LotR 156, 157 - Into the Pit 27, 28

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Game day again, had a work colleague JL over for some Lord of the Rings LCG. This is becoming more or less a monthly event for us. We're playing more or less progression style at the cycle level, that is, all of the Dwarrowdelf cards are in play, despite just going into Khazad-Dum. Too difficult to deal with deck building otherwise.

Before getting going, we had to build decks. JL went with a Leadership-Spirit, I went with Tactics-Lore. We spent a fair bit of time working through his deck. I just pulled a bunch of cards out of the binder for mine. They both worked pretty well given the amount of thought going into them.

Into the Pit 27.

Hero kills on Round 3, Gimli went out. Ugly start. I don't really recall much of this game.

Into the Pit 28.

This was a win! And a really long game. We kept getting patrol leader damage cancelation, which made the game drag on for several more rounds that it probably should have. The swarm kept getting wrecked, we'd build a nice tableau, and 2 turns later, down to 1 or 2 allies. We did squeak it out at the end.

We did figure that my deck needs a bit more resource, and definitely more card draw. JL's deck was hurting for card draw, really badly.

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What to play next?

Deciding what to play next is always a tough call when faced with a closet full of games, all of which were purchased with intent to play. Here's one I'm dealing with the decision.

  • Something New: this means both something new to me and a game which has been published recently, within the last two or three years.
  • Something Classic: I've acquired a number of games properly considered "classic" which haven't yet been played. The current example would be PanzerGruppe Guderian.
  • Something Again: mastery requires constant practice, which means playing games many, many times to allow nuance to appear.
  • Something Vietnam: as I'm on a Vietnam binge. I don't have all the Vietnam games ever published, but I can say that I have a lot of them, and probably more than most people.
  • Something Obscure: as it's fun to poke around in the dustier corners of game design.
  • Something Different: break away from the same old publishers and try a game from one of the new kids on the block. Or, conversely, dip into legacy with a classic tried and true.
  • Something Light: once in a while it's nice to actually finish a game all the way through in one sitting, in an hour or two.
  • Something Heavy: if possible, it's nice to set up something big and complicated which can be left out for days or weeks or even months, for a leisurely stroll through a very large or long game.

There are surely many more ways to choose, but the above method keeps me busy enough, helps me get both breadth and depth into my play, and provides me with a sense of progress.

The odd man out

When there is an odd man out:

  • Have a solo game ready to play.
  • Keep score or advise on a game in progress.
  • Referee a game in progress.