Short time lurker, first time poster.

I started playing a couple months ago and really love this game. I've mostly played solo, and my win ratio has been pretty good, between 33-50% for all the scenarios I've played so far. I'm still making my way through the first cycle of APs, and have all the cards through Khazad Dum. I played Hills of Emyn Muil and it was the first time I won on my first try.

I did manage to beat Dol Goldur solo after three tries, and that was mostly lucky draws from the encounter deck.

I'm sort of afraid of trying Massing at Osgiliath solo. My friend and I eventually beat it two player, but it was nasty!

Dead Marshes looks pretty tough. I'm going to try it later this weekend maybe.

As others have posted, I need to move out of my comfort zone because I usually find myself playing any three from among Eowyn, Legolas, Denethor, Dunhere, or Theodred. I should go back and try the earlier quests with different decks. I'm hoping to try something different for Dead Marshes. And it seems a given to use all Dwarves for the KD quests.

Bomb said:

Aaah, I forgot completely about them... well, a new option for Radagast to consider. Thank you for pointing me that.

Glaurung said:

I'm curious why you think customizing your deck for specific scenarios seems unfair? I can appreciate the strategy and skill in building a deck that does well against all scenarios, but I think there is an equal amount of strategy in building a deck optimized to take on a specific scenario and try to obtain the lowest possible score against that scenario. This doesn't seem unfair to me, but just a different approach for playing and I think both approaches are valid, require skill and are fun ways of playing.

RGun said:

i think the whole point of the game is deck building for specific scenarios- but thats me

I agree with Rgun and richsabre. There are certain cards that I would use against a certain scenario and not others. Forest Snare is a perfect example. I would use that in a solo game against Confilct and Anduin, but not really in any other situation (maybe Hunt for Gollum witht he Hunters from Mordor too). Part of the fun for me is using different heroes and strategies to defeat the same quest.

RGun said:

I think that adding cards to the original card pool is even more unfair than customizing your deck.

I see the "one deck to rule them all" approach as something you use when you want to play something like the nightmare mode. Otherwise the players are supposed to create new decks, I think that's the whole sense of a LCG where you get new cards and heroes with each new scenario.

But then everyone should play after his own fashion, eh?

In answer to the original question, it has been so long since I've "beaten" a scenario, I can't actually remember it... certainly I've not completed any quest since The Dead Marshes, anyway. But I love this game even when I fail in scenarios so often! Today I cracked open The Redhorn Gate for my first attempt, and my threat level reached 50 within about five rounds, but I thought the scenario itself was awesome. I might try it again tomorrow and see if I can get any further into it. It's probably the first time I have ever agreed with something booored has said, but this really is all about playing the game, not "beating" anything - for me, the enjoyment comes from the trying. The game is dripping with theme, and comes with some truly spectacular artwork, it all makes up for even the most crushing of defeats!

Faradey, lol, good call on the starting "loot". I have done this also, but limit the attachment cost to 2 or less. After, all Gimli wouldnt run into combat without a dwarven axe or Aragorn without Celeborn's Blessing. Has anyone come up with any other variants?

spalanzani said:

yeah my redhorn came today- won first time, lost next 2, great fun

Why i build up deck to play against all scenarios???

Cose i use to play MTG before and there you always use 1 deck with 15 cards sideboard. maybe now rules change it was like this 10 years before. In LOTR tcg from Decipher also you play with 1 deck on the tournaments. So my deck building experience base on the deck which have answers for all situation of the game. So only cose of this.

Anyway in the future i wont to build up my decks according a tournament system in this game. But still there is no tournament system..........