With finals over as of yesterday, I sat down to finally get down to business. Dwarves pulled it out against the Flight to the Ford - guess their stubby little legs can outrun the Nazgul after all (cause they certainly weren't riding horses). I pushed it really hard, used Frodo's ability when needed to save my low health dwarven allies, and even washed away the Witch King. I ended up simply beating the quest by questing super hard - I had a timely "Untroubled by Darkness" which helped boost the willpower of the board state pretty high. Onward we go later this weekend!

Oh it was still a great game! Learned a lot about what I need to do and such. The treachery "Power in Their Terror" ruined me mid-game...with so many dwarves at little HP (no hardy leadership on the table) they got beat down pretty quickly. I thought that was the straw there, and thought about scooping, but decided to push forth, and nearly came back. Was a great game!

Last weekend I did try the first quest (Flight) with the dwarves. I actually recorded turn-by-turn play, but its a lot to type. I lost, but I literally lost, by 1 quest point, on the final round. It was a sad day indeed. I'm going to try to get into it again soon, but with finals approaching it might be a few weeks until I can provide results. Is that ok?

Here we go - Dwarven Decks: http://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/2129/seastan-s-hero-auction

I've locked in my heroes, but it is not reflected there. (I figure you just ran out of time, so here you go)(can't find the table, but I made this up in Excel of course so it won't copy over 100%, but the data is accurate) jjohnson111 Bid Reg. Cost Starting Threat (Overall) Gimli (Le) 10 11 -1 Thorin 8 11 -1 Nori 8 9 -1 Oin 4 8 -4 Dwalin 5 9 -4 Ori 7 8 -1 42 56 -14 In relation to decks: I have some thoughts and have essentially created them on rings.db, but I'm not 100% on either of them at this point. Is it OK to submit rough drafts? I assume once we hit the ground running we'll still have the options to swap stuff out of a sideboard or something, right? Or are we stuck with exactly what we provide to you as a deck list? Thanks for all the organization for this!

Nice, got all 6 of my heroes. Time to start putting decks together and trying this 2-handed thingy!

This was discussed at least over on Reddit...Thorin's picture is linked there: Reddit I haven't seen or heard of this Beregond though....I wouldn't be surprised it if was by the same artist, and on the same page...maybe the 4th row 1st on the left?

Since I was just outbid for Haldir, I will go after: Ori - 7 Also, I'll put in bids for 3 Dwarves that haven't gotten a bid yet and run 2-handed, if that's ok. Thorin Oakenshield - 8 Oin - 4 Dwalin - 5

Is it OK to decide to run 2-handed solo at this point? I've never done it, and this could be a good chance to try it out and see how it rolls. It pains me to see so many Dwarves unloved.

Ok, had a feeling that would be the case. Thanks for the quick reply!

Are we allowed to drop our current bid on a hero we are leading in for one you have added? Just curious....

Dropping Bifur for now: (aka I was outbid) Haldir - 8

Love the idea here, mainly because I have been crazy enough to collect a whole bunch of the nightmare quests (think I own them all...up to the ringmaker cycle at least...including sagas) and I want to play them once I have finished playing all the quests on normal mode. Will make sure to follow your posts!

When we get around to the quests, should we keep score in order to see who gets bragging rights? Here we go with my bids: Nori - 8 Bifur - 5 Gimli (Le) - 10

It's a fun deck for sure! Have fun with it if you get there!