29 - Assault on Osgiliath (Progression Series)

This is another fellowship continuing on in my goal to play through all of the quests in release order to learn how all (or most) of the cards interact with one another. The first fellowship for the quests in the core set can be found here, and it contains a slightly more detailed overview of what I'm going for with building these decks. As always, any feedback is appreciated so that I can continue to learn more!

I really enjoyed my experience with a couple of mono-sphere decks in the previous quests, so I decided to double down on it here (which also helps make some of the encounter cards in this quest a lot easier to deal with). I opted to use a couple of heroes that I haven't used in a while, with Legolas making his first appearance since Journey to Rhosgobel, Hama in only his second appearance, and Eowyn for the first time since Dwarrodelf. The other hero slots were no brainers, with Beregond there to take some attacks and Frodo and Glorfindel being the only two other spirit heroes that are really usable outside a dwarf deck/really specific planning.

The Spirit deck is pretty much all about questing power. Frodo can absorb some attacks as threat pretty easily, and once some allies are out on the board this deck can handle the questing without any help from the Tactics deck (which is good, since it's really bad at questing traditionally). Against the Shadow can help with the occasional location that forces siege questing. It can be nice to use this deck to optionally engage an enemy every once in a while to let Frodo take an attack. This can clear some of the threat out of the staging area pretty well in the early game.

The Tactics deck is there to let Beregond take a bunch of hits and then have Legolas place progress whenever possible. Since the deck is fairly light on expensive cards, it will usually be the one paying resource tokens to get rid of that one location that forces that.