LotR 260 - Peril in Pelargir (5)

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Another round with Chad G's Lake Town Progression Deck. I don't think this deck can get out enough Attack power fast enough to deal with immediate attacks.

Initial hand, mulligan:

  1. Daeron's Runes
  2. Gildor Inglorion
  3. Snowbourn Scout
  4. Northern Tracker
  5. Gandalf
  6. Beorn

Notso hotso, I really need a Winged Guardian in this first hand. Let's see what the first turn looks like.

Round 1

  1. Resource: 3, draw Erebor Hammersmith.
  2. Planning: Play Daeron's Runes drawing A Test of Will and Northern Tracker, discard Beorn.
  3. Quest: Alcaron's Scroll discard Lurking in Shadow, lucky. Elrond and Glorfindel to quest, reveal Harbor Thug, which is probably the game. Threat 28 due to Glorfindel exhausting to quest. Net 1 progress on Leaping Fish.
  4. Travel: none.
  5. Encounter: Harbor Thugs.
  6. Combat: Eowyn defends, shadow City Street for +2 and that's the game.

I'm going to need to build a deck for this, the hero lineup won't work.

Or, it may have been better to have not quested, and just soak up the threat with the intent of reducing it later. I think I'm going to try another game doing that and see what happens.

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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.