The Way Into Mordor - Dunland (12/2: A Conscript and More Plunder)

[Gate Troll]

Hillman Brigand
Minion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
At the start of each skirmish involving this minion, return a possession borne by a character in that skirmish to its owner's hand.
Little remained after a raid by the wild men.

It would be cool if it were 8/1/3

Hear Their Voices
Event • Skirmish
Make a Man strength +2 and return a possession borne by a character in that Man's skirmish to its owner's hand.
"‘I know that tongue. It is an ancient speech of men, and once was spoken in many western valleys of the Mark.'"

Seems okay.

•Evils and Follies
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot a minion.
Each time the Free Peoples player plays a possession or artifact, add a token here.
Each time a minion wins a skirmish, you may remove a token from here to exert an ally or unbound companion.
"‘...they were conquered in their weakness by the wild men.'"

Ah, nice. Certainly makes the first two worth playing.

Slightly odd, seems okay though.

[DáinIronfoot]

Just a couple of simple strength pumps today, one of which ties in very nicely with Uruks. Enjoy!

They Will Not Give Way
Event • Skirmish
Spot an Uruk-hai to make a Man strength +3 (and damage +1 if at a battleground or plains site).
"‘But these creatures of Isengard...that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun. And neither will the wild men of the hills.'"

Tall and Grim
Event • Skirmish
Make an unbound companion skirmishing a Man strength -2 (or -3 if that companion is a Hobbit or Dwarf).
"‘...I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me....'"

[Thranduil]

Tall and Grim
Event • Skirmish
Make an unbound companion skirmishing a Man strength -2 (or -3 if that companion is a Hobbit or Dwarf).
"‘...I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me....'"

I just have this brilliant image of a tall Dunlending standing over a tiny Dwarf and looking straight down into his eyes...

Cards are fine.

Thranduil

[Gate Troll]

They Will Not Give Way
Event • Skirmish
Spot an Uruk-hai to make a Man strength +3 (or +4 if at a battleground or plains site).
"‘But these creatures of Isengard...that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun. And neither will the wild men of the hills.'"

One slight quibble, I'd prefer the first sentence to be: "Spot an Uruk-hai to make a Man strength +2 (or +4 if at a battleground or plains site)". Otherwise looks good.

Tall and Grim
Event • Skirmish
Make an unbound companion skirmishing a Man strength -2 (or -3 if that companion is a Hobbit or Dwarf).
"‘...I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me....'"

Good. Simple and effective-looking.

Any sites forthcoming? 

[Thranduil]

I suddenly noticed that the first card spots an Uruk-hai! It's underpowered, then. +3/+5 seems better, for extra incentive. Or +3/+3 damage +1.

Thranduil

[sickofpalantirs]

I luv the lore and flavor on thetall and grim, and with the urukhai
I'd make it or damage +1 and +4 if you control a site, KINDa like awkward moment. maybe even spot isnegard culture tokens to make it more interesting.

[Gate Troll]

Or he could just remove the "Spot an Uruk-hai to" part.

[Elf_Lvr]

They Will Not Give Way
Event • Skirmish
Spot an Uruk-hai to make a Man strength +3 (or +4 if at a battleground or plains site).
"‘But these creatures of Isengard...that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun. And neither will the wild men of the hills.'"

I like Thran's damage suggestion. has enough good events that even though this is a potential +4, even in hybrid decks other events would be used. If it gave damage, however, it'd turn into a deck staple much like Violent Hurl has (while being significantly less OP).

Tall and Grim
Event • Skirmish
Make an unbound companion skirmishing a Man strength -2 (or -3 if that companion is a Hobbit or Dwarf).
"‘...I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me....'"

Erm. Reducing strength is something that shadow cultures are almost NEVER able to do, and something has never done before. I'm not sure I like it so much in a shadow culture already heavy on early-overwhelms.

[lem0nhead]

Just a couple of simple strength pumps today, one of which ties in very nicely with Uruks. Enjoy!

They Will Not Give Way
Event • Skirmish
Spot an Uruk-hai to make a Man strength +3 (or +4 if at a battleground or plains site).
"‘But these creatures of Isengard...that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun. And neither will the wild men of the hills.'"

Fair enough.

Tall and Grim
Event • Skirmish
Make an unbound companion skirmishing a Man strength -2 (or -3 if that companion is a Hobbit or Dwarf).
"‘...I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me....'"

Always way too nasty to be free. Removing strength from companions is twice as harsh as pumping a minion so should be half as good. Maybe -1 and brackets -2 if you want it to cost 0. Or cost 1.

[DáinIronfoot]

Tweaked both events as suggested. Thanks, boys! for all!

Not sure when I'll be posted again, so here's a hodgepodge of Dunlendings to tide you over until then. Enjoy!

Wild Men Rabble
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 1.
To play, spot 2 minions (or Saruman).
"‘...Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland....We were overmastered.'"

Hillman Rampager
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
When you play this minion at a dwelling, battleground, or plains site, you may spot X other minions to take control of a site, where X is that site's site number.
"‘And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches....'"

Hillman Savage
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Assignment: Spot a site you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion bearing less than 3 Free Peoples cards. If this minion loses that skirmish, the Free Peoples player may liberate a site.
"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

[Elf_Lvr]

Wild Men Rabble
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 1.
To play, spot 2 minions.
"‘...Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland....We were overmastered.'"

Yikes. I'd have to see it play to figure balance, but I might make the fierce conditional. Spotting multiple minions is something is probably good at doing, eh?

Hillman Rampager
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
When you play this minion, you may spot X other minions to take control of a site, where X is that site's site number.
"‘And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches....'"

Pretty easy site control, but I like it.

Hillman Savage
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Assignment: Spot 2 sites you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion bearing less than 3 Free Peoples cards.
"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

It should only spot one site you control. The minion's going to be fairly unusable late-game, I think, so it'd be really hard to use this guy to his full potential if you had to wait until 2 sites were controlled.

[Pepin The Breve]

  Hello People. I´m really out of the Dream-card stuff but i may risk some considerations...

   First of all i think we have to consider what i call "culture biases" that is nothing more than say that each culture have their strong and weak points, things that they master and thing that they are unable (or almost) to do.

   For example,  culture is usually good at skirmishing/healing / or even archery but they can´t remove burdens or conditions directly, and so on...

   That said if you think about mixing these new cards with old  cards (which is one i like most) you have to stick think wisely to not create OP combinations. I really loved cards like Hillman Savage, Hillman Rampager and Evils and Follies, but i agree with EL when he states that events that reduce strenght of characters could be really OP in a deck that is known for throwing out a bunch of high strenght minions at one time... to not speak about the possibilty of "site 3 massive pain" (you play one st10 fierce minion with a War Club with some events at hand and watch the the freeps die painfully  ). It get´s worse if you control 2 sites... play Dunlending Elder and watch him bring down the freeps with reduction strenght + pump events.

   That´s just my toughts... i really like most of the cards here but i think we have to deal with this "culture bias" aproach or we risk to make OP decks.

   Cheers!

[Gate Troll]

Wild Men Rabble
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 1.
To play, spot 2 minions.
"‘...Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland....We were overmastered.'"

I like the spotting requirement though you should probably remove the damage +1 or the Fierce. Hunter 1 can probably
go as well, a rabble is the complete opposite of a hunter as well as the fact that Hunter goes against the whole Dunlending 'flavor'. Final assessment: Remove the damage +1 and the Hunter. 

Hillman Rampager
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
When you play this minion, you may spot X other minions to take control of a site, where X is that site's site number.
"‘And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches....'"

I'd definitely change it to: "When you play this minion, you may remove X and spot X other minions to take control of a site where X is that site's site number." Without that it is insane, even with it say, at site 1 or site 2 it is still probably a bit OP.

Hillman Savage
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Assignment: Spot 2 sites you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion bearing less than 3 Free Peoples cards.
"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

I like the card; aside from that I have one slight nitpick to administer. When Decipher used lore not in the books it
looked like this: Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks.
but not like this:"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

Besides  that it looks good. Keep up the good work!

[lem0nhead]

Wild Men Rabble
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 1.
To play, spot 2 minions.
"‘...Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland....We were overmastered.'"

Ok.

Hillman Rampager
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
When you play this minion, you may spot X other minions to take control of a site, where X is that site's site number.
"‘And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches....'"

Do you mean shadow site number? And he seems a bit hard, its a very easy way to take a site. Kinda like freca but with no downside.

Hillman Savage
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Assignment: Spot 2 sites you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion bearing less than 3 Free Peoples cards.
"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

Nice.

[Thranduil]

Wild Men Rabble
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Damage +1. Fierce. Hunter 1.
To play, spot 2 minions.
"‘...Saruman has armed the wild hillmen and herd-folk of Dunland....We were overmastered.'"

I think I would also remove the hunter and maybe make either the fierce or damage conditional.

Hillman Rampager
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
When you play this minion, you may spot X other minions to take control of a site, where X is that site's site number.
"‘And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches....'"

Good stuff. This doesn't seem OP to me (lem0n: it's site number ie. 1-9). Perhaps he could have strength 9, but I don't think it's necessary. Also a very novel way of approaching site control and I think deserves a !

Hillman Savage
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 1
Site: 3
Assignment: Spot 2 sites you control to assign this minion to an unbound companion bearing less than 3 Free Peoples cards.
"Whenever the Rohirrim were weak or in trouble the Dunlendings renewed their attacks."

I think EL's right - he's either an early game card in which case 2 sites is pushing it, or he should be of the Wormtongue build and assign to people bearing 3 or more FP cards.

Thranduil