The Way Into Mordor - Isengard (12/31: Token Machine Stuff)

[FM]

Orthanc Desecrator
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Site: 5
Damage +1.
Each unbound companion skirmishing an minion is resistance -2 for each site you control.
Each village and battlefield conquered by the advancing horde further weakened the hearts of Rohan's defenders.

Seems nice.

Orthanc Decimator
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 5
Damage +1.
Each unbound companion is resistance -2 for each condition he or she bears.
While capable of killing in a single blow, the Uruk-hai were just as able to wear down opponents in drawn out combat.

Again, ok. Might be a little too powerful, considering Orthanc Assassin, but I always thought Orthanc Assassin was the one that sucked, so...

[Thranduil]

Orthanc Desecrator
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Site: 5
Damage +1.
Each unbound companion skirmishing an minion is resistance -2 for each site you control.
Each village and battlefield conquered by the advancing horde further weakened the hearts of Rohan's defenders.

Orthanc Decimator
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 10
Vitality: 3
Site: 5
Damage +1.
Each unbound companion is resistance -2 for each condition he or she bears.
While capable of killing in a single blow, the Uruk-hai were just as able to wear down opponents in drawn out combat.

Fine. I think I would give the second one vitality 2 or lower strength because his resistance stuff does not require diluting your resistance-lowering strategy with site control supplementation.

Thranduil

[DáinIronfoot]

Dropped the vitality of the Decimator to 2.

I've been working so much with tokens lately that I was inspired to do the same with . In their case, we already have plenty of token conditions, but not a whole lot of minions that work directly with them. Time to fix that!

Orthanc Engineer
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
When you play this minion, you may play an machine from your draw deck.
The twilight cost of each machine is -1.
While Saruman's Orcs and the Wizard himself were the chief designers of Orthanc's siege engines, several Uruk-hai were conscripted for this specialized work as well.

Orthanc Sapper
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 7
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
When you play this minion, you may reinforce an token (or reinforce 2 tokens on machines).
Not all of Saruman's warriors were bred for direct combat; some were created and trained as engineers to manufacture and operate his war machines.

And the coup de grâce....

Orthanc Sieger
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 8
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
This minion is strength +1 for each machine that has an token on it.
The machines used at Helm's Deep--and the armies behind them--were unlike anything seen before in Middle-earth.

[Thranduil]

Orthanc Engineer
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
When you play this minion, you may play an machine from your draw deck.
The twilight cost of each machine is -1.
While Saruman's Orcs and the Wizard himself were the chief designers of Orthanc's siege engines, several Uruk-hai were conscripted for this specialized work as well.

Okay, fair enough. I think I'd prefer without the twilight reduction and put that onto a different card.

Orthanc Sapper
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 7
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
When you play this minion, you may reinforce an token (or reinforce 2 tokens on machines).
Not all of Saruman's warriors were bred for direct combat; some were created and trained as engineers to manufacture and operate his war machines.

Okay, fair enough.

Orthanc Sieger
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 8
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
This minion is strength +1 for each machine that has an token on it.
The machines used at Helm's Deep--and the armies behind them--were unlike anything seen before in Middle-earth.

I think he should just be strength +1 for each machine; no reason to put tokens into the equation I feel.

Thranduil

[lem0nhead]

Orthanc Engineer
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
When you play this minion, you may play an machine from your draw deck.
The twilight cost of each machine is -1.
While Saruman's Orcs and the Wizard himself were the chief designers of Orthanc's siege engines, several Uruk-hai were conscripted for this specialized work as well.

Id swap the lines around but fine.

Orthanc Sapper
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 7
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
When you play this minion, you may reinforce an token (or reinforce 2 tokens on machines).
Not all of Saruman's warriors were bred for direct combat; some were created and trained as engineers to manufacture and operate his war machines.

Fine.

Orthanc Sieger
Minion • Uruk-hai
Strength: 8
Vitality: 2
Site: 5
Damage +1.
This minion is strength +1 for each machine that has an token on it.
The machines used at Helm's Deep--and the armies behind them--were unlike anything seen before in Middle-earth.

Ooooh nice. Likey.

[sickofpalantirs]

all fine.