What is a 'fun' game of LotR for you?

[macheteman]

i think you should just feel lucky you had girls in your playergroup. i know a lot of groups didn't.

[Gil-Estel]

What Gil-Estel understands as "fun game" is a game with casual decks, as opposed to competitive. Maybe you should have just asked for a game of "casual LotR".

Well, that is not true. I like to win, and I am competitive. But I don't mind losing, as long as it is vs a good deck. The better a deck -and better means to me: there is thought about strategy in order to win the game- and the less obvious, since discard is perhaps the easiest deck to make, I mean I can create such a deck in less then a minute, and I am not the best deckbuilder, the more I appreciate it. I like hardcore decks, but they shouldn't be shallow.

[CoS]

Only played against two female opponents that were "competitors" I.E. Beating people who were top 20 DGMA players at the major events like Contenentals and Worlds... Lisa Gansky (sp) and Kim Caton. But only at major events did I hang out with them... The local playgroup population had maybe a 1/2 dozen girls with rankings under 1600.

[MarcinS]

What Gil-Estel understands as "fun game" is a game with casual decks, as opposed to competitive. Maybe you should have just asked for a game of "casual LotR".

Well, that is not true. I like to win, and I am competitive. But I don't mind losing, as long as it is vs a good deck. The better a deck -and better means to me: there is thought about strategy in order to win the game- and the less obvious, since discard is perhaps the easiest deck to make, I mean I can create such a deck in less then a minute, and I am not the best deckbuilder, the more I appreciate it. I like hardcore decks, but they shouldn't be shallow.

If a deck that is considered competitive is losing to another deck, no matter how cheesy the strategy is (discard), then either it's a bad choice of deck for the meta (if discard deck beats everything), or you're just not packing cards against this specific match-up. Maybe you should consider adding some cards against this archetype. As far as I remember, with discard it's quite easy to find cards/strategies that beat it pretty heavily.