This tournament is part of the Living Tournament system. You are welcome to read this, play the scenario, and post your results (in that order). Place well enough, and you may just end up with a Living Tournament World Ranking!

Scenario: The Hills of Emyn Muil
Deck Parameters: Open Build*
Number of Players: Solo Player

Tournament Parameters:

1) This is a Living Tournament. You may play and post results at your own pace.
2) *Open Build means you may use any legal LOTR LCG cards at your availability.
3) A valid result in this tournament consists of reporting your results (wins and losses) from 3 back-to-back games (may be spread out over as much time as you like), using the same deck for each of those 3 games. (Please observe the mulligan rule, and all other rules, from the LOTR LCG rulebook and subsequent official FAQ documents.)
4) After you post your results, the results from your 3 games will be calibrated using the RGun formula** to obtain your Weighted Result.
5) Weighted Results will then be ranked against other player’s Weighted Results, and the rankings will be updated over time as new results are posted to the thread.
6) You may play this tournament as many times as you would like (so you can try out different deck builds over time), but you can only hold one spot in the overall tournament rankings at a time (i.e. this gives you a chance to try and best your own result while only occupying one spot in the rankings).
7) Do not cheat. Just don’t. It destroys the fun and integrity of the tournament system. If you realize you have made a mistake at a later date that had serious implications for a result you had posted in the past, please make a new post in this thread drawing attention to that fact – that past result will be invalidated, and of course, you are welcome (and highly encouraged) to try again.

**The RGun formula has been designed to value both Final Score (per game) and overall Win Ratio (from your 3 games, cumulative). The formula is: (Average Score of Games Won) x (Total Games Played/Games Won). For an expanded discussion on how this formula was created, you can read the thread called Measuring Success.

Posting Your Results (Required Information):

When posting your results for this tournament you are encouraged to cut and paste from the following template and complete the requested information:

Heroes:

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Game 2 Result: (Report Final Score or Loss)
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Game 3 Result: (Report Final Score or Loss)
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Posting Your Results (Optional Information):

After completing the above, you are welcome to include any other details you would like to add. Some suggested ideas are: your specific available card pool (number of Core Sets used, specific Adventure Packs used, etc…) and additional narrative to share epic tales of your adventures through Middle-earth.

Living Tournament Rankings:

1. masonos ~ 58.66 (September 8, 2012)
2. fruszu ~ 71.66 (September 9, 2012)
3. Robert McMutton ~ 76.66 (June 23, 2012)
4. leptokurt ~ 80.66 (April 22, 2012)
5. muemakan ~ 82.66 (April 20, 2012)
6. Marael ~ 93.66 (May 18, 2012)
7. SiCK_Boy ~ 109 (March 30, 2012)
8. RGun ~ 112.66 (May 1, 2012)
9. Trantor ~ 115 (February 29, 2012)
10. Tracker1 ~ 117 (April 28, 2012)

Honorable Mentions:

11. Budgernaut ~ 119.33 (February 28, 2012)
12. vandertramps ~ 125 (June 28, 2012)
12. Migwald ~ 125 (November 23, 2012)
14 jjeagle ~ 130.33 (May 31, 2012)
15. ArachneJericho ~ 142.66 (September 29, 2012)
16. juicebox ~ 163.5 (May 19, 2012)

Last Updated:

December 6, 2012 (1:20am) [FFG Time - Forum Time Stamp]

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Heroes: Éowyn, Eleanor, Dúnhere

Game 1 Result: 69
Final Threat Level: 16
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 27
Number of Rounds Completed: 8

Game 2 Result: 156
Final Threat Level: 36
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed: 14

Game 3 Result: 133
Final Threat Level: 23
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed:13

Posting Your Results (Optional Information): This was primarily a Rohan deck with Gandalf, Lorien Guide, and Northern Tracker thrown in. I had plenty of Will power and enough fighting prowess to stave off the encounter deck. I also managed to cancel all the nasty Treachery cards. The one problem I had was trying to find all the Emyn Muil locations. In my first game I was inundated with them to the point that I still had quite a few on the table when I reached my 20 VPs. In the other games, trying to get those locations out of the encounter deck was like pulling teeth!

Heroes: Éowyn, Frodo, Imrahil

Game 1 Result: 156
Final Threat Level: 45
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 7 (Frodo)
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 4
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed: 12

Game 2 Result: 95
Final Threat Level: 25
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed: 9

Game 3 Result: 94
Final Threat Level: 25
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 21
Number of Rounds Completed: 9

Posting Your Results (Optional Information):

The typical Rohan deck with all its synergies with Imrahil. Game 1 was really unfortunate as I spent several rounds not drawing any ally, so Ufthak grew to epic proportions. (had 5 resource counters on him before I killed him!). Eventually, Frodo hat to bite the dust, or else I would have been killed by threat.
Game 2 and 3 went much smoother, though I had to kill Ufthak again in both games. Game 3 could actually have been 5 points better, but I wasn't greedy enough to play Gandalf in what turned out to be the last round.

Heroes: Dunhere, Eleanor, Eowyn

Game 1 Result: 93
Final Threat Level: 1
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 3
Victory Points Earned: 21
Number of Rounds Completed: 11

Game 2 Result: 131
Final Threat Level: 0
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 2
Victory Points Earned: 21
Number of Rounds Completed: 15

Game 3 Result: 103
Final Threat Level: 32
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 2
Victory Points Earned: 21
Number of Rounds Completed: 9

Card pool: 3 x Core Set, All Shadows of Mirkwood AP, KD, TRG, RtR

Decklist

Solo - Under the radar

Hero (3)
Dunhere (Core) x1
Eleanor (Core) x1
Eowyn (Core) x1

Ally (20)
Bofur (TRG) x1
Elfhelm (TDM) x1
Eomund (CatC) x1
Escort from Edoras (AJtR) x2
Gandalf (Core) x3
Northern Tracker (Core) x3
Rider of the Mark (RtR) x3
The Riddermark's Finest (THoEM) x3
West Road Traveller (RtM) x3

Attachment (15)
Ancient Mathom (AJtR) x2
Dunedain Mark (THfG) x3
Dunedain Warning (CatC) x2
Song of Kings (THFG) x3
Steward of Gondor (Core) x2
Unexpected Courage (Core) x3

Event (15)
A Test of Will (Core) x3
Dwarven Tomb (Core) x2
Hasty Stroke (Core) x3
Shadow of the Past (RtM) x2
Sneak Attack (Core) x3
The Galadhrim's Greeting (Core) x2

Heroes: Denethor, Eowyn, Beravor

Game 1 Result: 118
Final Threat Level: 34
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 4
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed: 10

Game 2 Result: 139
Final Threat Level: 40
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 1
Victory Points Earned: 21
Number of Rounds Completed: 12

Game 3 Result: 111
Final Threat Level: 32
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 1
Victory Points Earned: 22
Number of Rounds Completed: 10

Posting Your Results (Optional Information): Used 1 Core Set, plus all available expansions.  I figured the key to this quest was heavy questing and drawing the Emyn Hill locations from the encounter deck as quickly as you can.  So I went with a quest heavy, encounter card manipulation deck.  Denethor was key, and then I also added 3 copies of Shadow from the Past and Out of the Wild.  Unfortunately, they didn't play as much as a factor as I thought they would.  This quest is easy to win, but without a lot of encounter deck manipulation cards available to us right now I think getting a good score is very luck dependent (i.e. how fast you can draw the Emyn Hill locations to get your 20 victory points).
 

Budgernaut said:

You do know that to finish the scenario and win you need 20 VPs AND you can't have any Emyn Muil locations in play...not sure from your comment above if you stopped as soon as you got 20 VPs.

RGun said:

Yeah, I guess I should have been clearer in my post. What I was trying to say was that during my first game I reached 20 VP, but so many Emyn Muil locations were out that I had to keep going. I obtained 27 VP before I finally cleared the staging area of Emyn Muil locations.  This was in stark contrast to my other two games where it took forever to even find any Emyn Muil locations. You can see in my post that game 1 had 27 VP but the others I was able to beat at the minimum of 20 VP.

Heroes: Frodo, Theodred, Dunhere
Game 1 Result: 104
Final Threat Level: 25
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 5 (1 on Frodo, 2 on Theodred, 2 on Dunhere)
Victory Points Earned: 21 (5 Amon Hen, 5 Amon Law, 6 Shores of Nen Hithoel x3, 3 North Stair, 2 Outer Ridge)
Number of Rounds Completed: 10
Gandalf showed up 3 times, and discard Hasty Stroke, Test of Will and Galad Greeting is painful… my best result up to now.

Game 2 Result: Loss
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My lack of questing make me fall; probably a good idea is put Eowyn on this deck instead Frodo. Maybe after I complete all quests, I will try something like this.

Game 3 Result: Loss
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Same again. I will try it harder next time, but this can put me on the list, at least.

Decklist is the same of the others, as this is a first run
2 Northern Tracker
1 Unexpected Courage
2 Hasty Stroke
2 The Galadhrim's Greeting
2 A Test of Will
3 Gandalf
2 Lorien Guide
2 Faramir
3 Snowbourn Scout
2 Silverlode Archer
2 Sneak Attack
2 Steward of Gondor
1 Celebrian's Stone
3 Dunedain Mark
2 Song of Kings
2 Eomund
3 Escort from Edoras
3 Ancient Mathom
2 Ride to Ruin
3 Westfold Horse-Breaker
3 The Riddermark's Finest
3 Mustering The Rohirrim
 

Heroes: Bilbo Baggins, Théodred

Game 1 Result: 89
Final Threat Level: 19
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 20
Number of Rounds Completed: 9

Game 2 Result: 134
Final Threat Level: 36
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 22
Number of Rounds Completed: 12

Game 3 Result: 99
Final Threat Level: 12
Threat Cost of Each Dead Hero: 0
Damage Tokens on Remaining Heroes: 0
Victory Points Earned: 23
Number of Rounds Completed: 11

Posting Your Results (Optional Information):

Ok, finally I couldn't wait, and I tried a Secrecy deck as leptokurt suggested. I am thinking yet that we need more secrecy cards, but it's true that it works. If I didn't have a Steward of Gondor or Protector of Lórien in my hand made a mulligan, and the great card draw keep it functioning.

The second one was difficult, because I couldn't lower my threat. I have a splash of spirit to help that point, but the songs went down of my deck and I was near to be overwhelmed by the locations, but finally could made it.

Wow, that was a quick one. Got great starting hands in my first two games. One was due to a mulligan. So I had PoL and Escort from Edoras and Westfold Horsebraker. The encounters were quite normal. Had 1 token on Gollum in game one and 2 tokens on him in game two.

Games 3three was somewhat special.....I did get an Escort, but no other cards I was used to. Instead I had 2 Good Meals and Astonishing Speed in my hand. My encountes in round one were a setup Warg and a Marshworm. But with the escort and AS I had 17 willpower. Round 2 gave me UC on Eowyn......done. 

Muemakan, you scare me!

I read your last entry first and thought "WOW, he made it through EM in TWO rounds??????"

lol

muemakan said:

Sorry juicebox for confusing the entries........I did post the Deadmarshes twice......once in this thread.

muemakan said:

Final threat 0 in all three games? Maybe a mistake typing your results... or wow

Anyway, congrats muemakan, it seems that you have been a little busy lately beating all the quests. Great great work, pal.

Robert McMutton said:

Nope 0 threat is right. Although leptokurt won´t approve of it, I used my Beravor deck twice. ( mirkwood and hills ).

And apparently I have used it before for Carrock......although I am going to change that soon. 

muemakan said:

leptokurt, Sauron and Saruman!

Btw, I am now able to get my threat at zero points too!

(thanks, Secrecy!)