Irongut said:

You are correct.

Maggical said:

Question….this plan is flawed in that, the only way you could have Steward of Gondor on someone is if Song of Kings was already placed….as SoG is a Leadership Sphere….

First of all I played against the first 2 quests from "Over Hill and Under Hill" with great success, so I updated the quest log on the first post. Below are my answers and thanks again for all the support!

hendersondayton said:

So glad to hear you like the deck and are testing it!

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I've been trying out this deck, and decided to go through all the quests in order. So I plan to do all of the core set encounters, Mirkwood, Khazad-dum, etc, in order.  Unfortunately I got stuck on Journey Down the Anduin. I've lost three times, twice to threat death and once because I quit when all I had left was Denethor and an army of angry attackers.

The Hill Troll is really not that bad. Gandalf and Glorfindel can handle him if Denethor blocks and Arwen quests. It's all the OTHER things in the encounter deck that make this quest a nightmare. Between those wargs that run away before you can attack (if they don't get a shadow card) and goblin snipers you can't keep allies in play. Then the staging area builds up with so much threat so fast you can't make any progress and your own threat shoots up.

So I'm not sure if this is just a case of three really bad games or tough encounter decks. But I'm stuck here and can't win the scenario. Is there something I'm missing?

My basic plan has been to get the heroes "set up" with their attachments ASAP, and then quest like nuts and try to deal with as many locations and enemies as I can handle.  But by the second stage, I have so much threat built up that I can't pull off the willpower to quest.  So any suggestions are appreciated.

It is a good deck. It's just probably I'm not playing it correctly. 

Also, a clarification: Eowyn's ability lets me discard ONE card to raise her ONE spirit, ONCE per phase. So I can't bump her over 5 spirit as a solo player, right?

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I've never had a problem with the quest. I'll try to take a look at it again but in fact the quests from the Core Set where really easy go pass. Thanks a lot for trying out all the quests in order as I did, it's a great experience too! If you have any doubts on the order, on the first post I made they are ordered correctly…

hendersondayton said:

You are right, I totally miss-wrote that, I changed it already :D take a look now!

hendersondayton said:

hendersondayton said:

This is not correct.  Steward of Gondor does not have restriction to the sphere of the hero it attaches to, so it can played on any hero.  Some attachments, like Burning Brand, would explicitly states that "Attach to [Lore] hero", then you can only attach that to a hero with [Lore] sphere (either printed or granted by a song card)

Maggical said:

Thanks I'll give it another go. I'm not sure if I just got bad draws or unlucky with the encounter deck. It could also be that my strategy is not right. My plan is to not move forward in the quests until I can beat the level I'm at. So I'm still working through the core set, the Anduin quest. I've just struggled with the threat build up, even though I selectively engage enemies and try to travel when too many lands are built up. Maybe the fact that I only get one Northern Tracker out and he usually dies to the Goblin Sniper might have an impact. I'll just have to see how it goes. I'll keep you posted.

Angus Lee said:

In order to play Steward of Gondor you have to spend TWO leadership resources…therefore, Steward of Gondor would never be out before song of kings in the deck Maggical is using. That is what I was pointing out. Maggical said: If SoG is on someone, then put Song of Kings on them…that is not possible because song of kings would have to be out for someone to have the leadership trait to spend to Leadership resources.

Maggical said:

So far, I have not put SoG on anyone but Denethor. Song of Kings goes on Glorfindel due to his hit HP…and then I put SoG on Denethor to boost the lore output. I have noticed however after a couple games that Spirit tends to get a little short as well when playing all the Event cards to cancel shadow/when revealed…too bad SoG is Unique.

Irongut said:

I don't exactly remember that quest but I usually try to travel everytime I have a chance to a location, I don't hold them in the staging area at all…

hendersondayton said:

hendersondayton said:

It's not that big of a deal because all the Spirit cards are cheap to play, so you need 1 or 2 turns at most to put them into play…

Hey, I just builded a deck which is quit similar to yours. But instead of steward of Gondor I use the combo of Zigil Miner, Imladris Stargazer and Gleowine. It just work great. One of the big advantages is that you can easily use high cost cards like Gildor Inglorion. I would post my decklist if someone is interested in it :D

hendersondayton said:

How silly I am!  I don't have his deck in mind when posting my previous comment.  Thank you for the correction and I would like to take back my comments.  I am sorry that I totally misunderstand you.

Angus Lee said:

Its all good!