Welcome & Introduction:

Welcome to my eighth Solo Player LOTR LCG Tournament. This week’s tournament marks the grand finish in a series of solo player tournaments exploring the Shadows of Mirkwood cycle. The idea behind this tournament is that for one week (Sunday – Saturday), everyone is invited to participate in playing a particular scenario with particular deck building requirements in a Solo Player Tournament. You are then invited to record and post your final score, the heroes you used, and any additional narrative that you’d like to add.

Note: this is not a place to post results from the past. The tournament has a one-week lifespan, and only games played and recorded throughout this week are valid. As the week unfolds, I will keep this first post updated with the Top Ten results. (Each participant can occupy a maximum of one Top Ten spot at a time, so you’re welcome to try and best your own result throughout the week.) See also, The juicebox LOTR LCG Top Ten Hall of Fame.

Will you place in the Top Ten for the week? I hope you’ll participate and find out!

After the end of this week’s tournament, you are welcome to continue to post results to this thread if you continue to play this particular scenario under these particular parameters. However, the Top Ten on this first post will not continue to be updated after the week is over, thus preserving (like a time capsule) the results from this week’s tournament. In the mean time, if you have ideas for a future tournament, feel free to post them in the Ideas Thread.

And now… on to this week’s Solo Player Tournament!

Solo Player Tournament #8:

Quest: Return to Mirkwood
Deck Parameters: 1-3 Core Sets + All Shadows of Mirkwood Adventure Packs
Number of Players: Solo Play – 1 Player/1 Deck

Top Ten:

1. muemakan ~ 64 (Théodred, Éowyn, Beravor)
2. Memetix ~ 66 (Berevor, Éowyn, Théodred)
3. Zjb12 ~ 70 (Éowyn, Glorfindel, Frodo)
4. leptokurt ~ 77 (Éowyn, Frodo, Glorfindel)
4. Chac ~ 77 (Éowyn, Théodred, Prince Imrahil)
6. plueschi ~ 92 (Bilbo, Beravor, Denethor)
7. gatharion ~ 96 (Éowyn, Eleanor, Prince Imrahil)
8. juicebox ~ 97 (Éowyn, Théodred, Glorfindel)
9. Fatty ~ 100 (Théodred, Beravor, Éowyn)
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Last Updated:

January 29, 2012 (3:04am) [FFG Time]

[This week’s tournament will run from January 22-28, 2012 and will officially close at the end of the week (midnight) as time-stamped by the FFG forum time clock.]

This was my first time playing the quest solo and I've now learned how hard it is to keep the threat under control, 4 a turn is painful.

I was also plagued by an annoying Warg that kept running away (I would have finished 2 turns earlier with a bit more luck)

Heroes Berevor, Eowyn, Theodred - 1 core set + all Mirkwood APs

Turn 8 (70 points)

Damage: 0

Threat: 38

VPs: 4 (Troll)

Score: 104

Finally got a result, although it's probably not the best. I used 1 core set + all expansions

Heroes: Glóin, Dain, Éowyn

Heroes Damage: 12 (Glóin died last round)

Heroes Threat: 49 (phew)

Rounds: 60

Victory Points: 12 (Marsh Adder, Hummerhorns, Hill Troll)

Result: 109

As you can see, this wasn't a walk in the park. Fortunatly I had SoG plus 3 Gandalfs. One Gandalf killed the Hummerhorns which were dealt during the setup. Another Gandalf damaged the Hill Troll with 4 points. One Gandalf lowered my threat.

The game went smoothly, even the Marsh Adder didn't pose a real problem. Then I got the Hill Troll on turn 6, and I was already at 4B. Could have had a result below 90, damn. I had Gandalf in play that round and had 2 x Ever Vigilant so he could both defend and attack against the troll. Dain helped him so the troll had 3 damage when round 7 started. Of course I got "Gollum's Bite" which killed poor Glóin. Gandalf gave the troll another 4 damage, the Longbeard Orc Slayer was sacrificed and I had to raise my threat from 48 to 49. Then Gandalf and Dain delivered the final blow.

Much more to say, it was so epic. If they had only done something abut the threat - I hate to stop an adventure just when it starts to get interesting.

Forget the last result. I forgot to add the damage caused by the Marsh Adder's forced effect. Actually my threat was at 50.

The good news is that I managed to accomplish a win:

Heroes: Glóin, Dain, Éowyn

Heroes Damage: 0

Heroes Threat: 46

Rounds: 50

Victory Points: 3 (Marsh Adder)

Result: 93

Encounters were:

Setup: Brown Lands

1. Despair

2. Wasted Provisions

3. Mountains of Mirkwood (travelled to; replaced with, argh, King Spider)

4. Marsh Adder

5. Dry Watercourse

6. Woodman's Glade

I was able to play Celebrían's Stone on Éowyn and Ancient Mathom on Brown lands in round 1. Made it through 1B in two rounds. In round 3 I got SoG and could play Faramir and Westroad Traveller. No problem to finish 2B.  Everyone but Dain quested in round 4. Éowyn's ability gave me the extra WP point that I needed to make it through 3B in one round. (I guess it's allowed to discard a card in 3B?) I readied Faramir with Ever Vigilant and he took the bite of the adder. Dain defended against the Spider. In round 5 I could play a Song of Travel so I could play GG. Éowyn quested alone, the traveller got eaten by the adder and Gollum distracted the King Spider which was then slain by Glóin + Dunedain Mark. Dain then attacked the adder for one damage. In round 6 I played the Longbeard Orc Slayer. Éowyn quested, Faramir didn't survive his second battle with the adder, but the angry dwarves avanged him right afterwards.

 Tried doing this with a Monosphere spirit deck, but couldn't win.  Changed out around a dozen card and put theodred in instead of Eleanor and got this result:

Heros: eowyn, dunhere, theodred

No damage, no dead Heros, no victory points.

Threat, 40.

Rounds 4 (40).

Score: 80.

Big key here was I got 2 celebrians stones on eowyn and an unexpected courage on dunhere.  Theodreds kick back helped to, along with elf helm (the one time I got to use him) kept off a point of threat. I also only faced one enemy the whole game, a king spider. The encounters were: setup-despair; then despair; then king spider; then the spider's ring; wasted provisions; brown lands.

I am too tired to post a more detailed report as I usually do.......I will post when I get a better score.

Heroes: Theodred, Beravor and Frodo (3 core sets and all Aps)

Rounds: 10

Wounds: 0

Threat: 0

Total: 100

Zjb12 said:

I hope you didn´t mean 2 celebrians stones.....

Zjb12 said:

Celebrian's Stone is sadly unique.

 Ugh!  Nuts, so forget that score.  But I will try again and demolish the deck, coming up with a score of......3.   Ok, maybe not.  But perhaps it will have a 3 in it.  Like, 93...then I can tie leptokurt!

 So as always on sundays I sit here in Austria and watch football and play lotr.

2nd attempt at this weeks tournament:

Heroes: Eowyn, Frodo and Beravor (  3 core sets and all APs )

Rounds: 8

Wounds: 0

Threat: 0

Score: 80

Setup: Dry Watercourse 

Encounters:

1. Dry Watercourse

2. Gollum´s Anguish

3. Spiders Ring

4.Caught in a Web ( got ride of it after 2 turns with the green dwarf )

5. Dry Watercourse

6. Gollum´s Anguish ( was cancelled )

7. Dry Watercourse

8. Spiders Ring

9. Dry Watercourse

Thanks to Shadow of the Past and R.Finest Dry Watercourse was my beloved encounter.

Hmmmm with those encounters I should have tried a questing deck…….too bad.

 Okay, now for a legal score!  Heros:  eowyn, theodred, dunhere.  No vps or dead heroes.  Damage: 2; threat: 39; rounds: 5 (50); total: 91.  Only used 1 celebrians stone this time!  

 Hey, I haven't participated before because I didn't want to deal with tearing my decks apart and figuring out which cards came from which sets, but since this one was included all of the Mirkwood packs I went for it.

Previously the Attercop Attercop or the Hill Troll always stomped me in this scenario, but this play through I got rather lucky and didn't end up facing anything worse than a King Spider.

My heroes were: Eowyn, Eleanore, and Prince Imrahil

Rounds: 6 

Final Threat: 43

Damage: 3 (dang bats)

VPs: 0

Final Score: 106

 Muemakan, how are you getting results with zero Threat?

gatharion said:

Card draw and Gandalf is key here. And deck recycling. Although stage 2B is a pain in the ass with such a deck.

muemakan said:

You should start playing in a lottery (the probability of drawing no enemy with 7-8 cards is < 3 percent).

I still wonder about your resource managment. You started with a threat of 26, plus 32 for 8 rounds makes a total threat of 58. To lower that to zero you must have played 5 copies of Gandalf and GG plus a sixth copy of one of those.

And here is my favourite setup draw so far:

Mirkwood Bats

surge: Gollums's Bite