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Orks get the store champ promotion alt art! From Twitter
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MisterShine posted:Orks get the store champ promotion alt art! If you go on non-mobile, you can see the others, too. The Eeyrie for AGoT is the only other LCG though.
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Dec 25, 2015 19:45
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sassassin posted:I bought it for £19 + p&p two weeks ago.
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Dec 25, 2015 23:31
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EVGA Longoria posted:If you go on non-mobile, you can see the others, too. The Eeyrie for AGoT is the only other LCG though. Loving the C3PO as a promo.
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Dec 26, 2015 09:04
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Zephro posted:Can I ask where from? It was 'board game extras' or something like that, through ebay. Anyone in the UK interested in trading a few core cards/player cards from Dwarrowdelf/Treachery of Rhuaduar/Land of Shadow let me know. I've got no interest in keeping a binder/massive box of things I won't use.
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Dec 26, 2015 11:46
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Just had a go at Hunt For Gollum with the family. We pulled Massing at Night on our second turn. I thought this game was meant to be easier with more players 
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Dec 26, 2015 13:40
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Rarity posted:Just had a go at Hunt For Gollum with the family. We pulled Massing at Night on our second turn. I thought this game was meant to be easier with more players Yeah I pulled some spider boss on turn 2 when I played my first game with the core set with my wife. Supposedly that's just bad luck but it kinda soured my experience
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Dec 26, 2015 13:54
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signalnoise posted:Yeah I pulled some spider boss on turn 2 when I played my first game with the core set with my wife. Supposedly that's just bad luck but it kinda soured my experience My very first enemy draw on my very first playthrough was goddamn Hummerhorns. "Oh well, engagement value is 40 so I have several turns to get good use out of my heroes before one takes a dive" *Next turn's shadow effect is Ungoliant's Spawn* 
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Dec 26, 2015 15:59
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Early game I hate drawing lovely orcs more than strong, high threat bosses. Especially when they're what, 1 threat?
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Dec 26, 2015 16:48
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Rarity posted:Just had a go at Hunt For Gollum with the family. We pulled Massing at Night on our second turn. I thought this game was meant to be easier with more players Only sometimes is it easier with more players. There are some quests such as Into Ithilien which are actually much easier with one or two people. I always play 4 player though and my friends and I have beaten every quest up to the current cycle so there's hope for you. Just don't be afraid to change up your decks or try the quests in easy mode.
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Dec 26, 2015 19:20
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sassassin posted:It was 'board game extras' or something like that, through ebay.  http://www.boardgameextras.co.uk/index.php?sub_category=Deluxe+Expansions&category=Lord+of+the+Rings+LCG&sub_cat=265&cat=284#.Vn7xRxlFDqA
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Dec 26, 2015 20:59
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Zephro posted:Thanks. Assuming it was these guys, looks like you must have snagged one of the last ones Board Game Guru show Khazad Dum as currently being in stock. No idea how often they update stock status, especially over the Christmas period, but it might be worth a try. I've put an order in for it myself, as I'm in the same position as you.
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Dec 28, 2015 15:28
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Elenkis posted:Board Game Guru show Khazad Dum as currently being in stock. No idea how often they update stock status, especially over the Christmas period, but it might be worth a try. I've put an order in for it myself, as I'm in the same position as you.
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Dec 28, 2015 22:02
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Zephro posted:FFG show it as On The Boat, so it shouldn't be too long. Welcome the FFG community 
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Dec 29, 2015 05:30
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Zephro posted:Oh well. FFG show it as On The Boat, so it shouldn't be too long. Oh, my sweet summer child.
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Dec 29, 2015 05:33
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nyxnyxnyx posted:Oh, my sweet summer child. 
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Dec 29, 2015 16:11
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Zephro posted:Hey, it worked with Opening Moves. All I had to do was check every day and then as soon as it hit "shipping now" I camped Amazon.co.uk several times a day and managed to snag myself one of the ten copies they shipped to the UK before any of the hundreds of other people waiting for it managed to snag it (it's back up to £61 from third-party sellers now). It'll be fine, I'll just obsessively camp online retailers again I ended up paying full retail for it.... plus $13 to ship it to me.
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Dec 29, 2015 16:43
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Any suggestions on whether this deck is viable? It's based vaguely on Sam Braatz's worlds winning minicurve deck, just using Greyjoy stealth with Baratheon kneel to try and maximise the unopposed challenges. Plot (7) 1x Calm Over Westeros 1x Counting Coppers 1x Filthy Accusations 1x Marched to the Wall 1x Rise of the Kraken 1x Sneak Attack 1x Summons Character (34) 3x Asha Greyjoy 2x Dragonstone Faithful 3x Fiery Followers 2x Iron Islands Fishmonger 2x Lordsport Shipwright 2x Maester Cressen 2x Maester Wendamyr 3x Melisandre 2x Salty Navigator 2x Selyse Baratheon 3x Ser Davos Seaworth 1x Shireen Baratheon 3x Theon Greyjoy 2x Vanguard Lancer 2x Varys Location (15) 2x Dragonstone Port 2x Great Kraken 2x Iron Fleet Scout 2x Sea Tower 3x The Kingsroad 3x The Roseroad 1x The Seastone Chair Event (11) 2x Put to the Sword 2x Risen from the Sea 3x Seen In Flames 2x The Kraken's Grasp 2x We Do Not Sow  http://thronesdb.com/decklist/view/1513/minicurve-stealth-kneel-2.0 The idea is to get some stealth characters into play and activate the Baratheon kneel module to get as many unopposed challenges through as possible. Varys can reset the board once your opponent has their big scary characters out and you should be able to recover faster with all the low cost cards in the deck to keep getting that unopposed power. Lots of 2 claim plots so you can try to grab as much power as possible or get the max out of your military. Rise of the Kraken has the potential to net you 8 power in a single turn by itself and you have a good shot of doing it if you can get all the kneel and stealth set up. e: Changed some things up. Added a few more weenie characters, dropped down to 2 Varys and swapped in a summons plot. I found from trying some setups that even though there were none of the big characters I was still seeing too many 4 and 5 cost cards at setup because there are multiples of Theon, Asha and Melisandre. Don't really want to drop them because they are integral to the whole stealth/kneel concept. Hopefully by adding some more weenies and and swapping round some of the locations the gold curve rounds out a bit. KongGeorgeVII fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 03:14
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Why no Balon/Euron?
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Dec 30, 2015 12:38
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It's meant to be something similar to the deck that won worlds; it is a mini-curve deck so basically it doesn't run any of the big bomb characters because they cost too much and slow you down. The idea is to have lots of low and mid cost characters that you don't care about too much. When the board has been developed a bit, your opponent has sacrificed some of his kingsroads and depleted his hand to get all his big lords and ladies out, you marshal Varys to wipe the board and start again. Your opponent doesn't have his big cards or economy in hand anymore and you should still be able to play all your cheap little cards. If you time it right your opponent shouldn't have many options of what to play and often they can't afford to play a single character by themselves because you will just kill it straight away with military claim. Add in 2 claim plots and they have some hard decisions to make. I thought it might be interesting to try the concept but add in as much stealth and kneel as possible to make my opponents life difficult and to try to rush to 15 power as fast as possible. e: This is the deck that won worlds. No Red Viper or any other big bomb characters: http://thronesdb.com/decklist/view/658/sam-braatz-s-worlds-winner-1.0 KongGeorgeVII fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 15:11
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I think thats more because the Viper isnt particularly good. Balon is just wonderfully powerful for his cost. Also you'd be screwed if they had dupes down if youre relying on Varys wouldnt you?
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Dec 30, 2015 16:14
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You might want Summons to fetch Melisandre since she's the lynchpin of the entire kneeling strategy. Also good to fetch a Fiery Followers too.
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Dec 30, 2015 18:11
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I'm double posting, but I just noticed that CSI's prices for upcoming LCG products are more expensive, up from 9.49 to 11.29. Let us all collectively shake our fists at Asmodee.
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Dec 31, 2015 07:19
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm double posting, but I just noticed that CSI's prices for upcoming LCG products are more expensive, up from 9.49 to 11.29. Let us all collectively shake our fists at Asmodee. i'm almost at tier 10 of CSI's discount program!
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Dec 31, 2015 15:57
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GrandpaPants posted:I'm double posting, but I just noticed that CSI's prices for upcoming LCG products are more expensive, up from 9.49 to 11.29. Let us all collectively shake our fists at Asmodee. I thought the CEO's explanation of giving bigger discounts to FLGS which actually help market and provide additional value added services [such as a place to play and a hub to find other people to play with] fairly compelling. It makes sense to me that the online store which doesn't help Asmodee market the game, or provide tournament/league play etc, wouldn't get the same level of discounts that a store providing those things gets.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:47
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tijag posted:I thought the CEO's explanation of giving bigger discounts to FLGS which actually help market and provide additional value added services [such as a place to play and a hub to find other people to play with] fairly compelling. It makes sense to me that the online store which doesn't help Asmodee market the game, or provide tournament/league play etc, wouldn't get the same level of discounts that a store providing those things gets. So do you not realize that CSI has 5 large retail stores and host a ton of FFG events and tournaments? Not to mention anyone that doesn't have a FLGS and has to buy online, this is just putting the bill on their shoulders, but I bet FLGS prices won't go down a single penny. If Asomodee wasn't full of poo poo, online retailers prices should have stayed the same and FLGS' should have been given a discount to be competitive with online retailers. This is pissing on the players' shoulders and calling it rain. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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Dec 31, 2015 16:56
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Bottom Liner posted:So do you not realize that CSI has 5 large retail stores and host a ton of FFG events and tournaments? They do, and I know that, but I'm thousands of miles away from them and when I buy stuff they aren't improving my local meta at all. Those B&M stores of CSI will start to get a better discount than the internet channel [from what I can understand]. So this will probably end up being good for the CSI B&M stores.
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Dec 31, 2015 16:59
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tijag posted:They do, and I know that, but I'm thousands of miles away from them and when I buy stuff they aren't improving my local meta at all. purchases at a csi b&m store are made through the same website, and you just pick it up from the counter. source: they're my FLGS
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Dec 31, 2015 17:12
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tijag posted:They do, and I know that, but I'm thousands of miles away from them and when I buy stuff they aren't improving my local meta at all. lol "i know it's someone's flgs but it's not mine so gently caress 'em" Beautiful. The actual price changes don't go into effect until April, so it should only affect produce being released in April or later. If it's hitting earlier, it's probably CSI trying to raise the price a bit.
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Dec 31, 2015 19:13
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Wouldn't Asmo giving out privileges to FLGS-es create a bubble if the FLGS can't survive without extra help?
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Dec 31, 2015 20:27
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Baron Porkface posted:Wouldn't Asmo giving out privileges to FLGS-es create a bubble if the FLGS can't survive without extra help? CSI has a distribution account, not a retail account. You can't really decrease the cost of things for your FLGS to compete against CSI because they're at completely different cost brackets to begin with.
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Dec 31, 2015 22:26
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S.J. posted:CSI has a distribution account, not a retail account. You can't really decrease the cost of things for your FLGS to compete against CSI because they're at completely different cost brackets to begin with. I mean in terms of the strategy of growing and fostering LGS's. Like the comic book crash.
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Jan 1, 2016 03:30
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What happens if I draw two Goblin Snipers when setting up the Anduin mission? Neither can be engaged if there is any other enemy in the staging area, so am I just hosed? My decks can deal with the troll no problem, but not before locations pile up and even my secrecy deck hits 35/40 threat. Or I draw the second troll. Elrond sucks even with his ring. I need lore Aragorn.
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Jan 1, 2016 11:54
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sassassin posted:What happens if I draw two Goblin Snipers when setting up the Anduin mission? Neither can be engaged if there is any other enemy in the staging area, so am I just hosed? sassassin posted:My decks can deal with the troll no problem, but not before locations pile up and even my secrecy deck hits 35/40 threat. Or I draw the second troll. Enemies don't engage you so sprint before the deck piles up. Baron Porkface fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Jan 1, 2016 |
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Jan 1, 2016 14:24
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Enemies don't engage on second phase, but they do on first. Game feels so much harder since buying packs and putting together some decks. Just got smashed by the tutorial quest on semi-easy (forgot to put extra resources first turn) despite getting lucky on Ungoliant's spawn (it landed on an Ambush, I had a First Strike in my hand, and Elladan had enough resources to go to town). Got smashed by locations again. Was up to six and then pulled an 'each player removes a hero from quest' treachery and gave up.
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Jan 1, 2016 15:16
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Baron Porkface posted:I mean in terms of the strategy of growing and fostering LGS's. Like the comic book crash. The comic book bubble happened because the entire world said "Comic books will always go up! UP! UP! I NEED TO COLLECT THIS MONTH'S #1 TO PAY FOR MY CHILDREN'S COLLEGE!" When that didn't happen, 95% of people buying disappeared. So, no, that's not the kinda thing that'll cause a bubble and crash.
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Jan 1, 2016 19:01
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I've never played an LCG before, and am thinking about picking up Lord of the Rings. Ideally I'd play in the order everything was released but the older adventure packs are difficult to come by. I've been keeping an eye out for Hunt For Gollum for a month and haven't seen it anywhere. Would there be any drawback to getting the core set and working my way through the Saga, snagging the other stuff as it comes back in stock? I know the Saga is separate, I just don't know if it's considered as good, and whether I'll be able to use Saga cards with the other expansions when I finally get around to playing them.
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Jan 1, 2016 19:16
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I've never played an LCG before, and am thinking about picking up Lord of the Rings. Ideally I'd play in the order everything was released but the older adventure packs are difficult to come by. I've been keeping an eye out for Hunt For Gollum for a month and haven't seen it anywhere. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/upcoming/ It should start showing up in shops in a week or so.
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Jan 1, 2016 19:21
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Zephro posted:FFG reprint old packs now and then, and the reprint of Hunt for Gollum (plus all the other packs in the Mirkwood cycle) is supposedly shipping out to distributors now: This is awesome news. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out.
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New Year's Eve gaming has taught me that Night's Watch has terrible economy, especially since Meagre Contribution isn't as disruptive as I would have hoped. Their lack of a reducer location is pretty harsh. I also learned that Take the Black is also a severely underwhelming card, although maybe less so in Melee? I dunno, but I dunno if it's worth it to find out. Here to Serve is a dope as hell Plot for them though since getting Aemon out asap is pretty solid military protection. I'm hoping that the addition of the Martell icon loss attachments will help make the deck more effective. Some characters with Renown would definitely help... I'm still not sure on Will, though, since he by himself isn't enough to incentivize just going full defense. At least with The Wall, you're getting 2 power, but with Will you just get a solid unit that still doesn't necessarily help you win the game.
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