Welcome back to my ultra-campaign playthrough series! This week, I tackled the second quest of my ultra-campaign: Journey Along the Anduin. This quest marks a steep increase in difficulty compared to Passage Through Mirkwood, which is evident in my playthrough below. If you would like a reminder of the rules for the ultra-campaign, check out … Continue reading Ultra-Campaign Playthrough Series, Part 2: Journey Along the Anduin
There at Pelargir lay the main fleet of Umbar, fifty great ships and smaller vessels beyond count. Many of those that we pursued had reached the havens before us, and brought their fear with them; and some of the ships had put off, seeking to escape down the River or to reach the far shore; … Continue reading QOTW: The Siege of Gondor Results
This article is the first in the line of a new series brought to you by a new writer on Vision of the Palantir: Carter. He will be taking on quite the challenge every week which will hopefully help others with their deckbuilding approach to certain scenarios. Best of luck to him and to all … Continue reading Ultra-Campaign Playthrough Series, Part 1: Passage through Mirkwood
"They were like great figures seated upon thrones. Each had three joined bodies, and three heads facing outward, and inward, and across the gateway. The heads had vulture faces, and on their great knees were laid clawlike hands. They seemed to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they were aware: … Continue reading The Tower of Cirith Ungol
Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer. Ever there rose the same cry in the gathering night: 'The King of the Dead! The King of the Dead is come upon us!' Bells were ringing … Continue reading QOTW: The Passing of the Grey Company Results
As if his indomitable spirit had set its potency in motion, the glass blazed suddenly like a white torch in his hand. It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. No such terror out of heaven had ever burned in Shelob's face before. The beams of … Continue reading QOTW: Shelob’s Lair Results
To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope. Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to him, a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mûmak of … Continue reading QOTW: Journey to the Cross-Roads Results
It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. As the day wore on the … Continue reading QOTW: Passage of the Marshes Results
'They pushed, pulled, tore, shook, and hammered; and clang-bang, crash-crack, in five minutes they had these huge gates just lying in ruin; and some were already beginning to eat into the walls, like rabbits in a sand-pit. I don't know what Saruman thought was happening; but anyway he did not know how to deal with … Continue reading QOTW: The Road to Isengard Results
It was now past midnight. The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm. Suddenly the clouds were seared by a blinding flash. Branched lightning smote down upon the eastward hills. For a staring moment the watchers on the walls saw all the space between them and the Dike lit … Continue reading QOTW: Helm’s Deep Results
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