I am going to do a quest marathon and anyone can join me. Here's how it works. Before new years day, I will be done with ALL the quests I own (including nightmare). I will play each once and only once. I, personally will be using the same heroes and the same deck (if anyone wants to know my deck, just ask) which will make it hard to do specialized quests like Rhosgobel but I will push through.
Then I will post the following:
first: heroes I used.
Second: what quest I did
Third: whether I had Victory or Defeat, using a the following system:
next to victory or defeat I will write one of the following depending upon how hard the playthrough was:
sandbox-I could have been asleep the whole time
easy-no challenge
moderate-this was fun but not too challenging
hard-this was tough, barely made it through or barely didn't
brutal-this was a nightmare. I didn't make it and wasn't close
fourth: how many turns it took me to win or lose
and lastly: my score (only if I won, if not I will leave this blank)(I will use new scoring).
I am going to post what I complete ever day, adding to what I already had using edit.
I did core and Mirkwood today in about 3-4 hours so I will go ahead and post that bellow:

Heroes: Dain, Ori, Oin
Quest:Pas thru Mirkwood
V or D: Victory-easy
Rounds: 7
score: 94closing s corp
heroes: same
quest: J D the Anduin
V or D: Victory-hard
Rounds: 12
Score: 144
Heroes: same
Quest: Dol guldor
V or D:Defeat-Brutal
rounds: 9
Score:-
Heroes: same
Quest: Hunt for Gollum
V or D: Victory-Moderate
Rounds: 14
Score: 152
Heroes: same
Quest: Conflict at Carrock
V or D:Victory-easy
rounds: 10
score: 128
Heroes: same
quest: J to Rhosgobel
V or D:Victory-hard
Rounds: 5
score: 71
Heroes: same
Quest: Hills or Emin Muil
V or D: Victory-sandbox
Rounds: 11
Score: 111
Heroes: same
quest: The dead marshes
V or D: Victory-moderate
rounds: 13
score: 162
Heroes: same
Quest: Return t Mrikwood
V or D: Defeat-Brutal
rounds: 6
score: -

Heroes: same

quest: into the pit

V or D: Victory-moderate

rounds: 11

score: 143

heroes: same

quest: the seventh level

V or D: defeat-brutal

rounds: 4

score:-

heroes: same

quest: flight from Moria

V or D: victory-moderate

rounds: 11

score: 126

heroes: same

quest: redhorn gate

V or D: victory-easy

rounds: 15

score:152

heroes: same

quest: the long dark

V or D: Victory- easy

rounds: 7

score: 93

heroes: same

quest: shadow and flame

V or D: victory-hard

rounds:14

score: 157

heroes: same

quest: me must away ere break of days

V or D: victory-hard

rounds: 14

score:160

heroes: same

quest: over misty mountains grim

V or D: victory-moderate

rounds: 6

score: 93

heroes: same

quest: dungeons deep and caverns dim

V or D: victory-moderate

rounds:12

score: 139

heroes: same

quest: flies and spiders

V or D: victory- easy

rounds: 10

score: 139

heroes: same

quest: the lonely mountain

V or D: victory-hard

rounds: 8

score: 96

heroes: same

quest: the battle of five armies

V or D: victory-moderate

rounds: 10

score: 129

heroes: same

Quest: massing at osgiliath

V or D: victory moderate

rounds: 12

score: 149

heroes: same

quest: battle at lake town

V or D: defeat-brutal

rounds: 3

score:-

Thanks,
Hope you join me in this adventure!

Ps... if anyone can tell me how to attach stuff I can put this all into a table and make it so much easier to read...

All the quests including nightmare in 5 days? Man I wish I had that much spare time...I could maybe do 1 quest a day!

Anyway, looking forward to see how you do!

well, I only own about half the quests so... it will be easier. I also don't own any nightmares. it still may be too much. we will see

Maybe i could do it, but since i got five packs as Christmas presents and today i bought Three Trials and Trouble in Tharbad + my old quests (all hobbit and deluxe expansions, shadows of mirkwood cycle, dwarrowdelf cycle, against the shadow cycle, nightmare hills of emyn muil and battle at the lake-town), it is just too much. But i try to get at least from the core set to the end of dwarrowdelf cycle.

I start it tomorrow since my friend and i haven't been beaten encounter at amon din yet and we want to win it today with new cards i got.(They smell and feels just so good)

Also great idea for making this, it's really fun idea to compare and share quests with others

ok guys, just do what you can. I will try my best to get them all done but we will see.

I'm going to try just the first three quests in the core set and the mirkwood cycle but in nightmare mode =)

Heroes used are Celeborn, Elladan and Elrohir in one deck and Elrond, Haldir and Glorfindel (spirit) in the other deck (two handed play). I'll update this post as I go. Forgot to record rounds in the first quest so won't bother now lol... I use the old scoring system so am not used to counting rounds.

Passage Through Mirkwood Nightmare
Victory: Victory - Moderate

Score: 75

Notes: Wow had the Spiders web exhaust all three heroes on the tactics leadership side of the table during setup which was pretty **** nasty. I removed it with Power of Orthanc instantly however. I managed to cancel the Hummerhorns Shadow effect with a hasty stroke early on (not being able to cancel it would have resulted in Celeborn dying). I got out a Warden of Healing and used him at the end of every turn to heal. I managed to avoid a few other nasty effects such as Ungoliants Brood only stopping Celeborn from readying as all other characters were ready including Elrohir after defending as I used Gandalf to quest for that deck that turn so because he was going to leave play the no readying effect meant nothing. Got Don't Leave the Path as my stage 3 and added Ungoliants Spawn and Forest Spider into play. I defended all attacks did 8 damage to Ungoliants Spawn and used Pursuing the Enemy to do the last point of damage returning Orophin to my hand. This also killed a forest spider in the process. Pretty fun and fairly easy game although I did think I was going to lose a hero several times but thanks to an early warden of healing and other tricks I easily won. I also used two Gildor's Counsels halfway through slowing the game right down and allowing me to get more cards out and slow down enemies etc appearing. I also travelled through TWO abandoned camps only losing one character each time and only an ally.

Journey Along the Anduin Nightmare
Victory: Victory - Hard

Score: 80

Notes: This was A LOT harder than the previous game. Defeated the Hill Troll twice after Pursued on the Shore came out near the end, again using Gildors Counsel for a round or two helped massively and by saving Gandalf to push through stage 2 I was able to avoid too many encounter cards coming out. I had to reduce the tactics/leadership decks threat with both a second gandalf and galahadrims greeting and it was still at 42 at the end of the game! Explored two copies of Gladden Fields, killed two marshland outlaws and two wargs as well as two goblin snipers. I also had two copies of Brown Water Rats one of which had a ranger spikes and the other had a forest snare. Very close game with lots of damage on heroes and many close calls...

I finally started this and as Sauron does this, i try to beat all quests with same heroes, deck and scoring system. I'm using Dain, Thorin and Ori as my heroes. But anyway here are my results:

Passage Trough Mirkwood
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:3
Score:59
Notes: I was very lucky with the encounter cards and thanks for Gandalf who lowered my threat and because of that i made a new record (only one point but still it's a record).

Journey Down Anduin
Victory-Hard
Rounds:5
Score:86
Notes: This was most exciting quest i have been played in a really long time, even it was kind of short. I defeated troll at the second round with Gandalf's assist dealing 4 damage to the troll and defending against it with Gandalf, then Thorin, Ori and one of my allies killed the troll. Second stage i completed next round with WP 22 against 5 threat in the staging area. Then at the last stage Marsh Adder and wargs were revealed and my only ready character Dain defends against them since my threat was already 41 and both of them engaged me. Wargs didn't make me any trouble to Dain with his +1 defense boost of Dunedain warning, then marsh adder attacked and shadow card was wolf rider which attacks Thorin as undefended, shadow card gives +3 attack and Thorin dies...wait i had hardy leadership attached to Dain so Thorin luckily survived, then final round. At the combat phase wargs got that wolf rider for shadow card but i was better prepared than last round so i managed to kill wolf rider and wargs but Thorin and Ori didn't have enough strength to kill Marsh Adder...wait i haven't used king under the mountain. I got Gandalf and i had sneak attack in my hand. I used them, lowered my threat and killed the marsh adder. Pretty good game i think + i made a new record again

Escape from Dol Guldur
Defeat-Brutal
Rounds:6
Score:-
Notes: Ori was the prisoner and when i saved him Dain was already dead, then Hummerhorns and Nazgul engaged me, Ori died because of Hummerhorns and next round Thorin had no chances against all enemies engaged with me and he died too...

Hunt for Gollum
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:3
Score:60
Notes: I only got locations and treacheries so i didn't have to worry about fighting. Nothing interesting really happened.

Conflict at the Carrock
Victory-Moderate
Rounds:12
Score:142
Notes:I had pretty slow start since i didn't get my "classic" dwarf setup (five dwarfs to get Thorin and Ori's abilities to work) and at the third round Ori got sacked! But i beated this with lots of help of Gandalf, 3 Dunedain warnings and Grimbeorn's strength.

Journey to Rhosgobel
Defeat-Moderate
Rounds:4
Score:-
Notes: I quested too much and lost the game since i had only one athelas and Wilyador had 12 damage.

The Hills of Emyn Muil
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:12
Score:131
Notes: REAAALLY boring game. I waited the last 8 turns that i would get some encounter cards with victory points. At the end of the game i had something like 15 allies, 35 resources and only one card in my hand and deck empty. I really don't like this quest.

The Dead Marshes
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:2
Score:45
Notes: I had a good start and when i did the last escape test Gollum had 4 tokens which made 10 escape value vs my 14 willpower.

Return to Mirkwood
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:4
Score:82
Notes:I had REALLY good luck in this one. I got 3 wasted provisions, eyes of the forest,wood elf path and mountains of Mirkwood as my encounter cards in this game. I also made my new record

Into the Pit
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:5
Score:77
Notes: This time i was a pacifist and i didn't kill any one in this quest i only defended twice against patrol leader and that's all combat of the whole quest!

The Seventh Level
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:4
Score:75
Notes:I continued my pacifistic journey in Moria and i didn't encountered anything really bad.

Flight from Moria
Victory-Sandbox
Rounds:1
Score:46
Notes: I got VERY lucky in this one. Round 1: I used we are not idle 3 times and i got lonbeard elder, Erebor record keeper and some extra resources for next turn. I didn't quest with no one since all charecters were exhausted already. I revealed the quest card which was blocked by shadow. I took a risk and no treachery! Then stray goblin came from the encounter deck so i had to raise my threat by 3. After that the goblin attacked to Dain and dealt 1 damage. Round 2:I got Henarmath and lure of Moria and i bought him and looked top card of the encounter deck: orc drummer. So then there would be 5 threat in the staging area + 9 quest points. So i needed to quest 14. After commiting everyone to the quest (except Dain) i noticed that i still needed two WP, well i had sneak attack and Dori. I used them and won the game.

The Redhorn Gate
Victory-Moderate
Rounds:17
Score:208
Notes: Well this time i had very bad luck. Everything went well until i got to the final stage. I even killed that mountain troll first time (usually i have so low threat that i don't have to engage it) with no trouble and wargs didn't stop me either. Then at the last stage ordinary mountain goblin attacked me. Dain defends 4 against 2 and i had Dori ready if something bad would happen. Well shadow card was SNOWSTORM! It killed Dain since he had 0 WP . Then the last 8-12 rounds i tried to find those victory point locations and i runned out almost everything: Cards in my hand and deck, progress -and resource tokens + my all dices (12)! Finally at the 16 round i got Celebdill, i traveled there and next round i won the game. This was even more annoying game than Emyn Muil...

Road to Rivendell
Victory-Easy
Rounds:3
Score:56
Notes:Otherwise really easy quest but one sleeping sentry came from the encounter deck at the first round during the quest phase, which slowed me little bit but it didn't cause me any serious trouble.

The Watcher in the Water

Victory-Easy

Rounds:4

Score:72

Notes: I usually beat this quest by using Doors of Durin but this time i defeated that Watcher with a little help of Gandalf.

The Long Dark

Victory-Easy

Rounds:4

Score77

Notes: First round was little bit challenging and after i got to the stage 2 i failed locate test but fortunaetly i didn't have to trigger any lost effects. Then last round i commited everyone else to the quest except Dain and Henarmath and won the game.

The Foundations of Stone

Victory-Easy

Rounds:7

Score:93

Notes:I proceeded this time a little slower than normally but i still got good scores and i defeated even one elder thing at the stage 4 which was the old one lair. At the final stage i had just enough WP to win the game thanks for the Durin's axe.

Shadow and Flame

Victory-Moderate

Rounds:7

Score:77

Notes:I didn't have any serious troubles in this quest and i defeated Durin's bane at the second try of the black pit.

I finally started this and as Sauron does this, i try to beat all quests with same heroes, deck and scoring system. I'm using Dain, Thorin and Ori as my heroes. But anyway here are my results:

Passage Trough Mirkwood

Victory-Sandbox

Rounds:3

Score:59

Notes: I was very lucky with the encounter cards and thanks for Gandalf who lowered my threat and because of that i made a new record (only one point but still it's a record).

Journey Down Anduin

Victory-Hard

Rounds:5

Score:86

Notes: This was most exciting quest i have been played in a really long time, even it was kind of short. I defeated troll at the second round with Gandalf's assist dealing 4 damage to the troll and defending against it with Gandalf, then Thorin, Ori and one of my allies killed the troll. Second stage i completed next round with WP 22 against 5 threat in the staging area. Then at the last stage Marsh Adder and wargs were revealed and my only ready character Dain defends against them since my threat was already 41 and both of them engaged me. Wargs didn't make me any trouble to Dain with his +1 defense boost of Dunedain warning, then marsh adder attacked and shadow card was wolf rider which attacks Thorin as undefended, shadow card gives +3 attack and Thorin dies...wait i had hardy leadership attached to Dain so Thorin luckily survived, then final round. At the combat phase wargs got that wolf rider for shadow card but i was better prepared than last round so i managed to kill wolf rider and wargs but Thorin and Ori didn't have enough strength to kill Marsh Adder...wait i haven't used king under the mountain. I got Gandalf and i had sneak attack in my hand. I used them, lowered my threat and killed the marsh adder. Pretty good game i think + i made a new record again

Escape from Dol Guldur

Defeat-Brutal

Rounds:6

Score:-

Notes: Ori was the prisoner and when i saved him Dain was already dead, then Hummerhorns and Nazgul engaged me, Ori died because of Hummerhorns and next round Thorin had no chances against all enemies engaged with me and he died too...

Hunt for Gollum

Victory-Sandbox

Rounds:3

Score:60

Notes: I only got locations and treacheries so i didn't have to worry about fighting. Nothing interesting really happened.

Conflict at the Carrock

Victory-Moderate

Rounds:12

Score:142

Notes:I had pretty slow start since i didn't get my "classic" dwarf setup (five dwarfs to get Thorin and Ori's abilities to work) and at the third round Ori got sacked! But i beated this with lots of help of Gandalf, 3 Dunedain warnings and Grimbeorn's strength.

on dul goldor, you were lucky not to have Dain be the prisoner. without him to defend, I really con't take any enemies without defending them with a 1 defence . I lost a hero like round 3 and then threated out because I couldn't quest like 6 rounds later.

Yea that's what i feared could happen to me if Dain would have been prisoner, but it wouldn't make any difference since i lost the game anyway.

Is here anyone else doing this? It seems that i'm the only one here who still does this.

I am, I just need to right down my progress. I will try to finish the hobbit saga today!

Also, you were very lucky on the seventh level, or rather, I was very unlucky. Within 4 rounds there were six enemies engaged with me, one of which was the chieftain of the pit and another was a great cave troll. It was brutal. even though that quest is a 3 in difficulty, It can be very brutal!

oh ya, and BTW, dwarf king, could you post your dwarf deck? I look down the difficulties you posted and see sandbox almost every time. I know mirkwood is relatively easy and dwarves are powerful but I can't crush all of mirkwood and kd even with luck! either your quite a bit better than me (which may very well be) or I have a deck that is not perfect (horrors!).

Here is my deck:

Durin's Folk

Heroes (31)

Thorin Oakenshield

Dain Ironfoot

Ori

Allies

3x Fili

3x Longbeard Elder

3x Erebor Record Keeper

3x Ered Nimrais Prospector

3x Gandalf

2x Erebor Hammersmith

2x Kili

1x Gloin

1x Keen Eyed Took

1x Longbeard Map-Maker

1x Bifur

1x Dori

1x Master of the Forge

1x Henarmath Riversong

Attachments

3x Dunedain Warning

2x Steward of Gondor

2x King Under the Mountain

1x Thror's Map

1x Healing Herbs

1x Cram

1x Hardy Leadership

Events

3x We are not Idle

2x A Very Good Tale

2x Lure of Moria

2x Sneak Attack

2x Daeron's Runes

2x Hidden Cache

PS: I try to remeber write strategy of this deck later, now i'm too busy to do it.

just a few things I would add from my deck: I use oin instead of thorin for 2 main reasons reasons: #1 threat, with oin, I have a starting threat of 27 instead of 31 which can really matter in a quest such as journey down the anduin. #2 spheres, with oin, I have all four spheres and can include cards such as erebor battle master and only have to use 2 fili's and am not afraid of drawing a dud in kili.

you can access so many more dwarves with tactics and spirit such as dwalin, axehand and erebor battle master.

I might also add in Narvi's belt so that you don't have to put steward on one hero with all those resources without helping all spheres.

Those are good ideas and i may try those but there would be few problems, like slow start since it could take some time to get Steward and Fili in play with only one leadership hero and i wouldn't probably have resources for keen eyed Took's deck recycling ability + Thorin's ability gets you more resources which you need to balance card drawing of Ori and he has also better stats than Oin.

It's also shame that i didn't get to my goal but i think that i'm going to try all my quests i have and write my results here, even here aren't lots of people doing this (probably just we two).

This may be a dumb question, but… what does "Victory - Sandbox" mean? Does Sandbox = "very easy"?

yup. and thats not a dumb question. I should have clarified.

Just a quick suggestion for your dwarf deck name:

Royal fivefooters

Five foot royalty

Just a quick suggestion for your dwarf deck name:

Royal fivefooters

Five foot royalty

It's much better but what's the meaning of the "five foot"?

Dwarves are typically no more than 5 feet tall, maybe???

Most dwarves synergize with contolling 5 dwarves or more.

Just a quick suggestion for your dwarf deck name:

Royal fivefooters

Five foot royalty

It's much better but what's the meaning of the "five foot"?

What about "The Ax, and the Barrells"?

Most dwarves synergize with contolling 5 dwarves or more.

Ah, I must not be far enough in my card acquisition to have noticed that.

"What about "The Ax, and the Barrells"?"

Do you mean The Axes and the Barrels or what?

Not so sure I get your point.. "the Ax" is a weapon. "Axe", if you prefer the British spelling over the American. I used the singular on purpose (a synecdoche to represent the most renowned dwarven weapon). The comma is needed to give the pause after "ax" a greater emphasys, like saying "and what's next?". Barrel, not barrell, right, no idea why I used the double "L". But still, regardless of subtilities in the spelling, the intent should have been clear. Or?