LotR 172 - The Lonely Mountain (1)
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After my unlogged win yesterday against Flies and Spiders, I seriously contemplated continuing to not log plays for a while, and I may yet reduce logging. In this case, it's a new quest, and more importantly, it's plant watering day. Plant watering the way I do it requires soaking plants which I've allowed to completely dry. This means that the watering process is intermittent, I can't do it all at once, I have to let some of the plants soak for a bit. Which is perfect for logging, as I can do a round here, then a round of watering.
The deck is going to be the Misty Mountains Grim from the previous Flies and Spiders play. I don't think this is a great deck, but it seems to be a good deck, and wins well enough with a bit of luck.
Initial hand:
- The Galadhrim's Greetings
- A Test of Will
- Stand and Fight
- Zigil Miner
- Unexpected Courage
- Veteran Axehand
Two allies, need to get card draw rolling as fast as possible.
The staging area already has Smaug and Lonely Mountain.
Round 1
- Resource: 4, draw Boots from Erebor.
- Planning: Boots from Erebor on Bilbo. Bilbo spends 1 for Magic Ring, then for Sting, Threat 28.
- Quest: Ori, Oin, Bilbo, draw Croaking Crows, which surges for Western Slopes, which triggers the Forced text on Croaking Crows: When a location is revealed from the encounter deck, put 1 progress on Smaug the Golden. Threat 29. I don't think the Burgle is mandatory here, so I'm not going to do it.
- Travel: Western Slopes.
- Encounter: Croaking Crows.
- Combat: Gimli takes it undefended, shadow Dragon Spell for no effect. Gimli takes 1 hit, swings back for 3 killing the Croaking Crows.
- Refresh: Threat 30.
Round 2
- Resource: 7, draw Orcrist.
- Planning: play Orcrist on Gimli, Zigil Miner, Veteran Axehand.
- Quest: Ori, Oin, Bilbo, Zigil, draw Croaking Crows surge Hidden Path and another Progress on Smaug the Golden. Threat 32.
- Travel: none.
- Encounter: Croaking Crows.
- Combat: Gimli takes undefended, shadow Desolation of Smaug for no effect, takes another hit, swings back to kill crows.
- Refresh: Threat 33.
Round 3
- Resource: 7, draw Quick Strike, Unexpected Courage. Need allies.
- Planning: none.
- Quest: Ori, Oin, Bilbo, draw Western Slopes, Threat 36. Looks like I'm going into location lock.
- Travel: none.
- Encounter: none.
- Combat: none.
- Refresh: Threat 37.
Round 4
- Resource: 11, draw Song of Wisdom, Dwarven Tomb.
- Planning: Song of Wisdom on Gimli. Unexpected Courage on Gimli.
- Quest: Gimli, Ori, Oin, Bilbo, Zigil, draw Dark Bats. Threat 40.
- Travel: none.
- Encounter: Dark Bats.
- Combat: Gimli plays Quick Strike on Dark Bats.
- Refresh: Threat 41.
Round 5
- Resource: 11, draw Quick Strike, Protector of Lorien.
- Planning: Protector of Lorien on Bilbo.
- Quest: Gimli, Ori, Oin, Bilbo, draw Great Hall, which results in Threat 47 unless I discard 3 to Protector of Lorien, which just postpones the inevitable. Calling it here on location lock.
AAR
Questing on Stage 1 presents an interesting conundrum. Characters questing for less than 2 are irrelevant. I'm wondering how the Deeds of Dwarves deck would work against this quest, with Dain to boost questing stats across the board. And I need more location control as well.