Let's discuss Towers block strategy !!

[Ringbearer]

There is the southron commander

[MuadDib85]

Southron Veterans. Nearly as good as Enquea, not unique, 2 Southron veterans = eight exerts.

[chompers]

Southron Veterans. Nearly as good as Enquea, not unique, 2 Southron veterans = eight exerts.

Use this at site 7 with Hornburg Causeway and if opponent does not have Ringbound Rangers then There Will Be Blood!

[chompers]

There is the southron commander

There is probably a simple answer but i couldn't find it in the rulebook ....

Southron Commander assigns himself to Ringbearer. Free peoples player prevents by discarding an unbound companion. What stops the shadow player using the assignment ability again until there are no more unbound companions to discard?

All I can think of is that the keyword 'prevent' negates the assignment ability for remainder of assignment phase (rather than the current action). However, 'prevent' is not in the rulebook?

Der - i am an idiot - discarding companion will mean they no longer have 6 companions in play .... 

[MR. Lurtzy]

You need to spot 6 companions.

[Smeagollum]

It's funny to see more and more people start playing Isengard Men. Allthough I think they play it not like I do. I never would use this shadow unless I play twillightdenial. Besides that I think desertion and wounded functional conditions; the rest are not imo. Besides that I'd never play them with saruman and staff, couse it actually stops your hand and this shadow needs lots of minions. I'd combine with cheap other minions and with gollum for cycling.

[Pepi]

Saruman, Black Traitor is playable with his staff imo. Not just, that he's a decent minion to fight alongside isengard men, he also lets u discard a conditions, which comes in handy, while playing against rohan, or even rangers. And basically u can have all your staves discarded when u reconcile, and then play it in shadow from your discard pile. Well, at least that's the way I see it

[Smeagollum]

Saruman, Black Traitor is playable with his staff imo. Not just, that he's a decent minion to fight alongside isengard men, he also lets u discard a conditions, which comes in handy, while playing against rohan, or even rangers. And basically u can have all your staves discarded when u reconcile, and then play it in shadow from your discard pile. Well, at least that's the way I see it

It costs to much and most people won't be frightened if you play him (especially ents and elves). It also takes about 6 to 7 cards and I think it's more worth to have extra minions who can wound: 2x mechanics and 8 regroupdiscard orcs with cost 1, 2 or 3 are more worth it.

[Faelach]

Berserkers with Kill!

Not really:) Beserker are expensive and those 2 hobbits don't mind wounds, because they get discarded.

Hey.  Don't diss the Berserks.  I use them in my TTT deck and they win quite a bit.  They can be a little pricey though, I must admit.  They win more often than not, though, if you play them right.

[Smeagollum]

Berserkers with Kill!

Not really:) Beserker are expensive and those 2 hobbits don't mind wounds, because they get discarded.

Hey.  Don't diss the Berserks.  I use them in my TTT deck and they win quite a bit.  They can be a little pricey though, I must admit.  They win more often than not, though, if you play them right.

I don't diss anything, but what will it do? Beserkers need conditions. If people play these hobbits it's most often with DH. And they most often don't give more then about 10 twillight. Untill site 5 you're lucky to play one and maybe you will have a few tokens but not enough to do serious harm then from site 5 they start to assign it to their hobbits and they gonna discard. Don't see a big problem there.

[Cw0rk]

As anyone ever made Southron Assassin work?

[Smeagollum]

As anyone ever made Southron Assassin work?

Only option I see is Southron with mumaks and ambush, but rather in movie with seasoned leaders then in TT. But that's what I think. It's a difficult card. One way he deserves the cost and on the other to expensive to be really functional.

[hrcho]

Southron Assasin. A card I've been trying very hard to build a deck around. I don't think it's functional that much. If there was just 1 more Southron with a text like his, it would make a great RB wound deck. However, making your shadow revolve around 1 card is... not effective in the least.

In movie I'd go with Wikky, Lord of the Nazgul for RB kill (and I do )

In my attempts, the goal was to play a few powerful and fierce minions (which means mumaks) and to add a lot of twilight. This can be done with the help of Trample or Southron Wanderer and the like of him. Win the skirmishes and wound RB (he is usually the only one ringbound in movie) with Southron Assasin and Howl of Harad. Eastern Emyn Muil is also a must have in such a deck. (In movie, Gollum, DAD).

If his text said, each time southron wins a skirmish instead of each time a companion loses a skirmish, then Southron swarm would make #$&*@!. However, that is not the case. This way, a lot of luck is needed with both the draw and the matchup.

[Smeagollum]

well I just no build something around the SA. Thing is I like to try it, but cartainly the first week out of the TTT-league competition (so the result not counting for it).

[Kralik]

High strength and fierce Southrons make Southron Assassin very nice. Actually, he would be rather handy to mess with the aforementioned discarding hobbits, since he could stop Merry (or ... ahem... Frodo) dead in his tracks.