Playthrough start: 1:43:20

@Marshdweller

Ай бұрын

Lol

Can't really speak for the new players but I can imagine this video is a super good intro to the game. Great job.

Going back through watching some old videos of yours I missed. Loved the banter at the beginning and yes I am one that is paid to watch! 🤣😁

So glad you're doing this. This & TMB are my favorite games. I have it all including the limited ed. & gen con packs and was wondering what the New core and starter decks added. The campaign sounds interesting. I'll probably chase down the Pnp. Before dropping $ for a few cards in the New core. Looking forward to the campaign play through.

Excellent playthrough! Your grasp of the rules and timings are very good! thanks for this video!

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for the kind words!

This was a great teach and playthrough. Thanks!

Really appreciate the playthrough, ty much guys!

It's one of my favoriete games. I own the old core set, so I will get the PnP FFG promised on their website. I sure will follow your future campaigns in Middle Earth. Keep up the good work.

Never took Rob for a left tapper, but now things make so much sense 🤣🤣 Fun video!!

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

It's only because the way we are sitting to stream I sometimes have to use my left hand to reach the cards. For some strange reason I tap card left with my left hand and right with my right hand. I never knew it was a thing until I caught myself doing it during this game and corrected it. Hahaha 🤓

Just make it so you can keep half of the cards when you choose a new starting hand. The game is already tough enough, so taking the edge off in the beginning will just make it more fun.

Play on Easy Mode, it really makes the game more story driven and less frustrating.

This game has its own variation of the 'Expendable Crewman'.

Great playthrough! Really clears some rules up for me, and I love the camera where you zoom in on the cards. Very helpful. I skipped ahead to the playthrough and missed the explanation at the beginning for why you have a companion that passes to the first player and why you're able to discard cards to add to your questing strength at the beginning of the round. Are those house rules? Or did I miss something in the rules?

@spunx44

Жыл бұрын

The card in play is due to the campaign, if that card leaves play they auto lose. And the discarding to add 1 to questing is an action from Éowyn

"Some people watching this at work" How daaaare you rat me out.

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha my bad! ;)

Hooray!! A video on how to play a game that is almost completely out of print.

I'm definitely paid to watch this channel. 🤣

So just to clarify adding something to the stating area is not the same as revealing a card. So the when reveal effect doesn't trigger. Wording is very important in this game. So ungoliant spawn text would never be an issue cause she is not being revealed from the encounter deck she is added to the staging area. :)

Then we have Legolas, best character in Game of Thrones :D

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

Must have been a typo in my copy of the book. 😜😊

OMG! That mulligan rule! How do I cancel my preorder? XD

Thanks for play throughing this Rob and Merl. I've just ordered this. Question when they release future (I think you called them cycles), can you just buy the initial bigger box of the cycle, ignore the following mythos packs, until the next bigger box starting next cycle? Thanks

@M-E_123

2 жыл бұрын

You could under the old release pattern but after the 4th cycle it would leave you with an incomplete story as they started tying the 3 quests in the box into the following cycle better by leaving things on cliffhangers at the end of the third quest in each box (Khazad-Dum, Heirs of Numenor & Voice of Isengard - the first 3 boxes - can be played standalone from their following cycles much easier as their stories are more contained and have an ending - as can the Core Box quests). However under the new release pattern it's expected all quests from a cycle plus the corresponding quests from the deluxe boxes will going forward be packaged together into a single quest box with all of the player cards from the same packs in a second player card box - the same way they've started releasing Arkham LCG content - but they haven't said which boxes / cycles will be repackaged in this way yet. So you might prefer to just wait for the new repacks to release and avoid the risk of buying duplicate cards you don't need - long term both the deluxe boxes & adventure packs will be going out of print, or being repackaged into the new format. Be aware though that if you do decide to jump into the packs released under the old method you will need the corresponding deluxe box to be able to play the quests from the following cycle, so buying odd adventure packs is generally poor value for money unless you have the correct deluxe box first. Generally I think the new system sounds better value for money so if I was starting now I'd probably just wait for the repacks. But another alternative might be to look into buying the Saga boxes (2 that cover the Hobbit & 6 for the Lord of the Rings) - so far the expectation is that these will not be repackaged and will also remain in print in their current form - each box is similar to the deluxe boxes with a mix of player cards & 3 quests covering events from the books.

@GrandPa_BBQer_Game_Cat

2 жыл бұрын

@@M-E_123 Really appreciate your time to answer that for me, great info. Yes I am brand new into the series so will wait for future releases and probably buy the existing Hobbit box as well. Thanks

Questions for you? do you know if they are only revising the core set, or are they going to revise cycles, deluxe expansion, and other scenarios?

The draw of this game (pun intended) is that it is excruciatingly punishing, so the mulligan rule is appropriate! :D

I love how you try to be an OCD friendly channel! :)

@christopherpacheco9771

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto! Much appreciated.

Sneak attack Gandalf seems so broken

Thanks for the video. I just purchased this game and I've been struggling with some of the card play but, one question I had was playing Gandalf and I wasn't sure how his abilities triggered. This playthrough verified what I was thinking. So, if I understand this correctly, when he enters play it triggers the response, then he can quest, after that can he be readied again to attack or defend depending on the situation, am I correct with this assumption?

@danlafferty1222

Жыл бұрын

You've probably gotten your answer by now. How much you can use Gandalf depends whether you pay to bring him into play during the Planning phase or bring him in with Sneak Attack. If you pay all 5 to bring him in, he stays for that whole round, so if you have a card you can use that could ready him after exhausting once, he could perform a second action on the same round. Otherwise, if using Sneak Attack, he only lasts for the phase you bring him in. Now, if you have a card that could ready him, he could attack two different characters or defend against one and attack against the same one or a different one in the same Combat phase. Hope that helps!

I just use a select mulligan. Throwback into the deck the cards u don’t want than draw back up

Steward of Gondor is a different type of card then Eowyn is (she uses spirit right?) so can she attach the attachment that Aragorn may attach ?

@M-E_123

2 жыл бұрын

Attachments can be played on anyone - even other players heroes or those from a different sphere. Only things that matter are the restricted keyword, unique symbol and whether the card is restricted to only hero's, only allies, or any character, or if it requires a specific hero or keyword (hobbit only, or Aragorn only for example).

@Mantala0611

2 жыл бұрын

@@M-E_123 thank you so much !! Such an awesome community here !!

The player may engage an enemy from the staging area... Would you do that if there was a hard enemy or big threat generator enemy ? And does the player attack first then ?

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

It depends on the scenario, the situation, and if you are ready to handle it or not. You do not get to attack first no matter if they engage you optional or forced, unless you have a card that breaks that rule, like Feint.

@Mantala0611

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable so it's more like a "lure the enemy towards you" ?

@M-E_123

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mantala0611 yes - it gives you some control over who will be engaged by the enemies (there are rules for when enemies will engage you) - so if you can see someone is about to get attacked by a big enemy you can instead pull them onto you if you are better set up to handle the attacks. Or you can pull a big threat enemy out of the staging area before they would auto engage so that you can deal with them early and / or to help reduce the threat target for successful questing.

31:30 Sometimes you have 3 Sneak Attacks and a Gandalf in hand. Sometimes you don't. :p

Hello, during the quest phase, I didn't see any rules that let you discard a cards to increase your willpower ?

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

We were probably using the ability on Éowyn as seen here: ringsdb.com/card/01007

@yannickbeaule6942

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable Oh I see, it's really good, thanks

So does “dealing damage” to an enemy ignore their defense value where an attack would have to break through the defense value first?

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. See "Damage" in the Rules Reference. It describes it there.

@agooddayfishing5147

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable thanks. I just picked up the game last night so I’m excited to learn all the ins and outs.

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

@@agooddayfishing5147 Awesome! I hope you have fun with it and enjoy your dive into the rabbit hole that is LOTR LCG. 😀

So when you use different type of hero's, do you shuffle alllllll type of cards into 1 deck ?

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you do.

@Mantala0611

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable So if I'm not mistaken...you may have 50 cards in total right ? Thank you allready for answering my questions, asking while watching the video :)

EDIT- Please ignore as I am wrong here: Rule/ Timing clarification at 2 hr mark: All characters for both players are deemed to be committing to the quest simultaneously. Meaning Mel could have given Theodred’s resource to one of Rob’s heroes if she wanted.

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are incorrect here sir. We were playing it by the way it is described in the latest FAQ v1.9 Page 11 Question #2 on FFG's site: Q: Does a player commit his characters to a quest at once, or one character at a time? When can a player trigger responses to committing his characters to a quest? A: A player commits all characters he wishes to commit to a quest at once. Responses to the characters committing (such as those on Aragorn and Theodred) can then be triggered in the order of that player’s choice. After a player has committed his characters (and triggered any responses to those characters committing), the next player has the opportunity to commit his characters to the quest.

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

I think the confusion comes from most people playing Theodred and Aragorn together under the same player's control. Having them controlled by 2 separate players is rare and not as synergistic.

@orbitsurvey9612

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable Yep you are right. Sorry I misread this. Cheers

@orbitsurvey9612

2 жыл бұрын

@@RobsGamingTable Yep that’s where I misread the situation.

They actually play about 55 minutes in 👍🏻

I would say that the problems that the game had really started to go away after a couple of cycles. I think the Heirs of Numenor+Against the Shadow cycle (3rd cycle) was the low point, even though it has some classics. At the time of the Angmar Awakened cycle (5th cycle) the game only kept getting better and better. Having it all I can safely say the game is excellent. A lot of money and time need to be invested though, if you want this fully realized excellence.

@GrandPa_BBQer_Game_Cat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was trying to think of a way that it wouldn't be such a cash sink, but still playable without those follow on 5 - 6 mini decks completing the cycle. Have wanted the game for about 3 yrs now, but finding the content after the base box put me off.

@matslarsson6919

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrandPa_BBQer_Game_Cat it’s the greatest and worst thing about lifestyle games. It gives you something totally awesome… at a great cost. For me it has certainly been worth it. I play it solo, so it is easy to get games in.

Whilst I enjoy these videos immensely, the fact that it took an hour to get to the gameplay seems extreme. Scheduling time to watch a livestream is difficult enough in this busy world, but to muddle through an hour of "fluff" is problematic. I wonder if much of what was talked about during that first hour could have been placed in a separate video? Just my thoughts. Really enjoy the content, though, and live play!

I didn't think you're allowed to "pay and use" cards after the resource phase.

@RobsGamingTable

2 жыл бұрын

I assume you mean the Planning phase. You can play most events any time there is an action window in any phase. The planning phase is where you play most attachments and allies. I suggest you go through the Timing and Gameplay section in the Rules Reference guide to get familiar with the phases and action windows. It really helped me understand this more than the Learn to Play book could. Happy questing! 🏹

an hour in and still not a turn played... sorry.. not for me.. best of luck on your channel

Cringe everytime I hear “money”