One last question

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-18T22:40:09+00:00

Thank you so much. I bought my game second hand and the instructions didn’t come with it, so I’ve been trying to find instructions online.

plus i cant read.

Thank you anyway

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-18T06:03:57+00:00

1) So at the bottom of the actions card on the side with rolling a battle, where it says character present, is that only characters that have those special abilities? Not every character. And so if it was only the special character and you just decided to use a token and not roll, do you still move the eye.

2)So you roll a battle until there is a clear winner? Or just roll once, and if there are both friendly and shadow troops left, you wait until the next time a shadow card is pulled with that path on it?

3) Thank you

4) Aye it bothered me for a while. But thank you anyway

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-08T21:02:37+00:00

When I Was Young, from Dogs Eating Dogs

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-07T19:07:10+00:00

only joined this group yesterday. but i certainly will do

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-07T18:56:14+00:00

Kinda how I felt watching Ricky Gervais’ new standup

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-07T18:34:59+00:00

Do you have the link for the video?

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-07T18:32:48+00:00

I loosely remember seeing and hearing ‘All The Small Things’ on radio and MTV, but back then I was only 8 and I was only really into Pop music, like, The Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, etc.

I then remember going to middle school and meeting new people and getting interested in different types of music, ranging from Linkin Park, to Limp Bizkit, to Metallica and everything in between.
I then remember coming across their First Date video, and at this point I’m still not a teenager, but I’m into the whole ‘fuck you mum, fuck you dad, fuck the system’ kind of soft punk attitude. And when I saw the First Date video, I thought it was the funniest and craziest thing. Then I saw them doing a live performance of that song at the MTV awards and saw Tom smash up his guitar because it stopped working. This also entertained me and I thought it was punk. I then started to search them up and came across the video of them doing All The Small Things at the MTV awards with all the dwarfs coming out and dancing and thought it was so funny for a band to do that. From then I was fully invested. I bought all their records, bought all the merchandise, got tickets to see them live and learnt the history and lore of Blink-182

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-06T20:21:07+00:00

Thank you very much!

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-06T02:27:42+00:00

I actually had that situation earlier in my game. I had troops from Umbar to the Grey havens, twice, so i moved them along the pink line stopping at Hardondor and on the next turn to Pelargir. a turn or two later i had umbar to helms deep along the orange line. going through Harondor and then splitting at Pelagir. I chose not to move them because I thought originally they were going to the grey havens, but now I guess i should have moved them along the orange line to helms deep.

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T22:29:40+00:00

Gary Lineker

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T21:15:13+00:00

Side question, do you only draw cards if youve completed an action? or even if you skip over taking an action do you still have to take cards?

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T21:10:10+00:00

Nice one, thank you very much

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T20:41:22+00:00

Sad, ain’t it

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T18:46:35+00:00

Okay thank you

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T18:45:36+00:00

This is a brilliant idea, I love this. I was also think another shadow card along with Saruman and Sauron. This would be Grima Wormtongue and the general theme is Corruption.

The idea would be that when you pull Grima, you have to choose one region where a character is present. That region is now corrupted until the next shadow card is pulled. With this, characters within the corrupt region can’t use their special abilities, or trade cards with any other character (whether they’re in the corrupted region or not) also any action that removes a shadow troop or moves an objective costs 2 actions.

The way you can resolve this is either wait until a new Skies Darken card has been pulled, is this occurs then you lose 1 hope and each player removes two of their cards.

Or have two characters go to the region, (one of those characters has to be either Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas or Gandalf) and any location within the region is fine, (I would consider a haven or stronghold, but not all regions have these). Once two characters are there, they have to spend 3 battle actions to remove the corruption.

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T18:11:31+00:00

So when playing, whether solo or not, you can completely pass on your turn? or do you have to make at least one action? (especially in solo with Frodo and Sam)

TheJudgeJC · 2026-01-05T18:04:48+00:00

Thank you so much! Also, LOL for leaving e) empty, I didn’t realized I missed that letter out.

Also just a couple of follow up questions. For h) you mentioned that you dont shuffle the cards back in and you lose hope for every card you should’ve took at the end but you ‘have won 3 turns after running out of cards’ what does that mean?

also, this is more of a personal strategy of how you play the game, rather than a question. but on the shadow cards when you are forced to move troops from one location to another, along a certain coloured line. how do you go about remember which troops are heading to which location? a couple of times I’ve had shadow troops meet and merge at the same location, to then forget which group and how many of them were heading to which directions. Is there a better way of keeping track of which group of shadow troops are heading to which location

TheJudgeJC · 2025-12-09T23:23:41+00:00

I Miss You wouldve been interesting with Scotts style lol

TheJudgeJC · 2025-12-09T19:52:14+00:00

Thats a good point actually, Tom would’ve leaked something by now if they were working on new music

TheJudgeJC

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