Ira, thank you so much for these videos. Whenever I introduce this wonderful game to a new player and they argue that there is too much luck involved, I point them in your direction! It almost feels like there are three stages of development in this game. In your first plays you're not worried about the luck because you're blown away by the theme. Then you do start moaning about luck when a few crucial battles turn on an unlikely roll, then, at last, you've learned all the cards, become aware of the mitigation strategies and what is actually possible and then luck just becomes one other thing to deal with. Love this game! (And I am finally knuckling down to paint the minis. . .)
25:25 once you're already in W Harrandor, it's honestly not worth using corsairs. Move back and corsairs is 2 dice while just attacking in is 3 dice, and you get Pelargir in the process. Maybe if Gondor isn't at war yet, but when they are, you're not getting around them mustering. It's much better as a reinforcement card or a deadly strife. 57:30 With Mithril, I'd rather risk moving this turn even with the risk of losing instantly, than risk not getting the movement needed. 3 movement plus extra for reveals next turn is just too likely to not happen, while Bilbos plus the blue tiles should get you across the line even if you have to use Mithril here. Pretty likely to roll a palantir so you get Bilbo for free next turn anyway, or you can spend a movement from next turn to Bilbo then instead of now. 60% of the time you get one step up without even needing to Mithril, and you only straight up lose 13% of the time, or about 1 in 8. With how it worked out, it didn't matter though of course. I'm not sure exactly when, but I do feel like it would have been worth playing more rohan cards earlier. Especially Eomer to make sure you could get both that and the movement from Westernmet in. If that random north muster at the start had gone to Rohan like you were talking about, Red Arrow could have pushed them all the way to war and pottentially gotten them causing some serious trouble too. This kind of situation is also why I like to move the Westernmet troops in a bit ahead of time when given the chance. I'd normally prioritize that over playing event cards with wills.
Hello Champ! I wanna start with telling ya that I love Your videos - I've learned a lot from them and I really enjoy them! I have a one question though - can You please tell me what happens when Grima is in play and Rohan is attacked in Fords of Isen? Rohan is not activated but it is still moving down on political track right? I couldnt find information on that and I just realised I played it wrong for all that time :|
Shadows Gather from Folde to Lossarnach looks suspiciously inefficient. DA is 5 spaces away from where the WK was in Westement, if you go round the other way. Also, Considering Rohan and Gondor are contained, SP could probably just wait to Gather the WK to DA until after HD falls, and avoid the complication of losing Saruman to a double Ents, or having a hilariously bad round of combat in HD without reinforcements nearby.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure what you mean. I don't intend to be political, but I do want to refer to people however they choose. If someone tells me, "Please call me Bob," then I'll call them Bob. If someone says, "Please use 'she' when talking about me," then that's what I'll do. It's not a political statement; it's just respect for other people's wishes, as they play this fun game with me!
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Ira, thank you so much for these videos. Whenever I introduce this wonderful game to a new player and they argue that there is too much luck involved, I point them in your direction!
It almost feels like there are three stages of development in this game.
In your first plays you're not worried about the luck because you're blown away by the theme. Then you do start moaning about luck when a few crucial battles turn on an unlikely roll, then, at last, you've learned all the cards, become aware of the mitigation strategies and what is actually possible and then luck just becomes one other thing to deal with.
Love this game! (And I am finally knuckling down to paint the minis. . .)
Good to see you back! Looking forward to getting into this
Great stuff. Glad to have you back, Ira. I'd love to see you play and comment on some LoME+KoME games.
25:25 once you're already in W Harrandor, it's honestly not worth using corsairs. Move back and corsairs is 2 dice while just attacking in is 3 dice, and you get Pelargir in the process. Maybe if Gondor isn't at war yet, but when they are, you're not getting around them mustering. It's much better as a reinforcement card or a deadly strife.
57:30 With Mithril, I'd rather risk moving this turn even with the risk of losing instantly, than risk not getting the movement needed. 3 movement plus extra for reveals next turn is just too likely to not happen, while Bilbos plus the blue tiles should get you across the line even if you have to use Mithril here. Pretty likely to roll a palantir so you get Bilbo for free next turn anyway, or you can spend a movement from next turn to Bilbo then instead of now. 60% of the time you get one step up without even needing to Mithril, and you only straight up lose 13% of the time, or about 1 in 8.
With how it worked out, it didn't matter though of course.
I'm not sure exactly when, but I do feel like it would have been worth playing more rohan cards earlier. Especially Eomer to make sure you could get both that and the movement from Westernmet in. If that random north muster at the start had gone to Rohan like you were talking about, Red Arrow could have pushed them all the way to war and pottentially gotten them causing some serious trouble too.
This kind of situation is also why I like to move the Westernmet troops in a bit ahead of time when given the chance. I'd normally prioritize that over playing event cards with wills.
@47:30 The odds are 2.652% of successfully destroying the ring with all successful pulls in a row.
7:11 it always happens 😂
Watching these videos took my appreciation of this game to another level! Really helped with weighing options in game. Thanks for making these!
Love your videos, happy to see you upload!
More LotR, nice! Btw, have you tried the card game War of the Ring? How do you like it?
Just had a turn 13 FPMV and the same exact thing happen to my FSP with Lome Balrog and WK!
Hello Champ!
I wanna start with telling ya that I love Your videos - I've learned a lot from them and I really enjoy them!
I have a one question though - can You please tell me what happens when Grima is in play and Rohan is attacked in Fords of Isen? Rohan is not activated but it is still moving down on political track right? I couldnt find information on that and I just realised I played it wrong for all that time :|
Can I ask what’s in your background it looks like the game but also as a table
Check the description. It’s a Java program.
@ behind him in the webcam?
Ever get LOME or WOME gameplays? Curious to see how you play out those options
Will you be playing some games with the new expansion?
Shadows Gather from Folde to Lossarnach looks suspiciously inefficient. DA is 5 spaces away from where the WK was in Westement, if you go round the other way. Also, Considering Rohan and Gondor are contained, SP could probably just wait to Gather the WK to DA until after HD falls, and avoid the complication of losing Saruman to a double Ents, or having a hilariously bad round of combat in HD without reinforcements nearby.
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is the channel dead?😢😢😢😢
Introducing politics in your channel may not be a wise choice :)
Talking about "pronouns" which are an heavy leftist political ideological mark.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm not sure what you mean. I don't intend to be political, but I do want to refer to people however they choose. If someone tells me, "Please call me Bob," then I'll call them Bob. If someone says, "Please use 'she' when talking about me," then that's what I'll do. It's not a political statement; it's just respect for other people's wishes, as they play this fun game with me!