[MEQ] - Middle-Earth Quest #2 - Game Over - The Dark Lord Wins

Iron Weasel

Argalad, I can give you Favor if we meet someplace.

stever777

Argalad's Travel Step may continue.

jakobagger

My quest says: 'when you would draw encounter cards in the South Eaves, combat an orc instead'. Does this in fact mean I can't complete it this turn, since I'll be getting a peril instead of an encounter card?

stever777

Peril takes place in a different phase than encounters, so, no, you're good.

jakobagger

Alright, then I'll push my luck and stay to fight the orc.

The Forest Must Provide No Refuge - whether for minions or monsters! Murder everything in the South Eaves (hopefully)!

stever777

Orc stats -
Fortitude 5
Strength 4
Wisdom 2
Hit Points 3
Type: Zealot
Ranged/Melee Deck Ratio: 3/2
Special: Fanatical: If both you and your opponent play Melee cards, deal your opponent 1 damage.


2. Preparation
Sauron draws 5 Zealot Combat cards.
Argalad has to decide how he wants to spend his 3 Agility; Hero cards, additional Str or a combination of the two.

Then, both just play their first card in Handtracker, do nothing else and I will resolve the first round's effects in the next post.

NotoriusBEN

quick question... what is the current distribution of cards in argalad's pools?
How many in his hand?
How much in life pool?
rest pool?
damage pool?

stever777

NotoriusBEN wrote: »

quick question... what is the current distribution of cards in argalad's pools?
How many in his hand?
How much in life pool?
rest pool?
damage pool?

2
7
7 + 1 Skill Card
9

NotoriusBEN

Card is played.

jakobagger

Using all my agility to draw three cards.

Iron Weasel

Feather 'im, Argalad!

stever777

Round One!
Orc runs!

ARGALAD
Volley - Ranged - Att2/Def2/Str2 - Next round, gain +2 attack if you play a Ranged card. - Desert

ORC
Fall Back - Ranged - Att1/Def1/Str1 - Next round, if your opponent plays a Melee card, it is canceled.


c. Calculate Strength:
ARGALAD has used 2 Str.
ORC has used 1 Str.
Neither is Exhausted.

e. Current Round Abilities: Abilities from cards played this round are resolved (hero first).
Activated: ARGALAD - Next round, gain +2 attack if you play a Ranged card.
Activated: ORC - Next round, if your opponent plays a Melee card, it is canceled.

f. Deal Damage:
ORC takes 1 hit - ARGALAD's Att2 - ORC's Def1

ORC Hit Points 2


ARGALAD gets +2 attack if he plays a Ranged card next round.
ARGALAD card is canceled if he plays a Melee card next round.

Hmm, what type will he play?


Continue.
Play another card in Handtracker, do nothing else and I will resolve the second round.

NotoriusBEN

sorry, was really tired this afternoon. card played.
reviewing the cards, I should have saved the crebain for this little elf... its a 50/50 shot right now

stever777

Round Two!
Ouch! Arrows hurt!

ARGALAD
Overdraw - Ranged - Att2/Def0/Str1 - Gain +2 attack if your opponent plays a Ranged card. - Forest

ORC
Ranged Strike - Ranged - Att1/Def1/Str1 - Gain +2 attack if your opponent plays a Ranged card.


c. Calculate Strength:
ARGALAD has used 3 Str.
ORC has used 2 Str.
Neither is Exhausted.

d. Previous Round Abilities:
Activated: ARGALAD gets +2 attack if he plays a Ranged card this round.

e. Current Round Abilities: Abilities from cards played this round are resolved (hero first).
Activated: ARGALAD - Gain +2 attack if your opponent plays a Ranged card.
Activated: ORC - Gain +2 attack if your opponent plays a Ranged card.

f. Deal Damage:
ARGALAD takes 3 hits - ORC's Att1 +2 Current Round's Ability
ORC takes 5 hits - ARGALAD's Att2 - ORC's Def1 +2 Previous Round's Ability +2 Current Round's Ability

ORC dies.

I'll draw 3 cards from Argalad's Life Pool for the damage.

Sauron should discard the remaining Zealot Combat cards.


Argalad accomplishes his Starting Quest, which he should discard from his hand.
Result: Receive Training.
A hero who receives training draws the top 2 cards of the Skill deck, chooses one to place into her hand, and discards the other faceup.
(Link discarded card to here.)

ARGALAD'S ADVANCED QUEST
Echoes of Bolg's Army - Task: Explore Mount Gundabad. - Result: Gain 2 favor or 1 level of fortitude. Then force Sauron to discard 1 random Shadow card from his hand.

NotoriusBEN

cards discarded. the elf must rest soon, and my machinations continue apace.

Iron Weasel

Uh, guess I'd better pick up the pace, huh? I'm tooling around with Theoden while my allies battle Evil.

jakobagger

Awesome. Like the SU&SD guys said about this game: actual heroics! But holy shit Argalad could use a breather - he was weary and despondent even before this ordeal, imagine how he's feeling now.

Discarding ready.

Iron Weasel

I assumed that Argalad must be feeling pretty creaking boss right now.

stever777

A bit out of order but I forgot to give Argalad the opportunity to Consult with Aragorn.
Aragorn in South Eaves. (2 Favor or Gain 1 Agility.)
Which will you choose?

jakobagger

You did that already actually, but maybe I didn't answer clearly enough? Anyway, I chose to gain 2 favor from Aragorn.

stever777

Oh, yeah.
Duh.

NotoriusBEN

I'm pretty sure, stever is being a peach and working on it already, but could I have all the heroe's current status cards with the map update? its such a bother shifting between 3 pages at the moment.

stever777

I'm at work & can't use Vassal here, which is what I use for the board.
I'll get to it when I get home in a while.

stever777

Sauron's Turn -

1. Hero Rally
3 Influence removed in The South Eaves.

2. Story
Heroes' Story Token moves 2 spaces.
Sauron's Conquest (RED) Story Token is moved 2 spaces.

Beravor of Eriador - caliber

Location: Bree (Eriador)
Hand Size: 1 +1 Skill Card
Life Pool: 11
Rest Pool: 11
Damage Pool: 2
Favor: 2
Items:
Quests:
Bones of a Darkness Past - Task: Explore the Ruins of Angmar. - Result: Gain 2 favor and 1 level of agility.
A Shadow Connection - Explore the South Eaves. Reward: Gain 2 favor and shuffle your rest pool into your life pool.
The Black Pit - Explore Moria. Reward: Gain 2 favor and receive training.
Advancements: 1 Skill Card; +1 Wisdom
Corruption:
Special: Survivalist - When you rest in a non-Haven location, you may heal or recieve training.

Eleanor of Gondor - Iron Weasel

Location: Edoras (Rohan)
Hand Size: 2
Life Pool: 13
Rest Pool: 10
Damage Pool: 0
Favor: 5
Items:
Quests: Where the Stars are Strange - Task: Explore Near Harad or combat the Black Serpent. - Result: Gain 1 level of strength and receive training. Then place Denethor in Minas Tirith and reveal Eleanor's Advanced Quest.
Advancements:
Corruption: Reckless - When Sauron draws Peril cards on your turn, he may draw 1 additional card. - 1 Favor Removal Cost
Special: Noble Bloodline - Once per turn, gain 1 Favor when you complete a Quest or consult a Character.

Argalad of Mirkwood - jakobagger

Location: The South Eaves (Mirkwood)
Hand Size: 3 + 1 Skill Card
Life Pool: 1
Rest Pool: 9 + 1 Skill Card
Damage Pool: 12
Favor: 2
Items:
Quests: Echoes of Bolg's Army - Task: Explore Mount Gundabad. - Result: Gain 2 favor or 1 level of fortitude. Then force Sauron to discard 1 random Shadow card from his hand.
Advancements: 2 Skill Cards
Corruption:
Weary - Your fortitude is reduced by 1. - 2 Favor Removal Cost
Despondent - When you rest or are defeated, the left-most Sauron victory marker is advanced 2 spaces (instead of 1) - 3 Favor Removal Cost
Special: Scout - Once per turn, you may look at the faces of all monster tokens in an adjacent location.

There is now 1 character on the board, offering Hero's choice of Favor or something else.
Boromir is in Near Harad. (2 Favor or Gain 1 Strength.)

Location Reference

3. Plot
Sauron may play a single Plot card from his hand to the Active Plot Track or discard an active Plot card. The number in the top left of the card is the minimum amount of influence that must be in the Shadow Pool.

NotoriusBEN

Yea, Boromir has things to do. Like figure out how to not get shot by arrows in the 1st part of a trilogy.

RING PLOT (GOLD) - Urgent Summons - Inf4/Fav3/Adv2 - Loc: Any - Req: Location must contain one character and no other plot markers - Effects: Characters in this location are returned to the Favor and Character Pool

4 Influence Required
3 Favor to Remove
2 Advances of the Ring Marker

stever777

4. Event
Heroes are dominant: resolve the card with the lowest priority number.

EOMER & EOWYN ARE ORPHANED -
Sauron may discard 1 Favor or 1 Character from Rohan.
1 Favor placed in Rhosgobel and Denethor placed in Pelargir.

No Favor or Characters in Rohan.
Denethor is placed in Pelargir. (2 Favor or pay 3 Favor to advance Heroes' Story Token 1 space.)
Favor placed in Rhosgobel.


5. Action
Sauron may take 3 actions, placing action tokens on the leftmost empty spaces of the appropriate Action Tracks, then resolving the action.
Since there are 3 tokens already on the tracks, once Sauron chooses to place his first token this turn, the other three are picked up, making the more valuable actions available again.

Sauron's Action Section of the Board (bottom right) -
6 - 5 - 4
Place Influence - Gain X Influence. You may place up to 2 of these in the Shadow Pool and the rest in extension of Shadow Strongholds.
2 - 2 - 1
Draw Shadow and Plot Cards - Draw X Shadow Cards and X Plot Cards. Keep all Shadow Cards & 1 Plot Card.
3 - 2 - 1
Receive Commands - Command up to X Minions/Monster tokens. You may not place more than 1 Monster token.

NotoriusBEN

1. Draw 2 Shadow and 2 Plot Cards.

Cards Drawn.... Plot Card Discarded

2. Command Minions/Monsters
-Monster Placed in the Nindales via Black Serpent
-Black Serpent moves to Helms Deep

3. Draw 2 Shadow and 2 Plot Cards.

Cards Drawn... Plot Card Discarded.

Oh... by the way...

SHADOW - Pool Req'd = 4 - Storms of Mordor - Play during your Action step. - Each hero must choose and discard cards from his hand, until he has 5 or less cards in his hand. Each hero must then discard 1 random card from his hand for each Corruption card on him.

It seems rather unlikely that the elf will have the proper cards in his hand and life pool to make it to a haven...

stever777

Beravor loses none, Eleanor loses one & Argalad loses two.

Random Card Selection Rolls #1 & #2 (E & A1)
Random Card Selection Rolls #3 (A2)

Eleanor loses the top card in her current HT held card list & Argalad loses the second and the bottom card in his current HT held card list.

stever777

Once that's done -

@caliber
@Iron Weasel
@jakobagger

6. Hero Draw
Heroes draw number of cards equal to their Fortitude, i.e. six, six, & only one available (PLEASE stop after 1, as HT auto-shuffles after the deck is empty.).

stever777

Beravor of Eriador - @caliber - Beginning of turn

Location: Bree (Eriador)
Hand Size: 7 +1 Skill Card
Life Pool: 5
Rest Pool: 11
Damage Pool: 2
Favor: 2
Items:
Quests:
Bones of a Darkness Past - Task: Explore the Ruins of Angmar. - Result: Gain 2 favor and 1 level of agility.
A Shadow Connection - Explore the South Eaves. Reward: Gain 2 favor and shuffle your rest pool into your life pool.
The Black Pit - Explore Moria. Reward: Gain 2 favor and receive training.
Advancements: 1 Skill Card; +1 Wisdom
Corruption:
Special: Survivalist - When you rest in a non-Haven location, you may heal or recieve training.

There is now 1 character on the board, offering Hero's choice of Favor or something else.
Denethor is in Pelargir. (2 Favor or pay 3 Favor to advance Heroes' Story Token 1 space.)

Location Reference

Will Sauron play a Shadow card on Beravor at the start of the turn?

NotoriusBEN

Nope, all is going according to plan.

stever777

1. Rest
Doubt it.

2. Ambush
No Baddies in your location.

3. Travel
Hit the road!

caliber

Cards drawn and ready to go!

Any card to Fornost.
Hill to the North Downs.
Desert to the Ruins of Angmar.

I'm going in! I'm guessing I'm ending up with a Peril card here so I'll hold off moving on after that.

Do I explore and complete my quest first or does the Peril card hit first?:D

NotoriusBEN

Peril card hits you first. Im not sure if Stever or myself will draw the cards though

Capfalcon

You do. Draw 'em, pick which one applies, then discard the rest.

NotoriusBEN

Thank you, Dark Brother.
Drawn and:

PERIL - An Unexpected Betrayal - Any Location - The hero must choose to either be dealt 5 damage or allow Sauron to draw 1 Plot card and 1 Shadow card.

All peril cards discarded, @Stever777 .

caliber

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

On one hand, 5 damage is a lot. On the other, I think you normally only get a shadow/plot card for every one of your turns, so another draw is a big deal. What do you guys think? Is preventing a draw worth the rest of my life pool?

Iron Weasel

Wait, would that KO you?

NotoriusBEN

as fantastic as that would be, no, it would not defeat Beravor. He still has cards in his hand. Now... if he were to fight a monster, things would get tricky because as you may have guessed, your health is tied to the cards you use to fight, so I would be taking the very cards he is using to fight me from his hand to shield against the damage.

Iron Weasel

I'm in favor of soaking the damage, but it's not my ass on the line.

Also, it's Saturday and I'm on my phone, so I'll get caught up this evening.