King/Movie Block Sites

[ket_the_jet]

A lot of people complain about King/Movie Block sites being rather boring. There's the "initiative" site 2, "add a threat" site 3, the "remove burden" site 4, the "six companion" site 7, and the "remove a threat" site 8. While it is certainly a bit less entertaining than Fellowship or Towers block, the idea wasn't exactly the worst concept for game play. What was truly missing from King Block, I believe, were site keywords. No battlegrounds, no forests, two rivers, no mountains[!], etc.

The King Block site path also felt a bit disjointed, since it was following two different stories. Either way, I am going to propose a few sites that will still follow the build of the King Block sites, but introducing a few keywords into the sites.

Site 1K   Flooded Isengard
Fellowship: Discard two unbound Hobbits to play an Ent from your draw deck.

Site 2K   Stair of Dunharrow
Mountain. Shadow: If the Shadow has initiative, spot your minion to play the next site.

Site 2K   White Mountains Camp
Mountain. While the shadow has initiative, the twilight cost of the first minion played at White Mountains Camp is -2.

Site 3K   Rammas Echor
Sanctuary. Fellowship: Add 3 threats to shuffle a non-unique character from your dead pile into your draw deck.

Site 3K   Rath Celerdain
Sanctuary. Fellowship: If you cannot spot 3 threats, add a 2 threats to remove a burden.

Site 4K   Osgiliath Crumbled
River. Battleground. Assignment: Remove 3 burdens to assign a minion to an unbound companion.

Site 4K   Druadan Forest
Forest. Assignment: Remove 2 burdens to make a minion fierce until the regroup phase.

Site 4K   The Pinewoods
Forest. Battleground. Shadow: Remove a burden to add .

Site 4K   Stonewain Valley
Forest. Shadow: Remove 2 burdens to play a minion from your discard pile.

Site 5K   Pelennor Wasteland
Plains. Battleground. While you can spot 5 minions, the Shadow has initiative.

Site 5K   Fen Hollen
Battleground. When the Fellowship moves to this site, discard each ally from play.

Site 7K   East Osgiliath
Battleground. River. Shadow: Exert 2 minions and spot 6 companions to play a minion from your discard pile.

Site 8K   Emyn Arnen
Mountain. Shadow: Remove a threat and discard 2 Orcs from hand to play an Orc from your discard pile.

Site 8K   Ithilien Wasteland
Battleground. Forest. Shadow: Remove a threat and spot your Man to play a possession from your discard pile.

Site 8K   Cair Andros
River. Shadow: Remove a threat and spot your Uruk-Hai to make this site a battleground until the regroup phase.

Site 9K   The Black Gate
Battleground. Mountain. While you can spot 5 burdens, the Shadow player has initiative until the regroup phase.

Site 9K   Base of Mount Doom
Mountain. The free peoples player wins the game only if the ring-bearer survives until Shadow players reconcile.

Site 9K   Crack of Doom [11]
Mountain. Underground. Battleground.



Cheers!
-wtk

[jdizzy001]

Very cool

[Not a Zombie]

A lot of people complain about King/Movie Block sites being rather boring. There's the "initiative" site 2, "add a threat" site 3, the "remove burden" site 4, the "six companion" site 7, and the "remove a threat" site 8. While it is certainly a bit less entertaining than Fellowship or Towers block, the idea wasn't exactly the worst concept for game play. What was truly missing from King Block, I believe, were site keywords. No battlegrounds, no forests, two rivers, no mountains[!], etc.

The King Block site path also felt a bit disjointed, since it was following two different stories. Either way, I am going to propose a few sites that will still follow the build of the King Block sites, but introducing a few keywords into the sites.

Site 1K   Flooded Isengard
Fellowship: Discard two unbound Hobbits to play an Ent from your draw deck.

Awesome!

Site 2K   Stair of Dunharrow
Mountain. Shadow: If the Shadow has initiative, spot your minion to play the next site.

I'd make it instead. I don't see it getting much use otherwise.

Site 2K   White Mountains Camp
Mountain. While the shadow has initiative, the twilight cost of the first minion played at White Mountains Camp is -2.

Other than the mountain keyword, I see no point of using White Mountains Camp over West Road or Rohirrim Camp. Both give a better twilight advantage than White Mountains Camp. You could make it different by making shadow conditions/possessions cheaper by 1 or 2 each? Would make a great site 2 counter to Rohirrim Road and Legolas, DH.

Site 3K   Rammas Echor
Sanctuary. Fellowship: Add 3 threats to shuffle a non-unique character from your dead pile into your draw deck.

Awesome. Great to combo with SFTF. I'd limit it to once per turn though.

Site 3K   Rath Celerdain
Sanctuary. Fellowship: If you cannot spot 3 threats, add a 2 threats to remove a burden.

Nice.

Site 4K   Osgiliath Crumbled
River. Battleground. Assignment: Remove 3 burdens to assign a minion to an unbound companion.

Also great. Nice use of battleground.

Site 4K   Druadan Forest
Forest. Assignment: Remove 2 burdens to make a minion fierce until the regroup phase.

Awesome.

Site 4K   The Pinewoods
Forest. Battleground. Shadow: Remove a burden to add .

Might be good, I'd always choose one of your previous two over this, but maybe if you have an elf/uruk deck it would see play.

Site 4K   Stonewain Valley
Forest. Shadow: Remove 2 burdens to play a minion from your discard pile.

Seems balanced, one less twilight than city of the dead.

Site 5K   Pelennor Wasteland
Plains. Battleground. While you can spot 5 minions, the Shadow has initiative.

Seems fine.

Site 5K   Fen Hollen
Battleground. When the Fellowship moves to this site, discard each ally from play.

Looks good.

Site 7K   East Osgiliath
Battleground. River. Shadow: Exert 2 minions and spot 6 companions to play a minion from your discard pile.

Seems more powerful to me than Osgiliath Crossing, not sure.

Site 8K   Emyn Arnen
Mountain. Shadow: Remove a threat and discard 2 Orcs from hand to play an Orc from your discard pile.

Looks cool, but possibly abusable

Site 8K   Ithilien Wasteland
Battleground. Forest. Shadow: Remove a threat and spot your Man to play a possession from your discard pile.

Gives dunland a reason to add threats, interesting.

Site 8K   Cair Andros
River. Shadow: Remove a threat and spot your Uruk-Hai to make this site a battleground until the regroup phase.

Looks fine.

Site 9K   The Black Gate
Battleground. Mountain. While you can spot 5 burdens, the Shadow player has initiative until the regroup phase.

I like it

Site 9K   Base of Mount Doom
Mountain. The free peoples player wins the game only if the ring-bearer survives until Shadow players reconcile.

Badly needed

Site 9K   Crack of Doom [11]
Mountain. Underground. Battleground.

I love the tradeoff here!

Cheers!
-wtk

[Dictionary]

I much prefer these Particularly like Crack of Doom and Cair Andros.