A few more tweaks... a few points better...

Heroes: Éowyn, Théodred, Glorfindel

Final Threat: 30

Hero Wounds: 0

Victory Points: 4 (-4)

Round Marker: 1 (10)

Final Score: 36

And...

Encounter 1: Mirkwood Flock

Encounter 2: King Spider

Played it today, my result:

Heroes: Eowyn, Dunhere, Aragorn

Final threat: 26

Damage tokens: 4

Rounds: 3 (30pts)

Victory points: 4

Final score: 56

Could have played it better with other heores, but i wanted to win it my usual deck

Here's my attempt:

Heroes: Eowyn, Bilbo, Theodred (probably my favorite solo trio)

Score: 49

Rounds 4 (30)

Threat 23 (was able to use Galadrims Greetings once)

Victory Points 4 (Rhosgobel obviously)

0 damage.

I healed Wyliador with one Athelas and one Lore of Imladris. Feels kind of luck dependant to find these cards, but the effect on stage 2B helped for the Athelas and three Ancient Mathoms on Rhosgobel did their job for Lore of Imladris.

Encounter cards have been:

Turn 1: Exhaustion (cancelled)

Turn 2: Exhaustion (cancelled)

Turn 3: Mirkwood Flock

Turn 4: Athelas guarded by the other "flying" enemy (via quest effect) + Eyes of the Forest.

Score: 40

Threat: 31

Victory: 4

Wounds: 3

Rounds: 2(10)

Heroes: Glorfindel, Éowyn, Gloin

I snuck in Gandalf to draw 3 and lucked into the healing lore I needed to win the quest turn 2 rather than loosing it... (I've been playing to get a good score not to consistently win as it looks like most people have been for these). Playing high risk I've lost 6 or 7 games in a row before pulling what I needed to get this win on this one.

So, finally been able to play again this week. Sat down for some 90 minutes and played a few games which took my score to 40.

Then played some 8 games more and eventually ended up at 31.

Heroes: Eowyn, Glorfindel and Theodred.

Final threat: 25

Wounds: none

Victory: 4

Rounds: 1

Final score: 31

Encounters:

1. Chieftain Ufthak

2. Necromancers Pass

By the way, 1 corset and all 3 APs.

Hi,

After several games, i finaly score à 52

Heroes : Eowyn, Beravor, Bilbo

Deck construction : 3 core sets + Roshgobel AP

Round markers : 3 (30)

Final threat : 26

Wounds on heroes : 0

Victory points : 4 (Roshgobel)

Total : 52

All right… played about 20 games hoping for the perfect storm and finally got it.

Heroes: Theodred, Bilbo, Eowyn
Final Threat: 17
Rounds: 1
Victory Points: 4
Total: 23

Round 1: Got Gandalf, Sneak Attack and Lore of Imladris in hand which was good enough to give it a go. Bilbo drew me a Steward of Gondor and an Escort to Edoras. Quest all heroes and Wliyador with a Sneak Attacked Gandalf for -5 threat. Theodred gives Eowyn a resource. Encounter deck throws me a Mirkwood Flock. That’s 12 questing vs. 3 threat for 9 progress tokens… on to 2a/2b. Travel to Rhosgobel. Wilyador up to 4 damage and threat rises to 22

Round 2: Bilbo draws me another Sneak Attack (YES!) and another Lore of Imladris. Eowyn summons an Escort to Edoras leaving her with 1 Resource. Bilbo uses Lore of Imladris to heal Wilyador. Everyone quests again with a Sneak Attacked Gandalf for -5 threat. Theodred gives himself a resource. Encounter deck gives me an Athelas guarded by a Swarming Insects treachery. Eowyn uses a Test of Will to cancel the When Revealed effect. That leaves me with 16 questing vs. 1 threat for 15 progress tokens. 4 on Rhosgobel and 11 on the quest. Eowyn ditches a Snow Born Scout from hand in increase Willpower by 1 for the last progress token moving to 3a/3b. Wilyador has no damage… VICTORY!

I built this deck with this scenario in mind but it required a lot of plays to get lucky. You need to get 5 cards in the early game to make it happen (Gandalf, Sneak Attack x2, Lore of Imladris and Escort to Edoras) then get lucky in the Encounter Deck. Bilbo is really useful for this as he gives you 10 cards to try and get luck by the top of turn 2.

Wraith428

wraith428 said:

I don't want to spoil your fun, but which hero of yours claimed the Athelas? Sounds to me like every hero has been exhausted on turn 2.

Wily had 4 dmg on it and wraith says he used Lore of Imladris, no need for Athelas.

Dam said:

Ahh, my bad. I apologize. I had no ill intent.

Didn't need the Altheas. Use Lore of Ilmadris instead.

Wraith428

Was a long time coming, but finally was able to lower my score today. Switched out glorfindel for Bilbao after reading wraith's comments, but kept my deck the same otherwise. Couple hours later, 28!!!

Heros: eowyn, bilbo, theodred.

Final threat: 22.

1 Round points: 10

Victory points: -4

Encounters were: caught in a web which I could pay off since I hadn't used eowyn's resource and theodred had used his kickback to give her pool another. Then second round was an athelas guarded by black forest bats. However, I healed with a lore of imladris. Snuck gandalf 2x. 1 time for 3 more cards, 1 time to reduce threat by 5.

I finally managed to improve my score to 42 after several tries.

Heroes: Theodred, Bilbo, Eowyn
Final Threat: 23
Rounds: 2

Hero Damage: 3
Victory Points: 4
Total: 42

Encounters: Caught in a Web (on Bilbo), The Necromancer's Reach

All right! The final whistle has sounded!!

Some last day efforts from several of you made for some exciting Top Ten shuffling.

Thanks everybody for playing, no matter how you placed, and be sure and check out the soon to be updated Top Ten Hall of Fame.

And come on back for Solo Player Tournament #6 and the ongoing 2 Player Tournament #2 as we continue this first pass of tournaments through the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle.

Wow, my hat is off to all the players who placed a score in this week's tourney. FYI, I attempted this quest a lot and never managed to get a good enough score.

The amount of luck and repetitions that I was relying on (and from reading the posts in this thread, others were relying on as well) have lead me to put a post on Juicebox's ideas thread. I encourage you all to read it and reply to it.

Congrats again to the better players. I don't like admitting I got owned, but....I got owned this week

~Vase

For the records I forgot to mention that my third encounter card was Necromancer's Pass.

Congrats to all thos who cracked the 30!!!!!!!!!

Here is how I ran my first attempt. Even if it wasn't as good as my second one, I love it , because it's so elegant:

Turn 1:

1) play "Escort from Edoras"

2) send everyone but Escort questing

2) play "Strength of Will" after travelling to Rhosgobel; exhaust "Escort from Edoras"; place two progress tokens on Rhosgobel

Turn 2:

1) play "Song of Wisdom" on Éowyn

2) use Glorfindel's action to heal one wound on himself

3) send everyone questing

4) play "Lore of Imladris" to heal Willy