Author Topic: Return to the Paths of the Dead - Abandoning All Reason (Read 132441 times)

Anvar · « **Reply #165 on:** July 27, 2008, 03:03:50 PM »

Thanks for reviews. The steed now has the resistance requirements switched, and the play possession from discard pile now requires an exertion.

Some cards today that are a bit simpler in execution:

Might of the East

Event • Skirmish
Return - remove a burden.
Make a

minion strength +2.

Easterling Servant

Minion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Site: 4
Easterling.
Skirmish: Exert this minion and scour a card to make an unbound companion skirmishing a

or twilight minion resistance -2.

Thranduil · « **Reply #166 on:** July 27, 2008, 04:32:26 PM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 27, 2008, 03:03:50 PM

Might of the East
Event • Skirmish
Return - remove a burden.
Make a minion strength +2.

Looks fun. You remove from the game after using return, right?

Quote from: Anvar on July 27, 2008, 03:03:50 PM

Easterling Servant
Minion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 4
Site: 4
Easterling.
Skirmish: Exert this minion and scour a card to make an unbound companion skirmishing a or twilight minion resistance -1.

Fine, but it's very rare that such a low cost minion has such high vitality. Perhaps reduce the vitality an increase the power of the ability.

Thranduil

Elf_Lvr · « **Reply #167 on:** July 27, 2008, 08:45:22 PM »

I second Thran's comments.

Anvar · « **Reply #168 on:** July 28, 2008, 05:04:35 AM »

You only remove the card from the game if the card tells you to do so. For most events, you do remove them afterwards, but removing a burden seemed such a high cost for +2 strength that I thought this would be more fun without that penalty.

The servant has now got vit 3 and makes companions resistance -2.

Anvar · « **Reply #169 on:** July 28, 2008, 11:53:33 AM »

A couple more cards today supporting the resistance theme:

Under Pressure

Event • Maneuver
Exert a

minion (or spot a

minion and a twilight minion) to make each unbound companion resistance -2 until the regroup phase.

Easterling Scourge

Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site: 4
Easterling.
Skirmish: Remove

and remove a

card in your discard pile from the game to make a companion skirmishing this minion resistance -1.

Thranduil · « **Reply #170 on:** July 28, 2008, 12:17:40 PM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 28, 2008, 11:53:33 AM

Under Pressure
Event • Maneuver
Exert 2 minions (or exert a minion and spot a twilight minion) to make each unbound companion resistance -3 until the regroup phase.

I think I'd prefer less cost for less power, like less exertions and resistance -2.

Quote from: Anvar on July 28, 2008, 11:53:33 AM

Easterling Scourge
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site: 4
Easterling.
Skirmish: Remove X cards in your discard pile from the game to make a companion skirmishing this minion resistance -X.

There's no reason for an X there; it could simply be "Remove a

card in your discard from the game to make a companion skirmishing this minion resistance -1." But I think this is perhaps too useful. Maybe add "remove

" to the cost.

Thranduil

menace64 · « **Reply #171 on:** July 29, 2008, 10:58:11 AM »

Yup yup. Both cards look fine now.

Anvar · « **Reply #172 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:07:08 AM »

Thanks for those reviews. A few minions and another possession today. Again, exploring old Raider ground in new ways. Let me know what you think.

Khamul's Footman

Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion, you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a

or

card, add a burden.

Slave of Khamul

Minion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion, you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a

or

card, add a burden.

Tower Shield

Possession • Shield
Vitality: +1
Bearer must be a

minion.
Return - remove 3

cards in your discard pile from the game.

Thranduil · « **Reply #173 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:11:25 AM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:07:08 AM

Khamul's Footman
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a or card add a burden.

Interesting, but it's a tough comparison with Easterling Lieutenant. Not sure whether this guy should have strength 8 or 9.

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:07:08 AM

Slave of Khamul
Minion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a or card add a burden.

This onee's solid.

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:07:08 AM

Tower Shield
Possession • Shield
Vitality: +1
Bearer must be a minion.
Return - remove 3 [men] cards in your discard pile from the game.

seems too much. Maybe

with an exertion? Or have the possibility of reduction like on Pavise.

Thranduil

DáinIronfoot · « **Reply #174 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:14:40 AM »

Quote from: Anvar

Khamul's Footman
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a or card add a burden.

Needs commas after "unbound companion" and "

or

card", but seems fine otherwise. Well...maybe one less strength, actually.

Quote from: Anvar

Slave of Khamul
Minion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a or card add a burden.

Same comments on the grammar here. Maybe build in a drawback to these guys, like "If you scour a Free Peoples card, wound this minion" or something.

Quote from: Anvar

Tower Shield
Possession • Shield
Vitality: +1
Bearer must be a minion.
Return - remove 3 [men] cards in your discard pile from the game.

Not sure I quite get the title (what "tower"?), but I like it.

Anvar · « **Reply #175 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:18:45 AM »

Tower Shield is a type of shield - like the romans used to use. The shields used by the easterlings in the movie seemed to fall under this name as well as they do under Pavise.

My minions are much more culturally enforced than Easterling Lieutenant. On average, even in the right deck, they will only add a burden 50% of the time. For that reason I felt a small strength boost was justified.

Anvar

Thranduil · « **Reply #176 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:32:51 AM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:18:45 AM

My minions are much more culturally enforced than Easterling Lieutenant. On average, even in the right deck, they will only add a burden 50% of the time. For that reason I felt a small strength boost was justified.

Except that the Free Peoples player defines whether the Lieutenant works or not by assigning it to a ring-bound or unbound companion, which is why I thought they were perhaps equivalent.

Thranduil

Anvar · « **Reply #177 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:52:17 AM »

Um, my cards also works when assigned to unbound companions...

Thranduil · « **Reply #178 on:** July 29, 2008, 11:53:25 AM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:52:17 AM

Um, my cards also works when assigned to unbound companions...

Oh yeah!

Thranduil

lem0nhead · « **Reply #179 on:** July 30, 2008, 02:46:22 AM »

Quote from: Anvar on July 29, 2008, 11:07:08 AM

Khamul's Footman
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Easterling.
Each time this minion is assigned to skirmish an unbound companion, you may exert this minion to scour a card. If you scour a or card, add a burden.

Seems a bit of an effort to get a burden compared to the old easterlings but i guess its bearing desperation in mind again....

Tower Shield
Possession • Shield
Vitality: +1
Bearer must be a minion.
Return - remove 3 cards in your discard pile from the game.

Fair enough.