The Line Unbroken - Battle of Lake-Town

Warden of Arnor 5911

Description

The Line Unbroken is my Progression-style playthrough of the LOTR LCG - two-handed, going through each quest using only cards which were available at the time of the release (though following up-to-date rules/errata), and trying to show off as much of the card pool as possible, including for the vast majority of the quests, using the new hero(es) in the boxes where they were released.

These were the pair of decks for Battle of Lake-Town.

https://wardenofarnor.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/the-line-unbroken-g2-battle-of-lake-town/

Youtube playthrough: https://youtu.be/-m0eaSiyhcQ

4 comments

Aug 29, 2018 pd187540 42

Do you have a specific strategy when using these decks? I would imagine that Frodo is the main defender (using Arwen to make him sentinel for the other deck), while the tactics deck is for combat. Any other strategies to know? For example, how often or when you should put Smaug in the staging area vs. engage him? I've tried 10 times with this scenario and lost them all. Ready to give up on this soon and declare it as an unwinnable scenario.

Aug 29, 2018 pd187540 42

Another strong piece of advice is to put in Balin for his cancel shadow card effect instead of Gloin. Gloin is a grave mistake in that deck. You only have 2 hasty stroke cards in the spirit/lore deck. These are not enough, so Balin's ability is badly needed.

Aug 29, 2018 Warden of Arnor 5911

This was progression style and Balin wasn't released until after Battle of Lake-Town debuted at GenCon. That said, I actually have 3 Hasty Strokes and 3 Burning Brands so the felowship does pretty OK for shadow cancellation. Meanwhile Gloin is fantastic because he generates resources by taking Burn damage.

If you want to know how the decks work, you could just look at the blog post or watch the playthrough video, but quick version: Bear in mind these decks were built before the errata to Horn of Gondor and Hama, they may not work quite as well now. Defence is split between Frodo and Gimli. Gimli eventually kils Smaug with primarily boosted by damage and Support of the Eagles. Resource generation is more necessary cross table for important cards and healing but if you get resource gen and Song of Wisdom early on Frodo the other resource generator can be used for resources to play more Eagles. Engage Smaug as soon as you can safely do so as it makes questing much easier, and then every other round Hama can recycle The Eagles are Coming to really round out the draw.

Honestly the quest is pretty doable once you get the hang of it, it's just kind of a puzzle and so wildly divergent to most quests that a lot of normal decks will just get wrecked.

Aug 29, 2018 pd187540 42

Just beat it on easy mode! In order to play with this mode, you add 1 resource to each hero during setup (as per normal rules). Then you remove all 4 copies of Esgaroth Wharf (location) and all 3 copies of Close to the Flame (treachery). This is the way to go for easy mode.