Great reads. The Ironfoot/NappyKorn matches are turning into classics. ;)
Heheh...they certainly always feel that way. Rarely are they stinkers, and if they are, it's because my deck is fundamentally flawed. :P
Nice work with Clever Hobbits, and to think Must Do Without Hope could be a kill card! Wow!
Clever Hobbits was just MEAN when he played it. :'(
And Must Do Without Hope is one the best burden-adding cards in the game. Nothing fancy, and no get-out clause for the FP player. Just exert a minion with ridiculous vitality for a burden. It works best because it's like the Spanish Inquisition...no one expects it! :mrgreen:
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Dain's Isildur's Wraiths with [Wraith] Wraith (and Enduring Nazgul) Corruption
vs.
My Sarn Ford Resistance with [Orc] Wargs
It was a short game, with a lot of Shadow beating going on. Bad matchups for the Fellowhsips on both sides.
We both bid 0, I won the coin toss and chose to go first. I pulled Gandy and an Armor, but that's about it - and moved. He threw down a Wraith with the Witch-King, CotNR. It gave me three wounds, and I stayed.
He got out King of the Dead right away, and moved. No swept away, so I tried to hit him with a fierce minion that had Mordor Scimitar and could assign wherever he liked. A pump let his King of the Dead kill my minion, but he chose to stay with 5 in the pool.
I played Elendil and some of Gorn's toys (Anduril and an Armor, which let me play Elendil without exerting). He got a couple burdens from his wraiths, as well as a Dark Swooping Shadows. Aragorn won and Elendil had a wound.
His site 2, he got another companion and moved. I got one A Defiled Charge, but couldn't play another due to vitality issues. He killed my minion with ease, but with enough left in the pool, he chose to stay.
I drew nothing but an Ithilien blade. I moved, and took another burden and a wound.
He only healed Gandalf, opting to keep his wraiths wounded. He hadn't drawn his swept away, but he did add two more companions to his arsenal - Aragorn and a Cursed of Erech - and moved. By this point he had Pallando as well. This play gave me 19 or so to work with.
I got out 4 mounted minions and another Defiled Charge, thanks to Threatening Warg. There was 3 left in the pool, and he had 3 of his 7 companions exhausted, with one of his others having a wound. One of my minions was an Orkish Flanker; so able to discard a Swept Away had he drawn it; along with two Orkish Travelers and another minion. Allowing for the twilight added for my minions, there was no way to get out of the situation without a few companions dying. He had 5 threats. He assigned my minions - adding 10 twilight as he was forced to by his exhausted companions. I overwhelmed Aragorn, and he killed those exhausted companions with threats.
They were all fierce. Two doubled up to Isildir, and the others managed to add 8 more twilight. And so the game ended.
A poor matchup for you Dain, but that brings me 2 for 2 on our games so far! We played out my next site, where he could have added 2 burdens and killed Pippin with Enquea and BNaP. That would've given me 5 of my 8 burdens, so I probably wouldn't have lasted much longer.
GG, Dain!
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Not going to get into much detail as the game was fun and I really didn't expect to win as I did with a deck like this. With that said I didn't pay much attention to detail and hardly do when playing SM as I rarely post results in our games :up:. So here goes.
Game Results:
My: Eventually Solo Frodo with Troll Swarm
vs.
SM's [Elven] Hunters with Battleground [Uruk]
We both bid 0 and I won the toss so she started. She played Arwen, Queen of Elves and Men Namarie and Lego's Bow and Moved. I played Caras Gladhon. I play Troll's Keyward Keeper of the Beast (with no warg) exerted him twice with 4 trolls in hand adding 8. I then played Mountain-troll and was done. I took an arrow from lego's bow which killed Keyward and Mountain-troll killed Rumil. She stayed.
I played a Scouring of the Shire. 2x Home and Hearth and Sting, Elven Long Knife and moved. She played a single Uruk-hai which put 2 wounds on my Farmer Maggot, Hobbit of the Marish. I stayed.
At site 2 she played Legolas and a guardian I believe and moved. I played a Cave Troll which died in archery thanks to a few threats a some exertion on the guardian. She stayed since I had 5 twilght remaining.
With my recocile I got my Saved From the Fire. I burned Farmer Maggot Grabbing The Tale of the Great Ring, Daddy Twofoot and Mithril-coat, Dwarf-mail. I moved. She Played Saruman, Agent of Sauron and was done. I used Make haste she removed the 2 and Gandy Faced Saruman. She exerted him 3 times for the pump and the overwhelm. Now My deck was setup at site 3 and ready for the solo test :up:. I stayed. Nothing Much Happened until site 7 expect my minions dying to archery and wounding a few of her companions from time to time. So on to site 7.......
.....I doubled to site 7 with hardly any trouble. At site 6 she healed played some more guardian and moved. I was able to fight off some archery and managed to kill 1 of her guardian with 3 trolls and a keyward in played (was hoping for more death but she has a good deck). She stayed.
I replayed Pippin healing 1 of frodo's wounds and peeling all my burdens thanks to 4x Home and hearth in play. I moved to 8 giving enough Twilight to see 2 minions at strength 24. She left 4 twilight so for manuever I attached Daddy Twofoot and took Make Haste into hand. Played it she removed 2 to prevent the discard. I chose to wear the ring as well. Both minions went on Frodo. The strength was 24-4 So I added 3 burdens to make it 24-13 and passed I ate 1 burden for the wound. I passed the regroup phase and knowing chance of winning with the trolls was bleek at best I chose to double and hope The Tale of the great Ring wouldn't see any skirmish events. I used my Pressing on added a threat and exerted Frodo to play a site with a 0 shadow number. That gave her 7 to work with. She played another Saruman and another Uruk-hai. Remembering my research using sda for 0 cost skirmish events I knew that [Uruk] culture had no free skirmsh events so I started to celebrate. All 4 minions went on Frodo. She exerted saruman 3 times to make the strength count 44 for her 4 for me. I tossed my The Tale of the Great Ring and Frodo ate his wound and I celebrated a victory with my Standard legal Solo Frodo :up:.
Great Game SM well played. I can't believe how great this deck worked. I'm sure there is something out there that will flat out destroy this deck, but Battleground Uruk-hai is it :up:.
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Minutes ago i have my first experience with SdA against NK we have such a nice game until my connection drops when i´m at site 4 and he at 3! #-o
I hope this don´t happen very often... :-\
Since we will play a "full game" other day i will wait to post the report of our match later.
I just wish to thank very much NK for being so patiance in give me a tutorial in the SdA (since geting hamachi to play in the SdA)!!! :up: :gp: :up:
The funniest part is when he comments something like this in the middle of the game: "Hey man sorry if i get something wrong but i´m tired cause a work until 3 a.m." (not exactly this words :roll:). A few seconds later my connection drops and he talked to me at msn: "Hey bro i´m tired but that doesn´t mean i don´t wanna play anymore...you see, i really like this game" (again my free trascription of his words)...
I just started to laught alone of the situation!
Well, i hope we can manage more games NK! (and with other people too!) :up:
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Yeasterday i have a great game against Dain in a sort of "mix of every block game". Well it´s like this: I played a 100% movie block and Dain play a 100% movie block shadow with a fellowship not exactly 100% (most of it, maybe 90%?) but he forget that the his deck actually run shadow sites! hehehe. So to don´t waste a chance of a good game we agree in try something a little bit different... we mix the sites! I played my sites in the normal order and he could choose the order of his (what somehow gives him a little advantage). The twilight of his sites are shadow standard so it´s region + site cost.
So it´s...
Dain´s Elf-Dwarf friendship with Moria damage swarm
vs.
My Valiant Rohan with Southron "exerting to the death" beatdown
Both of us bid 1 and i won at the coin and chooses to start. playing some possessions on my comps for twilight -1 of the site and one thundering host. i move to 2 (Prancing Poney #-o) and he throws two minions that i could handle withou too many problem, changing the site for my plain site with Grimbold, but since my fellowship are far away to be set and he has some pool left i decided to stay.
He then pull some elven condition that remove threats and a elven bow for Galadriel, Glorfindel also joins the party (i can´t recall exactly if it´s at site 1 or 2...). He moves and i play two strenght 8 ambush 1 minions. he exerted gmili twice to make him and the elfs strenght +3 and kill one of my minions lefting the other on the table with some pool. He thinks for a moment and decided to stay too (maybe for some path control...)
I moved to 3 playing some more conditions and possessions and he could drop some conditions (2 armories among them #-o) i have a let us be swift in hand but cannot spot 3 valiant companions yet (where is my people?). i kill a minion with the bow (maybe i shouldn´t have used this time, but how i have other in the deck and a armory at table i guess isn´t that bad)
He moves into 3 without more problem and stay.
I finally get my fisrt comp (Gamling) and thing start to get better for my frodo (the tale and there and back again). i move directly to...Khazhad´um...Ooopsss and guess who makes his first appearence? Yeah, our little flaming friend :twisted:. Well i this point i think: "I have a big damage +2 minion and the only copanion who can survive it it´s Grimbold with swift stead but he cannot be assign cause have strenght 6! Time to Theoden, TaP say good-bye and call Eomer, KoO from my draw deck (with some possession with him flooding the pool), so i stay discarding two armories in the regroup with Let us Be Swift. and i change the site for my plains that adds more twilight (witch was a bas ideia since i enable him to play the Bridge AGAIN later)...
Dain´s turn: he plays Gimli Battle Axe, VW and move. I throw some minion but he is so full of events (wound events and pump events that he just kill my st 14 fierce minion and his friend (that leaves a wound on him in the archery phase). It must have be about 5 event or so what leaves his hand empty, but he played really well!
i move to 5 adding nothing from pool and he manage to get me with a litle swarm. My luck that just one go on Frodo and the little Hobbit actually WINS his skirmish with the hobbit sword! :up: to Frodo! My other guys kill the other minions (Grimbold takes a wound from ancient chiefitain and i decided to stay). I played some possession to pump Gamling. Before skirmish phase ended i switch the site for MY Pelennor Praiare :hey: which makes Dáin curses me...hehehe.
He throws out one more companion and plays that crap khazad armor (actually it´s a great card) on gimli and a endurance of dwarves. I played some guys and manage to get him some more wounds and threats... I can´t remeber exactly what i have played (for sure a lot of conditions like Field of the Fallen, Cast Unto the Winds and Rallying Call). He added two burden at the manuever so i use Discovered to get rid of some of his conditions...
I played Eowy SdoE and move on and he plays some more armed minions (with that damage +1 for armed charachters i think...), Host of Moria among them! for my sake i didn´t had gave him much twilight... whew! i have to cancel one skirmish with the Rohirrim helm and lose to host (which he keep on table to ensure that i will not double. He was right i guess... :roll:
He drops 2 more comps Linnar with Khazad armor and some Elf with the bow, at this time Glorfindel also had a bow... Well, this make his fellowship big with 7 companions and gives me a ton of twilight... for his bad luck i played Southron Veteran with a Seasoned Leader, a Mumak Chiefitain and War Towers which really mess up his fellowship a little bit, puting a lot of wounds on his people and killing one of his elfs. he then wisely uses his armor of Khazad to prevent a disaster to his fellowship. Obvously he choose to stay at the sanctuary...
I move to 7 again don´t giving any extra pool for the shadow phase. Every thing was just calculeted until he plays Mount Doom playing a swarm with wallcrawlers, chiefitain, runner Scavenger and the Troll (or some like this)!!! #-o
At this point i think Frodo would have some problem... but luckly i could manage a way to get out of it without any kills... just a lot of wounds!
He moves to 7 and i threw some Minions with Mumak Chiefitain AND a Line of defenses (for the sake of my exerting minions...) i give him some more exerts and wounds and he headed to regroup with almost every companion exhausted, i use Cast Unto the Winds to kill Glorofindel and more elf...
At this point both of our fellowship had five badly beaten companions and our shadows are just waiting a chance to get some more shadow kills. I thought if i could survive to 8 i could manage to kill him when he moves or at least make the survive to 9 very unlikely if he doubles...
I move to 8 and guess what... that damned bridge again!!! and Balrog strenght 17 damage +1 fierce with some moria backup against my beaten fellowship!!! :o I manage to heal Eowyn in the manuever playing some possessions on her, including Heavy Chains, witch allows her to get Balrog of the first skirmish... But the fierce is gonna get someone bad... Then i just have the ideia: Let´s leave it to the little hobbit!!! He is the only that can take that two wounds in fierce. I don´t know any pump event for Balrog so i discard there and back again which makes Frodo on 7 and puts the ATAR with leaves him at 9!!! Then i put the burdens and survived without any deaths! :up: But i´m at my limits i guess and with Balrog on play maybe isn´t a good ideia try to double... So i put my faith in a shadow kill since my shadows isn´t a easy matchup for his fellwship (like his isn´t to mine!).
He moved to 8 with exhausted Gimli 4 wounds but with two endurance of dwarves and strength about 13. i played two southrons and the final blow... Grima :twisted: who send Gimli in a one way race to the dead pile! I guess he will have some trouble with the threats now :hey: then guess what... our connections drop out!!! #-o
This leaves our first battle tied!!! I´m not sure if i would have killed Galadriel this time and maybe he manage to survive and get a shadow kill when i moved to 9...
Anyway i really don´t care too much about who is the winner i´m just happy to had a good game with a great player! :up:
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That was a wild and wacky (and very fun) game from start to finish. It's pretty nutty playing with a mix of King Block sites and Standard sites...silly mistake on my part. #-o Pepin was very gracious to let it continue and still managed to get most of his sites out with that blasted Grimbold.
It would have been very interesting to see how the game turned out, but it was going to be an uphill battle for me without Gimli. I was completely floored by the appearance of Wormtongue, and poor Gimli was toast. I think that would have kept your fellowship pretty safe for your final move, Pepin, since my hand was suddenly clogged by 2 Endurance of Dwarves, a Ring of Retribution, an Armor of Khazad AND Gimli's Trusted Weapon. I DID have a Host of Moria and a couple small goblins in my hand, but I don't think I would have come anywhere close to getting at Frodo. I'm willing to concede this was a win for you, regardless of the fact that the connection dropping made it a little more controversial.
That is a great deck you've got there. Still pretty pleased with how mine did as well, but I just couldn't get enough stuff at the end there to save myself. Too many exertions and wounds piling up after a while, and consistantly with only 2 or 3 minions. Truly NOLINKnasty. :up:
Next time I promise I'll have the right sites. Silly oversight on my part. :roll:
Good game!
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Game Results:
NK's Mountain/Underground Dwarves with Machince Gun Enquea
vs.
Pepin the Breve's [Gondor] and Gandy Support with Under the Watching Red Eyes
Results:
First and foremost I have a garbage memory when it comes to game results so this will be half hearted (thank goodness it was a quick game). We both bid 0 and he won the toss. He decided to go first since he needed Prancing Pony for Aragorn.
He managed to pull Gorn in starting hand so no burden and with pip in starting fellowship Thorongil played for just 2. He also played Pallando and a sword on faramir. At site two I played Flung into the Fray, Nertea, Dark Horseman, and a copy of Gates of the Dead City. Nertea faced Pipin first for the kill and for fierce went on Isildur his RB. He elected to exert 3 companions and ate another wound for losing, he stayed.
For my first turn I got Gloin into play an axe and Ring of Fury on him, and played a Thorin's Harp. I moved he managed a single minion which Gloin killed, I stayed liking to control the path.
For His next turn he played very little if anything at all and moved. I had Nertea stacked on Flung into the Fray, but got another in my hand so I played the one from Hand. My twilight was spent but we all know who fought the Nazgul. He exerted for the first skirmish then ate 3 burdens and stayed.
I got a good freep's draw now and played x2 Mountain Homestead exerted 2 dwarves to play No Pauses, No Spills, Played Durin III and an axe on him as well as a few more support cards. He managed to get 2 [Sauron] minions out on me. For Maneuver I exerted a dwarf to make the locale a mountain. Durin III killed one and he discarded for the axe, and same thing happend in Gloin's skirmish. I stayed.
He was already heavily burden by his healing at site 3. He played very little again (though he had 4 cards left in hand) and moved forward. I played Streaming to the Field, Ulaire Attea, Wraith on Wings, Morgul Brute, and Another copy of Gates of the Dead City. Seeing as Streaming to the Field was out and I had 1 morc in play he lost iniative so Attea with the Ring of Rancor added three burdens which corrupted poor old Isildur. He needed to exert 6 companions as well but with corruption taking his RB that was game.
All I needed was my Machine Gun Enquea and I would have killed his exhausted fellowship at Slag Mounds, but I will take this win none the less :up:. Great Game Pepin the Breve and welcome to the world of expanded :up:. Now you get to post our 2nd game and show them you can win a game in expanded as well.
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I have played two matches agains NK today (he should be posting the first when he got some time).
So it´s...
My: Gondor/Gandy with Sauron Wounding
vs.
NK´s Hobbits/Smegol Skirmish Cancel with Sauron and Orc wounding
We both bid 0 and i won the coin so i decided to start. I played PP and unlike our first game, this time i had a very good first hand and played Gandalf, Derufin and pull Gorn with the prancing get lots of twilight for him. he plays some sauron trackers a orc lackey (think is this one) and put some Under the Watching Eye/ Demoralized combo to work. Since he haven´t play bigger minion i was able to clean the table and double to 3. Again he manage to wound some of my companions. I just killed Pippin and stayed.
He used merry to get Maggot from deck. He moved to 2 and i drop a single minion that makes the site -3 with a sword so he canceled the skirmish with the follower and that event (i don´t recall the name) that return a follower to cancel skirmish and then get it back and then ge the event back to hand adding a burden. Since i have twilight lef and my minions would not be roaming he decided to stay.
I heal my party and play a pathfinder to play my site 4 cavern entrace and moved. again he manage to get me with some wounds. luckly for me i have faramir, SoD that keeps his wounding minions at bay. At this point my fellowship are almost set up and i have not much problem in handling his minions, althought he keeps adding wound after wound on my people.
He plays some more conditions like that damned scouring of the shire and other followers and move on. I was able to put three minions at the table just to stop him. He killed Merry (that has no nome use to him and stayed, canceling the other skirmishes.
I played pathfinder and drops my cavern entrance (since has a low twilight cost and don´t affect my freeps). He manage to put more and more wounds on my fellowship. Since i had pump events on hand and an empty table at regroup i moved on to sanctuary (whew i gonna heal my so wounded fellowship) just to see him put Stewart´s Tomb and destroy all my hoped of healing!!! :up: for him! Luckly he don´t have many minion and hates to throw at me so i survived!
At this point the battle begins to turn my fellowship against his shadow since i´m far ahead in the path (well he sure can start to run, but i thinked i should be able to stop him one time or another).
He moved to 4 and i drop 2 nasty minions against him just to see one get killed by Pippin, WoBaS and the other have the skirmish canceled. He decided to try his luck and move again and i had 3 minions more on table which forced him to get a lot of wounds (not really a huge problem for his hobbits :roll:).
I moved to 7 expecting the worst but thanks to Sapling of the White Tree i was able to make my companions still breathing. He throw a bunch of minions but again i was able to handle them, but with a LOT of wounds!!! I had to stay for the sake of my people.
He played a LOT, and i mean, A LOT of things (i even didn´t count the twilight leaving that to him...hehehe) althought some were cost 0. A manage to play some big minions, including a fierce Orc Archer Troop. Again he just manage to make Sam defender +1 canceling his skirmish, makes my minion loses fierce, and canceled the other one with Smeagol, cause he was having some path controling with him (just changed the tomb for some other site that heals hobbits, lol). At this point he was playing very nice with his little guys (avoiding to skirmish my minions and keeps healing his party) but decide to stay to get rid from the wounds and exertions that i keep giving to his companions.
I moved to 8 and, for my luck, he was almost decked! But he wisly chooses Neekerbreekers´s Bog just to exert some more of my companions! He played Grishnak, some pursuers and a lackey and again i manage to kill them all. At this point i had so many exertions that all my companions are near to being exhausted but since he don´t have more cards to play i just moved to 9 without being warmed.
That was a great game indeed! :up: Far better then the last one when i had very bad draws (forget to mulligan then... #-o) and he just corrupt me at site 4 with his very...very...VERY NASTY Nazguls!
His hobbits with Smegol are a great "survival team" just have some dificult to double sometimes but his shadow also can make a decision of doubling very painful! I loved the combo Under The Watching Eye with Desmoralized. Maybe if he had some bigger minions or more copies of hate he could have improved even more his hability to Kill!
NK is a great player and a excelent deckbuilder so it was great fun for sure! Hope we manage to get more games :up:
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Yeah man i have much to learn outside movie block (movie too! But but at least i´m more used to the cards and playing strategy)!
I just get disappointed in our first game cause i move to 4 with near no freep cards draw!!! :down: And for my bad luck i was facing a very dangerous shadow side... At least if i have pulled one of my 4 copies of Gandy i could manage to survive some more sites...hehehe. But i guess you have all the merit from squeezing my fellowship so early on!
Sorry for the lack of detail in our match but my memory really sucks for this! :roll:
I will try to make some improvements in this deck to make it work a little better, feel free to give any suggestions!
Take care!
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A short one as its late
NappyKorn's Solo Smeagol & Nazgul Corruption
vs
TheJord's Dwarves & [Sauron]/[Orc] Grind
I should point out from the beginning that I convince NK to play instead of going to bed so I feel bad about making him lose sleep for LOTR! He played well for a tired man. ;D
Stupid Solo Smeagol killed off a lot of my strategy right from the beginning. No unbound companions for Orkish Lackey, I knew I should have packed Gothmog, ML for the finisher.
Anyway he owned the sitepath but my Dwarves fared well, even without a single No Pauses, No Spills the whole game. His corruption angle didnt kick off until site 4 but he slapped me with about 5-6 burdens between sites 4-6.
I had a chance to pile on Smeagol at one point but failed to swap out Caras Galadhon with Unforgiving Depths... stupid. So I only played Black Gate Sentry when I could have slapped 2 more minions out.
My Dwarves were solid and I knew I would have to run to avoid corruption so I bunny hopped him at site 6, moved through sanctuary and doubled 7-9. Good game NK.
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I have played a few games these past weeks but some of them i just couldn´t finish and some (like one against NK) wasn´t really that fair cause his got a tremendous bad luck on his shadows draws so i didn´t posted nothing here (not that it wasn´t fun), but today i just played a insane match against our new member Noldonur in the good and old Movie Block format!
So its was:
MY valiant [Rohan] with Mixed Southrons
Vs.
Noldonur´s Knights with Initiative Southrons
I bid 1 but he bids 2 and chooses to start. He reveals Isildur with Isildur´s Bane :o. I thought: "Or this guy don´t fear for his RB or he is up to something evil...". He then plays highlander Alcarin and Turgon. played a few fortifications, a knight´s mount and moved. I have nothing really good to play so i played CUtW and an archer that he can easly get rid of, doubling to 3. I drop a medium guy with a mumak an another archer with Seasoned Leader making him stops with 6 wounds...
I played Eomer (who calls some possessions from my draw deck), Eowyn and some conditions givin him a huge amount of twilight and fearing for the worst but he had only one minion at hand! he drops a Harsh Tongues and then proceed to assign. He play and event in order to make his minion survive until regropu and remove 9 (yeah he had that) to put 3 tokens on it just to see me playing Let Us be Swift sending his newly acquired initiative gongo straight to discard pile. :hey: with no twilight left for him i decide to move again. he then played another Harsh Tongues and a Rout and more one or two minions with Mumakil that i could handle without too many problem, discarding my Arrow-slitz.
He heals at sanctuary and play a lot (i mean A LOT) of fortifications and conditions (he benefits greatly from my site 3 "add a threat to play a fortification from your deck") and Ingold. He moves to 4 and i drop a Mr. Mumak Chieftain, a Bowman with Seasoned Leader and a Field of the Fallen. I manage to use Seasoned to get another Seasoned at skirmish caughin him by surpirse but he wisely use some fortifications and knights mount to kill my minions and surviving to regroup death with Cast Unto the Winds :up: for him! Since i have some twilight left he chooses to stay. At least i manage to do some wounding.
I played some more backup and move. He plays more initiative/ambush guys with a Southron Chiefitain. I kill most of his minions and moved again leading the race. i exerted Frodo and Eowyn (Rout) and he plays some nasty MC with another Mumakil and i have just used my pump events #-o. For my luck he doesn´t had pump events to finish off my companions and just Theoden, TaP dies (calling our great friend Gamling to the Party \:D/).
He then plays Imrahil with a sword and go ahead i played some more minions to make him use his conditions (that he keeps getting back with Sixth Level) and to get some more wounds but then he used Catapult twice and get a lucky 1 twilight reveal and discard my conditions. He then give me initiative and for his bad luck i had two New Strenght Came Now at hand, but again he played so well with his fortification and skirmish resolving order to kill (but more wounds to him!). So he stayed.
I moved to 6 giving him not much twilight but he manage to kill Eowyn (which for a bad move i didn´t healed at manuever) #-o. At regroup i discarded his conditions with LUbS again. At this time i had more wounds than a sanctuary could heal so better i start to think wisely!
He moved to 6 given just 8 twlightbut since he had 4 burdens (two more from Pelennor Flat) i could play a Deset Lord with a Seasoned Leader and a Discovered just to get rid of two of his key fortifications. I made some damage and he stays.
Finally i get my Thundering Hosts and go ahead, facing a bouch of initiative raiders and his friend Mr. Mumak. I could handle them making Gamling does his trick and pumping Eomer but i decided to stay since he had a dangerous minion at table and site 8 shouldn´t be a plains. Even Frodo had done his part winning his skirmish and surviving to a fierce st14 dam+1 minion :up:
He moves to 7 and i can´t remember exactly what i played but i knew that he survived just getting some more wounds. Sorry for my bad memory.
I moved to 8 and he played a bounch of minions (again with the last Mr.Mumak) and since it wasn´t a plains Grimbold get killed by is initiative guys + pump with NSCN. But i manage to exhaust every minion at the table and run for the "victory or death" with a PATHS at hand and just 3 companions at table. The table have 5 minions (3 with Mumakil) and i had only 3 companions and 3 threats added by the last site. By that time i coudn´t had sure about my win because the new "non-exerted" minions that he played. Again i manage to exhaust the remaining guys at cost of the life of Eomer and Gamling and kill every fierce minion with PATHS!!! :up:
Final Score: Only a exhausted Frodo with 8 burdens at table! But i guess that´s a win too! That was a really great game!
I was happy about my fellowship that could stand against initiative southrons which aren´t a easy match up for my companions and my southrons did their homework stopping his vicious knights. Maybe if i hadn´t double he could have walked for the win (probably ending up similar to me) so it was a very even match. A epic match i would say with only Frodo surviving and leting the ring goes to Mount Doom. Well in this case he didnt drop the ring cause he would lose the vit +2 bonus from ATAR and would have died ;)
Well, just thanks Noldonur for the great playing time!
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Haha Pepin, that was epic indeed! Thanks for leaving the play-by-play report for the future generations to admire \:D/
Great time indeed, I really thought I had you... Still can't believe you discarded my loaded Harsh Tongues not once, but twice , at the most inopportune moment (for me) #-o My deck might be really raw (as my playing skills), but I did enjoy immesely the whole fortification trickery :)
Awesome game, awesome time spent - looking forward to a rematch! And special thanks to Clockwork for being patient with waiting till the game ends. Unfortunately, we couldn't finish the game, but it didn't look good for me at all - I just couldn't make a dent in his 4-token loaded Noble Leaders fellowship!
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My Wound-Wound Vs Gillian Ents-Forestguls
My rainbow wounding fellowship started off flawlessly, to have 2 Shadowplay trashed at site 2 by Buckland Homestead. Ah well. Gunned down 'dem nazzies with gorn's bow and peeled all the threats at 3 with Sting. Wahoo.
He started off giving me a whopping 22 twilight, allowing me to play....Gothmog. That's it. Ah well, pinged Jarnsmid twice and Frodo once.
Next turn, we each played nothing. I had stuff in my hand, but no sense wasting it on a sanctuary. I wanted to bomb him on 4.
He played nothing again next turn, and I had a somewhat decent opening salvo to hit him with on 4. Total: 7 arrows. And a strength 15 Gothmog. Not bad. He whupped Gothmog, but doubled and took Mumak Commander, Elevated Fire, another Howdah and Precision Tareting.
Site 6: Readied myself for the bomb. Took Lemenya ET which hurt a lot, 4 threats less my bow could use. :( Nelya gave Buckland Homestead back and I lost Namarie. Enquea then hit, exerted everyone and I lost another Nam. Then he dropped Otsea to draw 8 cards. Ouch. Toiled out a WK, and I dropped all except him.
My reconcile looked promising on site 6. Hoping I could finish him, or at least him him hard enough that he couldn't recover, and he playe Leaflock. Meh. So I exhausted him, ready to slam him again next turn, post healing.
But...then work made me cut it off. He just played Cantea, so I was hurting.
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I have played to great games this weekend. One at "Movie block" and other in standard...
I really don´t have much time now to give details but i had two great matches against 2 great players and i will at least leave a brief summary of them (sadly very very brief)...
First was:
My [Gondor] with [Gandalf] support paired with [Sauron] Grind (Movie Block with FoTR sitepath)
vs.
Dáin´s Rainbow "Smokers" Freeps with [Moria] Swarm
The deck of Dain was designed almost as a FoTR deck (with a little Host of Moria twist) and he used cards like Aragorn, HttWC, Gimli, DttMR and Sting banned outside FoTR block but like my deck had card fro sets 1 to 10 and his only the first 3 i guess it´s pretty fair he used that cards.
I will just report the great played moves i remember...
At site 4 i gave him 8 twilight and then he plays about 7 or 8 minions (not THAT impressive talking about Moria but it sure was a great move!) His relics of Moria with Goblin Armories are just mad :up:. Keep playing possessions and addind pool until cannot play more minnions and possessions. My thrumph was i had the following companions: Gandalf with his holy staff that cancel skirmishes...so no overwhelm for him :up:; Gorn with base strenght about 12; Fara at 9...so no special habilities and pump against him (my luck i always have some pump at hand to save him for overwhelm.) and Isildur with a Coat of mail. Scroll of isildur shows early so i could add some burden or exert my ever healing companions to keep him fighting!
His Freeps are insane! Take a little to set up but when we have Gorn, Gandy with his bow, Legolas, GL and Gimili with his pipes burning up some weed we have a mix of choke/healing/anti corruption/anti swarm deck!!! My luck was that the pipes take too long to show up and i was playing evil [Sauron] Grind, so i kill Gimli at the site 4 or 5 and i have the winning game card: Grond, HotU :twisted: I manage to kill frodo discardin gorns bow and Sting with it and making a little swarm on frodo at site 9 with Tol Brandir. Legolas was exhausted so he couldn´t help...
Before that Dáin almost had me playing Cave Troll and Host of Moria with a Moria axe! But i could cancel some skirmishes win one fight with Aragorn and prevent massive deaths with Sapling of the White Tree. But my best Freep move was without a doubt playing Sleep Caradhras at site 7 discarding 2 swarms (with minions on it), 2 armories, 1 relics and 1 denizens!!! six rabbits with just one event! without that maybe i couldn´t survived until manage to kill frodo at his last move...
It was a Great Game! :up:
Other game was Standard format
My Tank [Gandalf] [Dwarven] fellowship with Troll Swarm
vs.
Clockwork´s [Gandalf] Medionic "pull events form everywhere" party with [Orc] with [Uruk] hunter swarm
My fellowship could move to 7 without much problem cause he didn´t makeds a real swarm until then. His fellowships uses Palantir and a gandalf event to keep looking at my hand and discarding minions so he wisely chooses the right time to double and could pass my fellowship at the end. I got really confused with all that "play this event from your discard pile and remove 4 gandy cards from the game" stuff but i guess he knew what he was doing so no point in waste time confering every little detail...
His deck is huge but was so well constructed that he manage to get good freps and shadows hands almost every time. Mainly it uses SFtF, Jasmind, Elrand, Treerebeard, Gandy, Grimbeon some Hourn to burn on the fire and Frodo with that nasty ring that pumps +3 adding a burden. He already played against my deck so he knews i had no pump events and assign without a fear (He had seen my hand almost every turn so i guess he would knew anyway ;)).
The game was even until i move to 8 and he plays only one minion! I knew he had a lot more at hand and two Golbin Hordes so if i double a BIG SWARM WAS going on... I try to double and he had 5 minions at Gimli... i did my math and i died by one strenght!!! 1!!!!!! #-o . That was a great game. this brief report don´t describes the real good moves he had (i had some too but i keep making mistakes and forget things because i´n not used to the cards yet). He had swift moves like don´t playing Treerebeard in order to don´t give me pool to kill him with a big swarm. I asked him to try to move to 9 just to see how my shadow would do.
He moves and i play Keyward having 5 trolls at hand! I count the twilight and i would be able to play 5 nasty trolls (probably more than enough to kill him but then when i was ready to rock exerting the Keyward to add the exact twilight i needed to play them all he discard New Authority brooken all my Swarm!!! Because of that i could´nt play two trolls (A Beastly Olog-Hay and a toil Cave Troll)... Then he Manage to survive with Frodo and Grimbeon!
That was an Excelent game as well! I have only won against him in movie block (where i have a little more experience myself) cause he is a insane deckbuilder and one of the swiftest players i had ever faced!
Great have that awesome players like Clockwork and Dáin around!
Sometime i would try my new Crazy Gollum deck (just don´t give me Solo Smeagol please)...
Cheers everyone!
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I just have realized that i forgot that Brand add +1 to Gimli strenght so i could had won! #-o Bwhauahuahuahauhauh... Also forgot that he adds +1 to archery for each minion more than companions and since he exerted a ton of people to add twilight maybe i had got some archery kills going on...
And the great dummy part is that Clockwork actually says: Are you sure you can´t win with the event?" and i: "yeah, i have counted and i will lose..."
I guess the good thing is that not happens in a tourney or something like that... I´m the king to lose games because of that things...hehehe.
Winning or losing it was fun for sure and that is waht counts in the end!
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Yeah... I thought you should have done all the skirmishes before conceding... Great game anyway!
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Wow. Closest game...ever.
I played Smeagol/Faramir choke w/ Forestguls, he played Solo Smeagol with Corrupt-guls. My Forestguls forced him to burn through his pumps early in the game to stay alive, and Gladden Homestead kept his hand perpetually filled with conditions. I had to double past 6 to stay in the run game, since he was sitting comfortably at 6 with me at 5. Made it, exhausted with 1 token on Nice Fish, and 5 burdens.
Next site, he gave me enough to Dark Approach a (1) Nelya, swap out Buckland Homestead, toil in a WK (good bye Gladden!) and drop LitW (FINALLY ABLE TO SURVIVE!). Overwhelmed 30-12.
I was regularly hitting 20s in strength w/ Nazzies early game, so he burned all his events, came in real handy at 7. My deck was faring well as he corrupted, and Not Listening came in handy a couple time, plus I packed more skirmish events than him (Naked Wastes), essentially 12 events with the play from discard ability.
To tell you how close it was, we played out the next site, and the only reason I survived was b/c he dropped Caras Galadhon, meaning when Faramir died to Enquea, ToTo (with 3 wounds + Shadowy Mount), he couldn't skirmish to dump his 3 burdens on my res 5 over 7 Smeagol. :D
I had the place strewn with Forests, but he kept swapping sites out. All said and done, I managed to hit the required 4 at site 7.
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FORMAT: Open
TJ's Infinite Gandalf/Forced March Smith
vs
MY Horn/Fiend
RESULT:
(https://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg249.imageshack.us%2Fimg249%2F7112%2Fnbvstjeq9.jpg&hash=5e6317fa100ac5d57fc33db91f6da0a215ae0c1d)
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LOL
Gandalf = 7
Minions = 119
He died
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I think that Fiend deck has stopped everyone from posting
Anyway
Gil-Estel's Wizard Choke with Gollum, DaD/Black Lord RB hate deck
vs
My Rainbow Shadowplay with Forestguls
I'm really bad at reporting results, I wish Dain could watch every game and then report on it, it would make this board so much more exciting.
Basically, my Forestguls were only taking small nicks out of his FP. At one point he had killed off his Wizards (ready for a Sent Back moment) which put 2 fierce Nazgul on the Ring-bearer. The Great Ring meant he survived with 6 burdens and 2 wounds.
He tripled at the end as his minions were getting Shadowplay'ed/Unheeded' to death, moved to site 8 Woody-end. 5 Nazgul, Cantea'd his Sting which left Frodo unable to add enough burdens to survive or win the fight. Very tricky if I say so myself.
But now I must build fun decks. No more OP decks.
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For those who have signed up to the WWL, can you start submitting your results on there. It will help get that site active. GE and NB both need to confirm submissions from me.
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And people, I must say: I personally like the option to hide my own fellowship when I'm playing my shadow, or hide his when I'm playing my fellowship. It just looks a bit more organized.
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Pepin's Elven Archery and Mixed Evil Archery vs my Roaming minions die and Attea is such a heavy burden
I was looking to try the deck I built. To kill all that is roaming and heal my companions. We started and my we walked down the sitepath 1 step at a time. He started walking, and I followed him. I made this weird and stupid mistake by discarding a Streaming at site 2, confident that another would show up. I wanted to keep pippin on the table, to prevent a handclogg. Well, the considiration was somewhat sensible, the outcome wasn't. Never was I able to gain initiative, to do Attea's thing. That was what saved my dear Pepin in the end. He shot pretty much my entire fellowship, but I was hanging in there, losing no skirmishes and thus healing with the citadel and the banners. 4 heals per turn, and pippin soaking up either archery or Shadowplay exertions
I moved to site 8, leaving 3 out of my 7 companions exhausted. Still in danger of facing Enqeua at site 9 + all the threats added I made the gamble to stay. Afterwards it turned out I would have won, but hey as we say in Holland: afterwards is looking a cow in the behindparts....:lol:
I had 3 orcs and Attea at hands, so chances were high on getting initiative. 2 of the 3 orcs were brutes, so 2 guaranteed burdens due to an exhausted galadriel. Sadly he played just 1 card, with all great cards he had on hand......:-( no initiative and no corruption....well, great game nonetheless....so close!
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Yeah man, that was a great game for sure! After beating my freeps up you really deserved the win, just one orc more or Enquea Shoting people to death. #-o
I´m glad i choose not to play Cirdan, Aiglos and etc... Whew! That was close!
You really take your chances don´t trying to double for 9...that was a tought decision...if i had a good shadow hand i could make a lot of archery and maybe along with Enquea and your fellowship would be pretty screwed (even if you put the ring at manuever) but the fact is that i had only two minion at hand when reconciled, so you would have won. But i guess you made the most logical decision since you were pretty close to a shadow kill too.
Anyway was an awesome game! I think i would have to reconsider my decks to face this one!
I reported it to ladder. Do it too when you have some time.
Cheers!
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Yeah, my first game ever with Kralik. It was very late for me, but the chance of dueling with the Founding Father of TLHH was a one I must take!
His Ring-Bound rangers and Sauron Grind vs my Isildur/dwarves and sauron corruption
I designed a new deck with Isildur RB and Dwarves. I wanted to take advantage of ring of fury and scroll of isildur. And so I did, because vs a wounding deck, maximum healing is nice.
He started and was doing just fine. He doubled to site 3, with just 2 towers of barad dur out and 2 minions. I followed him playing my hand out generating a lot of pool. Still I was fine, doing the healing thing directly in the regroup.
He went from 4 to 5 and at 5 he started to feel some pain. He added 2 burdens, not willing to discard his hand and I slapped him with 2x The Ring is Mine. A ranger died and an additional burden was added due to Thin and Stretched.
My shadow was doing just fine so I found it safe to walk just 1 step, led him get away. This leaded to a safe passage for me.
He moved to site 6, playing Pippin. He was slapped with Enquea, and Mablung died. Faramir got exhausted and pippin also died. Well again, my shadow was hurting real bad, his fellowship was reduced to the size of 2.
My fellowship made an other fairly simple move, got 2 arrows which where healed in the regroup.
He healed his Faramir, played another ranger and moved to 7 making 15 pool. This was enough to make Sauron, Lord of the Rings appear along with another orc. At this point Faramir was leaving Frodo at his own...so he lost.
Thanks for the game, though I can imagine it wasn't that much fun for you, taking a blow every turn....sorry for that.
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It was a good game! I was unsure of Gil's exact strategy, and he definitely kept me on my toes. I was thinking Tower of Barad-Dur + initiative-based [Sauron] orcs to hit hard with all of the hand discarding, so I tried to move quickly. Unfortunately, it didn't allow my Fellowship or Shadow to get set up very well. I realized I was in trouble when Gil didn't double behind me. :P Also, taking the two burdens from Pelennor Flat was a BIG mistake that cost me the game with Shotgun Enquea.
My [Sauron] trackers didn't even touch his Fellowship! Bravo! =D>
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Me vs. NBarden; Towers Block
My Gimli's [Elven] Buddies and [Isengard] Archery vs. His Ring-bound Rangers and [Dunland] Site Control
Truth be told, it was a fairly uneventful game. ;) I had a hard time drawing minions and even with the few I did get, I didn't inflict too many archery wounds. As far as I remember, none of them survived any skirmishes. :P NB's [Dunland] Men used Hides often to negate my [Elven] archery, and they were able to inflict some wounds on my fellowship which were generally healed at sanctuaries. In the end, NB was too cautious and didn't double past site 6. I doubled from 7 to 9 and his [Dunland] swarms almost took the Ring-bearer... if he only had one more burden to use at Palantir Chamber! Elves and Gimli fought back the forces of evil and Frodo took two burdens at 9 vs. 5. Good game, if a little slow. :)
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Me vs. Centurion
I was using Tank Dwarves/Site Control Dunland
Centurion was using Wedding with guests/Uruk Trackers (courtesy of Anautikus)
I played Gandalf, LOTC and Proud and Able, and Centurion got some wounds in at Site 1, and wounded Gandalf and Linnar each once. I tried sending Wulf and a Dunlanding Headman at Site 1 but Centurion’s Elvish Marksmanship and Legolas took care of them and he moved again unopposed to Site 2. I moved to Site 2 and he did nothing, I moved again, to Site 3 and he swarmed me with x2 Goblin Runners a Uruk Plains Runner and a Uruk Foot Soldier and two Vengeances and put another wound on Linnar as well as two burdens on Gimli. He moved to Site and I wasn’t able to play anything as he hadn’t given me enough twilght. I played Site 4 and sent a Hillman Horde his way, he exerted Legolas, Greenleaf twice and killed him. I moved to Site 4 and he played no minions so I moved again to Site 5 and he played a Goblin Runners a Uruk Runner, a Uruk Plains Runner and a Uruk Seeker. I crushed all the minions but I had to assign one to Gimli and that added two more burdens. Centurion then moved to Site 5 and played Faramir’s Followers, Faramir’s Bow, Garrison of Osgiliath, and Arwen Queen of Elves and Men. I let Centurion play those unopposed then he moved again to Site 6 and I played x2 Dunlending Elders and Freca, Hungry Savage. He exerted Legolas twice and used Faramir’s archery to murder the Dunlendings. I then moved to Site 6 and played a few more cards on Durin III. He played x2 Uruk Chasers and a Weary on Durin III. I assigned the Chasers to Durin III and Linnar and both Chasers were killed and Durin III exerted. I moved again to Site 7 and he sent a lone Uruk Plains Runner my way, which Linnar killed. At the start of his turn he moved to Site 7 and played Aragorn, Elessar Telcontar along with a bunch of freeps cards for 19 twilight. I played a few Dunlending and swarmed him. I moved to Site 8, encountered several more Trackers and then moved again to Site 9 and survived a last Uruk Runner to win the game. I won mainly because of my Tank dwarves as my Dunlendings weren’t able to get any Hides out. It was very close, Centurion probably could have won if he moved again a few more times. :up:
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That was the day I ate my words about legolas greenleaf I had originally said that he was overrated I was taught otherwise.
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Expanded
MY Ultra-Broken Horns/Demoralized
HIS Ring-Bound Rangers/Battleground Uruk
I won the bet 2 to 1. Unfortunately, that one burden was his undoing.
I went first, pulled off combo, played half my deck, yada yada yada, moved to two, stood up against a few Uruks and sat.
He moved to 2, I played a bunch of set up stuff, Mouth grabbed 3 Howdahs, I played the other one, he took a wound. Then, he played We Must Go Warily and doubled right into a juicy bait. The Prancing Pony. I use it to nab Arwen, Royal Maiden, but it just so happened that the carrot was dangling right before him. He, of course, had no clue what I had in my hand, so was oblivious to the impending DOOM (um...3 copies of Archer of Harad)!
He moved to 3, I set up some more conditions and sat, waiting for him to fall into my evil trap.
I moved to three, calculated so I had exactly 6 wounds and a Deagol in hand for healing.
He added a burden and moved to four. Wham. Magic number. His companions hit 4 resistance, and I dropped a Gothmog, Archer of Harad and Black Land Chieftain for 4 threats and 9 arrows (after Howdahs). He survived the archery but lost 2 comps in the skirmish. Threats triggered, plugging Smeagol full of a bunch of burdens.
I moved to 4, knocked all his guys on the head and sat completely happy.
He moved to 5. Tried to choke me, but I had sitepath control and Sirannon. A pair of Archer of Harad and another Gothmog finished the kill. A bit soon for me, I was looking forward to marching him through a site 6 Steward's Tomb, but he didn't draw extra companions for me to pick off.
Oh well, probably better, as I had 9 cards in deck. :D
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Yeah, I wasn't expecting that horn stuff. The last fours sets have such broken combos. I did take that bait though. ](*,)
Anyway, good game NBarden. =D>
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My Elves/Gandalf and Gollum Sauron Corruption
vs
c10ckw0rk's Rainbow and Moria/Corsair Swarm
Good game. Movie block, which I am fairly new to. I am no good at this reporting lark but anyway, I had 7 burdens on him at site 8, he moved and I added 3 more... so I won. c10ckw0rk is a sick deck builder, his swarms are the best I have seen.
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Moria/Corsair Swarm... now that sounds interesting!
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Yeah, pretty much devastating (my friend have one) but the sad part is that The Tale of The Great Ring usually kills it, since you probably will not be able to hit it hard more than once or twice per game.
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Expanded
Me vs. Centurion
I was using Ring-bound Rangers/Battleground Uruk-hai
Centurion was using Wedding with guests/Uruk Trackers (courtesy of Anautikus)
Great game! I hurt him through the first half; I killed Legolas and Gil-Galad with some broken Brutality kills using Suffered much loss to give my Uruks +5 strength bonuses. He did manage to cap Faramir at site 4 and an Ranger of Ithilien at site 6. Centurion did play a little more conservatively, he didn't double as many times as I did which let me gain a slight lead. I finally doubled to 9 to prevent him from winning and he swarmed me with trackers. A Uruk Runner on Smeagol, BOGS as well as a Vengeance overwhelmed poor Smeagol.It was hilarious because his fellowship was in such a shambles and mine was virtually untouched. Awesome game. :up: :lol:
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The most fascinating game I've ever played.
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Movie Block game between Kralik and me, using GCCG (Generic Collectible Card Game) which I hope is introduced to The Last Homely House players soon :)
He was using an interesting Galadriel RB wit Dauntless Hobbits and Taurnil deck, focused on the use of the Snow Ring to add burdens, and Shire Countryside/A light in his mind to remove burdens and heal, paired with an easterling captain crunch shadow. I was using my beatdown elves paired with an overwounding kind of nazgul, using the twilight witchking, Toldea WS, Cantea FTW, some morcs for more wounding and Fell Beasts for cycling.
In general terms, my FP had a nice starting setup, while his FP didn't have such luck, and that allowed me to stay in front of him, with Cirdan dealing with the Easterling Captain, and my shadow getting some stops. However, burdens started piling and ended being a huge problem, and they would have been more of a problem if he had packed Ulaire Enquea LoM in his deck (it would also have helped me not having forgotten about Sam SoH when building the deck)
In the end, though, it was a very close game, and I finally drew into Faramir SoD and my only burden removal card, a lone Elf-Song, which allowed me to survive, 2 burdens away from corruption (on site 8 I was just 1 burden away!)
Very nice game against an ever nicer opponent, playing such an interesting deck. I'm very glad to see people is starting to be interested on GCCG, hope you all try and like it! :D
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Yikes, that Elf Song was your only one? :evil:
I'm beginning to hate Cirdan when he can reduce a +30-ish str Easterling Captain down to -3. It was a good game -- I made a critical mistake earlier on by not discarding Shadow Between when I had the chance, which would have made all of the difference. Healing Cirdan + preventing clog = my deck fail. :P
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Rematch game! =D
I was lucky because he didn't draw his high vantage against my archery/what are they deck until it was too late, and he had to made a risky double into 9 where his Boromir RB got overwhelmed by the weild of the ring... great game, thank you!
(And yeah, Movie Block)
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Malachi had been waiting all day on GCCG for someone to play... I was able to pop in and chat a bit, and then after work we played:
My Smokin' Gandalf (http://lotrtcgdb.com/forums/index.php?topic=356.msg10847#msg10847) and [Moria] Swarm
vs.
His [Dwarf] / [Sauron] Discard
Bid was tied at 2; Malachi won the toss and went first. In general my wimpy Goblin Runners and Backstabbers had no chance against his dwarves. I got the Flame of Udun early -- site 2 I think -- and closely !guarded it in hand.
Meanwhile, my Fellowship got set up and started getting blasted by [Sauron] discard (ToBD and DDotR). I was fortunate not to have hand clog even without Gandalf's Cart. Got a Trust Me as You Once Did in play, lost another to Orc Inquisitor.
Incidentally, it was that single loss that made the game for me! The only other card I had in hand was the Flame of Udun. Malachi's discard was doing a good job at trashing my deck, mostly getting Shadow it seemed. I hadn't got any pipeweed yet, but had three pipes. And then Manuel's fateful move to the Bridge of Khazad-Dum*...
He gave lots of twilight, playing a [Dwarf] companion and some other cards. Got the 'Rog out, and all of those Goblin Runners I had previous came in handy! Six minions to his five companions; standard RB overwhelm. He let me know he had nothing and we ended the game there, though I probably would have killed off another dwarf instead of the RB with a Goblin Backstabber in case he had PATHS.
Too bad my Freeps didn't get to go, since I had recently acquired 2 Longbottom Leaf, Elrond LoR, Narya, and some other goodies! I might just have survived the discard.
Good game. :P
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My game vs Malachi:
Standard: hunter/troll swarm for me
hobbits/uruks hai for him
We both bid 2, and he won the toss. Started at Green Dragon with Frodo RH, ent merry, Ent Pippin, Maggot and Fatty. He pulled sam and moved to site 2, East Wall of Rohan, I played a hill orc, goblin hordes and that weapon that makes people exert. He exerted Sam, lost and took another exertion from the Hill Orc ability.
I started, played Orophin HUnter, Gimlis KIng block axe and some 3 hunter conditions and moved. Faced one random uruk and mauhur. Gimli wasted the uruk, Mauhur woudned orophin and gimli.
Turn 2 he played gandalf returned and foehammer. Moved and I played the assign troll and a porter troll, a well as another weapon. Force dthe assign troll to Gandalf while Porter Troll faced off Fatty. Gandalf exerted, then took 3 wounds to end up dead, fatty had a follower and played that cancel card. Fierce Porter went to Sam, and he misread his pipeweed so Sam died as well.
I played Thorongil, Ari's bow, Sting and FTTH. MOved to 3, where 3 hunter uruks showed up. A few threats added, Lego exerted and all died to archery.
At site 4 I played a keyward, shower 5 trolls, added 10 and played 2 more to rid him of his pipeweed. My site 4 was uneventful, a few uruks, lost FTTH and dealt 4 archery wounds.
He moved to 5 where 2 horden got bakc a porter troll and a keyward. Played the keyward, showed 8! trolls, added 16 and played 4 more trolls. Frodo had 2 wounds and died vs a dmg +1 fierce troll.
From site 3 I had him in the lock, constant 4-5 trolls in hand and returning keywards, as well as disabled his condition removal by killing gandalf (pallando was in play). One site at a turn was easy to survive with the massage preskirmish damage I could do. All in all some luck for me, where I waqs set up quick and drew trolls when I needed them.
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Two games vs. Malachi, both Movie Block.
1st: My Flaming Ents and Stinker Gollum vs. His Rohan and Nazgul
A short game! He took out Gandalf, Leader of Men with Shotgun Enquea and the Ring of Asperity at site 3 (six companions). Without Gandalf, my deck was utterly ruined unless I happened to draw Gandalf MoW and Sent Back. No use for 4x SftF (or just about anything else, really).
VERY luckily for me, he only had three companions (Frodo and starting) by site 4. I played Stinker and Her Ladyship; Eomer could not fight. Her Ladyship on Eowyn, Stinker on Frodo... and Frodo was overwhelmed. If I had two more twilight I could have played Sauron tLotR. :P
2nd: My Dauntless Hobbits and Easterlings vs. His Discarding Hobbits/Pipeweed and Moria/Corsair Swarm (?)
Rough game for Malachi. I went first with 1 burden and was able to set up my Freeps very well. Got a few key cards like Merry's Dagger early -- all in all, my Freeps was a perfect success. Dauntless Hunter and Elrond + Vilya clogged Malachi's hand, and the minions were not much trouble with the [Moria] conditions being +2. I got Taurnil around site 6 I believe.
His discarding hobbits (from Towers) did not fare well vs. Easterlings with Raider Bow's. Lots of extra twilight to remove. Pippin died early, Merry followed, then Gandalf. He finally got Aragorn at site 6 (even with 4x in deck), but by then it was too late. I think it's fair enough, though, since I didn't get Easterling Captain (x4 also) until about then. Indeed, in my last draw I got THREE (about 15 cards left in deck).
Game ended with brutal Easterling Captain overwhelm on Frodo (site 7) and my Fellowship completely unscathed at site 8.
Good games! Now I'm off to spend my earnings... or perhaps to bed first. ;)
Note: Malachi doesn't sleep. :P
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GCCG game vs. cl0ckw0rk; outcome: undecided...
What an interesting deck! First time I've played cl0ckw0rk -- unfortunately, my break was over and I had to go back to work about 2/3rds through the game. If we finish I'll let you know as there was no clear winner at the time. Both Fellowships had potential...
You've got to see the deck design! Movie Block, and his ENTIRE draw deck was discarded at site 1. I'll leave the rest as a surprise, but let me just say that it was very intriguing...
Good game! :)
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GCCCG game vs. Kralik, Undecided.
first time playing on GCCG! a bit confusing, being used to SdA, etc etc. Still getting used to the controls, nowhere near memorizing every single one of the keyboard shortcuts. We were on the 2nd site and Kralik disconnected mysteriously and I haven't contacted him since...
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My computer randomly FROZE and I had to pull the plug. :roll: Maybe again some other time?
You don't have to memorize the keyboard shortcuts if that's not your cup of tea since you can do everything with right-click.
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My: Wargs and Dwarves vs.
CBB's: Hobbits and Moria
Short game. IMO Wargs are way overpowered.
To sum up:
CBB bid 3, I bid 1; he went first. Every turn was a single move. Wargs killed two hobbits at site 2, two hobbits at site 3, and Frodo was eaten alive at site 4. The end! (Poor lads)
EDIT: Come to think of it, it was a hobbit and Gandalf at site two.
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Format: Standard
Program: GCCG
My: Refuge Rainbow and Morcs vs.
c10ckw0rk's: [gondor] wraiths and [Men] archery.
I won and swarmed him with Morcs at site five, all his companions exhausted.
To sum up: I was able to discard 1 of his whispers in the dark, but multiples were in play. c10ckw0rk would probably have survived should he have played more companions early on.
His archery was annoying, so I used Frodo as my personal pincushion. His minions were very strong and beefed up, but I managed to kill most of them with Aragorn and his longbow, legolas, and eowyn before having to fight.
Great game.
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My Rainbow Wounding/Forestguls
vs
Kralik's Dwarves/[Orc] Wounding
My first game on GCCG and Kralik showed me the ropes. His standard Shadow was brutal but the particular FP I was playing is nasty, designed to kill everything by Archery. Rider's Gear meant some heavy loaded minions hitting my companions. But it is also prepared for that.
I made a mistake and let Gandalf, Powerful Guide bite the dust, but it wasnt too much of a setback. Thorongil didnt make it to the end either, but the trusty Rohirrim Guard did his bit!
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TheJord is too humble. What he really meant to say is that my Shadow had a snowball's chance in #$&*@! vs. his Freeps. ;) Couldn't touch them.
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If you want to play a good game? Go and look for Enola. First of all, he is the nicest frenchmen I know (well that is not too difficult since I know little to no French dudes) but he is great fun to play against.
That is, the atmosphere is just ace. He is layed back, interested, doesn't mind mistakes, and is very patient.
Gametechnical though, a whole different story, haha. He is almost like a wizard! Incredible. Seems to have allways the right cards at the right moment. He always has the answer to everything I bring up. I don't know whether that means I am a bad player, or that he is that good....I just keep telling myself it is the latter.
We have played eachother many times now and I guess the result is like 473846 wins for him, vs 1 for me......
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I have played a few games and only won 3 out of 15.
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First game, I won as my opponent had to leave. We were playing with starters and I was using my TTT Aragorn starter.
Second, I won as my opponent had to leave as well. He was using Rohan-Evil Men deck. His Rohan deck took advantage of effects like "if the ring-bearer is assigned to a skirmish" and a little bit of "hunter". His evil men took advatage of cards and possesions that were stacked.
Me on the other hand, played a Gondor-Isengard deck. It wasn't such a fair game, as I surpassed the rule-of-9 and had 14 companions out. 2 Ranger of Osgiliath, 1 Knight of Gondor, 4 Tradesman from Lebennin, 1 Boromir, Doomed Heir, 1 Aragorn, Isildur's Heir, I Merry, Learned Guide, 1 Gandalf, Defender of the West, 1 Faramir, Son of Denethor. Army of the West I guess. :P
Third game as a rather brief one, as I used my TTT Aragorn starter and he was using Dwarven-Orc. My Dunlending Pillager quickly stripped him of his possesions, while my fierce Dunlending Madman, Dunlending Savage and a couple of others swarmed his Ringbearer for the win. :)
GCCG is great!
Cheers,
Kenddrick
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i just survived site 9 while my opponent was at site 3. THAT was epic.
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Just played a good one with Inspire for King Standard (1-7). I'm only posting because at site 9, I managed to kill eight companions with a single use of Greed, Isengard Archery and Dagorlad. I had a Ranged Commander and two Uruk Crossbowmen and one Weapons of Isengard and wiped out his freeps, leaving a strength 5 (seven with ring) Frodo.
Of course, he had a Bounder so he survived the three-on-one attack. C'est la vie.
-wtk
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Format: Movie
My: Regroup Loop and Beasterling Cycle
vs.
Kaan's [elf] archery with [sauron] \ [isengard] conditions
We both bid 0 and he won the roll. He went first and played the elf friendly site. He gave 16 twilight and I had 2 hand clogging saurons in hand and a few easterlings. I passed hoping he would move and when he didn't I cried and tossed a copy of sauron. On my first turn I play radagast and A Light in his Mind and moved, took a few wounds and stayed myself.
We both singled to 3 to heal up some and he single stepped to 4 where he faced a few easterling and I put some tokens an my [raider] ship by tossing everything I couldn't play trying to set up my free peoples. I singled to 4 because I wasn't quite setup for the race yet. He single moved to 5 and faced a few minions one going on galadriel thanks to visions from afar but he had a handful of events. I got my perfect hand (minus an aragorn's bow). I played 4x The Shire Country side and the rest of the free people's cards in hand and moved to site 5. I shot his minions up with greenleaf (bearing Tale of Gil-galad and Aiglos), For regroup phase I lost initiative with Ranger of Osgiliath thus peeling burdens (which were added at will by Bilbo the ring-bearer). Using the ranger I exhausted his minion then killed them off 1 at a time with hardy garrison. I was able to heal my fellowship up enough with the 4x SCS and discard all his condition in play. I drew cards with the seeing stone to keep regaining initiative and using ranger to lose it. When I drew my copies of Last Throw I played them to a.) bump the move limit and b.) save a card to lose initiative (instead of 2 with the ranger). Each regroup phase I was doing the same thing healing up tossing any condition he got into play peeling all my burdens and exhausting/fatal last wounding everything that was left after archery.
I never drew a single Aragorn's Bow but decided to let greenleaf try to get it done by himself. I ran from site 4 to site 9 and got the win. It was a great win and my opponent was shocked with how it went (even without trusty Aragorn's bow) :up:.
Thanks for the game Kaan,
NK
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A 4 - 9 move...happens to me all day. Nice work, sadly you play with your OP deck :D
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*bubble busted*, thanks alot I thought you were my friend :'( .
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Stop being a whiner! I just finished a game vs Kaan as well, and since the site is almost dead, I care to post that game here as well. As a matter of fact, I will post a deck as well, since it is the one I played.
Kaan -who happens to have become a father for the first time recently as well- played the deck as mentioned above. I played a deck new to me, but one I have been toying with for quite some time. Feared Axeman, Sindri and Isildur make up the starting line up. Idea is to cycle fast, stack cards on 2 conditions, stack tokens on 2 other conditions, stack events in regroup, use them in skirmish, win a lot, heal with Aragorn, Defender of the Free People and ruin the support area of the opponent with BRC. It just did all that :D. My Aragorn showed up late however -site 6- as did Durin -site 8- but luckily I had a well timed BRC at site 4, nuking the weary's and the Thin and Stretched that was stressing my fellowship. Game was interupted by a diper alarm, but then we continued. My Dunlend didn't stand a single chance :D. Other than that, it was a nice game.
Thanks Kaan
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=nappykorn$1oj3bg766qi878qh
I have recently started playing some on Marcin's program. I barely was able to spot 5 orcs at site 5 to prevent a possible double. I have the deck I played in the deck clinic if you wanna see it :up:. I was worried about Nazgul and Uruk-hai against this deck the most, but now I dont have to work so much about Nazgul (at least the twilight kind). Over-look the fact that I didnt use site 5 to make my Balrog cheaper and get more minions out, not to mention I'm thinking of replacing my site 4 in case Bill the Pony keeps coming early so it can at least loser the cost of that site (since if I only play cards and give 2 pool or less and have Bill, NSttS, and ATFNBS) and can move to Bridge and only give 7 which means no Balrog unless the opponent runs Moria or other ways to add pool.
I have managed to beat Moria two times with this Free Peoples as well but I think my opponent had bad luck once and the other time was Moria Archery not swarm. Anyway enjoy the game replay if you watch it, deck seems pretty solid in the times I have played it.
NK
EDIT: you have to copy and paste the link for some reason the last part of the url didn't go into the link.
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=CoS$8y209hiv9xniwc78
Towers Standard Match Vs Bibfortuna
All I can say is that Bill Ferny makes Ringbound Ranger's cry HARD.
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Wasnt BIll banned in Towers Standard?
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=CoS$8y209hiv9xniwc78
Towers Standard Match Vs Bibfortuna
All I can say is that Bill Ferny makes Ringbound Ranger's cry HARD.
Yeah, that was painful. I didn't even get a chance to try out my Ring-bound rangers w/ Rohan horses concept.
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$tpcy2pt9a2hob5fz
Expanded format vs CT. My Gondor super-wounding fellowship with Men Archery, vs his Elf/Gondor super archery + super healing fellowship and Sauron besiegers.
My fellowship didn't fight any skirmish phases all game due to getting enough possessions for Denethor's tricks, and Aragorn picking off the survivors with his bow. But he won the bid so I was forced to play catchup all game. I did a little wounding to his fellowship with my archers, but Elrond and Shadow Between kept him relatively healthy. He used Aragorn, Thorongil a couple times to weaken some of my guys so Legolas could pick them off, but he had no way to remove those threats, which became key later on in the game.
Finally, on site 9, he was a little beaten up, but still it seemed like he would pull off the victory, especially when he used Elrond + Vilya to return two copies of my Howdah to hand. But I finally got out enough arrows to kill off a companion, and then the threat wounds kicked in, and the rest of his companions toppled like dominos.
I was really surprised to get in a shadow kill just when things looked dire for me.
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Arcanite$tgrl0p1adjyidwq1
Sealed Fellowship Week 1, both gandalf starter, I got ROTN and Gimli's battle axe, so i was expecting it to be a breeze...
Site 9 is just crazy
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=hsiale$7886asgv97varjgj
FotR block game, both shadow sides were Nazgul. I managed to double to 3 (opponent had bad draws I could see due to Sting), he then doubled with Cantea on the table to his own Ford of Bruinen. I had 4 twilight. I played Nelya (cost 0 due to site), changed site to my copy of Ford of Bruinen and played Witch-king for 3 twilight. Too bad Nelya can only change opponent's sites for mine and not the other way round, I would use the trick one more time ;)
Due to a lot of pumps and me making mistakes with assigning I didn't win at that site, but lone Frodo had to give up one site later.
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I wonder if that's an error in the programming. You shouldn't be able to get two -5 Nazgul, even if you change the site with Nelya.
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Why shouldn't I?
Should I be able to play a Nazgul for -5 if I play Nelya to my opponent's non-Ford of Bruinen site and then replace it with my own Ford?
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From your description, it sounded like he moved to his Ford of Bruinen, then you used Nelya to change it to your own copy of Ford of Bruinen. You can't get the -5 more than once.
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I think if the site changes you can use the new one's effect agin, even if they are the same site.
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I think if the site changes you can use the new one's effect agin, even if they are the same site.
The problem is, the site specifically refers to its own title. If it said "The twilight cost of the first Nazgul played at this site is -5," then you might have a case. But even if you change the site, there was already a Nazgul played at Ford of Bruinen, so the site's text can't trigger again.
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Isn't there something stating that when a card refers to it's title, it means that physical card, to prevent shenanigans with multiples?
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$lzehf8t6hdnymkkk
Movie block, me vs ellesar
My FP super token/Nazgul and Morgul Orc deck vs his Ent/Nazgul burdening deck.
Suffice it to say, a LOT of companions got wounded during this game. Two separate times Enquea killed one of his guys with a lot of threats on the board. And he used enduring Enquea along with Gates of the Dead City to get my companions exhausted and eventually they started dying. I was down to just Frodo left, and I had one chance to kill his Free Peoples, and he gave me just enough twilight to play the rest of my minions and slaughter him.
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that was a fun game :p
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$ars7kgrp8c4l4jw6
Expanded versus bebpc. My Superhobbit/Forestgul deck vs his Smeagol/Ninja Gollum deck.
Long story short, he manipulated the site path A LOT, making me face Doorway To Doom several times, and putting Steward's Tomb at both sanctuaries. But I got out Fates Entwined and was able to use that to keep healing my Hobbitses. Bilbo, Tolman, Farmer Maggot and Pippin all got sacrificed in the midgame, but Frodo, Sam and Merry all stayed relatively healthy since they kept winning skirmishes.
Finally, I began my turn at site 7, putting out Wingfoot and Radagast and preparing to make my push to the end, when he made the crucial mistake of using Shelob, Her Ladyship to prevent Sam from being able to fight. So at that point all I had to do was kill off Frodo at site 8 (a nasty Balrog was a good choice to feed him to), and Sam was untouchable no matter what he threw at me at site 9.
Fates Entwined > Ninja Gollum
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Epic mistake...
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$6rpdbnllcdsw65o1
Sealed vs colar45. He got a bunch of Ents out early and because he went first, I had to try for a Shadow kill. After my Orc Insurgent drew a bunch of FP cards in the early sites, I knew I had a bunch of Shadow left in my deck, so I bided my time to get a huge Shadow hand. At site 7 I dropped 11 minions vs his 9 companions, but the combined strength on his Frodo was only 17, meaning a Severed His Bonds kept him alive. So I reset and tried for another minion bomb. I played nothing at site 8, and he doubled to 9. Palantir Chamber retrieved my Orc Insurgent plus a bunch of other minions, and my bomb was much more effective this time around.
Quite an epic game!
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Okay, I think this game is worthy; this is the biggest victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat game I think I have ever had! It was a My Cards Expanded Format league game versus Sempol. At the time Sempol was undefeated, and it was pretty clear from his deck that he had plenty of gold when he built it.
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yo7zx3ths3w6j9sc (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yo7zx3ths3w6j9sc)
Sempol played with Gandalf, Powerful Guide, which he got set up on the very first turn. Gandalf was being assisted by the usual suspects (Legolas, Greenleaf, Merry, Friend to Sam, Grimbeorn with Beorning Axe, Radagast). He was also using plenty of site manipulation (Traveled Leader and Speak "Friend" and Enter) He was going up against my Shadow: Mostly Dunland stuff, with a little Nazgul stuff thrown in. I was lucky enough to get out Constantly Threatening right away, though. Even so, he quickly doubled ahead of me.
I was playing with my usual Madril crew, facing Sempol's all-the-worst-rare-Nazgul, with a little gollum stuff. My first setback came at site 3, when Sempol used Cantea to discard Shadowfax.
His first setback came at site 4, when I managed to kill his Legolas with Enquea. Still, by then he had Grimbeorn, Beorning Axe, and Radagast's Herb Bag ready to go.
When I moved to site 4, Sempol made a tactical error and changed the site away from Crags of Emyn Muil, which probably would have discouraged me from doubling. I doubled ahead of him to Neekerbreekers' Bog (site 5), which he immediately changed to Mithlond for himself. He then doubled past me to site 6, with very little trouble. At this point he must have noticed that I retrieved Shadowfax with On Your Doorstep, so prior to ending his turn he used Traveled Leader to turn site 5 into Steward's Tomb. No healing or burden removal for me!
With 5 burdens but little choice, I added 5 threats anyway in order to use Madril, played Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin, and moved to site 6. He promptly played Ring of Terror, took off 2 threats, and left me facing an Enquea who is suddenly not roaming, and four other baddies. Meanwhile both Faramir and Aragorn are only one point short of death.
sgtdraino: Dang ring got me
sgtdraino: guess I should have added more, knowing I was going against nazgul
Rather than kill either of those guys, Sempol decides to take out the unwounded Madril... but I had a Might of Numenor in my hand! BUT I only drew a 1. I healed Madril, and Sempol killed Aragorn. Somehow I managed to prevent any more deaths, but wound up with a total of 5 guys, 12 wounds, and 8 burdens!
I attempt to Neekerbreeker Sempol as he plays Radagast and moves from 6 to 7, but Speak "Friend" and Enter puts an end to that. I use a Squealer to play Nelya and change the site to Mithlond (so that I can heal when I move), and Sempol takes the opportunity to put his fancy Pallando on his fancy Gandalf, fight Nelya twice, and discard BOTH my copies of Constantly Threatening. Those were all the copies I had in the deck, but of course Sempol doesn't know that! He doubles with 2 burdens and no wounds to site 8, and I finally pull off a Neekerbreek... though of course it only affects half his guys. I play NOTHING, just letting the twilight build. I don't even discard and draw anything. It's regroup time...
sgtdraino reconciles
sempol: hmm
sempol: trap?
sempol reconciles
For a While Less Dark is discarded from hand
sempol draws 4 cards
Doorway to Doom required triggered effect is used
sgtdraino: :)
I only had one minion in my hand, and no means of playing more. BUT then I also have no means of tripling from 6 to 9, and my guys are really hurt! I do however have Citadel to Gate, Shadowfax, and an extra copy of Gandalf, so by the time I end up at site 7 (Mithlond), I only have 2 wounds and no burdens! BUT I only have three cards in my hand: 2 copies of What Are They? and 1 Hillman Tribe. Sempol plays 5 guys, all ranging between strength 11 and 14, 4 Fierce, 1 Fierce and Damage +1. I put the Shirriff on Pippin and ditch Hillman Tribe for an unhelpful Deep In Thought. I What Are They? two of the minions, and I'm down to just one card in hand (Deep In Thought). At this point, Sempol says:
sempol: do you have last throw?
sgtdraino: it's possible
I take hits from the remaining 3 guys, and FORGET to use Deagol! With no other options except the EXTREEEEMELY long shot, I double to site 8 (Neekerbreekers' Bog), and heal my guys a bit. Sempol plays another 2 baddies (for a total of 5 again).
sgtdraino transfers •Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin to •Frodo, Resolute Hobbit
•Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin optional triggered effect is used
Deep in Thought is discarded from hand
sgtdraino draws 1 card
Archery fire: fellowship - 0, minion - 0
sempol: i hope you haven't drown it now ;p
sempol: that would be sick
sgtdraino assigns characters to skirmish
sgtdraino: What are the odds?
The odds are 1 in 38... but I DID just draw Last Throw!!! Of course, I still have to survive to use it. This time I remember to use Deagol to arm Madril with an Ithilien Blade, BUT I forget to use Frodo to kill a Nazgul that is preventing the other Nazgul from roaming, and accidentally use Pippin first. So, Pippin takes out a Morgul Whelp rather than somebody more dangerous.
sgtdraino: Arrggh!
sgtdraino: Wasited him!
sempol: if you have one left 1:39 :P
Indeed, my clock is almost out! So, I kill the guy with Frodo, and take hits from the rest. I now have 5 guys, 4 burdens, 7 wounds, 6 threats, 21 twilight, and 3 minions still out on the table.
•Gollum, Dark as Darkness exert due to Follow Smeagol
sgtdraino plays Crags of Emyn Muil
sgtdraino plays Last Throw from hand
sgtdraino adds 5 to twilight pool
sgtdraino: :D
sempol: lol
sempol: i am going to hung myself
sempol reconciles
sempol: han*
sempol: impossible
I move, and Sempol adds a fancy Witch-king to the mix, but no other minions. With less than a minute to go, Madril uses IB to take out Gorbag (the only roaming minion), then Gandalf, Madril, and Smeagol sacrifice themselves to save Frodo.
sgtdraino is the winner due to: Surviving to Regroup phase on site 9
sgtdraino: yay!
sempol: anyway you suck man
sgtdraino: gg!
sgtdraino: man, that was amazing
sempol: gg
sempol: so sick
sgtdraino: I litterally drew that last throw with that last Shirriff aciton!
sgtdraino: Incredible!
sempol: sick
sgtdraino: yep!
sgtdraino: That might be the narrowest win I've ever seen
System: sempol left the room
sgtdraino: Phew! Sweating bullets over here!
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That's insane.
Adding the timer to the mix, I am honestly amazed that you pulled that off. Props!
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Last night I pulled off the most amazing win I have ever had. My fellowship was dying off rapidly, and my Frodo was exhausted at site 8 with 9 burdens. My opponent was at site 6, and normally at this stage in the game, each of us are obviously trying to dump cards for when I move to site 9. So when I put out a Southron Commander on a Mumak, he liberally tosses several of his companions away, thinking I can't do any harm to him anyway. He also wastes a pair of Severed His Bonds in the site 7 skirmishes in order to free up his hand to draw more Shadow for next turn.
However, the card that he evidently overlooked was Hornburg Wall. My Commander and his Mumak added a ton of twilight, which meant I had (9) available to force him to move to 8. And since he had discarded several of his companions at site 7, I was able to drop barely enough minions to overwhelm his Frodo. If he hadn't discarded Aragorn HoE or if he had kept a Severed in hand, I couldn't have pulled it off.
Like I said, the most amazing and improbable series of events led to this victory. Kudos again, Linkbreak.
http://gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$3bqnoxgc07g72xvp
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I decided to give a hand and sent a post into social bookmarks. I hope the popularity will rise in.
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sgtdraino transfers •Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin to •Frodo, Resolute Hobbit
•Robin Smallburrow, Shirriff #$&*@!-Robin optional triggered effect is used
Deep in Thought is discarded from hand
sgtdraino draws 1 card
Archery fire: fellowship - 0, minion - 0
sempol: i hope you haven't drown it now ;p
sempol: that would be sick
sgtdraino assigns characters to skirmish
sgtdraino: What are the odds?
The odds are 1 in 38... but I DID just draw Last Throw!!! Of course, I still have to survive to use it. This time I remember to use Deagol to arm Madril with an Ithilien Blade, BUT I forget to use Frodo to kill a Nazgul that is preventing the other Nazgul from roaming, and accidentally use Pippin first. So, Pippin takes out a Morgul Whelp rather than somebody more dangerous.
I did it again! Not quite as impressive as last time, this time the odds were about 4 out of 45:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$z6m6pssqgqskahzy (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$z6m6pssqgqskahzy)
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Okay, I think this one is worthy. Close game against pizza_fan, who in my experience is always an excellent player. This time he was wielding a discarding deck-out deck that actually managed to deck-out my huge 108-card deck! I can't remember the last time anyone has managed to do that.
pf started out with what looked like a pretty traditional Madril deck, but with Gimli as ringbearer. I thought that was interesting, since the first version of MY Madril deck also had a Gimli ringbearer. He used various cards to filter out my hand, like Duality, What Are We Waiting For (why he uses Gimli), and Drawing His Eye. He also used Shield of the White Tree and Mellon! to mess up my hand strategy. He also had triple move capability with Radagast.
For Shadow, pf was using a combination of Uruk-hai, Orc, and Sauron culture. The usual Sauron discarding guys, a bunch of Gorbag, Filthy Rebel to discard more, Grishnakh, Treacherous Captain to play various Uruk-hai over and over, Ugluk, Ugly Fellow, Mauhur, Relentless Hunter, White Hand Guard, and a few other Uruks to be annoying. Naturally he was also using Sauron conditions that fit the theme, like Desperate Defense of the Ring, Tower of Barad-dur, and The Irresistible Shadow.
I managed to snipe his Madril at site 4, so I thought I was doing pretty good. But then, when I move to site 5, I discover the reason he's got Uruk-hai in his deck: MULTIPLE copies of Greed. Luckily I managed to keep it at bay thanks to not much twilight, later Gladden Homestead, and finally a Deep In Thought. I made it to Site 8, with Cavern Entrance down at Site 9, and then it was his turn. He was at site 6 with seven unwounded guys (including Radagast), but no more Madril. However, at that point I only had a total of 12 cards left, including my hand. I use Fens to get out Sauron and put Saruman on his back. Master Blaster! I see he's got another Shield of the White Tree ready to go, so I go ahead and use Gollum to ditch the FP cards out of my hand. Sauron kills two, then Regroup. He Shields me, but then hits me with No Safe Places, and I have to discard 4 more cards. I ditch the last of my FP cards. I'm now decked out, with 4 cards in hand: Howdah, Ulaire Nertea, Dark Horseman, Morgul Squealer, and Mumak Commander, Giant Among Swertings. I play everything I've got, and swap out Squealer for The Witch-king, Morgul King. Alas, no threats, so no extra minion to play. Sauron takes out another two guys, leaving Gimli, Gandalf, and Aragorn fully wounded facing Mumak Commander, The Witch-king, and Sauron. No skirmish special abilities next site, so that is enough to stop him! My turn, I move, and he's basically got nothing left. Sigh of relief!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yiwd3czfsx75xchg (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yiwd3czfsx75xchg)
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$j28i69y28mc2vy30
Great game vs ShadySpawn, lots of back and forth. In the end I won by 1 strength. Gimli's Battle Axe came in real handy this game too
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I feel like this game is worthy:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$5h48ujwqfotxxhzr (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$5h48ujwqfotxxhzr)
...mainly by virtue of the fact that I started with a 124-card draw deck, and finished the game with 5 cards left! :D
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Here's a close one:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$w8picciojdi1s1u8 (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$w8picciojdi1s1u8)
Came down to Frodo vs. Frodo, with the survivor 1 burden short of corruption, and one wound short of death!
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Fun with Revised Towers Standard. Just speed-play it till around site 5.
You'll get the idea of what I'm trying to do by site 3 though, I think ;)
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=dmaz$45uobktjj5rfkl5v
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$jrnu08t2dvlporuv
Site 5 was brutal for my opponent
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Multicultural wounding decks in Movie block are pretty annoying. Slaked Thirsts, Terrible and Evil and possibly Deep in Thought during maneuver, a vitality 5 Legolas during archery, and Eowyn, Lady of Ithilien to mop up. Not to mention Radagast, the Brown to run...
So in a game that featured Sam going toe-to-toe with Sauron, the Lord of the Rings, I couldn't be more pleased with the results of this one. Even if it was quite boring to play.
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=chet_manly$b2n6wt2vxetlebvr
Poetic justice.
-wtk
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Frodo is the last man standing at site 9 (with an assist from Forests of Lothlorien):
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Inspire$vlwi9tb0ikxdgwc4
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$agnrmmh6n8hytzhz
He almost destroyed me with his nazzies, but I pulled off the site 8 LTTG :D
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Here's a close toe-to-toe game of GLR vs GLR! Both sides also using different takes on Arwen, Echo of Luthien. Completely different shadows, though:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$s2t2s2wde64hrg0m (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$s2t2s2wde64hrg0m)
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Wow, I come on here almost 2 months later to post another close game, and discover it's the same opponent as before, the same decks! GLR vs GLR, super close. This time Timour beat me to the end, But Gimli corrupted at the last possible second!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$cm8yzmemaszwqzbh (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$cm8yzmemaszwqzbh)
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Here's a super-close knock down drag out fight between a Gil-Galad looping deck, and a Madril deck!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yekkexfjjrao7y40 (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$yekkexfjjrao7y40)
Huge amount of attrition on both sides. Some highlights:
Sauron comes out at Site 2 and kills a guy!
Greed takes out three guys at Site 3!
Glorfindel, Gandalf, Radagast, and Smeagol all bite it at Site 5!
Boromir and Pippin kill The Balrog!
Boromir and Pippin kill Sauron! But Radagast and Smeagol die (again).
Gil-galad finally falls at Site 7 to Gollum, Shelob, Gothmog, and Grima!
Then Boromir loses his little buddy Pippin.
The Witch-king and Gollum take out Aragon at Site 8, leaving Galadriel all by herself, but pumped to the max.
Galadriel finally falls at Site 9, to Gollum, Grima, and Shotgun Enquea!
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Tower Block league, sets 4-5. I pulled off an incredible sequence of Uruk machines going off one by one and decimating his fellowship. I never thought I could do all of that at once:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$s92djgpwju2idnb5
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Here's something I've never seen pulled off before: Testing out my new Realm of Dwarrowdelf Expanded deck, going up against Gil-galad looping archery. Those elves made it all the way to site 8... when suddenly Sixth of the Nine Riders comes down with a DOUBLE helping of Relentless Charge, for an instant 3 hits on every guy! Nobody was left but Galadriel, and she wasn't left long!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$wqty9l09oknav6ab (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$wqty9l09oknav6ab)
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FOTR Sealed game versus Yarrick64, round 1. Awesome rares in both sides...
Such an intense tug-of-war in almost every site after 3! Glamdring came to late to rescue me... :'(
My best game in a long time!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=DurinsHeir$6m99ikch3i7w7vfw
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Revised Tower Sealed. I had horrible Free Peoples draws all game, and I was unfortunate enough to get a Blade Tip on my Frodo at site 2. It took every ounce of good luck to have me survive long enough, and my companions were dying left and right. By site 8, I had only Frodo left, and 8 burdens. But then I finally drew into Sam, Proper Poet, who helped me to miraculously survive at site 9.
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=bibfortuna$5bazeqikzg66gzt7
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Bib, that was a great game. I should have played site 9 differently, but what a close game.
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Here's an interesting one I think:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$cri3mf1w1dcl7cbe (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$cri3mf1w1dcl7cbe)
It's my new Realm of Dwarrowdelf Expanded deck. 200 cards! Going up against Ninja Gollum. I actually burned through the entire deck! Everybody but Gimli was dead by site 8, but he couldn't catch me, so Gimli moved to 9 solo, and won!
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This seems worthy of inclusion:
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$nc6ipv3dwnc3gpia
This is my fellowship block LTTG deck. It is fun, but not very consistent.
I really debated re-drawing my opening hand, but I have such a hard time passing up elrond. I decided to keep it and put one of the LTTG's back under my deck. He sees my LTTG at site 2 (and then 3 in my hand at site 3, not the greatest draw). Being a good player, he exhausts his RB to prevent my LTTG from working. I go with it, and thanks to much luck and the element of surprise, I pull off a RTIM at site 5. A single hobbit stealth or some condition discard would have destroyed me, but he did not expect it. GG Ringbearer!
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Here's a VERY close game, my Ultimate Madril deck going up against Lygaa's 300-card variant of my Realm of Dwarrowdelf deck. It's Madril vs Gimli!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$8qvjo1wk8h0gonui (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$8qvjo1wk8h0gonui)
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Here's another super-close one: KrissMe with a full 9-companion archery fellowship starring Denethor, Last Ruling Steward, vs my Realm of Dwarrowdelf deck. I over-invested at site 2, milling through a large part of my deck just to get one pump. After that, my shadow wasn't even touching him. His uruks were causing damage, but not killing anybody. I thought I was probably done when he moved to site 7 while I was still at site 5.
BUT then I drew The Number Must Be Few! I whipped Radagast out from my discard, moved to Site 6, stopped. He moved to Site 8, hit him with TNMBF, stopped him dead in his tracks. Next turn, I SFTF Radagast, and then had a fairly difficult 3-site slog to Site 9... but I made it!
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$ocilq6ehpnbl9vhi (http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=sgtdraino$ocilq6ehpnbl9vhi)
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Fun and close game. I thought I had lost, but turns out the witch king is preeettttty gooood...
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Sweet$9txx23c2ssa1my5n
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Here are two King Standard games against Smeagollum where I hang on for dear life, claw my way back from certain death, and ultimately watch him stroll from 7 to 9 :P
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Phallen$ysxd1fjw44swwyp6
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Phallen$xjz2k818759cvpzj
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It was pretty clear by site 3 that my Shadow side would do nothing at all to Kainbr's Fellowship, which meant forced doubles 3-5, 5-7, 7-9. Shout out to underappreciated cards Hama, Doorward of Theoden and Snowmane for making it possible (barely).
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Phallen$k0q6s4ppwlf6do7z
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http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr/game.html?replayId=Gerontius$tb6nov8hhtdz2alm
Here's an unusual matchup with some very close calls. For some context, my Free Peoples (Bilbo + Wraiths) are meant to bide time, draw cards and set up for a shadow kill, but it's clear that my roaming orcs can't cut it against MBrown8999's elf archers. MBrown's shadow is Isengard orcs, which is an especially volatile matchup for my wraiths who have the potential for an entirely invulnerable fellowship (Swept Away + Consorting With Wizards). But I end up spending most of the game without that combo, only 1 or 2 wounds away from a disastrous threat explosion. MBrown made some smooth plays with both Free Peoples and Shadow, and I mostly played well except for a mess up at site 4.