Hi all!

Although I'm very familiar with the game I'm absolutely useless at building two decks that complement each other nicely. More often than not I'm playing a 2 player game and the only decks we've had consistent success with are Gimli, Thalin, and Dwalin for one player and Bofur, Gloin and Dain for the other i.e. dwarves all round! I find it very easy to build synergy and combos with the dwarves but would like to try something a little different as it's getting a little samey? There's so many noldor and rohan cards I haven't used I was thinking along them lines. We've tried the secrecy concept in 2P with a little success and have implemented the eagles quite a bit with the dwarves too…

any suggestions or interesting ideas would be greatly appreciated. I own everything released to date.

Thanks

bollywongaloid

…or maybe no help then lol. Has nobody got consistently winning 2p decks that don't revolve around dwarves or eagles? Seriously?

If you haven't had a chance yet, check out the youtube videos by Tragictheblathering. He built 3 decks that complimented each other pretty well, in my opinion. I think it is a pretty good "How To" on deck synergy. When I play two player with my brother, one of us is a support/questing deck (usually me), and the other a combat heavy deck (usually him). I think that is the best route when playing a two player game. For my support deck, the three heroes were Eowyn, Theodred and Dunhere. It has a low starting threat (24, if I remember correctly), a lot of attachments to play on his heroes (the Dunedain cards to buff attack and defense), and a bit of card draw, treachery and shadow cancellation, and a lot of questing power with the Rohan theme. If you haven't experimented with the Eagles yet, I would recommend doing so, as they are pretty well developed with card synergies too. They are pretty expensive, so putting Radagast and a Horn of Gondor in your deck is a must to afford them. Hope this helped.

Thanks hildargo I'll check YouTube out I didn't even think to go on there lol. I also like the sound of your rohan questing deck… Maybe that's where we been going wrong because we tend to share questing and combat equally. Will have to give it a try! Thanks again

We've enjoyed plenty of success with a pair of decks that makes the most of Elrohir and Elladan. One player runs Aragorn (Core), Elrohir, Beravor. The other runs Elladan, Eowyn, Frodo, so all four spheres are amply covered. Neither deck is very heavily specialised, but in our experience two-player is pretty easy against all quests so I don't think there is much incentive to optimise synergies between pairs of decks for this format.

Thanks for the suggestion jjeagle will have to give it a go. I know we've tried Elladan and Elrohir before but with not much success. When building decks if we're sharing spheres (tactics in this case) we can never decide how to distribute the cards amongst the two decks (e.g do we get a Feint each or should both go to one deck?). Interestingly, on a side note, I always seem to get better results on the rare occasion I play solo, contrary to what you said about 2p being easier. I guess you and your partner make a better team!

I now almost never play Dwarves. I don't particularly enjoy such decks although I recognize their power. I do play and ally or two but never a Dwarven hero any more.

I am sure you'll have fun with the new Glorfindel around. Pair him up with Strider and Théodred and have Legolas with Éowyn and Dúnhere for the other deck. That's what I'm about to try I feel. Building around Dúnhere has always been fun. He needs a Tactics hero with him to allow for Unseen and Quick Strike. The other deck should have Fresh Tracks and Dúnedain Mark or For Gondor! Ask away if you feel this is a direction you want to be headed.

Thanks for your reply lleimmoen, building around dunhere is something I've definitely not experimented with. My concern (when running with eowyn and legolas at least) would be defending, cos i would always want to use dunhere's effect. How do you get around this? Have the other player put a few dunedain mark's on him? Have you any sample decks you've had success with because it definitely sounds like something I'd like to try.

Many thanks lleimmoen appreciate it

My pleasure.

And yes, defence may be a problem and you usually want to engage enemies with the other player (not Dúnhere), when you do, you've got Feint, Quick Strike (either Dúnhere or Legolas (with Blade) can take the less sturdy ones), Gondorian Spearman or some of the Eagles. And Spirit also has cheap allies that can block when need be.

Or, alternatively, if you want a constant defending, you may line up the Sons of Elrond with Dúnhere instead of Éowyn and Legolas. I haven't played the brothers too much so I cannot say this is very good but you've a great potential defender in Elrohir (use Arwen to make him even stronger) and with Dúnhere there's now easy access to Elrond's Counsel. The starting threat is 28 which is neither too much nor very low. For coop with such a deck, equip the Elves with Rivendell Bow, the card may not be that strong but if you have the brothers and both Strider and Glorfindel on the other side, it could come useful.

I can try to build something tonite and post it afterwards. Or if you're in a hurry, I can post some of the decks I used to run in the past.

Hey lleimmoen sorry for the slow reply

Everything you say makes sense and defense definitely won't be as much of an issue if you palm some enemies off onto the other player, even better if you can lower your threat as well. Gonna give it a try I think sometime this week when my partner's free.

Using the sons sounds interesting too as their effects are awesome when together…

As for your decks I wouldn't want to waste more of your time building them just for the sake of my short-comings and this thread but I certainly wouldn't say no to any you chucked my way… Lol

Many thanks, again

I would go with one Spirit-heavy deck with a Rohan Theme. Probably Eowyn, Dunhere, and Theodred, but I've also had very good fortune with replacing Theodred with Prince Imrahil or with Frodo if you want to be purely Spirit.)

The second deck would be Tactics-heavy with an Eagle theme. I'd probably go with Hama, Elladan, and Elrohir. (My current version of this uses Legolas instead of Hama, but Hama has lower Threat, a nice ability, and can key off of some of the Rohan effects from the other deck.) I can also imagine a pretty solid Eagle deck with Hama, Boromir, and the Lore Sphere Aragorn.

Rohan for the questing and location management and Eagles for messing up the baddies.

Thanks for your input gatharion. Had a go solo last night using éowyn Dúnhere and theodred and found it to be very effective. Maybe I got a bit lucky with my card draw (managed to play all 3 Gandalfs and both galadhrim's greetings) but beat conflict at the carrock on the first attempt, which is rare for me using a deck I'm not familiar with! Can't wait to try it with an eagle deck on hand…

bollywongaloid said:

No problem, really glad to be of any help. I will pm you some decks but I want to play around with them first. It should be coming in a day or two I hope.