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Taran_Wanderer posted:As said, the Hobbit Saga expansions add a bunch of great dwarf stuff, but also look for The Long Dark for Erebor Battle Master and Ring Mail. I think Tactics cards in a Dwarf deck can be hard to put in. The majority of dwarf allies are in the Leadership/Lore spheres. I think Hardy Leadership is a much better card over Ring Mail, and the Battle Master has lost some of its flair when it got errata to only get pumped by other Dwarf allies you control, not characters. I'm not saying Tactics doesn't have a place in a Dwarf deck. If I'm building one, I'm more likely to build a Leadership/Lore deck with Dain, Ori, and Thorin/Bifur, and have a 2nd player deck with Tactics, maybe Tactics/Spirit.
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Fat Samurai posted:Ok, goons, you have convinced me and made me buy the base set for LoTR. The moment I saw the huge box and the tiny amount of space the cards occupied I knew I was going to regret the decision. Curse my lack of self-control. For the first quest, yes. You can beat it with any mono sphere deck, though some decks have an easier time based on the encounter deck. Don't start with mono-tactics. Don't let the empty space fool you, there's a lot of game there.
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ChiTownEddie posted:In LotR LCG does "Active location" also refer to quest card if you don't have a location? Pander posted:I believe that's correct. No, that is incorrect. Lorien Guide does not place a progress token if there isn't an active location.
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SettingSun posted:Real talk about the LotR LCG: You probably picked the two worst spheres to start her with. No offense. Leadership and Spirit are much better suited for new players, at least with just the core set.
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May 10, 2014 12:21
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Failboattootoot posted:Lotr is really starting to irritate me. The game is mechanically really fun but sometimes you just get bullshit out and it is the dumbest thing. There's an answer to every situation you can come across. In those cases, Shadow of the Past would of solved the first one, and Test of Will/Hasty Stroke would of fixed the other.
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Epi Lepi posted:He's talking about Sleeping Sentry. gently caress that card. Agreed, gently caress this card. Back to my original point, there are plenty of options to avoid it. When playing Shadow and Flames, I would make sure I had Eleanor around to make sure I can stop Counter-Spell. gently caress that card.
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Mehuyael posted:My post got eaten somehow, so here goes again: LOTR is the only cooperative LCG. Don't get multiple versions of the adventure packs. Get one core set, play with that, then add adventure packs. Eventually, get another core set if you want.
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Rusty Kettle posted:Khazad-dum and Over Hill and Under hill contain a lot of dwarf cards, and they also have quests that do not require other expansions. Also I believe the Return to Mirkwood adventure pack has the king of the dwarves as a hero. OHaUH's quests are significantly more difficult. I would get Return to Mirkwood and Khazad-Dum for the Dwarf fun.
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Amoeba102 posted:Does anyone play LOTR on OCTGN? Personally, I like less automation. I just got around to using ctrl-n to start new rounds. I think there are so many opportunities to make plays, that automation would get in the way. I'm always up to play: mongol05
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Jul 22, 2014 15:33
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Taran_Wanderer posted:With all the neat stuff coming out, my interest in LOTR has been rekindled. I've built a Hobbit deck that I'm pretty happy with, but I'm less pleased with this Rohan deck I made to (optionally) partner with it. I'd rather go with a Spirit/Tactics deck, but I don't have Voice of Isengard's cool Rohan cards. Anyone have thoughts? I would use Warden of Healing instead of Daughter of the Nimrodel. It's a cheaper ally, plus better stats, and more versatile. Also, Landroval and Farmer Maggot are way too expensive for this deck. I would assume you would put Steward on Pippin so you have the resources for Gildor, Haldir, Fast Hitches, etc. I would add some Vassals of the Windlord for some cheap allies, or Squires of the Citadel.
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Lawen posted:If you don't care about competitive play, one core set is all you'll likely ever need. If you really get into the game but still don't care about competitive play, you're usually better off buying expansions for a while but you may eventually want to pick up a second core. If you eventually decide to start playing in tourneys, you'll still probably be fine with two cores. If you decide you want a shot at consistently winning tourneys, you'll probably have to suck it up and buy a 3rd core. If you're just playing with friends, just make proxies of the cards you need. I have two core sets for LOTR, and I have just made copies of the extra cards I needed and slipped them in the sleeve.
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FFG has spoiler list example: http://ffgapp.com/qr/MEC18 Printer + Scissors + Extra Card + Sleeve = Proxy
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First, Leadership Aragorn, then Lore Aragorn, now Fellowship and Tactics Aragorn. How soon do you think before we have a Spirit Aragorn?
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Epi Lepi posted:Even more information on this page: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_npm_sec.asp?eidm=249&esem=1 This is pretty drat cool. It reminds me, sorta, of token creatures from Magic.
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GrandpaPants posted:I really kinda wish Conquest allowed for 2-4 players, like Blood Bowl Team Manager. I realize it'll get incredibly clusterfucky, but FFG really needs a solid MP LCG. LOTR is a solid MP LCG 
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Warm Woolen Pants posted:So I impulse bought all the LOTR LCG sets (except Hunt of Gollum and Steward's Fear, which FFG's website says will be reprinted soon) from CoolStuffInc after playing with a friend a couple of weeks ago. My problem now is where to store all these cards. I've never collected cards before, so this is all new to me. Is there a goon-approved storage solution I can just grab off the internet? Help! For player cards, binders with these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00095M5DQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 For encounter cards, I use Hobby Lobby's Artist Case, with Broken Token's corresponding insert, and then I use these dividers: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/103472/vertical-themed-dividers-sleeved-cards
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Leadership/Spirit is the best combo straight out of the core set, because you can put Celebrian's Stone on Aragorn to give him access to Spirit sphere. The songs are good, especially if you're running Lore and have Rivendell Minstrell (THFG) in your deck to search for them. If you can also combo that with Love of Tales (TLD), then you can get some resource generation going as well. You don't, however, want to build your deck reliant on songs. More times than not, I have seen that go very poorly, where your three copies of a song are buried deep. Moving away from the earlier cards, I finally got around to playing Black Riders. I'm doing campaign mode, with a mono-Lore "kamikaze" deck. It relies heavily on Doomed cards from VoI to get some cheap effects, then Loreagorn is there to reset my threat when it gets high. I was able to one-shot the first two quests in Black Riders, but didn't have time to try the third.
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Willeh posted:I already own all of GoT, star wars and Netrunner so I might as well get 3 cores You should also get LOTR.
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Max posted:OK, so, my fiancee and I wandered into our local game store and picked up the LOTR core game. This was probably a terrible life choice for my monthly budget, but after playing it a few rounds and finally getting a handle on things, we're really liking it. Correct. He hits first, which is nice for any 1 HP enemies that are revealed, because he will kill them before their card text is activated.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's not really a deep game. You get a lot of variety, for sure, but the plays are pretty obvious. And the art is, of course, ugly as hell. The app does help with the math involved in SoTM. LOTR is a superior game, to SoTM among others. Speaking of apps, LackeyCCG has an iPad app now. You can get the LOTR plugin, but my god, this app is confusing to use. I'm fairly adept at playing LOTR on OCTGN. Does anyone know any tricks to using Lackey?
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Hey guys! You know what's cooler than one LOTR PbP game? How about two? I talked to GTR and he was totally cool with me running another game that is a bit more advanced than the starting quest. Hope to see you guys in the game!
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3679459 LOTR LCG Campaign PbP is finally up!
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Azran posted:My Amazon shipment got stuck in customs for an entire month so I got all my money back. I don't think it's too hard to teach. There's a lot of resources online that can aid in learning/teaching. I'd say the most comparable game is Sentinels of the Multiverse, which I consider a much simpler version of the cooperative card game. Different theme, and no deck building.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:I haven't done this myself, but you might try playing around with it in OCTGN? I don't think it's too hard to teach, but it really benefits from having some buddies you can play it with consistently, imo, even if you're the one doing most of the deck building. But you can play it solo too, which is nice if it doesn't appeal to your group. It's pretty fun to test deck ideas against the quests I play LOTR LCG almost everyday on OCTGN.
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Azran posted:By the way, in OCTGN, how do you search for cards in the encounter deck? Like the Anduin core quest, where it asks you to search for the Hill Troll. Just in case anyone else is wondering. Under the global tab, click on the deck, right click, select look at... > all cards, then you can take whatever cards out and there's a "Close and Shuffle" button.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:How do you do this? Also, I wonder how well splashtop or one of the other vnc things would work for playing OCTGN on iPad.. I'm assuming they're using Card Warden. It's a lot of upfront work. I've tried, but gave up after a little while. I've tried splashtop to use OCTGN, and it's ok. You can't use any of the keyboard shortcuts, so it's significantly slower.
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Azran posted:Does Easy Mode deal with that in any way? It removes some of the nastier cards from the encounter deck, and gives you extra starting resources, so it should make it easier, but some quests will always be harder with more players, and some will be easier with more players. It all depends on the quest.
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Amoeba102 posted:I think it's possible to beat passage through mirkwood with all the starter decks but tactics. Rodney did it. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7691E24FD7613341
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After a fantastic four-month run, we finally finished our play-by-post game of A Shadow of the Past We lost a few over the time, so we need to recruit a few new players for the next part of the campaign, A Knife in the Dark Check it: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3704012
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ChiTownEddie posted:Whew! My buddy and I played our first LOTR OCTGN game last night (him having a kid + me moving into a new condo = took a while to coordinate). You should check out our LOTR PbP  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3704012
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Rarity posted:I did my first run at Escape of Dol Goldur yesterday and even playing two-handed I got steamrolled You have been fully initiated, then. Four player makes it significantly easier, but I think 2 player easy/standard is the perfect mix of difficulty and fun.
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I just wanted to share with you guys the news that I started a new blog for LOTR. I've got a lot of ideas for content (a new entry should be posted later today). As well, I want to reach out to as many people in the community to get input on what type of content people are interested in seeing. I plan on making both articles and videos, so hit me with any ideas you have! http://mirkwoodrunner.blogspot.com/
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Baron Porkface posted:I've heard the Gondor cycle is super difficult. how difficult is ring-maker? I don't think it's as difficult as the Against the Shadow cycle, but it has its challenges. It's my favorite cycle this far.
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For those interested, I just posted my impressions for the Heroes and Allies in The Lost Realm: http://mirkwoodrunner.blogspot.com/2015/04/impressions-lost-realm-heroes-and-allies.html
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Amoeba102 posted:I've always played it as being punished by the non active ones. I would like to know if it's easier than I thought. It's as hard as you thought. You take the punishment from all of them.
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Carteret posted:The best rule of thumb when it comes to LotR is that the worst interpretation of the rules or card text you can think of for the survivability of your characters is always the intended one. Yea, but deep down, it loves you. I know every time it bloodies my nose, it's saying "you're special" 
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ChiTownEddie posted:So has anyone tried The Lost Realm's quests? My buddy's copy arrives today and mine tomorrow so we're hoping to play one then. God I am excited. I've played Intruders in Chetwood. I'm working on an impressions entry for my blog. Short answer: It's difficult, but very satisfying.
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GrandpaPants posted:This thread doesn't move enough for a dedicated LOTR thread. I mean really, the only LCGs that aren't covered in another thread are Conquest and LOTR (and I guess COC but who plays that?). Gen Con.
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Baron Porkface posted:What's the best octgn guide? My eyes glaze over when i try to read one. My buddy Mitch (COTR/The Tenth Nazgul) made a guide a while back, but there has been a lot of changes to the program since then. I'm planning to make an updated guide on my blog.
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