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[NappyKorn]

Sweet report as always . 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 .

[Gil-Estel]

Nice report Dain, played a SSA/forestguls deck myself last week, and it was nasty. Will post my deck here as we speak.

[DáinIronfoot]

NappyKorn's Solo Smeagol with Sense of Obligation Enduring Nazgul

vs.

My Smeagol's RB Hobbits with Gollum's Burdening Balrog (link)

As always, NK and I seemed to have a deck well-suited to counter the other. Great minds and all that, I guess.

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 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.

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!

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 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 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. I look forward to seeing that deck of yours.

[NappyKorn]

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 . 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

[DáinIronfoot]

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.

[Elessar's Socks]

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!

[DáinIronfoot]

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.

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!

[Elf_Lvr]

Dain's Isildur's Wraiths with Wraith (and Enduring Nazgul) Corruption

vs.

My Sarn Ford Resistance with 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!

[NappyKorn]

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 . So here goes.

Game Results:

My: Eventually Solo Frodo with Troll Swarm
vs.
SM's Hunters with Battleground

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 . 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 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 .

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 .

[Pepin The Breve]

  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! 

  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)!!! 

  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  ). 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!) 

  
 

  

 

[Pepin The Breve]

   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 ) 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  ) 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  . 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!  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...

  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)!!!  
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!!!    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!    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  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!!! 

   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! 

   

  

[DáinIronfoot]

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. 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 nasty.

Next time I promise I'll have the right sites. Silly oversight on my part.

Good game!

[NappyKorn]

Game Results:

NK's Mountain/Underground Dwarves with Machince Gun Enquea
vs.
Pepin the Breve's 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 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 . Great Game Pepin the Breve and welcome to the world of expanded . Now you get to post our 2nd game and show them you can win a game in expanded as well.

[Pepin The Breve]

  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!!!   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  ).  

  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!    Far better then the last one when i had very bad draws (forget to mulligan then... ) 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
  

[Pepin The Breve]

   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!!!  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! 

  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!