Robert Wesley
Nepal
Aberdeen
Washington
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### Subject: Death in the mountains
I still love this game. Almost every time I play, something new happens -- a different situation I'd not seen before. My last session was no different.
It was near the end of the game; only two characters from each side were left, and we'd just refreshed all our cards. I had Frodo and Sam, my opponent had the Balrog and the Flying Nazgul. I was feeling pretty good. When the Dark player has this few characters left, it's almost impossible to stop Frodo, with his slippery retreat-sideways skill, from getting past and into Mordor to win.
There was only one problem: Frodo and Sam were on the wrong side of the Misty Mountains, and the Balrog was in Moria. So the passage through Moria was out, and the usual Frodo tactic -- of waiting to be attacked, sidestepping, and moving forward -- was blocked by the combination of the Misty Mountains and the Nazgul's power. Things could be delayed by moving Sam to Mordor while Frodo runs sideways from the Nazgul, but eventually Frodo would have to move into the mountains and face an unavoidable Nazgul attack. A fight could be delayed a couple more times with Retreat, and drawing out high-valued Dark attack cards, but eventually Frodo must die in the Misty Mountains.
We spent quite a while trying to figure out any tactics and card combinations that gave the good guys the win, but in the end I conceded. An interesting puzzle at the end of a good game.###
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Eric Walkingshaw
United States
Corvallis
Oregon
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Only thing I can think of is to attack the Balrog with Sam.
If you do that, you've got two options for cards: either play your Noble Sacrifice, or play a 4+. Your opponent can trump the Noble Sacrifice with the Eye or trump your number card with one of his own, but he has to choose one or the other.
If you guess right / get lucky, you take out the Balrog, Frodo slips through Moria, and you're home free. If you guess wrong, the Nazgul has a tasty lunch in the mountains.
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