AtS Heroes

By Samwise Gamgee, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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richsabre said:

legolas18 said:

This isn't really about the heroes, as I don't really have any idea who they'll come out with, (and correct me if I'm wrong) but isn't the Dwalin ally the only character in the game that has Sentinel and isn't Tactics? I'd love to see some of the other speres get ranged and sentinel. Maybe we'll see some of that in this cycle?? Just a thought.

yeah most are tactics….i can think of only haldir right now who is lore and sentinel/ranged

rich

both Aragorn's have sentinel, not sure if we were just referring to allies tho

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I think Sam will be lore not spirit. Sam demonstrates a lot of "practical" know how throughout the lord of the rings and I think this is better reflected by Lore than spirit. (His willpower in resisting the ring and helping Frodo can be represented by giving him high willpower).

One reason I think this is because Lore doesn't fit any other hobbit we're likely to get;

I'm expecting

Sam and Bilbo (lore)

Frodo and Pippin and Merry (spirit)

Pippin and Merry (tactics) for when they take up arms, if we ever get heroes that are set during the Lord of the Rings.

I'm not sure we'd ever get a leadership hobbit.

Edit: Merry does lead the hobbits in the battle for the shire actually, so it's possible we'll see Merry in leadership either instead of tactics or spirit.

As for this cycle. I'm expecting a Denthor Spirit hero and Faramir Leadership. I'm expecting Merry to go with Pippin (though we may get Sam because of his being a better fit for Lore), Pippin only really works with 3 hobbit heroes and I'm hoping they give us some choice rather than making us play secrecy or Pippin + frodo + bilbo (Which is also 22 threat thanks to Bilbo's excesive cost). I think the "right now" statement in Pippin's preview was meant to hint at another hobbit coming.

The missing hero (by my count) would be a Lore hero, I'm not sure what we'd get in there. 2 hobbits + 4 Gondor heroes and one Rohan in the cycle so far (based on my count) Possibly another Rohan hero in Lore, or maybe something unrelated like an elf.

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we still have gwaihir that has been seen in the flesh but never as an actual card….we all thought it would be in the doorstep but wasnt

on the sam note, i dont think he should be lore….to me lore is reflected in the more learned of middle earth. sam was practical but not a particularly well learned hobbit (compared to say frodo or bilbo). personally i would have had frodo lore. yeah he took the ring to mount doom, but it was sam who got him there

so i would have had frodo lore, sam spirit.

rich

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I feel like the Ranger hero promised is either a Leadership Faramir or a Tactics Halbarad. I would like, given the time period of the cycle, for it to be Thorongil but then you could have both him and Aragorn out. Through my research I have found that this would cause a tear in the fabric of time that even the Doctor couldn't save us from.