booored said:

Strangely enough, the wealth of dwarf cards that have appeared has made Gimli less appealing.

Tried last night with tactics and spirit combo of Legolas, Glorfindel and Brand (starting threat of 28) with a heavy eagles sub theme, still failed overall due to reaching 50 threat but was able to handle the troll without to much hassle. Going to try again tonight and see if I can pull it off. Surge can really be a game changer when your thinking your in good shape.

Xeodus said:

Success! I finally beat this scenario last night! Here’s how it happened:
Card Pool: 1 Core Set
Heroes: Thalin, Eowyn, Dunhere (26 threat)
Deck: Spirit starter deck, all 1 and 2 cost Tactics cards except Rain of Arrows, and Gandalf (3x)

Game 1
I was totally overwhelmed by enemies and all my heroes were killed. After the game I realized that I was allowing the Eastern Crows Surge to happen before Thalin took them out. I also forgot to add excess Hill Troll damage to my threat.

Game 2
I exceeded 50 threat. Got Blade of Gondolin on Dunhere so he could attack the staging area, but when I beat stage 1, I quickly got Marsh Adder, Chieftan Ufthak, and 2 Gladden Fields in addition to various other enemies. I didn’t have enough Will to overcome that, but didn’t have enough allies in play to optionally engage. With Blade of Gondolin, I think I got 3 or 4 progress tokens on the quest before losing.

Game 3
I finally won!
It took 13 rounds and I ended with 19 threat and 4 damage on my heroes. I collected 8 Victory Points so my final score was 145 (revised) or 15 (old). I got a Dwarven Axe on both Thalin and Dunhere and also had Unexpected Courage on Dunhere. Eowyn had The Favor of the Lady.

I drew a Treachery card to start with, so the Hill Troll was the only enemy in the beginning. Dunhere got the axe on round 2 and started chipping away at the Hill Troll until I played Gandalf (lowered threat) and had him defend while Thalin, Dunhere and Northern Tracker finished off the troll. I used both Galadhrim’s Greetings and used it a third time with Dwarven Tomb. Other allies were Northern Tracker, Gondorian Spearman, and Veteran Axehand. Stage 2 was easy with Eowyn, Northern Tracker, and Thalin questing while Dunhere attacked twice (UC) into the staging area to clean it up (at 4 atk). I drew a lot of Eastern Crows because they get shuffled in when defeated. For Stage 3 setup, a Treachery and a Location card were revealed, so I won.

Congrats on the win! You don't actually add the 10 points until the END of the round under the new scoring system, so your score is actually a 135.

radiskull said:

Thanks! Good to know for the future.

I know this is the wrong thread but I wasn't able to find the answer to my query via forum-search:

Can someone give me a list of two mixed sphere starting decks out of one coreset box, which could be a starting point for further deckbuilding. My second coreset and some adventure packs are already ordered but I'm at a loss concerning deckbuilding. Seems more difficult than with MAGIC .

And by the way gratulations, I'm still working on the task...

Ser Folly said:

I too was struggling with this quest for quite some time, but yesterday I was finally able beat it (easily actually). I used a simple spirit / lore combo deck to draw a crap-load of cards (for questing with Eowyn) and to keep my threat low. I was able to run through the quest with ease (and I even pulled a second troll).

Ser Folly said:

You could also go to http://www.cardgamedb.com/ and you'll find a lot of decks there.

There is also a LCG forum there (way better, btw).

Rince said:

You know that you can only discard one card on your turn for Eowyn, right? I mean drawing extra cards is nice for her because you get to pick your most useless card to toss, but it's not like Protector of Lorien where you can go through a whole mess of cards to power through a quest.

I don't mean to sound like I'm saying you were playing it wrong, I'm just checking.

Well, I guess I did play it wrong then. Back to square one... :/

Thanks by the way; it is not the first time I don't read the card's text carefully enough.

Rince said:

Well if you had Protector of Lorien on her, it would have been absolutely fine. That one does have unlimited action. So on that point, at least you don't have to worry about completely reconstructing your deck.

I did have it in my deck, but I don't think it was on her (or on anyone else for that matter). I am very careless sometime. :/

Nevertheless, I will certainly give it a try again, as I still feel this deck might be the one to deal with this quest successfully.

as the OP of this thread i feel compelled to share with everyone that on my 7th try i finally defeated the quest!!!!!!

As most have said, threat reduction as well as playing the snare to prevent the troll from attacking got me out of the first stage....after that...massive amounts of Willpower got me thru to the final stage where I only had to defeat two crow cards....

I have never been so excited to move on...

up next....escape from dul guldur!!!

hendersondayton said:

well done man

guldur is brutal- not that its impossible but hey, solo losing 1 hero right at the start is killer

return to mirkwood is alot easier and thats the hardest of mirkwood cycle

hendersondayton said:

Congrats! I haven't tried Escape from Dol Guldur solo yet. Maybe we should start a "Trapped in Dol Guldur" thread and keep each other posted on how we do!

Budgernaut said:

If it hasn't been posted yet, I will start it!