Hi Folks,

as mentioned in the "Making Dori Shine"-Thread i paired Leadership-Gimli with Dori to construct a dwarven bulwark. The deck itself is made for my multiplayer group (mostly 3+ players) and should be used as the allround defending deck while the other do stuff like questing & attacking.

It is amazing, how fast you can build up a solid defense by only adding a card to Dori or Gimli.
For example (asuming Gimli has a resource):
- Gimli declared as a defender can block alone with 2 DEF or with Dori with 4 DEF, make Dori ready, so he can defend for 2 DEF
So if you add defense on Gimli this Combo gets better. Even better if Dori gets defense, too. Perfectly better if one or both ride an Armored Destrier.

Here it is ...

Dwarven Bulwark

Main Deck

Hero (3)
Dori (Across the Ettenmoors)
Gimli (The Sands of Harad)
Thorin Oakenshield (Over Hill and Under Hill)

Ally (15)
2x Azain Silverbeard (Flight of the Stormcaller)
1x Bofur (Over Hill and Under Hill)
3x Dwarven Sellsword (The Drowned Ruins)
2x Ered Luin Miner (Temple of the Deceived)
3x Gandalf (Core Set)
1x Glóin (On the Doorstep)
1x Legolas (The Treason of Saruman)
2x Veteran Axehand (Core Set)

Attachment (14)
2x Armored Destrier (Temple of the Deceived)
3x Dúnedain Warning (Conflict at the Carrock)
2x Dwarven Shield (The Sands of Harad)
1x Elf-friend (The Treachery of Rhudaur)
1x Heir of Mardil (Celebrimbor's Secret)
1x Raven-winged Helm (The Wastes of Eriador)
2x Ring Mail (The Long Dark)
1x Sword-thain (The Dread Realm)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Event (21)
1x A Good Harvest (The Steward's Fear)
1x Hold the Line (The City of Corsairs)
2x Hold Your Ground! (The Battle of Carn Dûm)
1x Lure of Moria (Road to Rivendell)
2x Sneak Attack (Core Set)
3x Sterner than Steel (The Flame of the West)
3x To me! O my kinsfolk! (On the Doorstep)
2x Unlikely Friendship (The Sands of Harad)
3x Valiant Sacrifice (Core Set)
3x We Are Not Idle (Shadow and Flame)

3 Heroes, 50 Cards
Cards up to The Sands of Harad

Sideboard

Ally (2)
1x Erebor Battle Master (The Long Dark)
1x Fili (Over Hill and Under Hill)

Event (2)
2x Hold the Line (The City of Corsairs)

Player Side Quest (3)
1x Delay the Enemy (Across the Ettenmoors)
1x Gather Information (The Lost Realm)
1x Send for Aid (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

Deck built on RingsDB .

Fili will swap for Gloin if he is a Hero ingame, same for Erebor Battle Master and Legolas.
Perhaps you have some tweaking issues, then let me know.

http://ringsdb.com/deck/view/44137

Mmm, after sleeping a night .. i think i will cut the Ered Luin Miner (to expensive for their stats) and put in two Dunedain Remedy.

And .. if you think about "Battle of the Five Armies" you can switch Thorin and his dwarfs with Celeborn and his silvan archery - think i love this deck much more

Dwarven Bulwark - Silvan Archery

Main Deck

Hero (3)
Celeborn (The Dunland Trap)
Dori (Across the Ettenmoors)
Gimli (The Sands of Harad)

Ally (13)
2x Galadhon Archer (The Nîn-in-Eilph)
3x Gandalf (Core Set)
3x Greenwood Archer (The Sands of Harad)
1x Legolas (The Treason of Saruman)
1x Marksman of Lórien (The Drowned Ruins)
2x Orophin (Celebrimbor's Secret)
1x Rúmil (The Three Trials)

Attachment (17)
2x Armored Destrier (Temple of the Deceived)
2x Dúnedain Remedy (The Drowned Ruins)
3x Dúnedain Warning (Conflict at the Carrock)
2x Dwarven Shield (The Sands of Harad)
1x Heir of Mardil (Celebrimbor's Secret)
2x O Lórien! (Trouble in Tharbad)
1x Raven-winged Helm (The Wastes of Eriador)
2x Ring Mail (The Long Dark)
1x Rune-master (A Storm on Cobas Haven)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Event (20)
1x A Good Harvest (The Steward's Fear)
3x Feigned Voices (The Three Trials)
2x Hold Your Ground! (The Battle of Carn Dûm)
3x Sneak Attack (Core Set)
3x Sterner than Steel (The Flame of the West)
3x Unlikely Friendship (The Sands of Harad)
3x Valiant Sacrifice (Core Set)
2x We Are Not Idle (Shadow and Flame)

3 Heroes, 50 Cards
Cards up to The Sands of Harad

Sideboard

Player Side Quest (3)
1x Delay the Enemy (Across the Ettenmoors)
1x Gather Information (The Lost Realm)
1x Send for Aid (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

http://ringsdb.com/deck/view/44211

I like this deck. There's a few cards I wonder about, though:

Delay the Enemy is a card I haven't often seen in a deck, since if you can do well at battle questing you probably don't need the quest to discard enemies.

Raven-Winged Helm is a card that's cool and thematic, except that for the same cost an Honour Guard can prevent one damage to anyone. Unless there's serious ally hate, I can't bring myself to add RVH unless I already have 3x Honour Guard. Is this a thematic pick?

The single copy of A Good Harvest seems a bit odd in a dual-sphere deck without any out-of-sphere cards. I'd rather have an Errand-Rider for repeatable smoothing, though again that's not as thematic.

I see Feigned Voices for Silvan recycling, but no Pursuing the Enemy. It seems to me like that would mesh well with Galadhon Archer.

Great deck.

6 hours ago, dalestephenson said:

I like this deck. There's a few cards I wonder about, though:

Delay the Enemy is a card I haven't often seen in a deck, since if you can do well at battle questing you probably don't need the quest to discard enemies.

Raven-Winged Helm is a card that's cool and thematic, except that for the same cost an Honour Guard can prevent one damage to anyone. Unless there's serious ally hate, I can't bring myself to add RVH unless I already have 3x Honour Guard. Is this a thematic pick?

The single copy of A Good Harvest seems a bit odd in a dual-sphere deck without any out-of-sphere cards. I'd rather have an Errand-Rider for repeatable smoothing, though again that's not as thematic.

I see Feigned Voices for Silvan recycling, but no Pursuing the Enemy. It seems to me like that would mesh well with Galadhon Archer.

Great deck.

The Sidequests are only a "think-about", not exactly cards of the deck. If i would add some SQs, it's Gather Information > Send for Aid > Delay the Enemy.

Raven-Winged Helm is an armor which can i use beside the other two (Dwarvenshield and Ring Mail) to use Sterner than Steel.

The single copy of A Good Harvest is some kind of backup .. perhaps i have a card i wanna play and only the perfect resource-sum.

The plan is not to recycle .. the plan is to equip the defenders and fire arrows over their helmets

After some good playes i like the extention with the silvan archery more than only playing dwarfs. It's more fun and you can handle the combat phase better. So this deck needs partners which help out with willpower for questing.

I changed the deck in some ways. More Legolas .. he must be in play asap to generate carddraw. Narya on the table works fine with him. If a partner want to play rune-master i switch it to a second copy of The Day's Rising.

Dwarven Bulwark - Silvan Archery

Main Deck

Hero (3)
Celeborn (The Dunland Trap)
Dori (Across the Ettenmoors)
Gimli (The Sands of Harad)

Ally (14)
3x Galadhon Archer (The Nîn-in-Eilph)
3x Gandalf (Core Set)
2x Greenwood Archer (The Sands of Harad)
3x Legolas (The Treason of Saruman)
1x Marksman of Lórien (The Drowned Ruins)
1x Orophin (Celebrimbor's Secret)
1x Rúmil (The Three Trials)

Attachment (18)
3x Armored Destrier (Temple of the Deceived)
2x Dúnedain Remedy (The Drowned Ruins)
3x Dúnedain Warning (Conflict at the Carrock)
2x Dwarven Shield (The Sands of Harad)
1x Heir of Mardil (Celebrimbor's Secret)
2x O Lórien! (Trouble in Tharbad)
1x Raven-winged Helm (The Wastes of Eriador)
2x Ring Mail (The Long Dark)
1x Rune-master (A Storm on Cobas Haven)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Event (18)
1x A Good Harvest (The Steward's Fear)
2x Feigned Voices (The Three Trials)
2x Hold Your Ground! (The Battle of Carn Dûm)
3x Sneak Attack (Core Set)
2x Sterner than Steel (The Flame of the West)
3x Unlikely Friendship (The Sands of Harad)
3x Valiant Sacrifice (Core Set)
2x We Are Not Idle (Shadow and Flame)

Sideboard

Attachment (1)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Player Side Quest (3)
1x Delay the Enemy (Across the Ettenmoors)
1x Gather Information (The Lost Realm)
1x Send for Aid (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

Some plays later i had some games in which Gimli /Dori or both were ready after defending and with no further job and attack power was missing. So i decide to switch some cards and add more bows into the deck so i can give ranged to Celeborn, which makes it possible for me to ready hin with Gimli, or more ranged ATK for the silvan allies like Legolas. Secondly Celeborn gets a silvan mail, makes him a third sentinel => more options and i can ready him via Hold your Ground.

Dwarven Bulwark - Silvan Archery
3 Heroes, 50 Cards

Hero (3)
Celeborn (The Dunland Trap)
Dori (Across the Ettenmoors)
Gimli (The Sands of Harad)

Ally (14)
3x Galadhon Archer (The Nîn-in-Eilph)
3x Gandalf (Core Set)
2x Greenwood Archer (The Sands of Harad)
3x Legolas (The Treason of Saruman)
1x Marksman of Lórien (The Drowned Ruins)
1x Orophin (Celebrimbor's Secret)
1x Rúmil (The Three Trials)

Attachment (18)
3x Armored Destrier (Temple of the Deceived)
2x Dúnedain Remedy (The Drowned Ruins)
3x Dúnedain Warning (Conflict at the Carrock)
2x Dwarven Shield (The Sands of Harad)
1x Elven Mail (The Three Trials)
1x Heir of Mardil (Celebrimbor's Secret)
1x O Lórien! (Trouble in Tharbad)
1x Ring Mail (The Long Dark)
2x Rivendell Bow (The Watcher in the Water)
1x Rune-master (A Storm on Cobas Haven)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Event (18)
1x A Good Harvest (The Steward's Fear)
2x Common Cause (Core Set)
1x Foe-hammer (Over Hill and Under Hill)
3x Hold Your Ground! (The Battle of Carn Dûm)
3x Sneak Attack (Core Set)
1x Sterner than Steel (The Flame of the West)
3x Unlikely Friendship (The Sands of Harad)
3x Valiant Sacrifice (Core Set)
1x We Are Not Idle (Shadow and Flame)

Sideboard

Ally (3)
1x Greenwood Archer (The Sands of Harad)
2x Marksman of Lórien (The Drowned Ruins)

Attachment (3)
1x O Lórien! (Trouble in Tharbad)
1x Rivendell Bow (The Watcher in the Water)
1x The Day's Rising (The Antlered Crown)

Player Side Quest (3)
1x Delay the Enemy (Across the Ettenmoors)
1x Gather Information (The Lost Realm)
1x Send for Aid (The Treachery of Rhudaur)

This deck works pretty well combined with Elrond-Galadriel-Merry(S) in a 6-player-game of "Siege of Annûminas"

The job was pretty clear .. Delay the Enemy. Only two Hosts goes through .. in the end wie managed to have 6 into the vivtory displays and no damaging the city .. perfect.

6 hours ago, JanB said:

This deck works pretty well combined with Elrond-Galadriel-Merry(S) in a 6-player-game of "Siege of Annûminas"

The job was pretty clear .. Delay the Enemy. Only two Hosts goes through .. in the end wie managed to have 6 into the vivtory displays and no damaging the city .. perfect.

Delay the enemy or... Delay The Enemy ? =)

It's nice to see a case where Delay the Enemy shines.

16 hours ago, Kakita Shiro said:

Delay the enemy or... Delay The Enemy ? =)

The first one :-(

16 hours ago, dalestephenson said:

It's nice to see a case where Delay the Enemy shines.

We failed to place 10+ progress on this stage but managed to complete Gather Information on Turn 3 and Double Back at 2nd Quest Stage

We need the ATK power of the silvan archery to kill them.