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:

  1. The Galadhrim's Greetings
  2. A Test of Will
  3. Stand and Fight
  4. Zigil Miner
  5. Unexpected Courage
  6. 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

  1. Resource: 4, draw Boots from Erebor.
  2. Planning: Boots from Erebor on Bilbo. Bilbo spends 1 for Magic Ring, then for Sting, Threat 28.
  3. 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.
  4. Travel: Western Slopes.
  5. Encounter: Croaking Crows.
  6. Combat: Gimli takes it undefended, shadow Dragon Spell for no effect. Gimli takes 1 hit, swings back for 3 killing the Croaking Crows.
  7. Refresh: Threat 30.

Round 2

  1. Resource: 7, draw Orcrist.
  2. Planning: play Orcrist on Gimli, Zigil Miner, Veteran Axehand.
  3. Quest: Ori, Oin, Bilbo, Zigil, draw Croaking Crows surge Hidden Path and another Progress on Smaug the Golden. Threat 32.
  4. Travel: none.
  5. Encounter: Croaking Crows.
  6. Combat: Gimli takes undefended, shadow Desolation of Smaug for no effect, takes another hit, swings back to kill crows.
  7. Refresh: Threat 33.

Round 3

  1. Resource: 7, draw Quick Strike, Unexpected Courage. Need allies.
  2. Planning: none.
  3. Quest: Ori, Oin, Bilbo, draw Western Slopes, Threat 36. Looks like I'm going into location lock.
  4. Travel: none.
  5. Encounter: none.
  6. Combat: none.
  7. Refresh: Threat 37.

Round 4

  1. Resource: 11, draw Song of Wisdom, Dwarven Tomb.
  2. Planning: Song of Wisdom on Gimli. Unexpected Courage on Gimli.
  3. Quest: Gimli, Ori, Oin, Bilbo, Zigil, draw Dark Bats. Threat 40.
  4. Travel: none.
  5. Encounter: Dark Bats.
  6. Combat: Gimli plays Quick Strike on Dark Bats.
  7. Refresh: Threat 41.

Round 5

  1. Resource: 11, draw Quick Strike, Protector of Lorien.
  2. Planning: Protector of Lorien on Bilbo.
  3. 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.


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