Deadmen's Dike is the quest that I remember as my first really big stumbling block in the game. I started this game with the Ringmaker Cycle and first Saga boxes in addition to the core set, and while they have some difficult scenarios, you can tech for them and have some powerful player cards available. … Continue reading Deckbuilding: Deadmen’s Dike
On a cold day of November like today, I'm happy to not have to go outside in the Biting Wind and instead can Make Camp in my armchair, playing some Lord of the Rings and continue this deckbuilding series… and imagine how my heroes are out there in the cold of the Weather Hills, fighting … Continue reading Deckbuilding: The Weather Hills
It has been a while, but being locked down by the corona virus I’m returning to the Deckbuilding series. With a lot new powerful player cards, especially the contracts, there are a lot more possibilities to build interesting decks designed to beat specific scenarios! I am returning to this series with the Lost Realm and … Continue reading Deckbuilding: Intruders in Chetwood
You've taken your first steps into a larger world. After learning the game, picking up a few expansions and doing the Core Set quests to death, you want to build some decks that don’t merely involve throwing all the cards of the same colour together. Well first of all I am going to recommend RingsDB, … Continue reading Testing Quests (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Deck)
After having built a deck to beat each scenario of the Ringmaker-cycle, I want to give an overall summary of the decks I have built and some general deck building strategies for this cycle . I will start with a list of all the decks in links to their articles: The Fords of Isen: Watchers … Continue reading Deckbuilding in the Ringmaker-cycle
With the Antlered Crown, this series comes to the final quest of the Ringmaker cycle. We meet once again with the Dunlendings after 3 quests without them for a final battle to conclude the narrative about the Dunlending civil war. I think two things are necessary from my deck to defeat this quest: High willpower … Continue reading Deckbuilding: The Antlered Crown
It has been a while since I published my last article on this series, but now I finally found the time to return. Celebrimbor's Secret is my favourite deck testing scenario and I play most new decks I build first against this one. Because the quest isn't very well known for this, I will first … Continue reading Deckbuilding: Celebrimbor’s Secret
With the last two quests being pretty tough, we move on to one of the easier quests of this cycle. While I find easy quests often too boring (like Into Fangorn), I have good memories of Trouble in Tharbad. The mechanic to get your threat down to zero is something unique and allows unusual deckbuilding … Continue reading Deckbuilding: Trouble in Tharbad
Coming back from my summer holidays I continue with the deckbuilding series, this time tackling The Three Trials. It's one of my favourite quests from the entire game, being not just a great boss fight but having also great replayability thanks to the different combinations of Guardians, Barrows and Trials. I will build for the … Continue reading Deckbuilding: The Three Trials
With Into Fangorn we come to the final quest of the Voice of Isengard-deluxe. While this is in most cycles the hardest one (like Escape from Dol Guldur or Siege of Cair Andros) here it's probably the opposite. The community difficulty rating of 4.3 is significantly lower than those of the other quests. This doesn't … Continue reading Deckbuilding: Into Fangorn
