Road to Rivendell - Progression

This is a fairly easy scenario, a bunch of orcs swarming you. Lots of combat oriented card and action advantage and you are good to go. We actually did not one shot this, however. The first playthrough we had so many allies, attachments, healthy heroes, etc. We were almost done and we drew 2 "Orc Ambush" cards in a row with no cancellation. So unfortunate, probably the worst this encounter deck could do. Because we were so far along the first one brought a billion orcs out of discard pile into staging area and the second made them all engage that turn. Even if we got one of those cards we would have been just fine but 2 was too much. Anyway, aside from that silly happening, the next playthrough was a breeze and we beat it handily.