A Path Less Traveled: Helms Deep

I have decided to start a variant on the Saga Campaign. Personally, I felt the strict hero requirements for the majority of the official saga campaign to be more frustrating than fun. My main goal is to balance theme with overall fun for playing each of the quests in the saga all while using as many new cards and archetypes as possible.

This deck was ALL Rohan! With the new ALEP cards a 2p Rohan fellowship is very powerful!

The Rohan Swarm deck spammed allies and took on the main role of questing. Thror's key was huge for the difficult locations. Also Backtrack is a great tech card for this quest. Once the first main quest card was up to 6 progress I just used backtrack to knock off a location in staging, ideally at the end of the round where the clearing effect would whiff AND quest card back to zero!

The Mount Mayhem deck took advantage of Elfhelm to make Eomer and Erkenbrand just beasts. Eomer had the two boons that gave warrior trait and plus 1 attack and -2 defense when attacking alone. Add on Guthwine, Firefoot AND the characters leaving each round from the other deck and Eomer was swinging for 11! He could even have ranged to take the other players enemy out and then the excess damage take out his engaged enemy. Erkenbrand had forewarned and armored destrier and in total he was defending for 7 and almost all shadow cards were cancelled!