Looking for an idea.....

[NappyKorn]

I was trying to think of a new deck to play around with on gccg or Marcin's program. I'm looking for something I don't normally play and something new (to at least myself). I was using sda to scroll through some cards and a few caught my eye. First Gorgoroth Attacker, he seems like he has some serious potential to hand out several burdens in a single turn. After that I was looking for ways to get him on a site and Gorgoroth Troop came to mind. Easy enough get them both through until the skirmish phase and bounce the Gorgoroth Attacker to a site to boost Gorgoroth Troop's strength. Now I needed a way to play the Gorgoroth Attacker off the sites, at first I though about condition that removed threats to do it, but that relies on getting threats built up and when Gorogoroth Troop kills someone (or anyother minion for that matter) you have to build them back up. This is when I saw Gorgoroth Officer, he can do this during the skirmish phase as well. So you get a Gorgoroth Attacker stacked on a site (hopefully you get several sites) and get a Gorgoroth Officer and Gorgoroth Troop to the skirmish phase discard 2 cards from hand to play the Gorgoroth Attacker (adding x burdens) send him back to the site with Gorgoroth Troop's text and replay him again to get more burdens Anyway looking for good ways to take the sites and to finish the deckoff as I'm not familiar with Besiegers and even less familiar with sauron site control.

So here is the challenge:

Build a deck that helps pull off this combo to its fullest. Gorgoroth Troop to send Gorgoroth Attacker to a site you control and use Gorgoroth Officer to replay him as many times as the cards in hand will allow this.

My first idea was perhaps get your sites and use cards (eg. Grishnakh, Orc Captain) to build a decent hand to max this out. Like I said I know Besiegers have their ways to control sites fairly easy, but I have not much experience playing them and for the most part have avoided making decks with them .

Anyway can't wait to see the ideas from my fellow LotR addicts and thanks for the read,

NK


PS:

Not to sure but if you send Gorgoroth Attacker back to a site after he was already played with Gorgoroth Officer then you replay him again does the +6 strength boost accumulate or when he is sent back is he considered no longer in play thus losing the first +6 boost?

[Gil-Estel]

You need sites, and especially you need encirclement. That is the card that makes the combo worthwhile. Gorgoroth Sapper is a way to go as well. Best thing about that, is that you can pull it of in the shadow phase. Not much anyone can do about it.

[NappyKorn]

You need sites, and especially you need encirclement. That is the card that makes the combo worthwhile. Gorgoroth Sapper is a way to go as well. Best thing about that, is that you can pull it of in the shadow phase. Not much anyone can do about it.

Yeah I definitely need some form of site control (but not sure what is the best way to get it with . As for the Gorgoroth Sapper it did catch my eye. Here is what I came up with, but Im thinking it may be to spread out with random helpful stuff and not enough more certain to work stuff.

Shadow (35)
1x *Ithil Stone (9R+47)
2x *Encirclement (7R268)
1x *Tower Walkway (7C315)
2x *Troop Tower (7R316)
1x Their Marching Companies (8U107)
3x *Gorgoroth Troop (7R279)
2x *Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron (8R108)
4x Gorgoroth Attacker (7U270)
3x Gorgoroth Berserker (8R96)
2x Gorgoroth Garrison (7C273)
3x Gorgoroth Officer (7R274)
3x Gorgoroth Sapper (7C277)
3x Gorgoroth Soldier (7U278)
2x Orc Fighter (5U105)
2x Siege Troop (8C106)
1x *Grond, Hammer of the Underworld (8R103)

Let me know if this is any good or if there are somethings I can drop and/or cut back on to add more of something or just add something better.

Thanks for the reply Heije.

NK

EDIT:

Also not sure what to pair this with to help it function. My default FP for testing shadow sides is Preparation Dwarves with Aragorn, DoFP and Stout and Strong, but maybe I could pair it with Knights (since I have finally figured them out to a degree) for more of a theme type deck. So let me know what you think of the cluttered mess above and what may be a decent free peoples side to run with this.

Thanks,

NK

[uncle_elrond]

I have a deck I've been playing for a while that uses something similar but without the Gorgoroth Troop.  I used Gollum to add threats for Their Marching Companies and use that and Troll of Gorgoroth to get the Gorgoroth Attacker on the sites.  I also use Desperate Defense of the Ring with Gorgoroth Assassin to add more burdens just to keep things interesting.  Your version probably uses Gorgoroth Attacker easier, but I can post a full decklist later if you're interested.

[NappyKorn]

Your version probably uses Gorgoroth Attacker easier, but I can post a full decklist later if you're interested.

Sure, that would be nice. After all that is why I made this thread to see what everyone has come up with or can come up with. Thanks for the reply and glad to see people still interested in deck building posts .

NK

[Floydos]

mine deck of Besiegers for movie:

4x Din of Arms
2x •Encirclement
3x Gorgoroth Garrison
3x Gorgoroth Pillager
3x Gorgoroth Sapper
3x Gorgoroth Soldier
3x •Gorgoroth Troop
2x •Tower Walkway
2x •Troop Tower
2x •Dead Marshes

Idea is to get control 2sites and have Gorgoroth Pillager stacked on site. •Dead Marshes is there to recycle •Tower Walkway and •Troop Tower. If you have 3 and more besiegers in play...use Din of Arms to streng bonuses and controling sites...

[uncle_elrond]

Gollum, Stinker
Gorgoroth Agitator
Gorgoroth Assassin x4
Gorgoroth Attacker x4
Gorgoroth Sapper x3
Troll of Gorgoroth, Abomination of Sauron x3
Gorgoroth Troop
Siege Troop x2
Fat One Wants It
Desperate Defense of the Ring x4
Their Marching Companies x3
Grond, Hammer of the Underworld
Troop Tower x3
Captured By the Ring x4


This is what I've been playing.  I guess there was a Gorgoroth Troop in there after all.  The main problem this deck has is being inconsistent depending on what you draw.  Sometimes it hard to take sites, sometimes it hard to add burdens.  The other thing I need in here is Gorgoroth Soldier to keep the Gorgoroth Attacker alive to regroup, but as it is there isn't much room.

[hsiale]

Gorgoroth Attacker/Officer/Troop is really funny combo, unfortunately it's hard to pull it off. Your deck must be completely devoted to that single aim.

Key minions:
4x Gorgoroth Attacker
3x Gorgoroth Officer
3x Gorgoroth Troop

Site control cards
4x Siege Troop
2x Gorgoroth Berserker
3x Troop Tower

Hand extension and extra twilight
2x Encirclement
2x Ithil Stone

Other useful cards
4x Gorgoroth Soldier
4x Gorgoroth Assassin
1x Grond, Hammer of the Underworld

That's how I would start. It is 32 cards, so risk of getting draw screwed is low. I would pair it with Saved From the Fire Ents FP as it can filter, it can bid to go first (nothing is worse than going second with a site control shadow) and it can run to put some pressure on opponent (or to give you a chance to win if you run into a Noble Leaders FP which completely shuts down this shadow).

[Gil-Estel]

Simple, neat, I like it.... I would add sapper nonetheless, as a back-up