From the top of my head, there was an event that readied sentinels.

Make him 1 WP 1 ATK 3 Defense and able to target allies and he would interesting: he could defend, take a few hits (considering the enemies/shadows we have now probably no more than 2-3) then play support mode until he would be healed.

Synergy with A Burning Brand is nice, but you need a Lore hero with at least 2 Def and possibly even Sentinel, to really be worth it in MP. Ad that's 2 Hero slots and a costly card you're devoting just to defend one enemy each round: it doesn't look good, in my opinion.

Compare Dori to Erkenbrand (clearly the best defender we have so far IMO): with a warden of Healing on the table, Erkenbrand basically has Shadow cancellation and Sentinel for one less defense, and he doesn't really need the Warden turn 1, since he can usually resist for a couple of attacks without healing.

If you need to defend more enemies, additional healing and an unexpected courage is all that it takes.

Dori on the other hand needs another hero to use his ability (that's 2 actions and hero slots spent), provides absolutely no shadow cancellation and it is much harder to make him help with more than 1 defense, since you would need a courage for both him and the target defender.

The only advantage I see for Dori is that he is a Tactics hero, granting in-sphere access to Feint and ohter Tactics combat tricks; however this is questionable, as sometimes Leadership might actually be more useful.

Of course if there is an unspoiled Tactics attachment that has something like: "after attached hero defends or adds his defence to another hero, discard a shadow from the attacking enemy" or "after ---- ready this hero" that would change things, but as it is now I see no reason to play Dori (even comparing to Beregond, Dori looks like a subpar choice). I'm almost certain we will see something to help Dori though.

The only real good thing in this new hero so far is.. the art.

Sebastian Giacobino surely is my favourite artist, at the moment.

Anybody noticed that the Tactics side quest Delay the enemy is 8 quest points instead of the usual 4 points?

I just thought of something. Can you use his action after the shadow card was revealed but before the attack damage resolves? So, if somebody got +3 attack on his shadow or something, you can mitiage this? Still not much, though, but something, if it works, of course.

No. If it could do that it'd be more useful, or if it affected allies. Or maybe if he could spend a resource to do it instead of exhausting.

Anybody noticed that the Tactics side quest Delay the enemy is 8 quest points instead of the usual 4 points?

You are right! Why would they mess that up? 8 quest point and the quest turn into battle?!?!

The ability looks great to me. I'm pretty tired of the Dwarven Swarm and the need to chump block, so this offers the idea of maybe having a solid defender and going with more attachments and events. Even better if we eventually get ally Thorin and Balin and can do a company deck. I can see this guy going right into a Balin-Bifur (or Nori, to drop threat) deck. As others have noted, this could be especially good with a new attachment. Right now, you'd have to load up on ring mail.

My only issue is the threat value. Most dwarves are in the 8-9 range.

Yep. 8 questing points for Tactics... can be difficult!

Not for Gimli, it is tactics way!

Anyone who disagreed with me in that the new hero was Dori is now officially on my enemy list.

Just kidding. Also, I agree. He's terrible on his own, and outright unplayable in solo.

Just kidding. Also, I agree. He's terrible on his own, and outright unplayable in solo.

Unless there is a card that helps him in this AP. I think there are 2 cards in that will be about fetching cards... I dunno, this AP seems a bit underwhelming to me this far. I must see the cards list before deciding to buy it or not.

The ability looks great to me. I'm pretty tired of the Dwarven Swarm and the need to chump block, so this offers the idea of maybe having a solid defender and going with more attachments and events. Even better if we eventually get ally Thorin and Balin and can do a company deck. I can see this guy going right into a Balin-Bifur (or Nori, to drop threat) deck. As others have noted, this could be especially good with a new attachment. Right now, you'd have to load up on ring mail.

My only issue is the threat value. Most dwarves are in the 8-9 range.

I agree with that. Dwarf trait needed some defense effect. Only Ring Mail was not enough.

Don't forget than you can boost de defense of Dori, and give it to the hero you pick. I see this ability better than the Dunedain attachment defense, paying 1 resource to change from character.

Very unimpressed by Dori. I will probably never use him. But, I could see him being useful in quests like Laketown where you have few enemies with high stats. Him plus another defender could survive some big attacks. Of course Beregond does the same thing in 1 hero instead of 2, but maybe you really want to play Dwarves?

Also, you can add in Erebor Record Keeper with Bifur's ability to pull resources and you've got a multi-defender per turn.

Kind of underwhelmed; I'll still give him a try for the sake of giving him a try but I think for the most part he'll just be displayed in my binder. When the preview article said the hero would revolve around defense I was really hoping for the next Beregond or Erkenbrand. While the uses people have proposed may be ok, I can't help but think there's other player cards or heroes that could do the same thing yet better. The unspoiled tactics card hopefully helps him, but 1st impression is not great. A shame because I think he would be vastly improved if he even was just able to give his DEF to allies. He would be perfect in an ent deck. On color, and able to make your Derndingle Warriors absolute fortresses

The giant's pretty cool tho

If his ability was set to trigger after a shadow card is revealed instead of after a defender is declared, he would be pretty useful in multiplayer as a form of countering shadows, but that is unfortunately not the case.

The unspoiled tactics card hopefully helps him,

There isn't an unspoiled Tactics card in this pack I don't think - Hold your ground! and Delay the Enemy are the two.

Got the pack.

In a few minutes I'll post some pics and descriptions (I have the Spanish pack), when I arrive home.

Saw the cards quickly. The unspoiled ones contain a new dwarf ally that plays with discarding cards from your deck (more Hidden Cache love), a new mount for Noldor and spirit chars and a Leadership attachment for quests.

So disappointed by Dori... Another card almost completely useless in solo and not even that great in multiplayer.

Apart from being the first dwarf hero from Thorins Company that is pure tactics (there was none IIRC), there is nothing I like on him, more since I mostly play solo one hand. In my case in order to use his ability I must "play" with only two heroes and him to boost another one ... unworthy. There are two many heroes around that can do a lot better stuff. Bombur hero is way better being a lore character (Burning Brand) and counting as two Dwarves when using the Dwarf synergies, same def same HP. Really if he does not get an attachment that helps his ability it will be very difficult for me to use him

On the other hand I am very interested in the Noldor mount attachment

The unspoiled tactics card hopefully helps him,

There isn't an unspoiled Tactics card in this pack I don't think - Hold your ground! and Delay the Enemy are the two.

The unspoiled tactics card hopefully helps him,

There isn't an unspoiled Tactics card in this pack I don't think - Hold your ground! and Delay the Enemy are the two.

Whoops. Must have missed or forgot about it oh well.

The more I think the more I can see him providing some utility especially the more players you have, like if someone gets an enemy engaged with them unintentionally and doesn't have a decent defender, but as a mostly solo player not sure I'll ever see him at his best.

Honestly, thinking about it I feel like Dori's ability is potentially useful, but I keep coming back to the fact that you're using up a hero slot on it and I don't know that it's worth it given that. If he was an ally he'd be great, but I remain skeptical about him as a hero. Ideas are percolating though.

I was thinking about stuff...

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Ranger Supplies

Leadership Attachment - Cost 1

Attach this card to a Location. Limit one per Location.

Response: After attached Location is explored, the first player adds 1 resource to the resource pool of each of his Heroes.

Longbeard Sentinel

Tactics Ally - Cost 3

0 WP, 1 ATK, 2 DEF, 3 HP

Dwarf, Warrior

Action: Discard 2 cards from the top of your deck to give Longbeard Sentinel the "Sentinel" keyword and +1 DEF until the end of the phase. Limit once per phase

Imladris Steed

Spirit Attachment - Cost 1

Mount

Attach this card to a Spirit or Noldor Hero. Restricted.

Response: After attached Hero is commited to a quest, discard a card from your hand to put 2 progress tokens on the active Location.

Well, that's all. All the others were spoiled before. I like the Leadership attachment: an Ancient Mathom of sorts, giving resources to ALL your heroes. The dwarf, well, the idea of "mining" for dwarves is not that explored (IIRC, there are 5 cards now, counting this ally, Zigil Miner, Ered Nimrais Prospector, Well-equiped and Hidden Cache) but I like it, it fits on the theme and I love when FFG shows other aspects of factions (martial power of Rohan with Tactics, "engagers" vs "trappers" Rangers...) of Middle-Earth.

The mount, is good for the new discard theme of the Noldor, and if you don't play Lore is a good call. Otherwise, is a more restricted version of Asfaloth. Maybe more balanced?

Thanks for what you're doing, man! Really appreciate it! Community needs people like you!