A Rough Visit to Moria -- War of the Ring 2024 World Tournament

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[@steave435]

25:25 once you're already in W Harrandor, it's honestly not worth using corsairs. Move back and corsairs is 2 dice while just attacking in is 3 dice, and you get Pelargir in the process. Maybe if Gondor isn't at war yet, but when they are, you're not getting around them mustering. It's much better as a reinforcement card or a deadly strife.
57:30 With Mithril, I'd rather risk moving this turn even with the risk of losing instantly, than risk not getting the movement needed. 3 movement plus extra for reveals next turn is just too likely to not happen, while Bilbos plus the blue tiles should get you across the line even if you have to use Mithril here. Pretty likely to roll a palantir so you get Bilbo for free next turn anyway, or you can spend a movement from next turn to Bilbo then instead of now. 60% of the time you get one step up without even needing to Mithril, and you only straight up lose 13% of the time, or about 1 in 8.
With how it worked out, it didn't matter though of course.
I'm not sure exactly when, but I do feel like it would have been worth playing more rohan cards earlier. Especially Eomer to make sure you could get both that and the movement from Westernmet in. If that random north muster at the start had gone to Rohan like you were talking about, Red Arrow could have pushed them all the way to war and pottentially gotten them causing some serious trouble too.
This kind of situation is also why I like to move the Westernmet troops in a bit ahead of time when given the chance. I'd normally prioritize that over playing event cards with wills.

[@NigelIncubatorJones]

Great stuff. Glad to have you back, Ira. I'd love to see you play and comment on some LoME+KoME games.

[@simontorstensson5305]

Love your videos, happy to see you upload!

[@matthewferguson5312]

Good to see you back! Looking forward to getting into this

[@joshuavandusseldorp7534]

@47:30 The odds are 2.652% of successfully destroying the ring with all successful pulls in a row.

[@tothepanels]

Just had a turn 13 FPMV and the same exact thing happen to my FSP with Lome Balrog and WK!

[@KolosBros]

Hello Champ!
I wanna start with telling ya that I love Your videos - I've learned a lot from them and I really enjoy them!
I have a one question though - can You please tell me what happens when Grima is in play and Rohan is attacked in Fords of Isen? Rohan is not activated but it is still moving down on political track right? I couldnt find information on that and I just realised I played it wrong for all that time :|

[@alexdenham85]

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[@RIP_Sinners]

Shadows Gather from Folde to Lossarnach looks suspiciously inefficient. DA is 5 spaces away from where the WK was in Westement, if you go round the other way. Also, Considering Rohan and Gondor are contained, SP could probably just wait to Gather the WK to DA until after HD falls, and avoid the complication of losing Saruman to a double Ents, or having a hilariously bad round of combat in HD without reinforcements nearby.

[@adamthebatmanwest]

7:11 it always happens 😂

[@Keshgar]

More LotR, nice! Btw, have you tried the card game War of the Ring? How do you like it?

[@tothepanels]

Ever get LOME or WOME gameplays? Curious to see how you play out those options

[@tayleobagwell3523]

Will you be playing some games with the new expansion?