Rohan Fight - Fellowship only

[King89]

i thought about a standart men deck focusing on fighting.
this is my firt result:

Frodo, Weary From the Journey (15C)
The One Ring, The Great Ring (19P)

companions:
1 Eomer, Horsemaster (15R) strong, valiant and hunter for 2 tw, what do you need more? nothing.
1 Eowyn, Northwoman (17R)* breaks big guys like balrog, sauron, castimir... frodo gets strong enough to fight
1 Aragorn, Defender of Rohan (17R) maybe the soul of this deck, awesome with grim trophy & gamling
1 Gamling, The Old (15S) fast at strenght 10, for 2 tw... and valiant!
1 Theoden, Tall and proud (8R) valiant, love the combo with the army
1 Haethen, Veteran Fighter (12R) useful against all fierce minions, i.e. direct damange warg riders from RoS
1 Rohirrim Army (8R) discards a minion
1 Radagast, The Brown (9R+) let's move, baby!
2 Merry, Swordthain (7R) i love him! perfect against possessiondiscard and quite funny with eomer's and eowyn's possessions + unyielding

allies:
1 Tom Bombadil, The Master (9R+)
1 Deor (7C) it's a tall deck, so she helps to cycle and pushes

possessions / artifacts:
2 Sting, BotAL for frodo
1 Eomer's Spear, Trusted Weapon (15R) a little bit direct damange if you do not kill all minions
1 Rider's Mount (15C) should be clear
1 Firefoot, Eomer's Steed (7R) COULD be useful for conditiondiscard
1 Eowyn's Sword, Dernhelms Blade (7R) nasty with unyielding
1 Long Spear (7C) or Spear of the Mark (15U) long spear is nice with nine-fingered frodo... not sure
1 Coif (12R) should be clear
1 Throne of the Golden Hall (17R) should be clear

conditions:
1 For Death and Glory (17U) very useful whil facing a hunter shadow

events:
1 NfFatRoD (10U) burden or treat remove
1 Unyielding (10U) already mentioned
2 For the Mark (12U) simple possessiondiscard
2 Where Now the Horse (17U) that's what i call rb protection! frodo gets mad with this + his ring
3 Grim Trophy (15C) a potential +7!!! pusher, also works against hunter shadows, cause you got 4 valiant comps
2 Brilliant Light (15C) pushes, too. better then then GT if you need some damange
3 Last Days of My House (15U) depending on which shadow you're facing, pick the comps you need.


total: 35


any suggestions are welcome. i.e ideas for better healing (unfortunatelly there is non) and how to keep the size of the deck a bit shorter (32 cards would be perfect).



thanks for reading
king89

[Elrohir]

Add:
Theoden, The Renowned (starting)
Theodred, Second Marshal of the Mark (starting)
Fall back to Helms Deep
2x Ride with me
Aragorn, Defender of Rohan (another one)
Sting, Elven Long Knife or Sting, Weapon of Heritage
Erkenbrand

Further Suggestions:
*Sam, Great Elf Warrior - it is always important to have Sam, in case Frodo dies. Furthermore, Tom Bombadil gets an additional companion to protect! So he makes a bit more sense in this deck.
*Phial of Galadriel, Starglass
*Sword Rack

Remove:
Deor
Coif
Radagast
2x Last days of my house
Grim Trophy
For the Mark
Rohirrim Army
Theoden, Tall and Proud
Haethen
Hobbit Sword

Now it should be at 32 cards. Use followers (Pallando for condition discard,  folowers for strength...)!

[King89]

thanks @ Elrohir. any other suggestions?

[King89]

how sad that nobody else has ANY suggestions, because yesterday i play-tested this deck for the first time and eowyn is awesome! breaking an fierce, hunter and damange+1 guy is so much fun  and she cannot take a wound!
finally she has an enormous potential which i'd like to abuse even more. i just need some wound prevention for the worst case that i face a hunter shadow or draw no skirmish events. there is a condition (it's name escapes me) which allows me to add 2 burdens to prevent a wound, but thats - to my mind - not effective enough: way to expensive and gets discarded to easily.

edit: i can always complain about that fact that there's no card like much-needed rest for rohan, why?! argh....



so please, help me out with this problem!! 

[Olorin]

Solution 1: don't play against by decks...

or the better one...

get a healing engine... rohan cannot heal... so, abuse the sites... --> Nelya/Mithlond combo, perhaps... heal a little bit and you're well...

[MuadDib85]

*Leowyn* x3 copies IMO should be in every standard format Rohan deck. 

[SomeRandomDude]

Except this one. I don't think Leowyn is as helpful in this particular deck, what with wound prevention and Theoden WANTING to die. I think 1 copy could help, though.

I would actually prefer Golden Perch Ale to NFFATROD. Same cost, but also combos sweetly with the Great Ring to make an effective strength +3 Frodo for nothing.

[King89]

nice idea NB, i'll test it