I recently tried my hand at building a Dale deck for the first time (yes, my cardpool was somewhat behind the times), and came away intrigued but unsatisfied.
The main point of tension in the deck (aside from having no reliable early way to defend/kill) was King of Dale. This card wants me to load up a single hero with as many attachments as possible to get reliable cost reduction on Dale allies, which is needed as this was my only resource acceleration other than Traffic From Dale. However, Dale allies generally need attachments to pull their weight, and I always needed more cards because I need to draw both allies and attachments for the deck to work well. This meant that most of the time I needed to place the attachments I drew onto my allies to draw new cards, and not onto my King of Dale hero - leaving the cost reduction when playing allies at 1.
How do people get around this tension? I tried two hero line-ups - Brand/Bard/Faramir and Brand/Bard/Grimbeorn (to resolve initial struggles with combat until allies are set up). Both had this problem, though the inclusion of tactics made the deck probably a bit slower. Both decks beat Into Ithilien, however, so its not like they were bad - I just feel that I'm missing something in the construction. Suggestions?