Lotr 119, 120, 121 with some Star Realms
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Friend from work stopped by to throw some cards around. The original intent was to play a round of Lord of the Rings LCG, which went so well we played another couple of rounds, followed up with some Colony Wars.
All in all a pretty good time, would really like to play more, but work is just so brutal.
Lord of the Rings LCG
These quests were played with a pair of deck in the Eowyn and the Odd Fellows Fellowship. Very standard Single Core decks with Leadership/Lore and Tactics/Spirit. Still fun to play!
In all of the following, I took the Leadership/Lore deck A Noble Core Rides Forth, with colleague JL taking A Noble Core Quests for a Fight.
Game 119: Passage Through Mirkwood (28)
This was a pretty easy win. We kept everything pretty well under control, the threat pretty well down, and ended up on Beorn's Path for the final stage, which was easy by then.
Since this went so fast, we dealt out Journey Along the Anduin to try our luck with the Hill Trolls.
Game 120: Journey along the Anduin (9)
This turned out to be a very fast game, Eowyn went out on round 2 or 3, so we scooped it and tried again.
Game 121: Journey along the Anduin (10)
Our second game of Journey Along the Anduin got off to a much better start, with the Hill Troll snared very early in the game. We rolled along pretty well for several turns, then the threat got above 35 and we pull an Evil Storm, which killed a Gimli and Legolas, which had been suffering from a pair of Goblin Snipers in the staging area.
Since we were otherwise doing pretty well, we decided to AU (alternate universe) the game and continue on to complete it.
The second hill troll was second from the bottom of the deck.
An AAR
We came up against an interesting situation with respect to Goblin Snipers. The wording on the cards seems clear enough, but the intent is not. The notion is that the Staging Area must be clear before the Goblin Sniper can be optionally engaged.
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Suppose there is one Goblin Sniper and one Dol Guldur Beastmaster. During the optional engagement phase, the first player engages the Dol Guldur Beastmaster. Can the second player then optionally engage Goblin Sniper?
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Suppose there are two Goblin Snipers with no other enemies in the Staging Area. Can these be engaged by the first and second player?
Star Realms Colony Wars
Star Realms is always a favorite for closing out the day. I found out after I got hammered twice that opponent used to play the iPhone app on the train daily for months. Looks like that's something I might want to try!
Game 24
I lost this one not too badly. Didn't build the economy up enough. Got the opponent down to one hit point remaining, but their next hand they had Authority recapture a bunch and it was curtains for me after that.
Game 25
Lost this one really badly. I've been trying to do super aggro fast damage, but opponent has been building out economy and authority cards. I do well at the beginning, but really stumble at the end.