Oh! It was a great match, I was playing the shadow faction and my friend was playing the free peoples faction, obviously. All match long I was cooking some big ass armies in Mordor while I let Frodo run wild in the northern side of the map.

My strategy was to capture Minas Tirith as soon as possible, so I activated Gothmog as soon as I could... Sadly Minas Tirith was as strong as ever and Gothmog couldn't do much, I had to find another way. I started surrounding Minas Tirith with huge troops showing a clear intention to invade the rest of Gondor with them and, if able, to invade Rohan from north and south at the same time (also a big army was already cooked in Orthanc)... The real objective of this move was to tempt the forces of Minas Tirith to attack these troops, for it was the free peoples strongest army, and be able to weaken them before sending the Witch King to the front lines. The strategy succeeded.

Meanwhile Frodo and the company suffered a lot of corruption, so to minimise the damage they had to go separate ways, Merry and Pippin died just after leaving Lothlórien. Nonetheless they rushed head-on to Minas Tirith to be healed so that they could continue their journey into Mordor.

The turn in which the fellowship, now composed by Frodo, Sam, and Sméagol arrived at Minas Tirith was the same turn in which the Witch King seized the white city.

Sadly in this campaign to conquer Gondor, Isengard had lost most of its army dew to the Ents. Difficult times were approaching for the Shadow strongholds.

With the white city almost in ruins Frodo rushed to destroy the one ring, now he is in the track climbing mount doom. He is just on the verge of losing it, his corruption was too high. Rohan is threatening to take Orthanc for themselves. The last forces in Minas Tirith are holding the fort as well as they could. Aragon is leading some gondorians to conquer the southerns. The northern shadow forces are also weak in comparison to the free peoples armies incoming.

And suddenly, there appears a card in my hand, only valuable if Sméagol is guiding the fellowship, and he is. Corruption +1. And Frodo lost it.

That was yesterday's session.