Doomed Fate 7.4: The Uruk-Hai

I broke down and opened my remaining Saga expansions to increase my card pool. With this, I also replaced Eomer with Treebeard, as he is the most thematic hero choice for this mission (see previous posts). I now have a Leadership/Tactics deck; let’s see if it fares any better.

The Uruk-Hai (easy mode; campaign), attempt 4
Heroes:			Campaign Pool:
Current:    Eomer    Gimli    Pippin, captive    Aragorn (TToS), +1 threat   Previously Used in Campaign:    Frodo Baggins    Gandalf (defeated)    Sam Gamgee			Boons:    Anduril    Gildor Inglorion    Glamdring    Leaf-Wrapped Lembas    Mithril Shirt    Noble Hero (Frodo Baggins)    Sting   Burdens:    + Followed by Night    Gandalf’s Delay    Overcome by Grief    Shadow of Fear
Card Pool
Core Set (old edition) Celebrimbor’s Secret (AP) Shadow and Flame (AP) + The Treason of Saruman (Saga) + The Flame of the West (Saga)			The Black Riders (Saga) The Dead Marshes (AP) The Road Darkens (Saga) + The Land of Shadow (Saga) + The Mountain of Fire (Saga)
Deck (50)
Allies (20):		Attachments (12):			Events (18):
x2 Faramir x2 Galadriel x2 Guard of the Citadel x3 Orophin x3 Snowbourn Scout x2 Boromir x3 Grimbold x3 Vassal of the Windlord		x1 Celebrian’s Stone x2 Guthwine x1 Roheryn x2 Steward of Gondor x2 Arod x2 Citadel Plate x2 Golden Shield			x2 Captains of the West x2 Sneak Attack x1 Feint x2 Quick Strike x2 Sterner Than Steel x3 Banner of Elendil x3 Frodo’s Intuition x3 The Three Hunters
Legend
Allies	Allies put into play during the Planning Phase this turn			Activity log. ED: Encounter Deck EE: Enemy from ED EL: Location from ED ET: Treachery from ED EO: Objective from ED SA: staging area >>: engages #: Event card played PA: Player A +: enters play -: exits play ===: Quest Card completed QC: Quest Card //: defeats CA: Character Ability
Attachments	Attachments put into play during the Planning Phase this turn
Threat	Staging Area threat / player threat at beginning of round
Engaged Enemies	Engaged enemies at the beginning of turn (damage tokens on enemy)
Location Log	Location at beginning of turn >> location traveled to this turn during Travel Phase
Setup
Allies	--			SA: + To Isengard! SA: + Ugluk Pippin placed under To Isengard! ED: + Followed by Night ED: + Shadow of Fear Glamdring and Anduril added to PA’s deck +1 starting threat for hero replacement
Attachments	+ Leaf-Wrapped Lembas (Aragorn)
Threat	3 / 22, PV: 10
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	Eastemnet
Turn 1
Allies	--			ET: Followed by Night EE: Uruk-Hai Fighter Quest: -1 PA >> Uruk-Hai Fighter # Sneak Attack PA // Uruk-Hai Fighter
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 22, PV: 10
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	Eastemnet
Turn 2
Allies	+ Grimbold			ET: Rest By Night Quest ended
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 24, 12
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	Eastemnet
Turn 3
Allies	+ Orophin + Vassal of the Windlord			ET: Rest By Night (are you fucking kidding me) Quest ended
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 25, 17
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	Eastemnet
Turn 4
Allies	--			ET: Shadow of Fear The Wold Quest: +3
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 26, 22
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	Eastemnet >> The Wold
Turn 5
Allies	--			# Captains of the West EE: Isengard Uruk # Frodo’s Intuition Quest: +10 PA >> Isengard Uruk Leaf-Wrapped Lembas discarded from SE PA // Isengard Uruk
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 28, 25
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log	The Wold >>
Turn 6
Allies	+ Boromir			EL: The Wold Quest: +5
Attachments	--
Threat	3 / 29, 27
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log
Turn 7
Allies	+ Citadel Guard			EL: The Wold Quest: +11 PV hits 30
Attachments	+ Banner of Elendil
Threat	5 / 30, 29
Engaged Enemies	--
Location Log
***DEFEATED*** Pursuit Value hits 30

 

Reflection

Okay, so I had a very rough start, but there are some powerful questing cards in here (Banner of Elendil, Captains of the West). I had rotten luck drawing my two Burden treacheries back-to-back, and then two Rest By Night treacheries (I swear I shuffled 7 times before playing). I had Gimli absorb some damage early undefended (hoping for Citadel Plate to show up…), and Rest By Night requires each questing character to take 1 damage. This would have killed Gimli, so opted to increase my PV by 3 instead… twice. Without that, I think I would have stood a chance.

I also have some expensive Leadership cards which was a bit of a struggle. If I can get Steward of Gondor early on, I think I have a decent shot here!

Most Valuable Cards (MVC)

MVC #1: Captains of the West (Mountain of Fire). This allows Noble Heroes to get +1 willpower and does not make them exhaust to quest. This is great for my team, as they are all Noble!

MVC #2: Banner of Elendil (Flame of the West). This attaches to Fellowship Aragorn, and allows other characters to get a boost in questing or attacking depending on if Aragorn is questing or attacking. And that’s characters, NOT heroes, so this gave me a huge quest boost with my allies.

 

Most Valuable Hero

This is hard to say… I miss Treebeard’s willpower, but there are some good leadership cards Eomer allowed me to access (I never used his character ability, and a willpower of 1 isn’t great). I would say Aragorn probably was most helpful, with his Banner of Elendil and ability to ready heroes with his resources.

 

The Biggest Nasty

Definitely Rest By Night. Getting that back-to-back crippled me this game (although if I had more health or healing, perhaps that would have been different).

 

Looking Forward

I’m going to try this deck again. It’s frustrating re-doing this scenario so many times, especially knowing Helm’s Deep is around the corner.