u/texascpa

So, my wife and I were moving into the Uruk-Hai scenario (Treason of Saruman saga) last night when I realized that 50 cards in a deck were a minimum, not maximum! For some reason I had it in my head that we could only have 50 cards (thank you Arkham Horror and your 30 card limit! /sarcasm). When I mentioned this to her, she went all out on her deck. In the 50 card maximum decks, she would have 1, maybe 2 of everything that would interest her. Very hard for her to focus on a specific strategy for her deck, but that's ok, part of the fun...and frustration...of deck building. Now, she had an open door to include multiple copies of anything and everything that interested her. Her deck size in Uruk-Hai....102 cards, not including boons! LOL. And she kicked ass, particularly given that we only play 2 heroes in that scenario so resources are limited early on.

Interested in hearing what others deck sizes normally are and what are some of the biggest decks you've seen or played with.

Backdrop, we're (2 players) playing through the full Fellowship Campaign, using only the Core (not revised) and player cards available to us at that point in the campaign. So, for the first three scenarios we used cards from Core and The Black Riders. We now have cards from The Road Darkens. It's been rough to say the least.

We finally got to scenario 5 - Journey in the Dark - and just can't get through it. We even tried to make things easier by changing heroes without taking threat penalty, removing orange cards and starting with 2 resources for each hero. Only made it Scenario card 3 once! It was enough that by the 7th attempt and a BS shadow effect that removed shield from Gimli and effectively killed him, that I threw in the towel and packed things up. I'm very frustrated. This scenario just seems unwinnable.

We were using a hobbit deck - Mary, Sam and Pippen, and a deck with Gandolph, Eowyn and Gimli. Unfortunately, Aragorn was already dead by this scenario, so he wasn't available. We focused on allies and slow playing Doom, Doom, Doom, while rushing the first stage with heavy questing. However, either a treachery card or shadow effect would destroy our plans, time and time again.

Looking for any help before I just give up on the game completely.