LotR 187 - Peril in Pelargir (2)

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Game Day, the usual collaborator, and our second crack at Peril in Pelargir.

However, before we got started, we did a bit of deck building. Since he is running a Leadership/Tactics deck, he needed to rebalance his deck a bit to get more Tactics cards out. Legolas went in, Theodred came out. Hail of Stones and Rain of Arrows went in.

The first round or two was really tense, but we managed to scrape by and get to Stage 3. At what would have been the last round, we ended up threating out on the Collateral Damage treachery, it put his threat right at 50.

We almost surely played several things incorrectly:

  • Glorfindel, forgot to increase threat on his questing before Light of Valinor came out.
  • Condition attachment on Beravor, forgot to raise threat when using Beravor's ability.
  • Probably miscounted threat in other ways as well, not coming to mind at the moment.

For the next game, I need to tune my deck to add some healing, some sort of resource acceleration if possible, get Miner of the Iron Hills in there to deal with condition attachment, probably more, I took some notes.

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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.