The Line Unbroken – 68: The Dungeons of Cirith Gurat

Alright, Dungeons of Cirith Gurat. Big moment in the story of the cycle, as the capture of Kahliel’s son was something put in specifically to make him more sympathetic as a character (to dispel the perspective of Haradrim just being enemies) – so finally rescuing him is a big deal. It’s also another take on the previously seen quest concept of breaking friendly characters out of captivity. As executions of that idea go, it’s… I’d say mixed.

Ignoring the Rules: Multiple Contracts

Alright, it’s been a while since I did one of these, but the latest cycle offered up a fantastic subject with the introduction of contracts, and the attendant rule that you can only use one contract in a deck. Let’s explore the hypothetical possibilities of what we could do if we were allowed multiple contracts in a single deck…

The Line Unbroken – 67: The Black Serpent

Alright, returning to the Haradrim cycle I face The Black Serpent. As one might hope from a confrontation with the only specifically named Haradrim enemy from the books, this to my mind stands out as one of the better quests in a cycle full of good quests. The player cards are an interesting mix as well. Anyway, let’s get into it.

Deckbuilding Challenge: Three Hunters Pelennor

It has been a long time since I tackled a deckbuilding challenge, but that will now be rectified. I’ve actually had a couple of deckbuilding challenges in mind since some time last year but failed to get round to actually doing them, but now I’m at least getting to this one.
(As usual, if you have other deckbuilding challenges you would like to suggest for me, feel free to do so)

The Line Unbroken – Return of the King Wrap-Up

Having made it through Mount Doom, I have wrapped up not just the Mountain of Fire expansion, not just the quests telling the story of Return of the King, but the entirety of the saga campaign. A momentous occasion for me writing this blog.

The Line Unbroken – C18: Mount Doom

It has all led to this (please, no jokes about how this implies my blog is dying, it’s just a good line). The end of the saga campaign, in which we finally take the One Ring to Mount Doom. I don’t think I’d personally rate as my absolute favourite part of the campaign, but it is very good, and serves as an excellent capstone to the journey we’ve been on.

The Line Unbroken – C17: The Black Gate Opens

Here we are for the penultimate quest of the campaign, The Black Gate Opens. This is the infamous unwinnable quest. Honestly this is one of my favourite bits of design in the whole campaign for how well the mechanics tell the story.

The Line Unbroken – C16: The Tower of Cirith Ungol

OK, at this point with Beneath the Sands being a neat mid-point of the Haradrim cycle I think this is the right moment for me to duck out and complete my saga campaign. It’s taken me a while longer than I expected for assorted reasons but here we are at last for Mountain of Fire.

Hunt for the Dreadnaught

Alright, so I’m doing my best at getting things done, but I’d say I’m not that far behind to come now to talking about Hunt for the Dreadnaught. The quest which would have been the GenCon/Fellowship event quest last year had both those things not been cancelled, and the last bit of official LotR LCG content we’re going to see for some time. Since I got to play it in an OCTGN epic multiplayer session a few weeks back I’m going to treat it kind of like the two years I had local Fellowship events, so this is a post giving some generalities and I intend to follow up with a more detailed review of the quest.

Deck: Dwarves Make Light of Burdens

Alright, now that Fortress of Nurn is officially out and on RingsDB I can post this deck. As soon as I saw Forth, The Three Hunters!, this was the first deck concept which I thought of, but in the process of building and reworking it I realised that I really wanted the Tireless Thoroughbred (Plus in general it’s nice to have a static card pool so I know I won’t feel the need to update the deck for the foreseeable future).