QOTW: The Uruk-Hai Results

‘It is now the fourth day since he was slain’ answered Aragorn; ‘and since the evening of that day we have journeyed from the shadow of Tol Brandir.’
‘On foot?’ cried Éomer.
‘Yes, even as you see us.’
Wide wonder came into Éomer’s eyes. ‘Strider is too poor a name, son of Arathorn,’ he said. ‘Wingfoot I name you. This deed of the three friends should be sung in many a hall. Forty leagues and five you have measured ere the fourth day is ended! Hardy is the race of Elendil!’

The Uruk-Hai Stats

Groups registered: 16
Total attempts: 20
Most attempts: 2
Average attempts per entry: 1.25

Total number of wins: 16
Win-rate: 80%

Average opinion on the quest: 3.3

Pursuit Value

Since this quest features a race against the orcs, I decided to poll people on their final pursuit value at the end of their best game. These are the results:

15 or lower: 18.8%
16-20: 50%
21-25: 18.8%
26 or more: 12.5%

Campaign Mode

Achievements

Here are the two achievements we had for this quest:

Wingfoot

Complete stage 1A in less than 3 rounds.

An Unlikely Friendship

Complete the scenario with Legolas and Gimli as heroes in separate decks (and both are not captured by the Orcs).

Encounter card Opinions

With a staggering 87% of the votes, the favorite encounter card in this quest is Eastemnet. Beautiful art, low threat and quest points, beneficial effect, and starts the game as the active location, giving you some much-needed early game resource acceleration.

There were no cards for this quest that received votes for favorite and least favorite.

There were 7 different cards that got votes for least favorite encounter card–some enemies, locations, and treacheries. The winner with 4 votes was Rest by Night. This one presents a very difficult choice, and is a wonderfully designed card that represents the very difficult choices that Aragorn had to make in the pursuit of the Uruk-hai across the plains of Rohan. Stop for the night and rest, allowing the orcs to advance their lead? Or exert yourselves by pushing on through the night?

Cool moments that happened during the games

I flipped to the b-side of Fellowship just in time for Sam, wielding Sting and supported by Rosie, to destroy Uglúk

I won during the quest phase on round 4 🏃🏼‍♀️💨

Vigilant Dunedain was the MVP of the quest. With the boost from Arwen, he defended 75% of the attacks and then could attack twice for 4 with Gandalf + Narya.

Got a friendly draw for round 1 (Unseen Barrier x2) and then raced through on round 2 to earn the Wingfoot achievement. Eomer needed two rounds to take down Ugluk, but also dispatched multiple other Uruks with help from Aragorn’s readying. With a relatively clear board, I was able to quest out on round 4.

A turn one Banks of Entwash really pushed my pursuit value up quickly and put the pressure on.

Merry and two 5 attack Booming Ents mowing down the Uruks.

I simply went with the basic Forth The Three Hunters concept and package, with a quick pop up from Thurindir with his Gathered Information

both attempts finding Vilya was super hard: 1st attempt – Vilya not in starting hand, not in mulligan, use old bogey-stories to shuffle 6 and redraw, use drinking song to redraw now 5 – get gather information. Quest, reveal encounter for no more than 3 progress on the current quest. Quest next round – finally get Vilya with Gather Information and play it only in round 3. Still won with 24 pursuit Second attempt – Vilya not in starting hand, not in mulligan, play Daeron’s Runes twice, use old-bogey stories to shuffle and redraw 6, use drinking song, use second drinking song from top of the deck in quest phase with Gandalf – finally Vilya among the 4 remaining cards that I drew and I can play it round 2. This time final pursuit was 16

Beorn’s Welcome (ALEP) is pretty rad if you have a spare copy to throw on Aragorn. And Revealed in Wrath – provided you actually read the card and don’t try to illegally use it on Ugluk – can really help whittle down those enemies with higher Toughness.

Grishnákh was revealed on turn 1, and I spent some time figuring out how to proceed without losing one of my 2hp Hobbit captives the following turn. Luckily it worked out (Aragorn’s ability saved the day) and the rest of the quest went relatively smoothly.

Decklists used

https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/547290

Hobbit Fellowship (A Weary Pilgrim)

Woodmen: https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/558381 And Burglar’s Turn: https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/539699

Beregond, Gandalf and Denethor, Eowyn, Thurindir https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/21141/birdmanssagaqotw-theuruk-hai

QotW Does the Sagas! https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/20652

Grimbeorn, pippin and all the creatures & Sam, Boromir and the willful friends and trinkets

Used my Ladies and Gentlemen fellowship (https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/18702/ladiesandgentlemenrco), but used Scorpagorn as one of the “captives” to make room for the Fellowship version.

Custom Pippin and Gandalf (with custom Merry as a captive) to pump out Ents and provide a good hero to take down Ugluk.

https://ringsdb.com/questlog/view/53767/theuruk-hai-2players-2024-11-17

https://ringsdb.com/deck/view/560471

Slightly modified Mormegil’s RCO + contract deck – https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/52229/ring-bearersallroundmd-rcoc-1.0

Sam/L. Pippin – Hobbit shenanigans Grimbeorn/Arwen – just whatever I could cobble together

The silvans and the trees

Mildly Thematic Fellowship https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/21044

TEowyn, SpBeregon and a ScoutWoodman deck with Widfast and Haldan

This week we must defend the ancient fortress of Helm’s Deep from the army of Saruman. This one is quite the battle, and one of my favorite quests in the whole game. Once you have completed your playthroughs of the quest, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/DKmx9xcMKwo7F9ox6

If you are using the quick start for campaign mode, either because you didn’t get a chance to play the first four quests and still want to play campaign mode, or because you want to use the community’s shared campaign pool, this is what your campaign pool looks like going into Helm’s Deep:

Boons: Old Bogey-stories, Ho! Tom Bombadil!, Each player may choose one of the permanent boons from A Knife in the Dark, Sting, Mithril Shirt, Glamdring, Anduril, Each player may choose one of the Gift boons from Breaking of the Fellowship, each player may choose one of the Skill boons from The Uruk-Hai
Burdens: The Ring Draws Them, Panicked, Overcome by Grief, Ill Fate

And for achievements for this quest, this is what we have: