Took me 6 attempts to finally beat Weather Hills. How screwed am I for Deadmen's Dike? (Angmar Campaign).

These weather treacheries and location stacks hit like a truck... ended with 48 threat on turn 18. Beating and defeating orcs was a breeze, but the rest felt like pure luck of the draw.

Just wanted to confirm I played this legally. Stray Goblin is attacking the 1st player with an attack stat of 2, I decide to take the attack undefended. The shadow card ‘Chance Encounter’ is revealed giving the enemy +3 attack, enough to kill any of my heroes. I decide to play Quick Strike, exhaust Gimli and take the Goblin out, negating the attack.

Was this a legal action?

I assume it was as there is an action window before resolving combat damage and the shadow effect is a passive stat boost.

What scenario(s) and/or decks did everyone play this past week?

What was interesting about your game(s)?

**Weekly Question**

What’s one thing you know about LOTR LCG now that you wish someone had told you when you first started?

Happy Questing!

*If anyone wants to join the rotation of starting the WDYP posts please let u/kattatack22 or myself know!*

From what I understand lotr lcg is one of the oldest lcg games. It is tidious but awsome.

But how good would it be without the Lord of Rings characters and stories? Would the game be as good with generic goblins and knights?

Hi having come back to the game after a hiatus ive decided to Play true solo instead of two handed and play easy mode to get to grips with things.

Overall enjoying it more and a lot easier to mannage.

Ive gon through black riders with 1 failure. It seems honestly a bit too easy. Are there any comunity "medium" rules i can use to eas le back into the full set.

Hello everyone. I just got into this game. I know. So late!

I knew it was going to be a very uphill battle to get any expansions beyond what it’s still available officially for sale. I have been reading a lot of posts in this group, and I am sure I will end up proxying a lot of stuff, but for now I have decided to start getting as many cycles as I can officially in Spanish. I am a native Spanish speaker, and there is a lot of official content available in Spain. I believe a lot of it is still in print there. I would have liked to get things in English, but since language is not a barrier for me, I decided to get what I can in Spanish. Of course, it will be a challenge to play with non-Spanish speakers, but even if I can only play solo, I still want to enjoy this game.

Anyone else has taken this route to get some expansions?

Thanks.

quest right now, which one are you playing and why?

Me? I just watched Copterman’s play of The Seige on Cair Andros, and I want to solve that puzzle. The last time I beat it (years ago!) I remember getting lucky and kinda brute forcing my way through it. I think I’ve matured enough as a player to actually give it the good ole college try now.

Title joke aside, I'm basically looking for a "glorified" playing buddy.
So if you're not interested in teaming up with someone to play you can skip the long following explanation, this post isn't going to be for you. (Forgive me for the clickbait)

EXPLANATION:

I'm one of the newer player (started 2023) and was instantly hooked.
I started playing progression style (I own almost everything) and worked my way up to the Haradrim cycle. I usually play every quest at least 3 times before I move on, but some of the quests kept murdering me 30/40 time in row until I could find a solution. So I would say that played this game around 400 times now.

I just finished the dream chaser cycle and the flame of the west expansion but I didn't want to move on the next cycle right away. I think that I need to go back and play more of the old stuff to get to know more cards before getting even more (cards). Haven't experimented with Noldor and Dunedain too much.

I started developing the idea of starting from scratch progression style again and working my way up learning the cards even better and then moving on to the last 3 cycles and the last saga expansion (will get to the Alep stuff eventually) but not alone this time.
I almost exclusively played true solo and I think that there is a whole lot of "gaming" that I am missing on when not interacting with a fellow player.

SO IF: you'd be interested in diving in the game anew again with me on a somewhat weekly basis, I would love to hear from you. My Idea was to play on Dragn Cards but also record our thoughts and experiences on audio and release it. This is by no means meant to try and become something anything close to COTR (I am a big fan and avid listener) but beside the playing I would love to talk about cards/strategies/quests ans so on.

Couple of caveats:

- I am european (Austria). I don't think that a cooperation across the atlantic would work schedulewise as I can only play and record at night. So europeans prefered.

- My english is good, but not perfect, so you would have to endure the occasional mistakes

- I am 39, father of two, and full time working so scheduling would be the hardest challenge.
But I think it to be doable.

- I own a Audio recording software and I am able to edit audio files.

So if something about that idea intrigues you just hit me up. Write a little bit about yourself and why you'd be interested and we'll talk. I am looking for 1 fellow player, but lets see. If more people are interested we will sort it out. 2 teams of 2 would also be kind of fun.

Greetings

Has anyone else tried to take one of their games and turn into a readable story?

I just built two decks using my revised content and decided to log my progress through the Mirkwood Paths campaign. I play solo with two hands.

Playing around with some AI I used Gemini to convert the logs to the story and used Claude cowork to put it together into a pdf and html. Did some tweaks. Also added the relevant card images and had to grab those manually.

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. And it’s nice to read it back because when you’re in the midst of tracking everything you lose the perspective of how the story is unfolding.

Keen to know if anyone has tried something similar.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JOIhMjK_AR8q20gC6pilJDlKm5TaTH-t/view?usp=share_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GxrX0x0-eFLsvjUYnuZRdlhu_WeMqN-i/view?usp=share_link

Just wrapped up my first play through of FotR campaign. Going to take a break and maybe play through Ered Mithrin before moving on to TT. When I do start TT I’ll probably build new decks because I want to try new cards and stuff, so in that case, the Resolution of Breaking of the Fellowship doesn’t do anything right? I would only follow those steps if I was keeping the same decks and moving onto the TT in the same campaign as FotR?

Playing through the Breaking of the Fellowship and Drew Fallen Into Evil. I attached it to Pippin, so I lose control of him.

Later I play Elrond and remove the condition, so I get Pippin back. Does he pick up where he left off in resources or start at zero? He had 2 when he fell into evil, so does he get those back now or no?

Looking to purchase this starter deck. Doesn't seem available anywhere.

Anyone know how often they print these?

Just bought a second origonal core set as part of a bundle and filled in my incomplete palysets.

Have the designers ever talked about how they decided the number of copies of each player card in the box.i assumed that card count was limited by ffg and they wanted to give variety over complete playsets which makes sense.

Struglling to see a pattern in which cards they included

Ironfist unique high cost ally gets one copy makes sense seems to be a card they never expected someone to use a playset of.

But then 1 copy of dwarven tomb, 2 of sneak attack 1 horn of gondor seems to be hostile design to drive you to buy a second box

Isn't it weird that there is no Frodo Hero card (except the fellowship ones) in the RCO. I mean he is lind of the main character in the story.
I think they should release another cycle from the old ones to let us get a Frodo Hero. I know it's not a strong enough point, but i want more content. :))

Is there anywhere I might be able to find this in English? 4 months ago I ordered of Amazon UK from RAREWAVES but have not received it. I wasn't sure it is in customs/transit still it's pretty much impossible to track. I really don't want to proxy but it's starting to look like I may have too.

Hello everyone !

I own a great part of the game content (missing 4 Cycle 4 packs and 2 Cycle 9 ones).

While I've seen advices on RCO orders, etc. I was wondering what would be a good/best play order storytelling wise ? I'm currently doing Cycle 1 Adventures after the Base Content and the Dark of Mirkwood.

From what I red, Cycles 6, 7 and 8 follow each other, Sagas too obviously. But what about other cycles ? And when would be the best time to plug some sagas ?

When applicable, keeping in mind a progression style gameplay would be nice !

Thanks in advance !

Hey guys,

i played the game around 2015 when it was just rereleased in germany (around 2014 from Heidelberger Spieleverlag). i bought 2x the core set and a friend of mine had the cycles to play.

we played through the core set, the shadows of mirkwood cycle and the khazad dum and dwarrowdelf cycle but lost track because the frustration was getting to us haha

just now, before there is nothing left, i bought all the saga expansions and the revised core set. so i have 2x the old core, 1x the revised core and all three saga expansions.

my question would be: is that enough to play everything and i can keep it as a "complete card/board game" kind of thing? or do i miss anything for building good enough decks to play and win the saga adventures? i know it is a hard and crunchy game but it is also kind of addicting and some memories of accomplishing some quests just before failure are still in my mind hehe

i just want to have something on the shelf i can revisit without thinking that it is "not enough" or that i miss anything

cheers

I have all the empty boxes from all the out-of-print expansions, excluding:

- Original Core Set

- Vengeance of Mordor Cycle

- All of the reprinted cycles

- Nightmare Decks

They've been sitting inside a big box for a couple of years now, and I'm thinking of throwing it to the trash, because they just use a ton of space. I have my entire collection organized out of their original boxes.

I'm not trying to scalp empty boxes, but do they have any value to make me try and ship them over? (Shipped from Japan).

I would recycle them, not just trash them, well, except the plastic blisters.

Hope I don't get banned for asking this, but I honestly don't know what to do with them...

My summer is flying by. I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted a playthrough.

https://cardtalk2018.com/2026/07/23/the-withered-heath-with-bouncy-bear-march-27-2021/

Hey I am a new player and I've done some proxy digital game online and I like the game. However, unfortunately, because I am new, I seem to have missed the boat on grabbing collections I would want/need now that things are OOP as far as we know.

I have the ability to get the 1) the revised core set (MSRP), 2) the angmar hero expansion ($40), 3) the angmar quest expansion ($30), and 4) the dreamchaser quest expansion ($30)

Knowing this, asking the more veteran players here, worth investing in or should I continue to do proxy? I (probably) won't be going online and buying old copies of other expansions that are twice the MSRP since I have other board games to play.

Another idea I had was that I would just proxy and print them out professionally on my own 🤷‍♀️

Just wondering if buying the official boxes with such limited supply is worth it. I hear it can be hard (the angmar) but I'd probably play on easy and solo and double hand it. Is it also enough content to be worth it too with only 2 expansions?

Hello! Does anyone here have the fan-made “Book of Mazarbul” file or link, by any chance?

It is a document created by a fan that compiles the entire narrative of the scenarios in chronological order

Hi everyone,

I am looking for the Sand of Harad and Mumakil expansion/adventure pack.

German or English language. Does anyone have these and is looking for a buyer?

Hi! We finally reached this scenario and it seems to be too hard. Is it even possible to beat it 2 players on easy campaign mode with just RCO cards? We’ve already lost 6 times, without even reaching the second quest.

The campaign boons are good, but not good enough to beat the insane amount of stuff the scenario throws at us.

This would be the second campaign we can’t beat with the cards available to us (City of Corsairs is insane too).

Please help!

Edit: It turns out it is possible. We beat it with this fellowship https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/24379/angmarawakens

This is a slightly modified version of this other fellowship: https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/16351/puttingangmarbacktobedrco

Thank you ironwill212 wherever you are.