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Lord of the Rings


Forging Your Fellowship 4: Like a Hobbit - Going out of Harms Way

Aug 16 2012 12:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

What is better than killing enemies? Not even encountering any in the first place! When no treachery whatsoever shows up from the encounter deck, than how essential is A Test of Will (Core) again?

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Of Combos and Men 2: My Gloin Engine Deck

Aug 09 2012 05:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

Alright, time to follow up last weeks article with an actual deck.
I started with one, added a second one later, but in the end I fell in love and now officially play 3 (three!) copies of Dark Knowledge (Core). They do work ;).

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Of Combos And Men 1: The Gloin Engine

Aug 01 2012 05:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

It is almost like in martial arts: You absorb their blows and turn their force against them!

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Forging Your Fellowship 3: Like an Elf - Tendin...

Jul 19 2012 05:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

After last weeks detour I can finally say that we are heading deeper into the realms of deckbuilding. We are no way near the 7th level yet, but getting closer nonetheless. Just as a quick recap, the current topics revolve around these three basic questions for building awesome decks:

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Tales from the Prancing Pony 1: That's the...

Jul 12 2012 05:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

Spirit has been perceived as the most powerful sphere out there and many fellowships don't leave their homes without a little or a lot support from the blue cardpool. Now that's a good and a bad thing. Its good to have some powerful cards in your deck and Spirit offers some interesting choices, but there seem to be many people that find spirit essential to winning most quests, which is bad from a design and gameplay standpoint.

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Forging Your Fellowship 2: Like a Dwarf - Direc...

Jul 05 2012 05:00 AM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

Hello readers, in last weeks article I talked about the different approaches, when examining the cards you want to put in your deck. The approach I choose for deckbuilding boils down (on a very condensed level) to these three basic questions: 1. How does my deck deal with locations? 2. How does my deck deal with enemies? 3. How does my deck deal with treacheries?

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Forging Your Fellowship 1: It All Depends On Yo...

Jun 25 2012 05:00 PM | sirprim in Lord of the Rings

Welcome everybody to the very first of a series of articles about The Lord of the Rings:LCG by Fantasy Flight Games. The topics I am going to talk about will vary from card discussion or combo strategies to some ramblings here and there and maybe even some other topics in the future. But in the beginning I have to lay some groundwork for future articles first and so I shall begin with deckbuilding from my point of view.

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