The Horse-Lords: BoF Rohan 1.0

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if using alep-cards with rohan do not forget one of the best: Need Brooks No Delay it is free with 4 rohanheroes and gives you a card into play for 2-3 cost (and you can choose). would discard a lancer and 2. lancer or shield for that

I agree with @doomguard in that Need Brooks No Delay is a must. Other than that I do like the deck! BOF Rohan is quite fun

@doomguard @Uruk-guy

You both are spot on that Need Brooks No Delay should be an auto-include.

That said, I left it out as a matter of taste, as it just feels almost like cheating to me since it searches nearly 25% of your deck and puts almost any card it can find into play for free. I tend to avoid Thengel for similar reasons.

But certainly a great card to include for anyone keen on it!

(I'd probably drop Grimbold and one of the Gondorian Shields for it, I think?)

Realistically, if I was to run Need Brooks No Delay, I'd almost certainly swap the deck around a bit and use a lineup with Háma, so that you could try and play Need Brooks No Delay 5 times or so, which is kind of approximating what Lothiriel is doing... except you get to keep the allies that you are finding with NBND each round.

@Imrahil13 that decision honours you! i myself found brooks and thengel a bit op, but i joined that alep-team after the release of thengel and overall the influence of me (an usually most single assistence persons) is very limited.

in this deck i think lothiriel is better than thengel, but the op-ness could come, using both (what is not possible in bof)

@doomguard

Yea, I've run Thengel alongisde Lothirel in a mono-spirit Last Alliance deck between Gondor and Rohan, so that Thengel could trigger off of allies such as the Riddermark's Finest, Escorts from Edoras, Minas Tirith Lampwrights, Damrod, and Derufin. It was a thematic and very fun deck, with all sorts of triggers and decisions, though definitely pretty high on the power scale (though that's true of plenty of non-ALeP decks, too).

I found the idea of an 4 spheres Rohan deck really brilliant but how do you deal with death threat or early bad guys like a troll on the Anduin banks ?

@RegisF

For the vast majority of threats, I don't find threat to be a big problem. This deck will certainly struggle against quests that ramp your threat up rapidly, like Return to Mirkwood, but for most quests you've got 2x Favor of the Valar, 2x Gandalf (Core), 2x Sneak Attack (to get extra plays out of Gandalf), and 2x Morwen Steelsheen, who offers repeatable threat reduction. While I haven't played this deck a ton yet, I've not found threating out to be a problem (yet).

With regards so situations like Journey Along the Anduin, where you're getting attacked by the Hill Troll immediately, it can certainly be an issue. Against the Hill Troll, you're looking for a couple of things to deal with the troll early. You either want to boost Erkenbrand's defense immediately and get some healing on the table, or you want to chump the Hill Troll with some disposable (read: cheap) allies. Morwen Steelsheen can come into play off of Lothiriel's "free" ally, and she can block and only result in a 2 threat raise. Similarly, you can use the Action from Elfhelm to have him sacrifice himself to the troll, which would only result in a 1 threat raise. Sneak + Gandalf (or just a first round 5 Resource Gandalf via Grima) can also block the troll. Alternatively, a first round Muster of Rohan will hopefully find a reasonable beefy ally to sacrifice, that won't raise your threat too much (and hopefully enough additional attack power to kill the troll quickly).

There far from silver bullet solutions, but these are the sorts of things I've used against the Hill Troll. In a pinch, feel free to feed it allies like Gleowine, as even thogh your threat will increase by 4, the deck may have enough answers for Threat Control down the road that it doesn't end up being a fatal raise.

I should add that chump-blocking early isn't the worst situation to be in, since once you get Gutwhine onto Eomer its nice to have a few Rohan allies in the discard pile that Eomer can retrieve with each attack.