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MightyRauros 85

Used to defeat Escape from Umbar

Argalad is a hero I have played with before but wanted to use more effectively. I see the key to him as A) keeping enemies in the staging area enough to knock them out over a few rounds or B) having a variety of ways to damage enemies while in the staging area and using Argalad as an additional point of that. Flipping through my binders this weekend, Fastred caught my eye. I know I recently gave him a mediocre review. This was due to feeling his three defense would lead to him being an ineffectual blocker and thus not useful for consistently throwing enemies back to the staging area. Consider me converted to the cause! A little buffing (Gondorian Shield, Captain of Gondor, Ally Arwen) and he works like a charm. While a quick perusal of RingsDB will see Fastred teamed with Dunhere (a great combination), I wanted to use him + Spear of the Citadel to tag-team enemies with Argalad. With the usually low amount of enemies appearing in a solo game, this should take care of attacking. The best offense is a good defense, right? I think that's how it goes.

Now to deal with questing. Argalad "kind of" quests, in removing the threat of an enemy (if there is one). Throw Light of the Valinor on him and he will often be pulling double duty. Since I wanted access to tactics for a few reasons (Fastred's equipment + Bow of the Gladhrim for Argalad), Tactics Eowyn was a no brainer. She can carry a chunk of the early questing and help out if a big attack is needed in a pinch. Add in Silvan Refugee to help with questing (since we hopefully won't be loosing anyone along the way) and Warden of Healing to help with the archery damage, then we're off to the races!

The deck worked as desired. Enemies were fairly neutralized, threat was lowered, and a quest was won. But there are some major changes I would make for attempt #3 with this one. Being tri-sphere, I was very reserved in my resource costs. I ended up with a fairly light hand and some very rich heroes. While I may regret removing A Good Harvest, I would at least take it down to a one-of. In would go two copies of Arrows from the Trees. I would also add one or two high-cost Lore & Spirit allies and replace Hail of Stones with Hasty Stroke. Those changes should help firm up the key Argalad/Fastred strategy.

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Sep 11, 2017 Odsidian22 258

I'm going to try this. I've been trying to get a good Argalad combo working, I have in a Trap/Haldir of Lórien deck right now, but this seems like another interesting take on the hero.

Sep 11, 2017 MightyRauros 85

@Odsidian22 - Argalad & Fastred is definitely a blast. Do take this as a bit of "draft 1." This deck did well enough, but I feel there's a much stronger deck to be made. Let me know what your version looks like!

Sep 11, 2017 Odsidian22 258

I really thought of using Éowyn In my deck too. As soon as I got her I had about 4 decks she went in , shes perfect for for when you need Tactics but not send your threat through the roof. Arwen plus Fastred fixes what problem people have with him; not enough defense.

Here's my attempt. ringsdb.com

Sep 12, 2017 Crabble1337 3

I think you need to adjust this deck tough @MightyRauros :( For Fastred to take the Spears he needs to get the tactic symbol... But non the less I really like your deck idea and will try my own version of it!

Sep 12, 2017 MightyRauros 85

`@Crabble1337 - Ha, shoot! Totally missed that...replace Hail of Stone with Song of Battle

Sep 12, 2017 TheChad 12578

nice hero line-up. So the ranger bow goes on the trackers? That seems odd because you would not be able to use the tracker's ability and the sphere. I would use Guardian of Ithilien because he only cost 1 if you wanted to keep the spear.

Sep 12, 2017 MightyRauros 85

@TheChad- There's definitely a lot to improve on this one! I want one tracker out (with Riversong) in case an enemy is coming out that Argalad can't get to zero threat. The bows are there to give that first tracker, and any others, additional usefulness beyond that.