The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game Playthrough

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4:28 hello everyone welcome to robs gaming table I'm Rob I'm and we're here to play The Lord of the Rings Adventure book game published by Ravensburger um we're going to play it live for you guys we've never played before we're going to like literally unbox it learn it play it with you guys all day long uh for those that don't know uh CU you're watching this in the future this was uh streamed live on New Year's Day 2025 so happy New Year to anyone watching this within the next month uh after that it's not acceptable to say happy New Year um so hello welcome welcome to Rob's gaming table uh where we play lot of Lord of the Rings board games card games and stuff on the channel so if you found this randomly uh cuz you purchased it on the Shelf at your local Target for like $35 uh you're cool uh welcome to the modern board game hobby um and and welcome to your entry into that universe and to our Channel yeah the rabbit hole gets uh deeper from there but welcome and if you've been watching our Channel already uh I'm sorry um but yeah thank you thank you for joining us thanks to these folks for supporting us here uh allowing us to stream this For You full disclosure we purchased this game ourselves from I don't remember where and when local game store probably here in Canada but we might have grabbed it at a Target when we were traveling through the US going to Gen Con but I don't remember but I remember seeing it there I just don't remember if that's when we bought it but had it in the collection for a little bit finally getting to the table thought it'd be a great thing to stream all day uh since it's kind of meant to be played in one many hour sitting but you can kind of save it sort of it's like kind of describes how to

5:58 save the game it's not intended really it seems to be that way but uh it is no fail forward you got to keep failing at little scenarios until you complete through eight of them I believe it is uh in the box so we're going to play through the entire story of Lord of the Rings which uh is something no one is familiar with in tabletop G gaming I'm sure so this is going to be brand new the story is brand new to you guys right spoilers spoilers big spoilers uh there's some little hobbit type creatures that are going to do something important with the help of wizards and elves and stuff there's a ring or something involved yeah I don't even know what it's all about brand new story never heard of it before uh I'm just kidding I already said we played lots of Lord of Rings games on the channel so I've like ruined that I did it backwards I should have oh yeah made the joke first but I'm a little tired today so uh good thing we're going to be streaming for like the next six hours playing this thing uh it doesn't look too complicated but maybe a little challenging but good thing we have people watching live who are going to help us cheat I mean play along with us so we can break the one to four player limit uh and destroy it all together we'll put all our minds together it'll be like the equivalent of like two and a half players and we'll uh crush this thing we'll crush it um but yeah anyways yeah we're going to play through it today uh similar to how we did last year on New Year's Day we played Lord of the Rings the deck building game kind of fun cheesy not the best game ever but gave those Nostalgia feels of Playing Lord of the Rings all day you know normally we'd like binge the movies all day I'd Force Mel to watch them and then we watch them all day long uh kind of thing on days like this where everyone's kind of off we're chilling everyone's a little tired everyone stayed up late kind of thing um some people watch sports all day I've heard I've heard that's a thing really

7:29 yeah I don't know I don't know some people do that but anyways so like what sport I I don't know football probably college football basketball I don't know hockey I don't know what they're doing nowadays in any sports but um so instead of just sitting on the butt watching we're going to play through yeah the Lord of the Rings story movies uh it has to be the movies cuz they're using like the same the same logo uh as you see on the screen above me there it's like the logo for the Lord of Rings movies I think Jacko 24 months thank you so so much thank you for being a member for two freaking Years Happy New Year Happy New Year to you too hello hello Year to you uh Kurt the Viking thank you for the Super Chat thank you thank you you are very generous my friend says happy new year thanks for all the Lord of the Rings goodness a thankk you for thank you for watching it allowing me to get away with doing it so much I appreciate that yeah I thought people would be sick of it by now we keep playing the same story over and over again and different forms and uh I love it I never get com back for reason I don't know what it is idiots mean thank you we're tricking them oh yeah they're not bored of it yet I don't know what's going on but I love playing all different types of uh games using the intellectual property for Lord of the Rings uh most of them are good so that I've played so far there's many I have never played some that are out of print that I can't get that I'm not going to pay extra for but I'm sure we'll get reprinted in the future but yeah it's it's my uh what I like to do same story same characters love it Mike thank you thank you so much for the Super Chat and some to offset that

9:00 fee chat thank you mik thank you thank you thank you so much off good evening or good afternoon or good day happy New Year happy New Year free free that free chat oh the free chat I get it okay I was like I get it I get it I missed something I'm not too quick oh Yi's got spoilers Sauron wins I don't know who this Sauron is uh but I I I thought actually I think I know sa is that's he's like been wiped from existence like we don't have to worry about him anymore right he's like a wizard right I don't know no no he's just not around anymore he was destroyed a long time ago we don't have to worry about him we're just going to have breakfast second breakfast third breakfast and have a good time in the sh we're chilling have some birthday parties and stuff there's nothing going on hopefully nothing H bad happens yeah um car witch thank you so much for rejoining the channel thank you thank you thank you for clicking that join button and supporting us here thank you much guys say Happy New Year to all of you thank you thank you everyone's coming in saying hi happy New Year thank you thank you so much hope everyone had a wonderful night yep yes yes yes yeah hopefully we'll play this all today as the plan if for some reason it gets late or like like just or like hit a hit a brick wall we'll continue it in a future stream if you're looking for that stream I'll link it below in the video description if it happens but hopefully we'll play through this all today it's not the first time I've ever played a super long stream all day on your's day or in general so we should be fine uh we'll take breaks if needed coffee or something uh I don't have yet but I'll get one I'll get one a

10:31 little later okay um we'll be fine and uh yeah we'll try to play it all day that's why the stream is probably so long if you're looking at the video you're like what the hell this little $35 game why why is there stream like six plus hours who knows but that's that's at least the plan yeah cuz I guess people may not understand that we're trying to play through the whole game and not just like one scenario and what I did I scheduled Lord of the Rings The Living card game continuing our campaign tomorrow but I will bump that and maybe just keep this on the table we'll just continue it the next day instead of wrapping it up and saving it and all that stuff we'll just leave it on the table and continue the next day so stay tuned mark thank you so much for being a producer for 27 months thank you so much s months happy New Year 2025 yes 2025 to you as well thank you thank you Mark says I fall behind on recent streams uh technically you don't fall behind you don't need to fall behind falling behind is not a thing no no no you not expected to watch live like just like Netflix doesn't expect you to watch every show the day they drop it okay it's just building a catalog of entertainment I know people find the channel every day I know people find the channel through certain games I know people go back and watch the old stuff I know people buy a game whenever it's available to them it's not like something the problem in board gaming is like what I've noticed is uh it's just like TV now it's not like scheduled appointment TV it's like you watch things when you want to or when someone mentions it to you or when you buy your Apple TV subscription once a year to watch the only the good shows and then cancel it to go watch another service

12:03 that's the way I want this to be and I know board gaming is the same way where the I bought this game this year but this is a game from a year and a half ago okay not everyone adds the games to their collection at the same time or discovers a game sometimes the game needs to be reprinted uh needs a second edition needs a new friend to teach you it a coworker to to show you the Hobby and then you start diving on the rabbit hole and find all these games from the last 10 years that are amazing I want you to be able to just go online find a video for that and watch it I just like doing this live it is more interesting more fun to do with people live I love it um but I know majority of the people watch our content as videos later when it's convenient for them so never feel sorry never feel bad for not being here live I always joke about that it's a joke ongoing joke of like hey everyone thanks for doing live and the rest of you you know screw off kind of thing but I know most people watch it later and that's why sometimes ween taking breaks or super long intros some people don't care about that but they can scrub through they have the advantage of scrubbing through um so I don't care we just play long form we play it live and if you want to watch it later at two times speed or 6 years from now it's there on YouTube that's the beauty of YouTube it's there unlike when we streamed on Twitch it was like hard for people to find the old stuff and that destroyed it for me because I'm like not everyone is playing the same game at the same time and finding out these games when I came in the hobby I was playing tons of games that nobody was making videos for in The Last 5 Years like the cult of the news stuff bothers me it's like not everyone's entering at the same time so launch whenever you want whatever you want who cares enjoy the channel and you don't have like I love when people pop in like I've been watching you for like 7even years this is the first time I've join a live

13:33 stream hey how's it going yeah that's awesome and they're like a member they've been supporting the channel for like multiple years and it's like oh oh cool hey nice to see you thank you some people they'll get sad when they can't watch live yeah like it's not the same some that do usually watch Liv so I get it I get it yeah watching Liv is like kind of like a icing on the cake in my opinion it's like a nice cool thing to have chat and we're all doing that live but it's like it's not the majority of the channel like we have 20,000 almost 21,000 subscribers and we get like on a good day 100 people watching live on like an amazing stream you know where like everyone cares about it at the same time everyone's off it's like 120 people maybe sometimes in the past 300 people plus like who knows but Mo most days it's like 30 40 50 maybe watching a stream at the same time cuz it's like time zones when you're available do you care about the game like you know there's so many things that like filter this number down to a very Niche audience but then I see the stats later it's like oh literally after I turn off the stream I'll go to update something in it or make sure it's all good and it's processing and then I'll see literally the live counter that the hour after we finish a stream sometimes more people are watching it in that hour than we're watching in the first hour we were live streaming which is crazy but it's just that's how it works for some people it's it's totally fine um which is neat Matthew thank you so much for being a member for 35 months thank you so much Matthew you got a message there for Matthew to read oh Matthew Matthew oh oh Matthew Rose oh that Matthew okay I'm just kidding uh member for 35 J she

15:05 Louise 35 months uh this is me sticking my free chat in your face happy New Year yeah yeah happy New Year Matthew thank you thank you and to those that we haven't individually called out thank you so much yeah happy New Year everyone welcome to stre everyone all right we better hurry before the people watching later leave angry comments about how the gameplay didn't start for another hour it's not about having fun come on now those are funny comments yeah yeah well no it's F if the time stamp it for other people's benefit I don't mind that when they leave like a dirty comment and they're like oh my God this guy won't shut up gameplay starts at time stamp and it's like they don't understand dude like really come on all right anyways uh boom here's the game we're playing today on boardgame geek.com uh overall it's ranked higher than most of the kickstarter games you bought for $300 $500 all in it's in the 3000s overall so literally this $35 game found at your local department store is better than that Kickstarter you went all in on for 500 plus US Dollars sorry just how it is happens sometimes anyways uh because this is super important super accurate this matters anyways just kidding uh best with two players good thing we only have two here no one else is going to play along right no it's only two of us okay uh 20 to 160 minutes yeah right we'll destroy that maybe it's meant to be played like one sitting at a time for 20 minutes but the way it says like of saving it it's kind of like if you really need to save it here's some things you can kind of do take a picture kind of thing it doesn't include save sheets or bags or anything that we normally expect in games that are meant for saving uh age 10 plus

16:36 weight 2.10 out of five there you go not too complex not too light I noticed the design designer Ryan Miller uh Fame of lurana is also another game it looks like he's designed with Ravensburger I know there's multiple of these story book games they're all literally the exact same game but that's like different theme and pictures slapped on to kind of like match the movie it's tied to or whatever um yeah we'll see maybe we'll play other one in the future I saw there's wizard of o one and a Princess Bride so we'll have to like watch that with Mel show her the movie I have to refresh myself it's been like 30 years or so since I last watched that never seen it um no hate comments yeah yeah yeah and then uh yeah Wizard of Oz you know like we could if these are fun like whatever but like obviously Lord of the Rings I don't care it could be no I guess it can't be that bad of a game but if a game was like really bad and still had Lord of the Rings IP I'd still even give it a shot but I don't know if I'd sit on the stream for six hours playing it though but uh so hopefully it's pretty good I just want to shout out one comment here from John y says only one yeah Happy New Year I got into this hobby last year watching this channel made my way through a few games now lotr Gloom Haven jaelon happy or here's to 2025 starting the year with Rob's perspective with a Rob perspective John thank you so much thank you so much welcome welcome we're sorry about you falling those though that you started off with if you didn't like them we're sorry if you love them you're welcome all right there you go cover all our bases oh Jacko says 20 minutes per Mission according to Amazon as I was

18:06 putting it in my cart LOL can't even see the game get unboxed before it decides to I'm Rob has it I'm buying it like understand I literally bought this game just cuz has lord of rings on the cover this could be like the worst yeah we haven't even started we could have like the worst time today and like this could be not the game for us like literally the opposite of it but again it's got Lord of the Rings on it so I'll put up with more than normally would and and enjoy it uh so it's totally fine so wait though ja said or Mike says it's in his cart hasn't said he hit waiting okay a minute give it like an hour for us to like go through how it works and like do a couple turns at least yeah and then if you're like ah this is garbage you know again there's a Princess Bride version very similar supposedly uh and a Wizard of Oz version and maybe there's another one now I don't know but I remember when I looked into this there was three of them out already and again this is from 2023 so we're playing this like year and a half late or so cuz this did come out sometime during 2023 I remember seeing it then I was like I'll grab it then we saw it again in the summer around Gen Con on our way through the states going um into targets and stuff and I was like oh this game's like available on sore shelves and Target okay so it's definitely like more a little more mass Market focused but they still do um stock some what I would consider like more hobby Centric uh versions of games and stuff which is neat but they still stalk all like the Trashy meant to play for an hour and get boring and throwaway and you know poorly produced kind of games but still fun but just yeah enough for me White Rabbit thank you so so much

19:36 for the Super Chat no message attached to that but a few messages down say thank you so much than you thank you says uh uh finally have a job but oh sorry sorry no that's okay back finally have a job but now miss you live all the time because of working and wanted to give a little that's a good thing no missing cuz work is totally good later at double time LOL happy New Year it's all good yeah yeah don't worry yeah yeah you're doing the right thing that's doing it the right way no worries no worries thank you so much yeah congratulations on finding that's awesome yes yes congrats oh and Adis Princess Bride is one of the top five movies of all time so I'm I must watch it I guess yeah we'll watch it I remember it's like you show me the trailer yeah yeah I was like it's cheesy but it's it's like 80s funny like I don't know which might not wow Mel nowadays but I I find it funny like I show her like mon on stuff and she's just like rolling her eyes so like I I don't know yeah I don't know if I'll find of funny but I mean I'll if it's the top five in Adam's opinion yeah like I checked a lot of things before Mel and I like you know got together and like I didn't kick her out or anything uh and and and we passed some steps I had like a list of tests and everything but like I forgot the whole like British or like you know cheesy 8s like Orman python even earlier than ' 80s kind of like comedy and I needed to see like if she enjoyed that also like fantasy maybe some Star Wars I should have put on the table too that I missed uh so some of those things snuck through so like nobody's perfect um but

21:08 in all other ways I'm perfect right I thought yeah I thought it was like she passed at least like an 80% through my like all right I I'll settle down with you we can start a family kind of thing um but I forgot those things and I wish I did cuz you know there's someone out there and if there you are out there uh Rob gaming table at gmail.com uh let me know yeah yeah so if you like Lord of the Rings Star Wars board gaming uh bad jokes old humor British humor all you want to fit in this chair and play with him for six hours yeah you put up with my chat that was another thing we didn't know either but you you're doing fine with that so yeah yeah so any just let me know anyways all right just throw that out there 2025 it's going to be a great year oh no guys I might be in trouble imagine someone does do that oh my God that' be so funny here's my checklist Mike is typing right now like oh my God setting up a fake email like there's someone out there for everyone you're right Yi just kidding all right let's get to it oh that was funny all right Lord of the Rings The Adventure book game we're literally going to open it play it with you guys I think we can handle it we played some pretty big games on the channel obviously those would did pre- sessions reading looking up rules FAQs do that kind of stuff this one we're just chilling on New Year's Day we're having some fun we're going in blind uh so yeah ages 10 and up one to four players and uh it I mean it looks like this is I buy this game like it's

22:38 freaking beautiful the gold stuff like this jumps off the shelf like looks like a beautiful book which makes sense it's like yeah so um it is uh Play Time 20 minutes per chapter okay yeah on stream add another hour per chapter for us cuz we're going to play it slow interact with the chat have a good time whatever uh not just rush it uh is a dangerous business Frodo going out your door you step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet there's no knowing where we you might be swept off to Sauron Shadow has fallen across Middle Earth and the One Ring must be destroyed leave the shire's Green Pastures to travel to far rivendel survive the mines of Moria march on Eisen guard and finally reach Mordor only by working together you can ensure the one ring is delivered to the firy heart of Mount Doom and destroy it once and for all so it even comes with Miniatures uh which is cool and then uh play through the Epic Trilogy Lord of the Rings in eight chapters collect story cards and use them to complete challenges and turn to the next chapter components which we'll see here seven character Miniatures an adventure book we play out of a corruption track 88 game cards uh 52 counters four reference cards and a rule book okay reference cards that's impressive okay let's go here I did cut the little things here we got the I did browse through rules a little bit yesterday but I don't remember what I read but we'll figure it out didn't seem too complicated the rule book is I mean it's nice like it's like this is quality uh rule book um and yeah

24:10 just explains here's the rules like this is literally the rules right here a little more in depth of the component types and then like here's the saving uh how to how to save your bookmark for your next chapter and uh after that it's FAQ for each chapter so literally the the rules are uh six pages with like component with component over oh sorry set without set up the rules are one two three pages uh like two and two and a half two and a half pages for rules but in in the book it actually has the rules that are specific for each chapter and the and the goals we have to complete Adam thank you for being a member for 28 months thank you Adam Happy New Year to you too Happy New Year Adam thank you thank you thank you gez Louise all right uh so yeah this is what we're dealing with here so this is why we're like I read through this yesterday like last night uh and it kind of was like okay it doesn't seem too crazy basically what I understand is we're kind of like working with the a base set of rules which is like trading collecting playing cards trying to make sets based on requirements for like certain chapter goals we complete the chapters put a token to cover the chapter if we complete all the goals without failing there'll be different loss requirements we move on to the next chapter and the whole time time we're doing that there is a corruption track this is the crazy part to me I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it or not but the game is meant to be played like you do a run it's like a little mini campaign game think 20

25:40 minute campaigns eight sessions but if you fail you have to replay the exact same scenario you reset it you lose everything you gained in that scenario you reset you try again but the whole time you're trying to avoid corruption going up and this corruption goes up along this track and it doesn't reset like resetting the cards and stuff you have for the scenario and resetting the objectives you completed it literally stays where it is and if it ever reaches the end you fully lose the game so we could for example play through chapter one and two and three let's say we win we're winning okay the game's teaching us stuff we're on our way then let's say we get to chapter 4 right and it's like oh no whoops we lost we reset to the beginning of chapter 4 but this stays where it is so now we've lost some progress kind of and we have to replay for again and we could replay again then let's say we beat it and we keep going this thing could have been going up a little bit more now we only have like you know chapter 6 7even 8 all have to be done with only so much corruption going up so we have to be super careful which could lead to us like having a little trouble I don't know so it's like meant to be play on a run get as far as you can until the corruption track threats you out basically and then reset the whole game and try again in another another time so again I don't know how long it's going to take if we can even get to chapter 8 but we might have to replay a few chapters a few times but we might lose today on stream it just ends before we even get to chapter like six who even knows I don't know and maybe we try it again again on another stream maybe we try again the next day I don't

27:11 know we'll see so we're playing this blind we never played before but this is my understanding after just reading through the rules quickly so I don't know but Adam thank you for the Super Chat thank you Adam says here is to the 2025 game roster oh jeez thank you Adam uh thank you so much looking forward to another great year I appreciate it thank you thank you thank you thank you so much okay so this is uh what we think is happening roughly what understand like all we know so far there's like decks of cards there's tokens that are specific each chapter giving you different characters and things uh we have different minis I guess that'll be used different characters along the way obviously like what you'd expect from a Lord of the Rings game telling the Lord of the Rings story straight from the moviesbooks or whatever I'm assuming it's movies based on these images and the title logo like I said it's definitely drawing from the movies not from the books I would say just like The Princess Bride one probably like the wizard W one I assume but who knows but it's again it'll be similar kind of stuff but obviously missing a lot of book stuff I think was trying to be light all right so uh the box here uh we got our

28:19 minis I mean I love that they're uh colored Miniatures so uh we don't don't need to even paintt them or anything and you guys can follow along really easy on camera I'm sure um oh oh look at hot water is needed to straighten that sword that sword's not going to do it that's not going to get us the ring to where it needs to go that's not going to handle those armies when your sword is all wobbly and bent uh but yeah unfortunately that's what we're playing with so there you go now you know what type of plastic and stuff they use if miniatur we could have found uh I'm sure we have some characters hanging around some no we definitely don't have any other Lord of the Rings minatures for any other game that we could easily Sub in that is not a thing this is cool I like that they're color coded so we're going to use them we have reference cards okay this will help so here you go on your turn you can move a single character two spaces or two characters one space storytelling in any order discard any number of cards and move a character one space per card discarded complete challenges which is like basically spending the cards to that match the symbols required like set collection um play special cards trade a single card with another player this gives me Vibes this like rule set gives me little Vibes of like Castle Panic a little bit or or pandemic where you're trying to like trade cards together to kind of eliminate the viruses little quop stuff like that definitely feels like that kind of game um draw two cards from the story deck after after you do this stuff so you have to do this first

29:49 then this storytelling section you do in any order you want I think as many times you want unless it says and then you draw after You' done that then you draw a plot card to see how the game's going to harass you I guess or progress and then discard if you have more than six cards in your hand down to six and then note if you discard the One Ring card you advance the corruption track once per one- ring card but also if you use a one- ring card to move or complete a challenge it still moves the corruption track up so these one- ring cards are like Wilds but the more you use the Wilds yeah the easier the game is going to be to get through the the short term but in the long term it's progressing the corruption track so this is kind of how you have to balance it I guess so just to know for that story that story stuff for the trade it says specifically in the rules you may do this once per turn and then the discard you may do this more than once per turn so okay okay that makes sense so there's your reference card okay there's my reference card I'll put the other ones in plastic I don't want them to get damaged super important yes M you did get a free unboxing with this playthrough just after I'm telling you unboxing playthrough review how to play all of it in one some final thoughts in one 17-hour stream just for your convenience cuz I respect your time uh oh yeah like it's not even open yet yeah yeah all in one place you literally could click the video and go to sleep wake up we'll still be going it's toally fine I think Yi mentioned that he might be going to bed oh okay okay oh good good that Yogi's going to bed and leave us alone oh but Yogi still here and says can't believe you're not sleeping this game game yeah nah we'll see maybe I don't know how much

31:20 shuffling there is but uh I don't know how many times I'll play through it to be honest I'll probably just pay it forward like once we play through it it's like box it up pay it forward you know get the next one uh there's our corruption track I mean the game the graphic design and the images and stuff it does look like very nice for a $35 game I love how it's nice and peaceful at the beginning and then you see it slowly getting and then it's got spot here we're going to put a deck of I of Sauron cards which I'm assuming are super bad and we draw one when we hit these little spots with the red eyes is what I think happens okay so we're going to put that there's something oh yeah the story the book is the most important thing but we'll leave that till the end I guess that's what we're going to be playing out but it's like literally cardboard it like reminds me of a children's book like it's like thick cardboard pages so uh I I took it out kind of looked at a little bit was like okay cool um but each s is going to be slightly different and that's uh that's what we got so we have 100 billion tokens here so we'll have to find out which ones we need for this scenario um we going to unwrap some cards all right while you're doing that Amy says happy New Year no better way to spend than with coffee crochet and Rob's gaming table thank you so much hi Greg that's cool Alex also says happy New Year Robin Mel glad to be able to catch a live stream Alex thank you Happy New Year everybody hope you're having a good day Jack man happy New Year Jack man all right uh okay so these are the story cards I think with the oh yeah I guess I can

32:52 look at oh yeah all the symbols yeah yeah yeah I mean we'll look at I don't have the PDF I couldn't find one but uh we can just look at the rules Zoom it in or whatever oh there's the One Ring cards so each story card is literally just a suit there are cards with abilities and powers on them though so that's what makes this like kind of cool uh cuz it was just plain old cards with a symbol I don't care but this does remind you a little rules reference on it uh when played or discarded move the corruption marker up one space on the corruption track so holding them in your hand they're kind of like when you're hand building or deck building they're kind of like dead cards that they're like clogging up your hand if you're trying to avoid moving corruption but you just got you need it to get it done before you lose so you'll use one as a wild but the game will balance like you can't just use them all the time right if you do you'll speed up the game and lose I would assume is how it works but uh guess that's not the best one but they all have a different symbol they all have a different uh title if you can just flip to the next page oh yeah um it show us here uh just like well that's on screen if you can just tell us uh the different symbols that so courage so we got courage what about the green feet adventure adventure we got a whole bunch uh and then we have uh Warfare Warfare AKA blue fighting I like this one uh that one is Insight palena oh that's sick that one is mystery and and then we know the one ring yeah those are all like the different sets that we're collecting like trying to match it up but obviously like different requirements might need I assume like two of these mixed with like

34:24 one of each of these and one player has to discard them to you know squash the virus I mean complete the objective you know whatever it is uh and then there's special yeah what special cards from the story deck special cards are indicated by the book icon so special cards Andy thank you so much remember for 40 months wow where did that 40 months go let's not talk about the how times are moving and we're all getting older and things are so far away and like I hate seeing those posts online when people drop like did you know this movie came out like something something years ago and like or you're this old and they show a picture of some like technology that I know from being like a kid and it's like oh God Andy thank you so much for the longterm support thank you so so much where does the time go I don't know uh all right so there's a story book cards story here uh wisdom of Elon for example these are cards you can earn as you go along and carry them forward I guess through the story but obviously if you lose and you reset you have to take some of them out that you earnur in that scenario um so it say Shuffle and place a story deck above the story book but what are we removing you're just removing the special cards with the books oh all these all those yeah and then we're going to shuffle those oh I see so these all have the same back probably yeah that makes We'll add them in later so just we get the boring cards that don't do anything really and then these ones will Shuffle these are all the same and then we have like they didn't want to include a die in the box cuz I guess plastic is more expensive nowadays and paper's cheaper I guess so we have a d D15 no

35:55 maybe yeah a D5 or something included here in the uh let's see what that says the die deck I don't I don't know what this is but it's like literally like they're obviously like symb like obviously values get added or removed from here or something cuz why would you make this a deck of cards I don't know but I don't know that you need that yet cuz we uh find the challenge counters yeah I don't I don't know what this is can you go back to the uh yep the what's it called 15 plot cards oh plot deck yeah okay this is the plot deck okay okay we do that so I'm Shuffling the plot deck as one of the shuffle the plot deck yes okay I didn't get that sweet um we have five I have S on cards as well that you'll have somewhere yeah yeah we'll get to that we'll get to that happy New Year

36:46 Carlos and Nik says Happy New Year from Greece everyone happy New Year from Canada happy New Year very nice very nice it's awesome to see people from like around the world I love it that's we don't play a game that's like we're deep into a campaign game full of spoilers that people don't play or care about or want spoilers of and you know we have a select few watching but then when we play a game that's like you know technically spoilers but not you know and it's like anyone can play it enjoy it it's more of a wide audience targeted kind of game people are interested it's fun to see like everyone show up kind of thing fun all the people that watch so those go above the story deck uh plays the corruption track the marker Shuffle the five uron Shuffle the plot cards find the plot oh look one and place it next to yeah yeah they're all the different chapters it even says on them so you need chap adventure begins yep boom that's going to oh I see so this tells you based on what you quote unquote roll or Draw as what's going to happen it's going to be different every time so it's like yeah so they just made this flexible these should say these these texts on them but then they would have to make cards for every single chapter this way they just make one card but again this I don't know why it's not a die but I guess they don't want the same results to happen so many times right cuz if it's getting discarded they really just made this like a generic deck of effects that are work for every chapter by putting a number on them yep so it's not really a die roll since yeah anyways okay so that's going to go with yeah yeah we'll figure it out somewhere here I don't know you have oh here's the Ia on cards look at the back of these cards I don't even know if I want to look at the front of them no no no we

38:18 have to be surprised yeah yeah well hopefully we never draw one and we're just like draw at least one but like let's try not to draw any Jack says happy New Years it's been a while since I've been able to join a stream Jack welcome back sorry we tried to avoid you for as long as we could jack caught us hey Jack okay we've been dodging you for a while you found us damn it I think you just need the corruption marker from the bag because then it says need it leave the other box materials for now that's everything for set up okay oh sorry no we need the challenge completed holy tokens this one one Yep this one and this one we'll need the Ring The Ring and we'll need uh corrup uh least a corruption track above the book put the corruption marker on oh nope that's just this going on here and those only the ones that it says right now yeah we'll read the the scenario mights all the stuff um okay do want me to put them here actually in the book it does show the components for chapter one if you look at here um oh chapter one we need the two Black Riders and hand off Black Rider that looks cool oh wait there's another uh maybe well right now it's only showing three I don't know okay okay maybe later on we'll have more to do maybe they give us an extra in case it gets damaged or the quality control was not amazing but there's probably chapters

39:49 with more than three requirements or maybe even less that are like harder uh and sorry what was the other token oh Gandalf and then yeah here uh challenge completed markers and the corruption ring some components are used in more than one chapter okay dwarf anger okay I am oh there's another one I am blind I don't see I'm sure you guys probably saw Gandalf and I don't I'm just blind it's a gray Circle it's not that no side the other side it's that oh that I'm sitting there thinking like cuz I can see the other side here I'm like well it's definitely not this one cuz that's you know a different gandal and then it's like oh okay if I just flip that one over but a lot of these tokens are only one-sided so I thought they all were uh okay oh Gandalf Black Riders yep that's all we need and the rest I can just uh start bombing some tokens into a tray or something maybe I can just put them all there yeah we'll just put them all in there for now that's a lot token

41:19 so okay one bags away the Box oh here passing the Box you want too no no let's throw random stuff in there you can have the trash uh okay these need to be shuffled a bunch and then let's begin where are the story ones did they oh you got them off to the side yeah we don't need those yet I'll put them up on the screen oh no

42:00 it's going to be awkward trying to put tokens on the here not really working as intended whoops no not not not working not working uh I might snap it but I'm going to bend it I'm bending reverse bending we're going to need it to lay flat to play though like flattish yeah it didn't come with a weight in the box to put on the book yeah it's like feels like it's going to freaking snap but oh it's fine it's fine okay we got there we got there break the spine yeah I know feels bad but now that I bent it it won't close that's okay yeah get the scissors out I know oh no okay come on book stop it love it I'm sure it's fine later as we go but whoa spoilers okay we don't want to go I lifted it up oh my God spoilers so we're going to just play chapter one then everyone can leave after so if they don't want to see any more spoilers okay there maybe so the story cards I'll just throw here I guess I did start Shuff them by accident but they probably don't need to be Shuff they do it said them yeah even these ones the story cards yes I shuffled them oh I shuffle them as well I'll Shuffle more but yeah

43:31 yeah there's duplicates in there for sure so I didn't know if like you earn like a story card and you have to grab all copies of it and add it to your deck I don't know I'm not sure how it's going to work but you want to give that a like a I did two different drop shuffles different amounts cuz I think they were all like together can you tell me in setup where the uh story deck kind of goes oh yeah yeah uh oh story deck's up here special deck is here okay we need to follow the setup 100% accurate draw off the wrong one probably I know but this is the way they want it and this the way we're going to do it so these are the Amaze balls cards down here and these are the boring old generic ones and we're going to create we're going to put the pla card here like that reference card I have you made a paper fairy cry these are over here I think it can take abuse says blanky cat but this is why spiral books are best for these games yeah 100% 100% yeah yeah yeah but they they need to hit a price goal obviously to put it in Mass Market stores and you know they were like let's cut some costs in some places and do they think people play it more than like twice you know maybe doesn't need to last that long kind of thing is how they think I don't know R says spoiler alert if you haven't seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy go do that

45:03 then you won't need a spoiler alert yeah yeah just just's go spend the many many hours to do that and come right back we'll still be shuffling just kidding just kidding it's not that bad okay there we go all righty didn't say we start with any car we set up right here uh let's can we Zoom this in all right sure after receiving a mysterious ring Frodo leaves the Shire with his friends and heads toward Bri and the unknown setup find the chapter one plot chart and put it near the book Shuffle the story deck and deal four story cards to each player oh okay it says it on there nice okay let's check I got some story cards so I have uh green light blue darker blue/ purple and uh one ring I also have a ring an orange and two blue okay well hopefully these work out for what we need later but we'll find out shortly when we look at that I don't like that we have rings already okay uh can you actually uh all right so next is Place froo Dam wise Mary Pippen and Aragorn on their indicated spaces so uho they actually have them listed in the book

46:33 which color each one is in case we're not sure to Tello Mary Pippen and Sam okay and oh Aragorn Sor right oh he starts over here wait what starts off the board okay okay uh place the Gandalf counter gray side up on his indicated space he's on the road to the Shire okay a place one Black Rider counter on each of the horsey spaces one on horsey space two on horsey space uh and then five step set up here is the player who last took a trip goes first

47:30 don't really go anywhere separately so uh odds even uh your odds okay all right odds is you you're first whatever okay doesn't matter okay chapter rules Shire dot dot dot Baggins Black Riders move clockwise on the black smoke path so it looks like there is some kind of black smoke highlighting these lines connecting oh right here and it looks like sometimes we can probably go on the white and sometimes the white doesn't have black smoke or sometimes black smoke doesn't have the white line so it looks like they go on certain paths that we don't go on and vice versa um Black Riders cannot share a space with or move into another Black Rider space so they can't pass through each other Leap Frog over or stop on each other okay characters move along White paths in either direction Hobbits cannot enter or move through a space with a Black Rider but Aragorn can okay quick find a place to hide uh if a Black Rider lands on or moves through a space with a hobbit move that Hobbit to the hiding spot which is an eyeball crossed out here hiding spot literally labeled and then it says you lose this chapter if there is more than one Hobbit in the hiding spot or the plot deck Runs Out restart the chapter you lose the game if the corion track reaches 15 okay so there's a little

49:01 reminder now let's check the right side here uh do I have okay challenges keep it secret keep it safe Roto and Gandalf must be on the Hearth RTO and Gandalf must be on the Hearth okay Sam wise must be on the road to the Shire which is here okay let's see you guys can so sorry froto and get off must be on the Hearth Sam wiise must be on the road to the Shire reward each player draws one card from the story deck remove gandal from the board okay okay and and there's this symbol on it so I think to like lock that in these things need to be lined up and then I think you do the um uh in the storytelling you play a no where is it oh complete a challenge so to complete a challenge you discard the cards from your hand i'm assuming oh yeah which in this case it's only one so they want you to kind of do this one maybe first and it gives you some more cards to do the other ones that might be harder yeah complete the challenge by meeting the requirements and discarding cards from your hand see story cards completion challenges yeah so this is like the I'm locking it in to finish it and then I'm assuming we'd plop this on here to show that we're like done that one okay uh and then the next challenge again I don't think order matters kind of you have to decide I guess um it comes in pints all four Hobbits must be on orange

50:33 spaces in Brie one two three I guess two can go here maybe because it's bigger I think they can be together uh cuz even that one froto and well that's a bigger space uh it's a bigger space I think two can go there maybe or maybe a limited I don't know uh uh reward draw a card from the special deck Place Aragorn on the prancing pony so we have orange spaces and Brie and then you draw a card from our special deck okay and then you place Aragorn on the Prancing oh the prancing pony of course cuz we went met him okay so now we have him on the board that's great we probably need him for the next step I would assume uh we do not stop till Nightfall Aragorn Thro and Sam wise and at least one other Hobbit must be on weather top must be on weathertop at least one Black Rider must be in one of the spaces next to weather top so one of these two spaces all other challenges complete so literally this one has to be done after these two obviously cuz you wouldn't have air going to even do this one unless you did this one yeah but you cannot complete this one until these two are done but it looks like these two you can do them in any order and the reward you complete the chapter we six days from rivendel he'll never make it okay and here's the requirements

52:05 we need to pitch so looking at um if it's like we can kind of keep our hands like that maybe I don't want to zoom out too much just like I want people to be able to like see it nice on the screen like up close yeah we can

52:40 okay Mark says I think multiple characters can be on the same spot except when there is specific rules against it like lose condition with hiding spot oh okay okay I mean it makes sense yeah it's just weird that they put their bases like exactly the size of like a spot and then these ones are slightly bigger it's like why is this bigger I don't know and then one of the objectives has two people here and this one it doesn't matter I guess can I see the book yeah I didn't quick glancing I didn't see yeah I'm going to check the FAQ in the back maybe that pops it in for us or maybe under movement oh it does say uh characters can share spaces unless chapter rules oh under movement right okay uh also uh chapter 1 FAQ says question can I choose which direction to move the Black Riders no Black Riders always move clockwise question can one Black Rider move past another no you must move a Black Rider that can complete the required move without running into another Black Rider or the other Black Rider okay so yeah you can share spaces no problem okay yeah oh Stephen says yeah there's no limit to characters on a space regardless of the size gotcha okay perfect perfect perfect thank you thank you thank you all right um you're first I'm first we're ready to begin I guess so so you get to move uh is the first step on your turn you can move a single character is without

54:11 pitching cards I'm assuming uh zero to two spaces you basically have two points of movement you can use it all in one character or separate it to two different characters this game does allow you I think um it does allow you to uh interrupt movement I believe I just don't know if it does on this step uh can you just pass I remember reading something about like you're allowed to move one point and then do something and move the other but that might only be when you're in the story andell telling phase so let's just check on your turn you can do the following five steps in order listed below use the reference card for reminder step one move you may move a single character one or two spaces or move two characters one space each players may move in any direction and can reveal or flip a counter in between the two moves there you go if required by chapter rules we don't have a flip the counter but you can do that in between for that first step that's good to know uh you do not have to move characters if you don't want to characters can in bold share spaces unless chapter rules read otherwise step two is storytelling in this step you may complete any of all of the following actions in any order you want trade one card in your hand for one from any other player you may only do this once per turn discard any number of cards and move one character one space per card discarded it you may do this more than once on your turn complete a challenge or challenges by meeting requirements and discarding cards from your hand a player may play special cards and you can use a one ring story card to perform chapters special one ring ability shown in individual chapter map which we do

55:42 have one here one ring ability you can move a Black Rider uh one space right here good thing I read this rules again cuz I would have forgot about that was even on the page so you can again it'll move the crop but if we're really desperate we need to get a Black Rider out of our way or away from us you can just pitch one and use that that special ability as uh one of the things you can do on your turn here in the last part of Storytelling but again you can do these in any order and the only thing that's limited appears is the trading a card and then you draw two cards from the story deck if the story deck Runs Out Of Cards Shuffle the discard pile and form a new deck plot deck draw the top card of the plot deck refer to the plot card to see what happens then discard the plot card depending on the number of plot cards you have drawn something unique will happen in each chapter if you run out of plot cards and cannot draw at the end of your turn you lose the chapter so we know we have however many turns are in that 15 15 15 turns and then discard if you have more than six cards in your hand discard down to six if you discard a one- ring card you must move the corruption marker up one spawn the corruption track your turn is over proceed to the left okay okay so Roto and Gandalf must be here yeah which one's or I mean we can get that done like we get all four Hobbits here but it sounds like we should kind of do what's in this area first I can get that before we start racing across the board so like if for example if I move Gandalf to spaces I can get him here as

57:14 my move okay and then I could discard a card to move froto one then they're both here and I discard this to do the challenge and then we have that first challenge done if that works out let me just check yeah uh froto and gal must be on the Hearth and Sam wise must be on the road so oh Sam yeah he has to move too so then I could trade you this card and then you can get it done on your turn okay yeah maybe whatever okay so my for my move a single move a single character Zero to two spaces or two characters one space I'll move Gandalf two spaces one two get him in there and then I will you only need oh we need you have one though okay I'll discard a card to move Proto one in my storytelling I could trade with you as well at this point that easier I don't know may be better on stream to see again special cards will have abilities you won't be able to read them but whatever we do something like that okay okay then I can't complete I can trade with you though I think I trade this one with you is that okay yeah whatever then you'll be able to complete you have to give me do I have to give you one yeah damn it I must take uh whatever you

58:46 want I don't know like you want me to take the blue one and I'll start getting the blue I mean greens are needed kind of next but you're probably just pitching random stuff um but again maybe I can do yeah sure okay okay uh not doing anything else in storytelling draw two cards from the story deck oh my God don't want these okay one two three four five so I don't need to discard anything and then plot draw a plot card and refer to its chapter number 10 9 to 12 is oh sorry I just put this here move either Black Rider two spaces okay move either Black Rider two

59:38 spaces and they go clockwise right like so yeah for that last one I know it's probably going to be moved they're probably going to move again so it doesn't matter but I'm thinking about like do we try to move this one closer do we need both of them remember we can't cut this way so like if you want to get this guy by there's like a you can tell like as they move around like we're going to have to move in and like go back out and like to sneak around them so like we could just move this one to get it moving on its little path I don't know leave this open a little bit so we can start maybe moving these Hobbits they need to get to Bri yeah okay so like it seems like they'll be a point where like this guy if he he moves like one we might be able to get this guy to like race in there but it looks like you have to hide in the hiding spot and then go back and get in there like they have that spot there for that yeah cuz yeah you have to go this way cuz there's literally no way joining over here okay uh uh and then discard I don't have six I'm good okay so I can move a character so I could just do the two movement here right just to slam him in mhm um yeah sure and then I play this card to finish right yep oh I see you did yeah oh sorry yeah I'll just pass to you and you can okay and then uh reward each player draws a card from

1:01:08 the story deck and then remove gandal from the board okay and then I can start pitching cards to race a hobbit across and all four have to be down here right yeah jeez well I guess I should start working on the closest one let's see one two just gets them in there and ready and again multiple can't be here we lose right yeah yeah okay I see uh but I want to uh so I could pitch like three cards I don't know if this is the right way to do it I like I don't know how rare these greens are going to be I have one yeah like I know I don't know either like I don't know if there are four of each kind of idea I don't know yeah it might be good to know but uh so if I go one two three he's just there but I don't know how much can these guys move Max uh one one two two yeah two what's the what's the first thing move any Hobbit move any Hobbit to the hiding spot if there I should literally have read through this line by line cuz that to know what is going to happen so on a one to three so three times it could happen in the game move any Hobbit to the hiding spot if it's already occupied you lose the chapter you have to be careful but that's great if it moves like if we leave that and hope we draw that that will like help us like literally fly

1:02:39 Frodo like not or or Sam right yeah whatever uh whoever's the furthest okay that's good to know that's a thing but we may never draw it cuz there's literally like so many cards uh there's two copies that will move it either black rer at one space we choose six to eight so three cards that will move both of them one space so that's a thing 9 to 12 which we've already seen one of those uh move either Black Rider two spaces and then 3 to 15 move both Black Riders two spaces that's the one that's going to wreck us yeah and that could happen three times so we got to be we got to know that it's possible that both of them can swing two spaces so and then what happens when a Black Rider catches us we lose right away or they they get moved to the hiding spot if a Black Rider lands on or moves through a space with a hobbit move that Hobbit to the hiding so another way the spot could make us lose the game by them touching a hobbit sends it to the hiding spot so we kind of want to never use the hiding spot no cuz the game will use it for us and then it'll we could use it to our advantage MH is what I'm seeing but again we might have to in desperate times and just hope for the best but I don't want to lose the game like that so we're not going to do that okay uh yeah so I'm just thinking like if that is the thing I pitch all three of these cards or since I know this guy can only move do I just hold it there but if he does move to then this guy's like oh then I can go or you can go around him yeah ah I see so from here we can cut through so there is like two paths in so we can

1:04:11 kind of stuck by them okay so it's not as bad so do I just hold this and only move them twice I don't know I think so so I'll pitch two cards so this move is PIP in one two and he chills not going through the hiding spot unless needed and then uh I think that's it unless you want to have a green card for some reason but I don't see why um yeah we can have up to six cards a little bit for yeah you're going to play so it's fine uh then he comes into weather toop prancing pony no oh prancing pony then we need to get him to weather top I see oh this is cool okay fun little puzzle all right your turn you draw oh I draw yeah yeah sorry I draw two cards from the story deck then we draw a plot card I see I see how they're refilling your hand nine so nine is move either Black Rider two spaces but I think we can't move this one because it'll hit him so it has to be this one okay damn okay so you need to get this guy to move through one either move him back one or one two three I would move him okay yeah and then you don't have six cards you don't to yeah I'm good with my hand all righty so yes

1:05:42 let's move Pippen one two describe one of these I want want to keep this one and that one potentially yeah blanky cat I'm not sure if they're all movement puzzles like this I'm or they get they probably are I would assume but maybe not but I assume they all have a Twist like and and this one I assume is like kind of like a training one so it's teaching us some of the mechanics a little bit and testing us on things we can come back around it maybe it's not that hard I don't know okay then I'm going to discard two cards one no yeah one card for his move I I don't want to move him two because then he's in path of like the if the Black Riders move two again but then I can pitch one more card cuz I'm going to draw two and I don't want to have to discard for no reason so I think I start moving do I start moving Sam all Hobbits need to be in the orange baces let's move Mary one that way okay do we want to trade anything um I don't think we need at the moment okay I'll draw two cards and then I should be 2 4 six I'm

1:07:12 good I don't need to discard card block card no next 12 oh wow uh we did Shuffle it right yeah uh move either black r two spaces do we just have this guy keep going so that or or do we send this guy around but then this guy going to blocks him but he can stay there for a minute but while we get some of these we just have to make sure we have buffer spots for the other guys to move into that's why I was just like let's work on this guy to leave the full board open yeah I didn't want to move him here in case that guy forced back to the hiding spot uh okay we can move this guy uh one he'd be right here yeah that's fine all right okay so moving to I'll just move him uh one two but I still should move him one more so he's safe off the path I don't know and then these guys are both the same distance I'm hoping we draw a card that just plops one in there and then the next person can just goh um yeah cuz I don't want to pitch one ring cards I don't either but I could pitch this one just move somebody one so yeah let me just do this I feel like we'll get back around

1:08:43 um I'll just move him like that and I'm done I don't think I need to do anything else or I just give you the no we have to trade I could be just the holder of a bunch of crappy wondering cards but then I don't want to one we stuck I have nothing no no no uh so draw two I'll just draw two and then plot 14 14 is move both Black Riders two spaces one two one two okay and then discard you don't have six okay me um one two yeah I got I got to move him I think next cuz this guy is stuck until we can move that guy uh so let's go one well count how many hold on hold on one two three four he's at risk five yeah one two three and you can park them there yeah but then it's four five six like it's more to go that way so it's like kind of better just if you can rush them through but the problem is you're one short which we should have did the trade where I take one of your one rings and park it that's okay I mean having him park there is not bad because then I would also move yeah here uh I play this yeah so I take this back I didn't do this but what I could have done is traded you and like this is

1:10:13 what we need to do is like to save movement points like we need to do the whole like run them in for less movement points to save card actions cuz we only have so many turns right and we lose mhm so we have to be like kind of a I like me moving this guy one space is like not worth it like we need to do like big dashes unless you have like a spare card but yeah okay one two and then one two three I need to discard so let's do one two yeah so you don't even need to spend those if you want to hold them for that even I was thinking about it but again like you do whatever I think we'll draw into more of them yeah like again I don't know I'm assuming it's at least four of each card that's what I was thinking like could be more how many blue swords we got floating around but we've seen four oh five okay so there probably like five of each or at least maybe sixa says in the rule book we can probably figure it out if uh 42 story cards and there are oh maybe it tells you right here six types of story cards and there's 42 of them but it doesn't say so eight each or am I maing wrong probably maing room um I'm going to need 42 divided by 6 go but again I don't not sure if the one rings equal number I don't know I know there might be more of one less of all right we'll discard those three and we'll move them in seven

1:11:43 seven one two three okay seven okay seven so we saw hold on then actually we saw that was five so there's two more still okay yeah we're going to see lots of greens coming we've only seen there's two more blue swords okay we just can't throw blue swords but now he's here he's safe I can trade with you um what do you need for your turn I don't think it matters does matter if we do trade it's just literally trading like one ring parking to like get a car to do stuff yeah this but then that just means you have less on your turn so what would I need to do on mine I'm going to have only two cards to do stuff with so like literally I could just move like Sam wise one and stop and like that's my turn I don't care or you can move both of them one so but I don't really want to move I'm I'm still hoping one of them gets a free like one two or three gets drawn oh yeah and one gets yeah so like why am I I'm not going to waste movement on on like I would leave froto or St where they are until I start needing to move them because I'd rather the game give me the free bump all right also since you don't lose uh there could be a cheeky play where like cuz corruption doesn't go up yeah you literally just put one of them you know move one to here and just leave them it'll get a free teleport there and that's like saving two cards and then you go like that's how we got to play it but then you just hope that yeah it doesn't like pull the one to three on the on your plot card oh yeah no but oh no but the plot card would be making the move happen yeah yeah it can never do both in the same okay cuz none of those cards say draw another blot card after true yet I'm sure that later is the

1:13:14 thing so then we're not trading or anything I'll draw two story cards oh my God so many rings which usually are the best thing to draw in these kind of games uh any Lord of the Rings game you want the one ring and this game it's like oh get out of here two okay this is what we want move any Hobbit to the hiding spot so we'll move doesn't matter either one I think he's oh they're both the same okay so let's move him all right and then discard one two three four five no we're good that's better for you actually it's closer okay that's what I was saying so um but I only have two cards but you move him to you only need one move him to I only need one yeah you move him two spaces just on your turn yeah and then you only need to oh the movement the free movement yeah yeah duh I keep forgetting you don't always have to pitch cards for movement uh yeah we don't need that one done okay we're almost there we're almost there uh dra I need to trade with you I don't think cuz I have these two already for that one so yeah no but

1:14:27 but we can oh okay like why not yeah I guess you're right I don't know uh so I get two right mhm and then plot card for you one oh my God that's perfect what we wanted game is amazing oh we don't have a green to trigger it so we got to wait for a green all right so then on my turn we still need to get them there you have six or more no you're good uh I'll spend two and then I'll discard one we only need one red okay move him in and then I can only trade one so yeah we should have kept that green we could have locked it in right there damn it all right I won't trade you anything right sure and then because we we'd have to do these oh I got it okay so we have to get it my turn dang one two three I can't really do anything no so I will just pass oh did I draw PL card on my turn no I did not oh okay five which is what uh move either Black Rider one space we're trying to get them what's the next step we need for the where do we need the Black Riders to be uh well we need aorn froto and Sam wise and at least one other Hobbit must be on weather top so we probably want to get this guy out of the way so we can Rush these guys up right uh sure okay sorry now it's your turn okay so I won't do anything cuz like no matter how a ring card gets

1:15:57 played right yeah no matter how or even for its special ability yeah or if it's discard for sure yeah anytime you play or discard I thought it said um no if you use a one ring card to move a character or complete a challenge why doesn't it say the One Ring ability on there that's that's like unless it says on the bottom hm just want to make sure cuz it's like yeah I'm getting choked here but again we have we're holding six of the seven Wonder ring cards we think uh use a one ring story card to perform the chapter's special one ring ability okay one ring story cards and Corruption let's just double check uh are used like wild cards can be used in place of other story cards to leete challenges and move characters they can also be used to perform a special wondering ability shown on each chapter's map however each time a player uses or discards whether to complete a challenge to move a character to perform the Wonder ring special ability or to reduce their hand at the end of their turn even so anytime one leaves your hand no matter what okay I just need to see that but it didn't say in the reference so we know that they're wild but we don't want to use them in this situation right now because we want to save all the corruption for like later scenarios where we may be forced to right cuz like I could complete it because I have a one ring but I don't want to

1:17:29 because we still have time I think yep so I just feel bad that your turn is it's okay so yeah I can't do anything right I'm just going to draw yep and then you have to discard yeah yeah down to six but when do I discard after plot cards plot cards first 11 I'm sure there's plot cards in the future I'll make us rip cards from our hand move either excuse me black right or two spaces okay then I have 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 so I will just discard these two Reds okay there you go then on my turn I'm not moving anybody storytelling I'll discard these three to complete the challenge so reward draw a card from the special deck our first special card is gladed hair draw three cards from the story deck so you have to play this on your turn okay you'll draw three cards from the story deck then discard one card from your hand if you discard a one ring card do not Advance the corruption track gadil is amazing uh I asked for one hair from her golden head she gave me three oh oh how nice there you go okay this game just got way better okay just blew my mind all right we're good we need to get this the special cards I knew would do it for me I just you need that extra little little ision the little little powers and and it automatically makes it a cool game and then we have to place

1:19:01 aorn on the prancing pony and then I don't know if you want to mark that we did those two oh yeah boom sorry it's okay boom so now most important thing slamming your token on the challenges we need to get aor a Gorn froto Sam wise and at least one other Hobbit so not all of them we can leave one behind Okay up to weather top and at least one Black Rider must be in one of the spaces next to weathertop okay okay so an Aragorn doesn't get sent back by the Black Riders so okay perfect perfect so I have what happens Black Riders characters Move Along pass away okay uh aror can move through the hobbits cannot enter or move through a space with the Black Rider but Aragorn can so I think we wait let's do him last if iend one right now to move one Hobbit you should be able to get one of them in on your turn and they shouldn't get hit so I'll just discard that to move one yeah yeah there's no way it's this guy's moving that far right and then I don't think we do this yet I think we wait unless you want me to yeah but you could pitch this draw three keep going right now we got time it's the time limit too right yeah so draw three so draw one two three and I have to discard one so you could discard this and that doesn't punish you right y

1:20:31 That's amazing I mean you should probably trade that with me so I can get rid of these and draw no now I can trade now I'll give that to you and I'll take one of yours just so you have sure little more fairever it's fine I don't care no we need we're just digging for the blues as well cuz we don't have the we got rid all them oh no we think there's two more in the deck though one two three four five oh no or maybe three no two if you guys are saying seven so we're just digging for blues but we still have to get them there anyway so okay then I draw two plot cards that's the end of uh two story cards yeah cuz I'm not I'm not moving with that one not a blue not a blue and then I'm going to draw a plot card which is 15 move both Black Riders two spaces and then one two 3 three four five six okay one is there and then if I pitch three cards oh

1:21:39 yeah those are the two named ones right fro and Sam wise are there I'm yeah I'm pretty sure should put like a little letter on the bottom but I fro just got the sword that makes sense yeah that's Sam for sure and Sam is carrying food so it's definitely Sam and then Pippen or Mar's drinking I I don't know I don't know what he's holding his hand here but there is something there he's holding but the other one definitely is holding the Pint mhm they definitely look awesome okay uh and then donino draw two oh there's one okay and then plot card plot card please 13 13 is both two uhoh they block our path here one two one two now you can pitch a one ring move them there is a way around there is a way around there is there is I have you could because it costs extra but it's like if as long as you park them in one of these and not on the the hiding spot we're good one two yeah okay I mean we still have one card that'll move a hobbit to a hiding spot which could kind of make it so we can sneak by that is true okay uh and aorn can move through oh yeah we just need aorn and one more yeah you can just rip aorn up there right now yeah all right so I will do that for my two one two and then I'll discard one we don't need this one to move aorn in I

1:23:11 could I need this you have to move this one I would say one two three no I think I have to wait because I only have one 1 2 3 4 you want to move it or like extra over here to stay away but it's like yeah I know all right and then I will take two unless I trade with you is there something you want cuz I'm going to have to discard oh I might have to discard one of these if I get two rings oh you can't get two rings cuz if we're okay you've actually discarded the last there's no more Rings if it's seven for each suit is correct take a ring like even I I would assume the one ring is the same I gave you the rest of the so you have the combination there in case you can get them there okay okay that's me uh draw oh yeah okay I have to uh plot card six is move both Black Riders one space okay this is good actually I think and then I have to discard one two three four five six seven yeah cuz this black R is in position I don't need that so that's just no I'm down to six we just need we just need a blue okay my turn mhm uh uh one two and then I just need to pitch one to get him in yeah and then who's the one I mean we're going to just hope you draw it or or I'll do nothing on my turn and pass it to you hopefully in the next two draws we get

1:24:43 it okay so I'll just stop can we not uh yeah oh yeah there's no way to draw cards oh we didn't get okay three is move any Hobbit oh that could also move a hobbit back okay okay if we get them so we have to get this guy out of there yeah I'll just move them on my turn or something okay and then discard are you good uh yep okay I'll just move this Hobbit I'll just move them two spaces here I don't know okay okay and then trade note draw it's going to be annoying if I get it oh no okay okay I'll discard these two sure oh actually I think 1 two 3 four five six block card block card please don't move the Black Riders to four move either Black Rider one space okay now it's your turn you trade with me trade well first I have to move oh yeah uh I guess I don't have to move but I'll move this guy one and then I move him to okay and then then trade trade here here you go I'll hold all the Rings and then I'll just spend Areno oh we did it uh horn two swords boom and reward you complete the chapter yes that was sick game of the year we only did have two more rounds e cuz there's only cards so you we didn't think it efficiently at first and like and we probably yeah we probably threw

1:26:14 away cards we shouldn't have yes we should not spend those greens cuz that wasted like two or three turns where we knew we could have got it done earlier that was close though so now we know is like hold the ones if you're going to do the OB soon there's too many rings in this deck but we did get the hair so that's good hold on how many more Rings we get hopefully we had them all so that we know one oh yeah this one I discarded one two three four five six seven seven rings but now we've put a special card in the deck somewhere so that changes like you know dilutes the deck a little bit but adds cool effects but again that card draws more so uh yeah neat little game that was fun and we did not go up at all saving all of the corruption for later we beat chapter one first try guys we're rocking it chapter one done I'm going to do a couple more drop shuffles on this yeah definitely rling this one up before we flip so if you don't want spoilers Beyond chapter one you may leave now and that's a Showcase of kind of how the base rules work with a little twist there and setup and objectives pretty straightforward but again there's lots of extra tokens I'm sure there's lots of extra sub rules added on to increase the complexity a little bit on other chapters to challenge us more I'm sure and I can't wait to get more special cards obviously if they keep giving us special cards the game would get easier so obviously the chapters are going to get harder to balance that

1:27:46 so excuse me bless you thank you well we won't need chapter one anymore so I'll just put that off to the side that was fun okay here you Shuffle this one some however you want and uh okay so we beat a chapter guys the game must be done completing chapters once you completed all of a chapter's challenges remove all pieces from the boards all players discard their hands turn to the next chapter and follow that chapter setup ending the game if you complete all chapters without letting the corruption track marker get to the end of the track you win the game and the one ring is destroyed in each chapter there there are different ways to lose if you lose a chapter you can start the chapter again but do not reset the corruption track and you do not keep special cards you earned in that chapter okay here we go here we

1:28:40 go Lego loss yeah I already see more challenges and more oh we're in Rivendell oh look at how pretty this is more bending needs to happen all right Fellowship forged we can let me just put this over here for you and then Fellowship forged all right after being wounded by the nas ghoul froto and his friends arrive in Rivendell tempers flare as the delegations argue over what to do with the ring setup find the chapter 2 plot chart and put it near the book plot to chart Fellowship forged oh okay straightforward 1 to four elron does not move 5 to 15 elron moves one space forward on his path if he lands on a character starting space that character must return to that space okay uh okay Shuffle the story deck and deal four story cards to each player oops one two three four okay yeah there's some cars to start okay great ruffle the plot deck and place it

1:30:11 nearby done Place Aragorn okay hold on Aragorn legal Los have a leg loss uh we have a leg loss yeah okay Aragorn leg loss gimle I have a gimy okay we got a froto uh on their indicated spaces place the elron counter on his space uhoh don't we find it sure it will look like uh oh we're going to need a few oh so find these here I'll hold them up so you can see so we need an elron counter one elf anger counter one dwarf anger counter and one man anger counter you got that that people are pissed we got that we got that I just need the Elon okay might be on the other side of another white one all right and here you can throw that gandal back in there oh yeah I guess I can get rid of these black for now too so so far we're at zero corruption we're doing great yeah I think that was a good round you a little sloppy play we did it trying to figure out the rules elron what did it say place elon's right here put him with froo okay oops sorry I'm not going to okay yep place the lron counter on his space okay okay okay place the dwarf elf and Man anger counters on the indicated spaces right here dwarf man an elf El Ron and froto down here okay and then it says uh the player wearing the most rings goes first that's

1:31:43 me Dam okay chapter rules tempers flare character Miniatures cannot enter a space with another character or an anger counter from an opposing delegation any character can share a space with Elon characters can move on the blue or white paths okay okay I'm make a little confused but sure you will unite or you will fail players cannot move elron he is moved only by the plot chart and follow the white path when he enters a character's starting space that character must return to that space okay so he is moving he's just moving like around one space to uh forward on his path but it doesn't say what direction I think he can only go this way cuz there's no path back that way oh I see trying get I see it's not a big circle I thought it was a circle okay okay The Fellowship of the Ring no character can enter the One Ring space okay uh until the final challenge all characters can share the One Ring space Oh okay so we just can't use that space till the end okay does m make more sense when we read the challenges challenges yeah yeah yeah okay challenges the Doom of men Aragorn must be on the Man anger counter your reward remove the Man anger counter from the board draw two cards from the story

1:33:14 deck the One Ring answers to saon alone that's cool so you got to pitch swords for that what are we waiting for gimly must be on the dwarf anger counter so it's like you got to convince your peoples basically get to them and convince them uh reward remove the dwarf anger counter from the board draw one card from the story deck okay so two cards one card I guess elves or dwarves they can't reach as high on the deck so they can kind of trouble to get one never trust an elf it says uh in the hands of an elf leg loss must be on the elf anger counter reward remove the elf anger counter from the board draw one card from the story Deck The Ring must be destroyed and then we we have uh and if we fail what then aorn must be on Boromir space reward draw one card from the special deck we want to do that one does not simply walk into Mordor it says you have my sword all other challenges complete so this one you can't makes sense cuz it's the one that wins the game all the challenges must be complete so we definitely need those other tokens uh and then aorn gimy leg Los and froto must be on the One Ring space so again Aragorn gimle leg Los who will be here to turn their men but will get returned back based on this guy so we have to be careful like moving legal Los all the

1:34:45 way in here to get to the elf anger and then it gets reset kind of sucks so it's kind of you have to do it like I think backwards yeah because like Aragorn getting returned is sucky but then can you just move him in quickly after yeah right cuz there's a blue line here yeah so to get let's say Aragorn's like here and gets all the way over to the Man anger I guess you could do that yeah and then if he gets returned no big deal then he just moves one two 3 four to get in yeah one two but if if we start moving Legos right now to get him into elf anger which is kind of far and literally two moves he goes there he'll reset so like all the wasted actions right wasted cards wasted turns wasted effort yeah um So based on that oh sorry I'll give those based on that too also I have the gimly cards right now so I think I can get the gim challenge just done right now on my turn oh okay because give him to dwarf hanger so like one two three four yeah cuz and then I can discard the two cards to do the challenge oh nice so I think we can just get that one done right and that will get that will remove that from the board so this is done and then you draw one card from the story deck and boom We complete yeah and then we maybe we kind of look as well uh and if he gets moved back that's fine yeah then you just you move him after that's what it seems It's like two times you have to move the same character yeah cuz elron will reset you

1:36:18 okay I like have to go and what does he have to do anything do we need FR oh froo must be on the final space Also okay okay but it's cool once he leaves here or this guy will never get reset but he's not allowed to pass through these spaces so he gets BL clear them okay right yeah no they character SP with another character or an anger counter from so he actually would block people so he literally can't get out of here until we do leg loss yeah okay so we can move foro like one space behind ELR I think

1:36:56 no we need he's going to be behind hold on any character can share a space with elron oh okay so then he can share okay then that's fine and characters can move on the blue and white paths okay perfect okay so I think if we if we just I think I can just get gim's challenge done because I have the cards so I will move gimy to he's going to dwarf anger one two and then I'll throw away two cards one two for him to be there you okay sorry what were we going to say no I was like man I want to do this Bor me one ASP but I don't have the card yeah we don't have the Reds yet uh then I will you might be able to get it if he doesn't get reset I will complete the challenge spending the two orange cards so remove the dwarf anger counter gone and then uh draw one card from the story deck okay that's what we need you still can spend it right now too if you wanted to but uh but I think I don't think you yeah I think you wait till you can slam him in there and which if we move this guy out of the way what he's going to get reset eventually you hopefully can just get him in here and get that challenge done you're saying Park him out of the way Aragorn no Aragorn needs to get to here but now that I've made that path clear he oh it's Aragorn that does it yeah so then if he goes oh sorry yeah oh my bad my bad yeah but we'll see when we get there okay uh then I will I'm not trading any okay I'm only going to trade if you want this car but for more actions or something Matthew says keep Bor away

1:38:27 from the ring in general okay sounds good uh no maybe I don't trade okay I'll draw two plot or two story cards don't need these oh I need The Two Reds okay that's good and then I will draw a plot card nine El Ron moves one space forward on his path sweet oh sorry oh yeah that was what we did that's fine however you want to do it we got space yeah you can definitely move this down yeah yeah okay back to you uh so I can move somebody oh what's a ring action yeah great call oh oh uh the ring action is um move elron back one space on his path so if we literally knew he was going to reset someone and we're not finished and we're like o we could win right now I think do the corruption like one corruption is fine like just a yeah you know move along oh will you also cover that yes very important okay so I'm basically trying to move this guy out of the way or just move the other guy closer and I'll move four five one two 3 four five they're all the same so then Man anger is also him

1:39:59 though do we have the Man anger which cards uh Man anger is two swords we don't have no but is it better to try to get him over here to remove this so then this path is open for like people to move through like legal loss right now is 1 2 3 4 5 three four five they're the same but like I don't think it'll matter either because then leg loss can just stand here and then just move in one okay okay so one no they can't go in there yet oh he's got to be moved back until when until we are doing the final challenge no character can enter the One Ring space until the final challenge oh okay so I have to move him like two to get him out of the way but you want to move him this way way so he's out of aorn's way okay yeah and then aror I can move like three one two three yeah and then I can complete that one on my turn okay so I'll just draw two right mhm don't need to trade okay and then plot 14 that moves him one he's already there so it's tot fine

1:41:30 okay then discard no okay my turn I will move aorn one two and then I will complete the challenge uh AO must be on board m space draw one card from the special deck Elven cloaks do not draw a plot card this turn oh May these cloaks help Shield you from unfriendly eyes sick okay uh I think you save that until you're like we don't want Elon to move to buy like gimy an extra turn or aorn an extra turn or froto or I guess froto doesn't get reset but yeah okay we don't lose when aor hit elron hits here right it just he chills yeah I think he just stops moving yeah okay unless he's moving back like maybe his path is like that yeah maybe doesn't say stop oh you might be right let's check the FAQ oh yeah we didn't do that that might be in there chapter two Fellowship Forge question can you move the anger counters no players cannot move the anger counters oh we didn't read the lose condition yeah oh I can't see it uh you lose this chapter if elbron reaches the end of his path or the plot card Runs Out restart the chapter that makes sense I thought thank you I can't see that from where I am I don't even see that sorry uh yeah can you move anger counters no players cannot move the anger counters once a miniature of the same delegation lands on the anger counter the counters are moved from the board question do Miniatures get moved

1:43:01 back to the stting space immediately when all lands on it yes the Miniatures are moved immediately and automatically okay that makes sense we're going to save this yeah we save that and cards if we need to stop him from moving so if we're too slow we might just need to waste corruption to keep him from moving to here I think I want to do I pass this to you uh what this for can you just give me this just so you have more actions on your turn CU now we can start moving leg and we might need to move gimly out of the way of leg loss yeah that's what I was saying to get this guy up here to kick him out we probably should have done that already instead but it's fine okay okay so so then that was me so then I traded with you uh I'll draw two story cards okay and then plot card four he does not move okay so uh leg loss then mhm one two and then I will pitch to get him out of the way and then I will can only get him to move twice but that might be okay but I should save this CU we don't want to screw it up again so I'll just spend one to move leg loss one

1:44:33 and then I'm done uh do we need to trade can you maybe get leg loss in there no and then am I yeah I can get leg l in there but yeah I would not have the cards okay right here which you do okay so then I'll get leg Los there and then on two he doesn't move okay so then on my turn I'll move leg loss here I don't have the cards to complete the challenge but you will and then I think I reset in a couple turns we'll need one green oh we'll need that one um I could throw a card away oh we need the sword maybe I just save for the other challenges that we need coming uh I would toss a green cuz it's like so like we're going to do two others just to move him one more space maybe okay I'll toss that and you don't need this right now um nope okay oh yeah you're right okay like we haven't seen any and they're going to see more for sure 11 he's going to move one okay resetting glim is not terrible he's kind of in the

1:45:43 way actually let's move these up here oh I should have given you this one or maybe I just hope I get I think we got this okay oh I forgot we got to move froto too yeah yeah but but we'll worry about that I guess later uh okay good so now yep on your turn you can move uh well first I'll complete but then you can't move anybody why not because you have to do the move first like the free I don't know why I keep forgetting there's free moves that I don't have to spend actions on okay yeah like you can start moving froto if you want yeah yeah done okay now I'll spend to in the hands of an elf uh REM reward remove the elf anger counter and draw one card from the story deck okay and then that means so when they're never allowed to go through each other right no so he'll have to move back once then he can go this way and then we got it and then we just move all them in it does the problem is gim is about to get reset that's fine so we'll have to just move gimy back and so I'll spend one to just move him back and then I'm done draw two we don't need to trade right no I'm still looking for another oh which I can get from you perfect then we can complete that one

1:47:14 too blot card six resets gimly oh no okay my turn I'm going to move aorn uh then I will trade uh sure can I take a sword whatever you want man thank you take it okay then I'll complete so anger counter removed and which one was that this one uh and draw two story cards from the story deck boom Perfect all right so then I will spend one move him in he will get reset soon so I would not waste it on him yet I I would work on others let's spend one more to get him in because he's reset okay I have one more that I can move Roto Roo okay and then I'm done or gim since you won't be reset but either one doesn't matter because he yeah he has a straight path in he can now get okay yeah that's good y oh yes two story card two story cards and then plot card tell me if we think that we need to stop it but 12 okay okay we going going be reset the other ones don't

1:48:45 matter so then I wait I use this guy and go one two and and I it's weird to get rid of greens how many greens have we seen I only spent one two three and I have four so there's three more in the whole deck and there's a card in here let us draw three but I mean we've seen Playing Lord Rings lcg like they literally could be at the bottom so that's four so we need and and elron literally like we're screwed if he gets there so we got to kind of like maybe save it yeah do you want to trade give me a one ring I'll give you this one so you have an extra move sure uh okay and then I'll do the two moves um I guess we just get gimy in there yeah out of the way and we actually want aorn to reset then froto can run in yeah I could have just move out of the way but that's like a waste I think he's going to do it so draw two story cards oh got the green okay damn it all right and then BL card yeah 10 he's going to move and reset eror get back to your room okay I don't have any extra move unless I trade but uh let me start by moving froto I think one two I don't know it's trading with you one card worth it I don't think it oh we still need to get this guy one two three four one two

1:50:17 that's a lot of cards and he's I'm going to I'm going to stop him I'm going to stop the draw on my turn and we can corruption if we need but okay do you want to trade and I can move one uh sure just so I then I can or actually here take this one just so we don't oh yeah we don't luse the green okay and then I'll move him one okay and then I will play this card to not draw block card block card Y and then I'll draw two okay and my turn mhm uh one two and then I need one two three damn it if you trade me we I no no no I need a green oh then you can just finish it then we can finish absolutely so I'll just spend these two yeah and then we I think we went oh yeah cuz you have an extra red yeah okay plot card oh he doesn't even move okay and then on my turn I move him in and then I spend the boom and green says you complete the chapter all other challenges complete Aragorn gimy leg loss and froto must be on the One Ring space you did it guys and again we did no corruption yes okay we need to save it cuz I yeah cuz when we fail thumb yeah yeah when we actually repl we get unlucky we just keep drawing one ring cards we actually were pretty good on that to only have three rings oh they were coming though yeah we're about

1:51:47 to have some draws until we got our next Green so oh look at glad we didn't even draw into her that can happen Okay that one was fun too yeah not these huh almost picked up this and shuffled it in I'll take all that would be

1:52:08 bad Ultra enjoy your walk so far everyone in the chat I need a rating one through 10 what do you think of this game so far for what it is $35 Mass Market Lord of the Rings IP using movie Stills and stuff from only two chapters low serious answers only 1 through 10 give me your number what you rate the game so far 10 being best one being 10 being best one being why what are you thinking like this is garbage okay yeah I need to know BR says six Kurt says for $35 so I think it's 35 us was what it was I'm or Mike Mike had it in his Amazon cart so Mike yeah yeah what what does it cost us I'll look it actually 7.56 7 okay seven oops I'm pretty sure I bought it in Canada but uh which the dollar is obviously really bad

1:53:11 uh 6.5 so this is Canada but I can switch it just some random stores that are online uh oh in Canada even it's like 40 max probably like 30 bucks you so if I switch this to the the Americas oh my gosh $3 okay 35 obviously is MSRP I was right I was right and Ravensburger is just grewing the pooch here let me guess free shipping oh no it's still flat rate shipping so it's not like they're cooking shipping into the price it's literally direct from publisher so he's like cutting out the middleman and they're charging more like what is going on how does that even make sense I like you think buying it straight from the publisher you'd be saving money in the UK oh so it's like around the US Dollars like the same as the the the British pound let's see how bad Australia is for fun oh my God but that's their dollar different like it's weird when you see that again everything has to be shipped on like whales and stuff to get all the way out there through all the crazy Waters and stuff into the side of the island you know whatever through all the drop aars the hazard pay all that stuff you know crazy out there it's dangerous for a postal worker uh yeah I mean so for

1:54:41 yeah like3 $35 this is is so dark I am agreeing with the chat here on like a six to a 7.5 is like the highest I agree with that this like so far this is fun for $35 it's a fun little

1:55:06 puzzle sure that looks all right uh yeah I'm going to shuffle this better do you agree like a six to a 7.5 yeah yeah that's F I mean yeah I always like temper my expectations like if it's cheap like the value you get not even just component onent wise but like gameplay wise the amount of hours I'll spend enjoying myself if I'm not enjoying myself doesn't matter how many hours it is but if if like if you have four people around the table having a good time for like 3 4 hours whether it's in one sitting or two and they're having fun like 35 bucks like come on man that's like value value but uh per person like gez but again even playing the solo like you know we spend more on like a board game expansion that comes with like 20 cards to shuffle in and like a rule pamphlet like you know mhm I don't know and with not a licensed IP like with just like some knockoff IP or whatever you

1:56:10 know I don't know it's fun cool little game I like it it's a neat little like pandemic light kind of it feels yeah I guess I felt like we were close on that one like he had two more moves and we were done yeah but we could pitch one ring cards to just stop him yeah and that's that and like maybe we get to one of these bad cars but like I feel we're going to fail one and then we'll you know or we're going to need to do it later yeah and I'm fine with that like I'd rather not waste it in the early ones where we're like it hasn't like ramped up the difficulty yet but yeah I agree save it all right another story card in there though that's good yeah yeah I like that I like that we're beefing up the deck it's cool all right here we go are we ready yeah chapter three of eight holy crap we're going through the mines of Moria look at this sick just got to bend it of course whoa oh all right here let's just do it this way all right the mines of Moria the fellowship arrives at the Minds expecting a warm welcome from grimley's cousin but instead finds a tomb setup find the chapter 3 plot chart and put it near the book Shuffle the story deck and deal four story cards each player Shuffle the plot deck and place nearby okay oops 1 to three nothing happens four to five Place one of the remaining Goblin

1:57:41 counters on the Escape Route on a space without froto or Goblin 6 to 7 the cave troll recovers remove one wound oh we got to wound the cave troll okay um uh this is awesome boss fight 8 to 15 the ball Rog moves left one space Oh my God the wait the bll Rog no way oh this is awesome I'll get all tokens out oh this is awesome all right we're here we're here okay uh we can do all the setup after actually that's easy we're going to place Aragorn leg Los gimly froto and gandal gray side up on their indicated spaces Shuffle the goblin counters Goblin Side Up place four goblins on the spaces surrounding the cave troll place the other two nearby near the board or place the ball rock on his starting space on the bridge and then the player who last fought a goblin goes first that would be you right and slay the Spire probably uh we played with goblins yesterday on stream I remember them very well there was Orcs there was goblins there was some orc goblins we did have goblins y uh I just don't remember who at the very end had to fight one but I was the fighter you the fighter so we're going to say Rob on this but I might have passed them to you but I I don't know the final boss was was a dragon so that definitely wasn't a goblin but there were definitely goblins you're right I think I passed them to you while I fought the boss and you probably fought the last goblin so me I can start yeah we'll say you yeah somebody who watched yesterday will remember right with who has a better memory than us we play the game I don't remember but some people watching are just so good with that stuff or just watch it this morning and no okay so chapter rules let's read

1:59:13 those all here together so you guys can keep us in check fighting goblins only Aragorn Lial Los and gimly can enter space with a goblin when they do turn the goblin over to defeat play the required story card when defeated move the goblin to the defeated Goblin track the cave troll to injure the cave troll Aragorn Legos and gimy must be in two spaces adjacent to each other one character on either side of the single Warfare icon with no Goblin counters on either space draw a sword story card or discard sorry discard a sword story card to place a wound counter on the Warfare icon the bridge of kazad only Gandalf can travel to the bridge during any player's storytelling phase that player may move Gandalf to the next space on the bridge by discarding cards indicated on the new space if the bog and Gandalf are in the same space and one moves both counters move together in the same direction you lose this chapter if the ball Rog reaches the star space or the plot deck Runs Out restart the chapter you lose the game if CR track reaches 15 wow all right here's the bridge so we got to discard the bridge of kazum all right so gandal starts here uh gandal starts here actually oh wow but then if the ballog he starts here and if he reaches here we lose mhm and Gandalf can go in the same space with him and then move him back yeah and but look at the cards shall not let him

2:00:44 pass is the pope okay and then like what is going on here and we got to fight that guy so oh so you got to be in like the two spaces Jason and then we dropped the token on the Warfare Icon by getting rid of a card and then like we probably need all four done but he also heals wounds yep oh and there's an exit oh my gosh we probably got to get to the exit Escape Route and this is defeated Goblin track or or spots down here and I bet we have to defeat all like six goblins or something the doors of Duran it's probably where we start Proto air oh no this is where they start I see okay let's see what we got for challenges I guess I could zoom this in a little better I have to hold it up so high uh speak friend and enter Gandalf and froto must be on the doors of Duran place any pair of matching story cards is this like you opening the door to let them in oh yes it is oh it is and we're opening the door so we're outside we're open the door then we're in and then we fight the cave troll and then gandal has to go do his business okay and then we got to get out this is freaking awesome this is cool this one okay this is going to be more of a challenge I think all right we we've we've got there guys we're officially playing the game I'm looking for here all right we're doing the cool stuff in the movie I like how here we can discard any cards like they oh yeah so this this in this game means two cards but they have to match or it means one card no it has to mean two I think it's said it does say in here and I remember reading it and the rules yesterday was like what disc right here oh uh where is it so requ question mark

2:02:16 equals question mark requires any two matching story cards so if it says a uh question mark That's the anything doesn't matter so two matching okay all right back to our challenges G for fro must be on the doors of Duran play any pair of matching story cards okay it tells you right there okay and the reward draw two story cards from the deck he always want to ince you up with two story cards if you do the first one which is good CU then it makes the other ones a little easier but it also draws you into rings and stuff but uh clearing the path clearing app path the first challenge must be complete which makes sense yep we have to do this in order uh there must be at least four goblins on defeated Goblin track okay and you literally don't have to discard a card for this you just have to have done that okay draw a card from the special deck oh yes okay let them come there is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath uh they have a cave troll the first challenge must be complete doesn't say the second all four wound counters must be placed around the cave troll if so draw one card from the special deck two possibilities oh yes okay okay you shall not pass Gandalf and the ball Rock must be on the same space Roto arner leg loss and gimy must be on the exit space Oh my God all other challenges complete fly you fools and then what's the One Ring the One Ring ability move Gandalf one space without playing story cards but obviously obviously you're playing a story card to do that because it's a one ring card but whatever yeah

2:03:48 but then corruption goes I guess if you're blocked wow awesome sauce awesome sauce I'm going to play some of these guys where it says got here going do you need to bend it or we're good uh your call there we go Aragorn froo Lego oh it's all our friends from last one froo Aragorn yep those guys all go there we need Gandalf grayside he said right uh Gandalf oh give us four cards each too you're doing that shuffle the goblin counters uh can you pass me the Rook just so I can see exactly what counters I need yep chapter three we need a bull Rog he's going on starting space of the bridge oh he's going there uh we got some wound counters actually I'll put them here we'll add those in as we need and then goblins oh these are the Goblins one two three first two are movement puzzles this combat encounter yeah this is cool how many do I need six six of these awesome

2:05:30 one two three four five one more is in here somewhere got it okay five six here's our six goblins that we will need okay uh oh Shuffle the goblin counters Goblin side up oh they must have things on the back yeah okay different uh little icons in the space shov Goblin encounters uh place four goblins in the spaces surrounding the cave troll and place the other two near the board uh okay the ball rocks on the string space and then we're saying I'm going first where the other two go just near the board it says near the board something might bring them oh oh yeah Place one remaining Goblin count on the Escape Route oh yeah so they can come on the board from on the Escape Route no no no card will do that oh okay yeah sorry all right this one more cut all right and these are my four cards okay so I'm first we need Gandalf and Frodo have to be at the door okay I do have two matching cards

2:07:00 so I could on my turn we're going to go right I can move Gandalf one and froto one yep then I can spend this to move froto one and then I can spend those to complete the challenge andolf and froto must be on the doors of Duran play any pair of matching St story cards now you get to draw two story cards from the story deck as your reward and you got Elvin do not draw a plot card well I think we can save that right I don't know unless you're going to discard cards from you don't want to save it but you got plenty of room do we want to move on somebody else one more what's the next challenge we need to do um the first challenge must to be complete or the first challenge must be complete so it is uh four goblins defeated which obviously want to do that as we're getting into those spaces to start deting the cave trol so they're kind of together oh and it needs to be G legal Los or eror right so biting goblins only aorn legal Los and gimly can enter a space with a goblin when they do turn the goblin over to defeat it play the required story card which there are symbols of story cards on the back I don't know if it's always one I just saw one symbol on the back of a couple of them when defeated move Goblin to the defeated Goblin track okay the cave troll to injure a cave troll air Gorn leg loss or gimy must be in the two spaces adjacent to each other so these two or these two or these two or these two um to defeat it play the required story card when def uh sorry no where am I reading adjacent to one another one character on either side of a single

2:08:31 Warfare icon which I'm assuming that's what these are yeah Warfare is the sword right yep uh with no Goblin counters in either space so obviously have to kill the goblins and then once they're cleared then you're able to do it be on adjacent sides and then discard this card then slap down a wound but we know wounds can get removed so this would be good to play right before someone's about to do the last two wounds and you don't want them to remove one to to redo progress you already made you can play that or if the ball rog's like right here and you don't want to draw moving the ball Rog which seems to be the most common thing because there's seven cards that do that and the other eight cards uh nope sorry there's eight cards that do that then the other things are divided amongst the seven remaining cards so more than likely the bull roog is moving the most is the thing that's going to happen the most so we need to get Gand off up there yeah but also that might be why you want to stop this is to buy you time on the ball Rog cuz he Auto loses with the game when he hits here right okay but I will he's like the elron timer basically like from last I move somebody one so that way you can maybe try to fight a ball roog mm or I mean a goblin um let's move I don't think it really matters let's move gimly one with that the correct answer was legal Los oh okay yep yep yep sorry sorry that was the correct answer that's who I choose to fight my goblins with you're right you're right I should have known that y was in can't do it from adjacent space fail okay fail worst game ever bad design horrible know I think you have a good selection so I mean fingers crossed yeah look I have

2:10:01 the winning cards so we can just win but hopefully you have whatever you need I'll just hold these for the rest of the game until we get there uh do I just use this then right now oh and these cards are super important it looks like these symbols I just realized if you need duplicates like that jeez yeah what does that do exactly only gandal during any player story phase that player may move gandal oh you move gandal by discarding cards in the next space yeah in the new space yes if the ball g off in the same space and one moves both counters move together which is annoying when it's going to move g off back you got to spend the cards again uh should I just do this right from the beginning or should I hold it's up to you I don't think we're going to go around but if this does get used up we do get to shuffle again I'll hold it for now yeah you don't have to discard it yet so uh and then okay I'll draw two story cards all right and then PL card four Place one of the remaining Goblin counters in the Escape Route on a space without Frodo or a

2:11:07 goblin sick okay so movement wise I'll just one I can go through people right is this yeah I think so nothing is telling us they can't they can't share spaces in this one right no okay so leg gloss will move in for two so then when you're in when I'm in I flip it right yep so I need a a foot so a foot is not really one of these important ones so hopefully they're all not these symbols I would hope yeah so I will step on the goblin using one foot which puts him down here in the defeated track and we just need four okay oh which is the ones we have okay and then oh swords are important to save for this so maybe all the Goblins are like red and greens you want to trade I can give you a red cuz then maybe unless well unless it's a green yeah but I'll pitch one to move right

2:12:12 mhm yes got him yes yes let me blow the horn in his ear and defeat him and this I'll just hold mhm and I'm done okay block turn two nothing happens okay my turn do I start getting Gandalf going well we want special cards yeah so the faster you can get a special card oh but yeah gandal I don't know if he needs to be up there right away no I know but it's like if we can complete this we get a special card which like could just amplify yeah I just I don't think I have the cards to fight a goblin this round but I could start moving but you least see what it is and and if you can get someone in position I I'm ready to spend a sword yeah so I need to get oh you could literally if you can get one of these two to here you can spend that sword you have to slap a damage down unfortunately cannot because I don't have a card to pitch unless I trade you but then these is yeah those are needed and I think if it'll just remove the wound then I'll feel bad but I think I could just get right so we need um yeah do we not do the wound thing until we're ready to do all the wounds like near each other so it doesn't undo them how many undo them how many cards uh just two cards six and seven so maybe when like six and seven

2:13:42 go by or like if they haven't we just do it and like who cares okay I moved I moved aorn too so he's okay close and then maybe that's literally all I do okay okay and then yeah I'll draw two one two three four five six so I don't have to discard it okay oh another ring dang it you're Clogg in my hand okay it's okay yeah like maybe I should have traded and spent that cuz like holding give you this one and I'll try to collect maybe the one smoo G I feel like in this one you might actually cycle around the deck but maybe not yeah no maybe not I might use this next turn so that I can okay now have to discard a ring I don't know next oh plot card for me sorry 11 uh we're going to move the ball Rog uhoh do be gone uhoh okay uh then I'm going to uh prob

2:14:49 won't h I don't think so EXC I think

2:15:12 actually I just stopped there I think or who was it I moved this guy mhm one two a horn okay we don't

2:15:40 have yeah okay horn in the foot it works so now we know they're probably all red and greens are the goblins and we assume like it's the other ones whatever okay uh uh then I'll draw yeah I think we need to get Gandalf up there so we can start spinning cards on his movement yep but I I don't know yeah whatever okay BL card yeah 15 all right I'll move on my turn I'll move Gandalf yeah cuz then we can start spending cards on his movement one I can't move him there so I can move him one oh that's okay though I did not realize that was a thing we can move oh crap yeah I shouldn't have spent another card they all have to get to the Escape anyway so we can maybe I'll get gimly moving up but you see like our hands will get clogged holding like like if I save that card i' would have been good then I could just spend two cards to actually get stuff done and clear my hand a bit yeah you don't want to be like holding and holding and holding no so I might have to just discard a sword no cuz I'm going to have to discard down right I'm going to play this well if you just move uh I don't have to move him I move Gandalf one unless I move I don't move Gandalf and I move these guys both back one no that seems silly I would get try to get him into there but like he doesn't need to be in there to get this all done he can literally wait but then we still have to get him through right yeah that's what I'm thinking if I get him here so once we have the cards we can just move

2:17:12 him and I can just get him he can at least help froto can't so okay and then sorry I'm going to play this so I don't draw card D sorry cuz I'm going to have to discard down yeah yeah unless you want me to trade you something will you have to discard right now no one two three four five yeah I'm going to have to discard I could go slice in like here you hold this and I just hold this yeah and then I'll discard that oh my God all right so then I'll hold this oh now you have what to move gandal in damn it I shouldn't have gave that away but then it's fine hold on 1 2 3 four 5 six I only have to discard one so I just discard that oh ouch that's what saying I could have used it to move somebody then just say you did okay like don't waste cards like that I didn't realize you were still discarding yeah yeah I forgot even if I trade we're still even yep okay uh but I have the what I need to move gandal on my next turn up one so what I would do with this then maybe I just move gimly one maybe don't move gimly oh sucks what I did here like just to see what was and we haven't drawn what we need yet that's okay uhhuh I think that's fine yeah but now I can't even use these swords to like start doing damage unless you just move them back one in one then you can yeah I'll just use a free oh sorry so then that was me I just got do no you played the card to not do that so

2:18:43 is my turn thank you sorry all right uh yeah so if I it start putting wounds but I know where going to draw the removal wound soon so it's like how about how long do you hold for I mean you still have you can still hold two more cards yeah so let's like let's just get him into position mhm

2:19:14 maybe or I could um just move him one and then like move him to see what this is but then that's like a waste I think cuz we don't need to fight that guy till we need to get out so kill these goblins man yeah let's just move him in yep okay sword and star thingy okay uh seven seven the cave troll recovers I didn't take the bait screw you cave troll it would have just literally UND it if I spent a sword so my turn oh no let's do wait wait Gandalf is only Gandalf can travel during the player storytelling okay so I can move one no is he going to block there oh they can share space okay I think so he'll move one and then I don't move anything else unless you want to see with that guys but I think just leave it so I just move one then in storytelling I'll move Gandalf here spending those two and then that's all I can do padil oh I can't do that till next turn give you that plot card is 14 he ball Rog moves one oh my God three one two yeah yes now we're like running a Move Free move is point this

2:20:45 hold on should oh 11 okay yeah sorry sorry okay I'm just going to move this guy here and yeah that's it then I'm going to spend a sword and a sword I don't think I think uh you can only do must be in the space of adjacent with each other oh just one right yeah with no Goblin counters in either space so this one only I can do yeah and hopefully it doesn't get healed but I can then trade you hold on because then you can kill the this base and do this one oh then why did I move him off then if you have the card so you have to move gimly actually this yeah uh no I would just do two free movement to get him back um yep okay then we trade trade cuz then you can put another one down uh hopefully you draw like what needs to do some stuff up here I'm going I can use the the the uh her or do you think you'll be able to sword next I'd rather take my chance with this and her card yep yep okay and then uh so that was done yeah sorted and then now I chop get rid of a goblin one more and we get a special card oh again and then you can do another wound if you want yep and then I'll wound down

2:22:15 here and I'll just hold the Last Sword draw to well we're going to have a goblin here that's true that's true yeah one of those will be red also and if goblins come back do they come back uh one more can come it just come from here so not not one we already Ked one will come back where sorry the so one of them like we already did a Green a red a red a green so it's like a green and a red or a red and a green so like that's probably how it's divided all right and then your plot card I would assume 13 we're going to move the ball Rog oh one more we lose oh my God so what's the the effect uh move Gand off one space without playing story cards so we liter need to do that twice to move if we can't get him in here uh you then need to spend a ring to move him here mhm and then if you can't do this you need to do another one to get him back yeah okay cuz this is like the most likely thing we draw is him moving yep all right so we just start moving corruption it's fine I can move somebody two spaces or I probably should just do I would use glad first oh yeah yeah so I think we can probably do like this okay oh actually hold on before I do that I just want to see and then if here cuz we don't have the other space and then we'll move we can move Why move then they're all moving this way anyways yeah yeah okay just remember we need somebody here to do this like I wouldn't move him out yet cuz again one

2:23:46 will get undone to just go like this to there yeah and and then now you're ready for someone to kill here the final two can get slapped okay now I you don't want to leave from here because if they heal again we have to like move back and it's like a waste now I use the hair to draw three cards and hopefully you get a green if you get a green we get a special card and I can discard this one without corruption one two three yes okay but it still appear we have a a trouble yeah but let's use the green here to get the Goblin CU I'll get more story cards think right boom Goblin killed uh down here okay uh clearing a path the first challenge must be complete there must be at least four goblins on the defeated Goblin track draw a special card you found the mirror of gladel look at the top card of the plot deck you may put on the bottom of the deck okay the greatest well I should just do it so I don't to discard it might do this exact same thing so yeah does that's kind of sucky okay well I'll do it we'll look at the top it's nothing happens I'll leave it on the top sure okay then I need I think we spend a ring okay so gandal moves one we're right one corruption move gandal one space playing story cards corruption up by one oh no our first corruption everybody we're in trouble now we know nothing happens here I think we wait right yeah cuz cuz if you draw then we can trade like you might draw this I

2:25:18 won't have the combo oh you won't have the combo so we do need to do it one more time yeah or I'm going to do it but yeah you might as well okay oh this hurts so bad one more okay so Gandalf is going to go here yep then we need to oh my God we might have to do it again I know but on my turn we'll decide but I don't have any new cards to do that actually we'll see what I draw they all we haven't really drawn into those type of cards but oh my God yeah see the ones are like buried I feel like I maybe spent one or two but only one I think one two two oh so they're coming but we know nothing happens 1 two 3 four five six okay perfect okay so movement wise is awkward oh I can move Gandalf oh no I can't you can only move him if you do storytelling face only discarding cards yeah just making sure yeah because we don't know what this next card is and if it mov I have to that but um let's just move froo one he's not allowed to go into space with a goblin I assume no I don't think so only yeah only okay so I just move him for one and then uh yeah unfortunately doesn't make sense to move anyone else so I'll just spend a ring coruption actually let me wait on that

2:26:49 and do it at the no I shouldn't know what it does okay so now we draw our first craptastic card corruption draw and resolve one additional plot card at the end of your turn oh this is so bad this could still make us lose this could still make us lose yeah but I can play another ring then let's remove from the game one two three four I did not know that was a thing yeah cuz I need I need to do it again I have to oh wait did you do it no no go ahead go ahead oh I wish I could cuz the fact that they can draw two means like we can still lose yeah so I need to do it again this is crazy but that's the only way to like guarantee cuz you can't like cancel cards yeah okay wow luckily we didn't do anything in the first two so and then yeah that's rough PS are bad uh okay so I'll I'll wound yeah we're probably going to have a wound heal then I think if you wound here then you can move leg loss if you want and hope that that Goblin's red I mean Aragorn oh I see and start clearing the path that way yeah I see you're saying cuz hopefully fingers cross it's red if it's not I'll do it next turn it is

2:28:15 yes all right oh now we got to start thinking about oh there's one of them we also got to start thinking about the end cards that we need I know it's one of each so like okay once the Goblins are there we don't care about those and the wounds but we might need to care about them if he heals again which so you're drawing two first one is nine which is ball roog moves and 10 yeah we would have lost if we didn't do that wow we need two thing we didn't blow corruption on the first two chapters but this chapter is going to screw us see all right so now on my turn I can move one two we'll get him towards the exit I guess yep you don't have a sword damn um you don't have two evil eyes that's not happening but if you don't spend a one ring he we could lose so uh you kind of have to right yeah oh my God makes sense this is like the the corruption part okay I can also spend a green H do I spend oh no we need a green a red and no maybe I hold and I hold the oh I can move oh I can spend these two to move Gand off and the ball roog beautiful so we don't have to use a ring actually oh yeah yeah and then and if you want no okay and then I'm done so I draw two story cards oh we getting low on the deck okay we got two eyes plot card one

2:29:47 nothing happened oh nice I could trade you an eye or or I could trade you a sword but I guess movement first sorry no the ball Rog to get a special card first yeah I think oh CU we have a buffer up here cuz if we draw this heel that we're toast so we need to finish this so I need to move yeah and then uh tradesies uh we hope he doesn't move you need why are you giving me that don't you want to move I want a sword to finish the B sorry you want a sword and so then you could take this cuz if he doesn't move and it is a heal which we hope yeah it doesn't matter and then you can still move but if not it's give me the other one doesn't matter so I'll spend this and we'll finish off the ball Rog and the first challenge must be complete all four wound counters must be placed on the troll draw a special card the wisdom of elron choose a player to draw two cards from the story deck H does it matter if I do it right now I mean it I could get the ones yeah I'll just play it choose myself mhm yeah cuz you already have we need a we need a sword and we need yeah yeah okay oh hello hello oh my God top deck City well I guess we knew they were coming yeah yeah all right okay that's as far back as go uh draw two more for the end jackpot man thank you for the Super

2:31:18 Chat says this is tense I can't believe we spent five rings this good game oh thank you yeah definitely need to refresh the beverages yeah after this I need another tea as

2:31:48 well he dry can Winters all right here we go draw two cards okay whatever they're helpful for that track sword to win so yeah true okay plot um move the ball roog okay my turn you have those but you can yeah we're just trying to get everybody out right Run Fly you fool two I will then in storytelling I'll move them back yeah it sucks out now we're getting it like it feels like dumb that we spent all that corruption but like but we would we were we were on the on the edge of losing but we only have like three more turns here so everybody um gandal and the ball Rock must be on the same space done Roo aorn leg Los and ging must be on the exit space all their challenges are complete so I'm 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 movement is that right but I think I think okay so then I'm drawing a plot card you're drawing a plot card I need this card from you so we can finish it on my last turn oh but I can only trade you this yeah that's fine sorry don't care okay so then on your turn you spend everything to move and I can even give you another card right now I'm just moving no no no sorry that was my turn what is happening I'm doing my turn but I'm counting how many turns you left and try to sure we win then I will you don't have faith we'll draw I mean we can kind of cheater MC cheerson not cheat but like kind of know so what what do you need swords how

2:33:19 many SW no we have we have everything I know you have everything Mel but if you're just holding it not moving guys then like we could be in trouble no but listen I'm drawing two cards on my turn here yeah but if we know we're going to draw the cards we need anyway is what I'd like to know then just pitch those cards and let's get going right but you're worried that we won't have them all together maybe no I think we have enough then do whatever just finish your turn yeah I'm just drawing two cards that's the end of my turn either way it doesn't matter these are going to be used for move then the plot card eight just don't lose cards eight is Moo ball Rog one okay okay and then two my turn so one two and then I trade you back the ring so you move I just move three yep and I'll just move one two three get my favorite character out and then uh dun Zino draw two okay a plot card please six we wound he's dead already okay doesn't matter the start of my turn I'll just move one two okay and then I trade you yoink right and then play those two to move someone too yeah okay oh hold on hold on hold on hold on we traded the wrong cards I think you need to keep that green card that you

2:34:49 traded me so you traded and I give you that one you need to keep is that oh that's all you had this is why I would lik to count the remaining cards we knew if the colors were coming so you just blow what you have we get what we need and we trade the last but it's okay don't know what I'm doing okay no I didn't say that that's fine carry on no I don't want to lose fellowship's got some cracks for sure okay go how many cards left one that's what I'm saying I once it's empty we lose no when you go to draw one I think no or it runs out so once it's drawn we lose right I think there's the

2:35:33 rules and I'll start counting the cards to know if there's a red left sword one two hold on hold on three four five five have come up you have two so there's no more Reds coming oh remember these are wild yeah so if we need to just pitch it for move do it like then we move it oh but then we draw another corruption card but I don't want to lose this cuz then literally all that corruption we gained was for nothing I forgot about these are wild so use this to move move storytelling draw plot discard but yeah you have the combination but we won't get there so you can move twice and we're one short yeah one short yeah sorry I'm trying to find where it says like I thought there was something that you had read that said if you draw I'll just go through a turn like PL plot deck what's read that plot draw the top card of plot deck and refer to plot chart then discard the card depending on the number plot cards you have drawn something will happen if you run out of plot cards and cannot draw one at the end of your turn you lose a traper that's what I'm saying okay perect we're good so I think okay so then we're fine I think so then I still but I I like I can

2:37:05 trade from you the card I need to finish so then so you literally have three cards you can waste without corruption which is one 2 three gets them in and then on your turn I trade away the card I need okay or can I I won't have new cards right so I can actually yeah that doesn't work it still needs to get back to you cuz you hold held those cards yeah yeah that's why I'm saying that I traded the wrong card the last time I should have been giving you but I counted it out wrong that I okay we'll just I don't care whatever but then what would have it been you know like I don't know I don't remember exactly but yeah exactly I don't know but we would have been giving you the combo instead of me the com so I don't know let's just can find out what we'll draw uh so eyeballs I have

2:38:05 five six seven eyeballs are kind of four uh let's check sparkly little thingies two 3 4 five six it's a sparkly thing if I count it right which doesn't help us uh for the pattern so I'm not going to draw it which doesn't make sense make sense but I think that there's no way I get the combo no there was though if I traded them differently to you okay just fix it then or we just lose it fine no I just don't remember I just want to sit here too long on this chapter cuz if we have to replay it that's like you know so let's just keep it going I'm saying I don't remember what what we would have had and what we would have done different but I wouldn't have taken the cards cuz I thought that I finished it on my turn oh but you finished it on your turn so I mean I guess we could just say something like this I don't know but you would have had the combo I would have less cards cuz I would have already spent whatever you gave me okay sure okay to do what though would we have to undo anything no I would have just moved I'm just moving with them like theidea the thing we traded a weird card but if I got to accounted like I want to earlier the discard pile we would have known what we needed to trade that's what I was trying to say but I'll just spend like two I don't know and then you finish the move on your so two to do this yeah and then how do I finish all my turn oh with my free movement at the beginning I see I see I see I see and then five sure sure sure uh Place one of the remaining

2:39:37 go okay and then s oh yeah he could have cucked us if that came out earlier and blocked um him from getting through yeah that's why I wanted we got lucky with that actually getting froto past okay so then on my turn I move here spend these and then we complete the chapter yeah done but we took so much corruption yeah that but man taking all that corruption and then still losing that I would just like end it there like I wouldn't play again cuz we' probably just spend a bunch of corruption again even though we know how to work we only played like maybe two effic inefficient things cuz we got ruined cuz all this was on the bottom of the deck these kind of cards well if we had to replay it I probably would have started us back at zero right would you say and like we no you're not allowed to reset it like that yeah I guess that's the rules of the game true we are one corruption away from drawing another one of those horrible cards oh and they're they're bad all right so we'll take a little break but before that oh this one looks more peaceful look at this mess of a board look at all these lines everywhere what is happening this is the fellowship splits oh sick oh no oh bourier uh we're going have some trouble with Bor I see uh but yeah wow okay and the last card was yep sparkly thingy Matthew says I'm headed to the Thai restaurant Canada food sucks what okay enjoy what yeah I'll just give this a shuffle

2:41:09 we'll take a quick break for like five minutes grab some snacks get some drinks use the washroom stretch all that kind of stuff and we'll continue on our journey and after this one if we make it past this one will'll be at the halfway point 2 and 1 half hours okay not

2:41:33 bad boom boom boom okay I'll Shuffle that bit more when we get back but all right BRB

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2:51:56 for all right we're back we're ready to go coffee oh left my water upstairs I'll get that in a bit I can ask we we'll get it after the next one it's fine C is more important all right anyways okay so uh now we're on Fellowship splits sure I'm plugged in find the chapter 4 plot

2:53:26 card so 11 and 14 literally all the cards wow except for one add an orc to the location that matches the number on the plot card you drew 15 add an orc to areas 12 and 13 ouch no no breather whatever that means okay uh put it near the book Shuffle the story deck okay let's shuffle a bit more I'll just get out the tokens I need five orc counters one two three four five oh there's only five of them though so okay I guess that's the most we can have it just moves them around okay uh place all characters on their indicated spaces all righty here's all the characters

2:54:21 Gordon fro I don't get why they didn't make Bor a miniature reg like isn't even going to be traveling with us for a long time oh this is Mary what am I doing Pippen is red also Gandalf not having a mini kind of I can't rate it a 10 out of 10 because of that literally that knocks down at least three points yeah can't be higher than a seven name is green yeah all right we're using all minis for this scenario nice all right and these two are on the same space here's our Orcs here is four cards for you I'm assuming still four yep mhm two rings right off the bat okay what do they do they removing orc from the board that's great all right for place all characters in case bace place an Orc in each area with a star there's five Orcs yeah put the other two Orcs uh Below on the area with the star oh so areas are between the spa like the traveling spaces okay I see oh there's nothing on the back so I don't care the two other Orcs on the board below I don't know what that means so two Orcs are remaining yeah it says

2:55:51 put the put two other Orcs on the board below it supposed to be like off to the side what does that mean is there another board oh maybe right here you need to place can you um just look at the um tokens and then the fq the tokens is the only that I checked oh it's only five or counters okay and then FAQ can there be more than one Orc in a space yes this can happen that is

2:56:29 all oh from the last chapter I was wondering uh it says if the cave troll recovers a wound after you completed the they have a cave troll challenge do you have to go back and wound him again answer no you can just make a run for the escape and complete the final you shall not pass challenge I have to spend a free move or discard a card to move G dandal on the bridge and play the story card sh on the space no you only have to play the story card sh on the bridge space to move into the space okay cool oh yeah but uh on that photo you can see where the yeah the Orcs go over here oh perfect so they do go there okay and then the player who most recently floated on the river goes first that's neither of us like a lazy river at a theme park does that count probably did that a couple years ago then that would be you all right I'll go okay uh chapter rules Orcs Orcs guard the three paths surrounding the area they're placed in okay characters cannot move along guarded paths okay or can be attacked and removed from the board by aorn gimly and leg loss using the card combinations below so Aragorn needs a sword and any and anything like loss needs the purple and anything and gim need Circle anything okay these characters must be in one of the three spaces adjacent into the Orcs to attack and place the removed orc below so for example um like you can move to a space where they're guarding but they're guarding only the paths not technically

2:57:59 the spaces yeah and then from here gimy could cut this guy down okay or this space actually you lose the chapter if you need to place an orc and do not have one available or the plot deck runs out so we have to keep like one there spare which these are adding Orcs to the board wow and this one card in the whole deck adds two and that's how you get screwed if you don't have the two buffer so once we see 15 go by we know we can breathe okay so that's why they put two here to start so you don't get screwed literally on the first draw and lose okay so we got to really keep two there but we could get away with not okay and then again this says removing orc from the board so you could spend a one ring to get a second one there if you're really panicked uh or whatever okay so movement um we're just trying to what's the freaking goals hide here quick challenges Proto Mar and Pippen must be at the hiding spot hiding spot reward anytime after completing this challenge Mary and Pippen can each be used once to remove an orc from the board by moving to one of the three spaces surrounding the orc once used uh once used Mary and Pippen are moved and placed here so there it's like a free orc movement a remove but uh to get them there you have to spend these two cards together to even start that ability which is really neat uh Bor meir's Redemption Aragorn must be at born's Rally Point okay leg loss and

2:59:33 gimle must be on a Rally Point space Oh that's like these oh two of these both are rally points oh this one's a Rally Point okay it's kind of like the Brie one from the first one then Roar draw special card draw a card from the special deck and you have to use a green and a blue uh I'm going to moror alone froto and Sam wise must be at the River Bank River Bank okay all other challenges must be complete also you have to do no to complete this one you don't have to use the Maran Pippen no you just have to have them in the hiding spot and then spend these cards and then reward you complete this chapter if two or fewer Orcs are on the board draw a card from the special deck oh oh so's like a little side side quest challenge happening okay cool all right okay so getting the little dudes to the highest spot is a thing

3:00:36 mhm okay and then important are these ones right now I technically have this one so I'm going to actually just do this one there too oh sorry I thought it was only both of them I was only think we can complete on your turn when it comes back around to you we can complete that one but Reds are not needed for any of this red is one red is lit only needed at the end so I'm going to be a little liberal with my Reds unless I'm missing

3:01:11 something uh but I didn't remove one from the board but I we do have a buffer with the two right now so I'm okay with that done course okay paard please 13 going to work at

3:01:37 13 needs that I don't have all right we can get froto yeah like we also need aorn in the mix since he allows another card to do some killing I didn't realize maybe I should have tried to move him closer but we need like these guys to be like in the mix so they can like get to whatever they need and I can use I can use gimle if I traded you well if you just move froto to here I can move froto here I see yeah and I do it on my turn and then I get a free I could remove one guy right away no matter what I have but you can also trade if you want yeah if I took the card for gimle I can use one of my Reds or I mean I can use give me a ring or something if you don't want or whatever you're doing then I can use these two to get rid of this guy right CU I just need a c yep okay and we'll get rid of this orc so at least if 15 comes up we're covered yep yep yep they're ready for you on your turn I think that's it for me I'll draw two cards oh okay good good good plot 14 so we're going to put this on 14 so movement I think hold let me check what I have if I'm spending oh how do I not have that anymore oh shoot sorry yeah why did that happen you gave me oh you needed to do that oh oh ouch yeah I just give you cards not even thinking here I'll I need to check trade me now and

3:03:08 I'll give you this oh but you don't have a ring discard but either way oh yeah that's huge too unless we just prepare until we have it again let me just think if I can kill an orc I don't care how it's done this doesn't need to be happening right this minute it just needs to yeah cuz they don't earn us a card but I need to kill an orc so let me think for a oh leg loss leg loss has this one and he's literally staying right here but again I need to keep one of these so if you don't get an i and then a green for this one but Aragorn has to be on the Rally Point okay so I'm going to move Aragorn into the mix and then I'm going to spend this and this with leg lots to kill this orc okay and then I am going to hold I think yeah a gor's not in position leg Los is not in position I'll just leave unless we need to trade something I think and you do if yeah if you're going to draw you can make this happen mhm um but we don't know what you'll draw into no I could just take a ring from you oh okay and then you just pitch one but like which one of these two would you think is going to happen more likely cuz aorn at the Rally Point wait Aragorn must be here and then you need leg L Los oh leg L Los and gimly need to be oh that's crazy be a

3:04:38 little bit okay so then let's just worry about this one and then I draw do not draw a plot card one okay cool eight work back where I literally removed it from okay well my turn move um do we can get Aragorn down here but he's not allowed to pass here until this orc's cut

3:05:10 down there's not much movement I can really do I guess I can have him uh you this guy does not uh what's he doing he needs to be what Sam wise even doing he need to be some at the end he needs to be at the river bank which is over here no so I guess I could have I could do this okay okay yeah then going to kill that work I play this draw three cards from the story deck then discard one from your hand which I'm going disc discard this okay okay so now I can I can use air to get rid of an orc so that they can move here like so that this was more clear sure all right and then who needs sparkly leg loss oh we need one sparkly but I could use these to remove one more so we have a little bit of a buffer yeah just remember any movement to get guys in position too yeah so okay uh done I'll draw two what are we looking for we look for a ring okay and then plot card

3:06:33 six that's all right movement can't move any of these guys around because they're all blocked by Orcs so I feel like well I can't move this guy around here what do I have what's like loss his thing the star I don't have unless someone use a ring and not really uh oh yeah but I cannot draw plot cards this turn and just like buy us a breather so I don't care about killing an orc right now um do you have this happening we're digging for the jeez yeah we shouldn't have spent that that was silly we did the same mistake before just hold it if you're

3:07:29 close so he has to be there mhm and leg L and me okay so I'm going to play this and not draw a plot card and then

3:07:54 and yeah I'll just P two cards oh so bad I have to go like around could just move him in one we need like it'll get blocked again it's like you need to slowly work this guy because they could get like blocked but I could just move this guy like here and then he just has to go two more and he's in and then but then we need what you have actually to get a special C going so yeah maybe I do that instead or maybe I do this it's still the same distance but at least he's on the border so if you oh we want to kill something first not sure doesn't matter he is yeah I guess but then you'll still have to spend two so no I'll just do there I'll go one two down those two cards I pitched new cards oh there we go okay no plot card because I played a card to stop drawing plot cards your turn movement movement so one two we could just do as we said one and two special cards can be use as Wilds oh if that's a thing I I was thinking that like last scenario I was like man could we have pitched one of those I don't know I think only one rings can but yeah that's a good one uh special

3:09:29 cards many Challenge Rewards instruct a player draw a cards from the special deck when a player plays a special card they read it out loud place in the story deck discard pile whenever the story deck is reshuffled the discarded special cards are shuffled into it special cards may also be discarded in the same way as a story card in order to move oh they can also be discarded to fulfill the any Card requirements of special chapter requirements that would have changed things cuz we were holding those and we just like throw them away and like we could have used those to complete challenges instead of sitting there digging and wasting rounds oh my God that would have made the last couple way easier I think hold on is it saying only if it's a question mark like any or it's it's like a wild question mark any card requirement nope not a wild just when the any cards are needed okay which the last one did have any's no you had to do two matching for something I forget what it was I can't remember it's fine yeah but okay so for the question marks they can use and they can use to move which I didn't realize which makes sense yeah so if you just need to like get something done on your turn like don't hold a card obviously like the glad one drawing three cards will get you more action but like the one that's like Peak at the top card in the deck and bury it like you might as well just play that as a card to get going like yeah cuz you could bury it and in this case it would just bring another orc out so like it doesn't even matter yeah you just know where it would be and I mean information is good but it's like sometimes it's just like better to have get the challenge done like like here you could use it to kill any any orc would be probably better than peeking at what orc is going to come out next you know mhm or just moving into a space before an orc drops

3:11:00 down and blocks your path yeah that's true that's huge okay thank you blankie cat thank you thank you I forgot about that being a thing yeah I didn't even know the movement thing I totally we should have reread that today now that I know how the game kind of works it's like I should have reread whole rule book it's like two and a half pages we could have read it all on stream no problem we read through most of it but okay so I think I have this situation happening I have aorn and these guys are at the rally points and I'm discarding these two cards to fulfill the Second Challenge draw a card from the special deck another mirror of gladel WW oh but again now you know now you know it's if you don't need to use and I'm sure some scenarios that'll be huge to use wait then no so I can't use it in this case because I can't use it as that but you can use it in this case or to move somebody okay to remember and these guys will eventually have movement I trade you giving you this yeah and you could no trade me this oh yeah and you can fill this correct so we can get rid of some more Orcs anytime after complete this challenge Mary and Pippen now um can each be moved used to remove an orc from the board by moving into one of the three spaces surrounding an orc once used plop here okay and then the last thing that we need to do is froto Sam froto and Sam wise must be at the river bank right now you could do this you know right you just go plon plon and they're gone yeah which I probably should right yeah I don't know then that allows

3:12:33 moving yeah so froto and Sam and it buys us like many rounds of not caring about works and using cards to actually move guys yeah froto and Sam need to get here now it's just to the river bank Roto Sam that's it oh for they just to clear hey they're splitting whoa just realized okay that's me done I will draw two cards all right and do we need oh we do need red green and oh yeah yeah red green and blue okay and then plot card for me is a one add an orc to one yeah the only problem is they'll start blocking our but hopefully we can get them out of there yeah yeah cuz right now we can't even go there because this Orcs there mhm so maybe saving them for removing those guys would probably even better and not removing the one that was wherever it was oh maybe they were here were yeah yeah so we needed to do that okay is is as long as we can get yeah maybe that was Overkill okay uh so

3:13:35 movement and then oh so this guy can't be killed until the other guys are there right so that's why we needed to use these no but I think we can just bring one of these guys up and around no I I think we should have left these for like only when it's needed to get by but they wouldn't have been able to get out he would have been stuck there no you could still go like this way oh my God that would take it's still yeah and then you just use them when you're block like this and you don't want to waste a ton of cards yeah that's probably what would have been happen Okay um so in that case yeah let's just uh move gimly and move

3:14:20 gim and hope nothing drops there and oh but then it's like what type of card that's the problem if we don't oh so then you keep leave gimy here keep that card cuz that he he needs this but then maybe I should move leg L then you know like what yeah like we don't know one of the cards for for him I know but if Orcs drop before them like you want someone past like what is what is the most we've played so far you know like who's who's the more likely kill cards to come up looks like a lot of swords and yeah so the eyeballs are less they're more likely to show purples uh purples oh the leg losses yeah looks like only two three three three leg loss I don't know so leg gloss or gimly are okay yeah so then what I'll do I'll just move him also and then swords are kind of useless because aorn's not there but at least those guys are closer and then they can help them get out hopefully or I just gamble that's actually good because yeah 15 is going to put one here and here which block from get out of there and it blocks this guy from getting in there too though yeah so we just need to keep them past okay okay we'll see hopefully we just

3:15:51 luck luck goes our way uh okay some drawn to mhm okay and then we're putting an Orc in 11 okay doesn't even matter all right my turn two yeah that's the thing we make sure El still kill it works but two is a good is

3:16:15 fine so I could move Lego loss or you can move one two but I can get leg loss in position to for you to take that one out oh yeah yeah has 10 already come up no but if Lego is in position he can y one two okay okay and then need to move one more I can't do anything oh no I get the free movement at the start of my turn but if 10 gets in there then I'm in trouble but yeah let's have him move here okay with that and then I'll stop there and draw two okay I have gimy just in case nine oh man oh gimy I'll I'll use gimly next time sure okay so start of my turn uh movement is now kind of a waste but I can move this guy up mhm I have him help and then this one you're saying I'm using for leg loss yep mhm and that kills this or to give us the buffer and that is it 12 okay this is good nice this is good okay you're mov my my two movement I'm going to get fro y there just going to get Sam there and then I'll use gim's attack on this orc here and then I don't have a card to move so that's fine I'll draw two

3:17:48 okay and seven uh yep that's fine doesn't block then we need one more okay uh cuz have we tried so no no uh uh oh do we have the cards we need no a kill no for this oh we forgot that so we need to kill an orc yeah I have a gimly card oh and you have a Lego L did I move yet on my oh no no no okay oh but right beside leg and I can trade you something yeah so movement I can move this guy yeah and then trade whatever you need for uh what is not oh this is not used to kill anything but we that for okay but this is used to kill something which we also need to do and we probably still need more turns worst case we could use I'm take this one yeah oh but then I yeah I'm going to pitch it I have to do it okay and then that will kill here just need and then done 10 okay that's fine okay now movement movement I think I get Sam in okay and you need to kill an orc though oh man I don't have you could corruption oh trade me trade me trade you I don't sword doesn't need but I need to move okay no hold on he can't get blocked here let's do

3:19:20 this okay then I trade you okay but we're going to run out of yeah it's like we're just yeah maybe yeah do I if we do a corruption we're drawing a corruption card we have I know and one of those is 13 that draws two Orcs when we lose yeah we need that one to come up what do you think do I think I trade you just trade to kill an orc that's all you need to do on your turn okay or you could do one more movement oh you did move them yeah so you keep the oh it doesn't matter okay so spend those and we'll kill here and that's it Allard four it's good when they go beside somebody but it's like we don't always have yeah and I don't have anything I can give you a gimly well obviously I'll move him in there there's no point and if you move gim one I can give you a gimly card I move gimly one you can give me a gimly card yeah but then I'm spending a card we need to win the game and like we just can't sit there forever yeah but we got to keep killing Orcs we probably got to do corruption which sucks but I don't know what to say let's check how many more of those purples one two three four

3:20:51 five six there's liter one more in the whole deck oh no and we're like if I spend it we're like waiting till we draw it like oh that's not good I can't do that and if I do corruption who knows how bad that is I don't even know what they all do but we got to taste I don't know if they all say the same thing oh I'd hope they're unique but yeah that would be huge bad

3:21:24 yeah yeah I don't know what is the One Ring remove an orc from the board oh I could just spend to save that oh cuz yeah why would I combo yeah let me just do it okay yeah cuz I don't want to lose either for sure and which orc do you want to remove maybe when that's far away we can't reach yeah he he say draw one special card oh discard oh discard sorry one special card from any players hand of fable nice try corruption card nice try saon okay that dirt bag we got you all right uh draw two not the oh there's the other the other purple I drew right into it literally on the top okay well but we still need the other ones mm the red and a oh let's check actually one red one green Two Reds two GRE green three green three red four green four red five green five red six seven no more Reds oh no more Reds we got to dig through oh my God yeah how do we we can't yeah we screwed up uh oh well or wait is there any specials no we can't use a special for that uh we might have to use a run ring that'll be the only way oh that counts as anything right yeah that's what we do I oh I almost thought we were screwed okay I forgot the one ringss are wild yeah yeah so then okay we just need a green and there's only one more or we just do two more corruption and lock it in but well let's see what happens here

3:22:55 I guess uh there's a couple more greens I think okay all right so this is your plot card to okay and then they're already in place so I'll just move legala or I mean gimly here okay if I can trade you your purple because you'll keep that one purple then I can gimly kill here okay and then I'll draw two cards the wisdom of Elon choose a player to oh okay so I can take that from you all right plot card plot card three oh we haven't drawn the magic 13 yet or what 15 but they're right there okay okay so movement doesn't matter I'll just move this guy up here cuz that's legal cuz there's no one blocking okay uh trat arino mhm actually that bad should I just keep uh I think it's fine okay uh so choose a player draw two cards from story deck I'll choose myself yeah this is the problem oh okay there we go cuz we yeah cuz we know that there's no more Reds yeah okay and then I'll just uh and this one boom one corruption and we complet it if you complet this chapter oh if two or fewer Orcs are on the board nope we did not do that well oh that's okay yeah yeah we yeah I don't even know where was 15 in this freaking thing oh

3:24:26 it was next but that's good we didn't draw it so it would have been even worse wow okay okay halfway done seven corruption I don't know if that's good or bad well it's less than half yeah but it's about half so we're we're on track

3:25:00 yeah we need more of those glad ril draw three cards ones those would have been better to draw than the look at the top card yeah I think unless another one has cards that are good and you look at the top and bury a bad card and like have a good plot card kind of

3:25:26 all right last March of the ends oh sick there go saon uh soran's Tower okay let's sorry I'm just going to grab this I can get the yeah yeah you get the tokens uh set up find the chapter five plot card we got some goblins place okay we'll read this in a sec because I want you to know what's going on Deck plot deck looking for one more

3:26:17 five of these oh it's fire on the this one okay all right that's all we need for that

3:26:40 one all right place Mary and Pippen on their indicated spaces okay uh place the tree beard counter on his space okay place the three ENT counters on Spaces two four and six these ones two four six that's cool okay uh please five Goblin counters on the goblin track Goblin side up oh these are the same guys we've seen before nope oh they're different they have cool stuff hiding on the back nice nice okay uh the player who most recently was in a forest goes first what the hell is with these things someone thinks they're funny um I don't know you just go first on this one mhm okay sure okay moving the ends Mary and Pippen are used to move ends when one of them moves out of a space with one or more ends one end may move with them tree tree beard is considered an end okay defeating goblins if Mary or Pippen moves an ant into a space with a goblin discard one um of the red ones red cards or any two other matching story card to defeat the Goblin return the goblin counter to the goblin dra okay

3:28:10 extinguishing fire oh there's going to be fire Hobbits and ends cannot enter a space with a fire during a player's storytelling phase that player can extinguish a fire if there are at least two ends adjacent to it discard any two matching story cards and return the fire counter to the goblin track Goblin side face up okay so we lose this chapter if there are two fires on the board or the plot deck Runs Out reset the chapter okay okay one to nine out the deck place a goblin in location that matches the number on the plot card you drew if the space is occupied by another by any character or counter place it in the next highest number space if there is a goblin adjacent to the one just placed flip that Goblin to its fire oh fires on the back of the Goblins I get it 10 to 15 flip one Goblin to its fire side if there are no goblins on the board place a goblin the highest unoccupied

3:29:02 space so Hobbits and ends cannot enter a space of the fire during a player Story Time phase that player can extinguish a fire if there are at least two ends adjacent to it discard any two matching story cards and return the fire counter to the goblin track Goblin side up okay we have our challenges the a gathering Mary Pippen and tree beard and one other an must be in Daren Dingle dur Dingle reward draw two cards from the story deck release the river both of the dam spaces must be occupied by ins the first challenge must be complete reward draw one card from the special deck and battle at Eisen guard both of the tower spaces must be occupied by an ENT all other challenges complete reward you complete the chapter well we have do this in order okay uh okay so moving the ants Mar and Pippen are used to move ants okay I get that when one of them moves out of a space with one or more ants one an may move with them re bear is considered an end so they have to go get the ends mhm and and tell them where to what to

3:30:09 do so Reds are are amazing MH over there so don't forget for defeating goblins and we'll need doubles for extinguishing the fire and doubles for defeating goblins if you don't have like matching yeah but remember story cards can count as any like a question mark okay place a goblin in location that matches the number on the plot card you drew if the space is occupied by any character or counter place it in the next highest space if there is a goblin adjacent to that one to the one just place flip that Goblin to oh okay okay that's annoying all right so you're first yeah get we need to get this guy into here this and one of these guys into there and obviously use Marion Pippen to do so okay so let's go one

3:31:07 two one Brett back up this game has a great slow progression feels like someone's following us yeah I know right and I'll use that to move these guys here okay I think that is all I will draw two cards okay and then plot card 12 flip a goblin to its Fireside if there's no goblins on the board Place one Goblin in the highest occupied unoccupied space I see a nine I think that is the highest number yeah oh dang it so can you not move in there something so if Mary Pippen moves an end into a space with a goblin okay so we just have to move that in and you and spend one of these and it defeats it okay and we also care about oh yeah these cards to get that done so pay attention to that yeah so I'm not my I didn't realize I'm sorry you're switch it all oh no I didn't have that yep we're fine okay uh it's my turn MH move in mhm and then when you move in you can if you want to discard a red to kill the goblin defeated you are okay one is there okay and then don't really care

3:32:41 about these right now but they're matching yeah so something goes on fire yeah yeah but I think I don't care right now oh let me hold on let me do the special card I have I'll just draw two cards oh yeah I have one of those and then I will don't have the other one mm we still have time anyways to get the other guys in we only need one more tree Mary Pippen tree bir okay yeah so Mary just got to go get somebody I'll just do one okay okay and then you can move bang bang but then I'm going to trade you this for that sure and then actually I'll do do this or I just go back here I'm not sure I don't think it matters I don't know if Orcs or like goblins will show up here and it's closer but I don't know they need to get up here but they you need to go here first so obviously the ends have to split so two go up here and two go down here mhm I don't think right now it matters but it could so I'll keep that guy kind of near there and then whatever okay uh draw two cards eladriel oh I'm getting all good cards 14 uh flip one Goblin to its Fireside if there's no goblins on the board place a goblin in the highest unoccupied space Oh unoccupied

3:34:13 okay all right movement I'll move there okay uh then I think that's it you want to trade and use this to draw a bunch of cards sure so here's how you do it you take this and you give me this and then you just blow it no no no I keep that because I can discard it I give oh yeah that's right okay so then I if I I mean if I unless you need that to destroy I don't think I will be able to this okay so play this discard this drawing three cards okay I didn't get what I needed does oh man okay um you could use oh no you don't want to leave the space yet well you could move one of the Hobbits to bring an an with you and then spend this as like uh with any one other card as a matching to kill the goblin yeah cuz can bring it back right uh sure this and I don't know cuz I don't think we really need to look at the top I don't think we'll need this again so let's go with that to kill this guy you're right that could keep the fire under control okay then I think that's all yeah that's it okay 13 we're adding a goblin to the highest unoccupied seven

3:35:47 can they be an adjacent or they have to be in a space with a goblin to defeat it but fires they can be adjacent but if there's not enough goblins I don't think they'll turn to fire I think only if they place a goblin in a location that matches the number on the plot card you just drew if the space is occupied by a character yeah so we could get unlucky if there is a goblin adjacent to the one place flip the goblin to the Fireside so if we keep the Goblins under control then it won't eventually we won't be able to cuz we'll have to spin cards okay uh movement

3:36:23 mhm this not even close and then we hope draw I guess so annoying and ends can't move on their own no so we're literally blocked waiting for cards again why does this always happen I mean we can like we could go and start moving like no you can't you're not allowed to do any of this stuff this we start the part process we just can't complete it it's like we could get one of the we can get one of them down here or something you know sure just leave the end in there CU you only move one at a time one two I want to like I want to get these guys out of these numbered spaces so that they don't start flipping so one two mhm and then on my turn one that probably doesn't make sense to that way one no we need to do this one first yeah but why would I move these ones when these ones can go that way okay I don't know this guy's on the path already and I can get back quicker I don't know that's cuz he can't leave this guy up there I see we're saying sorry yeah yeah you're right yeah so he'll go this way and then don't know what to say now oh but

3:37:55 these kill goblins but I'm not near Goblin but let's just use this one just drop him there I guess I don't know this seems done what we're doing but I can just leave them there mhm yeah I don't know if that's

3:38:29 right I don't know that might screw us but whatever I'm done all I don't know treating would have 10 uh flip one Goblin to its Fireside if there's no goblins oh man now how do do I get any two matching cards but I got to get two IDE them right they already are oh okay okay okay good so then move oh so if I leave this gu there that's very bad Sor right rewind I see we don't want to start working on that yet one two yeah I'll just go that way all right and then so then since we can't do that then I guess I just go I need to do two movement one two so we start moving him back yeah then I have this situation so I have two ends adjacent have the cards it can spend dur player turn the player can extinguish the fire by having discard two matching cards that's the problem Oh I can spend these ones okay those ones are discarded extinguish the fire uh Goblin side up here okay then I don't do anything with that we're still just waiting okay that's my turn I think

3:39:59 done wow piing for cards blot card plock cards nine place a goblin on the highest unoccupied oh no sorry place a goblin in the location that matches oh nine um uh if the space is occupied by a character or counter place it in the next highest numbered space 8

3:40:26 s oh okay right the other one oh I see okay all right uh movement

3:40:46 yeah that sucks I can just spend feet what else I'm doing done yeah that's crazy one place a goblin in number one

3:41:17 can let that one become a fire because it's like adjacent to it so whatever but so then maybe I get him going back to pick up this one one two or you can I don't know yeah go ahead one two whatever three and I think I just wait there need any actually

3:41:52 yeah okay done oh finally we got it okay Lo card Lo card five uh place a goblin in five if able there no adjacent ones we don't flip it okay

3:42:22 I don't know what I'm doing like do I just grab this orc tree beard uh one two think either way he's got to come that way cuz you can on the St your turn move in mhm oh Mary he needs to both need to be in there

3:42:55 yeah I I really don't know this is messy I's get him in there for you I guess oh but you can do that St turn anyway mhm yeah don't waste a card if you don't need to cuz we'll need that green no I'm just trying to yeah okay whatever done draw I know we to trade but four uh four and Goblin highest if there's a goblin adjacent to the one just flip just place flip that Goblin to its fir side okay so now if two fires we lose

3:43:45 if I did yeah but if remember if you do this you'll draw cards so like one yeah and then move those two in and then you have this pitch it two yep then I need to get rid of those that completes that challenge dra two story cards from the story deck remember the one ring is extinguish a fire adjacent without playing any cards adjacent to an end so if you want to spend a one ring we do have a couple that you can blow before we hit a corruption card but don't let us lose the game and don't blow cards if we're like literally about to do the next thing or it just helps us mhm I mean should I just do that and then we can start moving one of the ends that way and complete the second one cuz if we get another fire we lose I know I know that's what I'm saying don't have a way to do it then extinguish this fire this goes to eight okay then I will still while I'm on my turn we need these two at least so I have one extra you need to trade me for something here um I can't get that should I save that five how many of these purple sparkly have we had I know we need one for the later but one

3:45:17 two only two okay so I will spend this move here you also have it I could just keep no I I would just keep keep going I could keep going just like oh I have have them so we're just looking for the sword yep yep okay so one two but remember these kill I know okay maybe I just should you just kill one kill an orc or the reduces the chance of fire I go here yeah then just kill and then I just kill and then you can yeah what would that been two spaces like you just moved two and then killed I moved one and killed cuz that's just been the card to kill okay and then you could then go one two on your turn I don't know if you can throw a card away I don't know all right oops oh there's a sparkly that we need for the another one okay eight so we're going to play CH a goblin and eight so this one turns to fire so annoying so annoying um so I move

3:46:35 uh like inefficient movement with the Hobs is screwing us so uh two ANS are adjacent yeah but only one end needs to be Jason to play a ring card to do it then we definitely draw a corruption card we're on number five we still have three more scenarios to go bam yeah so I literally don't have a matching card I'd literally have to spend a ring no matter what obviously the ring ability is a better way to do it uh so damn spaces so I going to one

3:47:30 two I I don't know what to do here this is annoying two or seven move into here or seven there only one right oh yeah cuz you know the numbers yeah seven has not come up yet all right I'm just going to corruption us I don't know what to do and that hits a so that gets rid of that each player discards one story card of able I don't have one yeah we do I will discard oh what have we seen the most of oh I only need one of these oh wait this is out of the game one green two three four five six so one more green in the whole deck uh and then what red Reds but we've been blowing those one two three so more likely to see Reds come up so I will lose a red and I'll hold that still for the last one okay and sitting on the screen but we need to save it as valuable so that's that's it and then I got that and do not draw pluck her this turn okay go ahead seven oh so that we would have just died there and boom that this flips right yep and then have we seen

3:49:02 six or one no oh yeah one wouldn't do it cuz it needs to be beside a goblin right yeah we haven't seen six yep all right well movement not even adjacent anyways with two an oh my God so we need this to happen then you can start taking in out I know it's already ready to happen we just need the cards so rock in a hard place is Brent or is it an an and an and hardwood I don't know an or is an an a hardwood

3:49:48 like I could if we're going to use a ring which I don't know if we are but I could go one and two and start getting this guy up there so this counts for me as on any card so that's this I have or matching um we need this to be done CU it's blocking This and like once it's done we don't need to leave ends here too so they can come back and help with fire do we have enough I don't know I don't know but yeah we just need him to get the special card for us so is it best to like I might have to use a ring hopefully at some point there's some way of pausing corruption or putting it back or cuz yeah there is in the RO book it talked about if it moves back and you go again you don't have to draw a new card or something right mhm there has to be a way where they like give us a little a little buffer or maybe there's a special card or something but I don't know should I just progress to the tower for the I don't know bothie must be occupied by an ches cuz if we get the car you have to keep fires under control the whole time so it's like I might have to use a ring is what I'm saying for the fire we'll have to use the ring many many many many many times if we don't get ants done here and move back to protect fires while the other ants move up you can't just leave these ents here and like walk away that then you're like literally letting all the Goblins go wild I know

3:51:20 but right now we're just waiting for the cards and once we have the cards we win so that one so so is it better to just use a ring as a while to get this done we have to use two rings oh that's I'm saying like not wait even more turns well we have to wait till your turn anyways though so yeah I I do whatever you want but yeah so I'm just asking are you okay if I go start progressing this I don't know is this fire going to get put out no with a ring only cuz I don't have I don't even have a way to so we could lose then so you got to put the r the fire out you can't just leave there and then we have no way of putting it out cuz even a ring doesn't do it with no ends there no I'm leaving this one in I would go like this and take this one I but there's one end there that I would still do that that's some I don't know why you're waiting for my permission just do because I mean it's the end of the game just do it do it and then I need this card for the last one so we're not moving anymore with that one okay we're done I'll draw here we go boom okay sure three okay that's fine oh this is gone sorry sorry that's the one I put out with the here turn you still again didn't get the cards that we need well I'll just do not draw a plug card then I guess and then oh yeah sorry I can't play that I got to move first and I can't waste this movement

3:52:56 do not draw pker uh you uh trade you this that's matching cards which could put fires but you need two an for that so that's not going to happen now I hate the way we wasted rings when like we had all the ins around that's like not when you do that uh oie two story cards H for a red so then I have these two cards oh

3:53:36 yeah oh there it is okay okay so now movement don't draw cuz I play y all right okay mve M I can't move them yet but I can move yeah you can bring him back one two okay then I trade with you and I spend these oh the dam has been released release the river raw one special card you found our wins love complete a challenge using one or more one ring cards without advancing the corruption track where the hell have you been I'd rather share my at one Lifetime with you and face all the ages of this world alone okay so then I think I just use this actually to move you could save for this you could I think we're going to oh it doesn't matter for that cuz it's but if I use this to move then on your turn potentially one two yeah let's bring this an with you yeah so I'll do that one two yeah okay and then plot card 11 what oh 11's different flip a goblin to its fires side uh hold on let me see sure this one cuz we're not going to be adjacent to this one yeah that's true hopefully we can just actually get it here okay uh then it's your turn

3:55:08 move I'll trade you to have an extra card I can put out the fire I don't think we need to I think so oh yeah I don't know how I'm moving all the way in there but oh you only have one yeah yeah I should have kept this or you should have kept that that's huge huge cuz with my hand alone if I traded that from you I literally could complete it without getting punished for these yeah that was uh not the best I think but okay if you wanted to put out the fire like we do have still one more of these oh yeah true trade did we trade already we did right we did we did I think I gave you this for a r so then can you not just do it on your turn then if you oh yeah but you won't have oh yeah here uh no we trade already I can't trade you so if I put the fire out here I no longer have these cards but we still have one among us and then we can use any other cards which again if you save rwin would be amazing but then we're one I got to put the fire out I can't just leave it have to uh so done fire this card does nothing but it helps eventually complete it but still need to move so I'll just move this one up and we get risky with it all chilling on this space he's one moving away which you will get at the start of your turn so technically we didn't need to do that move there so I'll hold actually mhm yeah cuz we get

3:56:40 free movement so that was okay uh story cards Lo card two no fire then on my turn he goes in there boom and I think I just give you this for the start for your turn and we just hope that we don't get a fire even if we get a fire it won't matter yeah okay uh you're drawing two thank you six right here boom here but I think uh okay so move uh help and then this plus these two both Tower spaces occupied by an an all the challenges complete all right wow boom you complete the chapter yay just a little corruption spend there two right I think we did maybe maybe still oh we only had one more plot card too yeah clear off the board of everything I need to go

3:57:57 back all right whoa colorful oh Battle of Helms Deep Hell yeah awesome awesome awesome awesome for as easy as this game is like it's stressing me out I don't mean easy like simple like like low complexity yeah it is lighter me out yeah yeah cuz they made it tight obviously like you only have so many actions and the randomness it's pandemic it's that pandemic feeling of like there's probably the perfect solution to the puzzle but sometimes the randomness just messes you up because you made a decision earlier on not perfect information and then it screws you cuz you're just guessing and hope for some luck you're just playing the odds and sometimes it'll workout is too breasy sometimes it won't all right let me see what I need for six

3:58:48 oh we he GED off the white yes returns and six orc counters one uh Battle of Helms Deep the fellowship fights tirelessly to defend Helms Deep but are forced to retreat again and again as they face the overwhelming forces of soron okay setup find the chapter six plot card okay pay attention one Elven reinforcements each player draws a story card so one good thing that will be at the bottom of the deck I'm sure uh two to six add one orc to the current challenge area so we got to like defend the wall defend the bridge I'm sure it's going to bounce around all this stuff um and then we definitely have to stop the battering ram that's probably a thing add three Orcs to the challenge area two Orcs okay I see okay all right uh four story cards as usual aror and gimly in their areas Aragorn gimy Lego loss in their indicated spes play Gandalf counter white side face up uh place an orc counter on Spaces 1 2 and three three in the red

4:00:21 area one two and three thank you in the red area Place three other Orcs on the board below okay uh the player who most recently climbed a wall goes first that's ridiculous I look like I'm climbing any walls ain't happening ain't happening so odds evens your odds even first okay chapter rule stages of battle each challenge has an Associated area on the board you must complete the challenges in order okay placing Orcs when you are required to place Orcs place them in the lowest numbered space not already occupied by an Orc in your current challenge area there can only be one orc per space okay so we're doing different challenges we have to start red yellow blue okay um yeah red yellow blue white removing orc during a player storytelling phase the player May discard cards to remove Orcs in the same space as Aragorn gimly and Lego loss the type of story card needed depends on the character that's attacking so it's p before aoin Hare and Theoden I don't know how to say any of these names sorry can also remove Orcs from their space with the cards shown on their space okay

4:01:52 so we can use like a a green a red I'll need to read those after I was reading the chat Del says literally the best epic scene in a movie history in movie history period 100% agree let's see if we can recreate that I mean yes yeah yeah not even close I was thinking like the long night or whatever from Game of Thrones for a TV show was pretty sick um yeah but it's the scope and scale in movies yeah it's like different different scale for sure but yeah they did some sick stuff in Game of Thrones um yeah but there are other ones that people bring up like yeah Siege epic Siege yeah I'm not sure I can't even think of I'm sure in some like war movies there's some cool ones but it's like I don't think so I don't think so yeah if you have a an argument to that leave it in the comments later I would love to hear it and then go watch it all right then we're waiting for Gandalf during any player storytelling phase that player may move Gandalf to the next bace on the path by discarding the cards indicated in the new space okay you lose a chapter if you need to place an orc and do not have one available or the plot deck Runs Out restart the chapter oh and there's cards that have three works at a time but they're easy to get rid of in this so they can only be removed by like these cards same but these people here yeah they can remove it by using their cards um they yeah can also remove Orcs

4:03:26 from their space so we don't need to be in their space just orc has to be in their space if that makes sense each CH is associated area of the board okay so red is charge aror and gimle at the CT explosion Gandalf at day two has to happen for challenge one to be completed and your reward remove all Orcs from the red area oh that's easy then and then draw two story cards so it's like we're only care about one area so like yeah okay that's not terrible yeah cuz they're only being added to your area it keeps them contained that's nice brace the gates okay come on we can take them Aragorn and gimy at the the causeway for yellow Causeway oh it's way down here okay so then they have to get so Aragorn and gimy have to be there and leg loss and Theoden oh leg loss at Theoden so leg loss has to be here and then Gandalf at day three so it's this is so sick like Gandalf is coming like you know look to the east yeah you know Dawn at dawn look to the east you know for him to come of finish it like we have to make him progressing like so now we know what he was doing when we didn't know where he was and everything um this is like we get to actually play him riding up he just like stops for a you know a coffee and takes a nap and then keeps moving you know we get we just do all that and then ride out with me sorry uh aorn and

4:04:57 legal Los in the Great Hall gimle in hornberg Gandalf at or Beyond day four okay and then reward remove all Orcs from yellow area oh sorry that was yellow area sorry this one each player draws a story card do not remove Orcs so this one removes Orcs from Red this one removes Orcs from yellow this one does not remove Orcs from blue and then at dawn look to the east Gandalf is at day five or Cliffs side reward you complete this chapter if Gandalf is at Cliffs side draw a card from the special deck so if you can get them one further we can get a special card I want more special cards M we missed one already okay you're first right yeah I think this is an easy finish on the first one uh aorn and gimle right aorn and gimy at the Culvert explosion gandal at day two yeah so Gandalf has to be here which we only need to get all right so okay and then how do these guys get beaten so you just need to you just need to spend one of these cards I don't have uhhuh if you have a mo a boot you can okay so but movement first mhm yoink yoink right there's no direct line okay uh I'll move yeah yeah I'm

4:06:29 going to remove that orc please and then you don't have either to defeat this guy no but once we win we move anyway that's what I'm saying so maybe you could win it instead if I traded you this to move Gandalf oh Gandalf yeah I don't know would you need on your turn no you have one of those oh you need the oh we need a we need a red yeah yeah that's what I'm saying we can't even lock it in I didn't realize we need other cards saying leave them there because we can maybe kill an orc before we moves yeah but we probably want to do that as fast as possible because we get two story cards to get it going then we can also look ahead and leg loss could be at Theoden so that could be something like moving leg loss but leg L does what to kill swords oh but you have a sword

4:07:25 mhm and then yeah I'll just well this is needed for a while but before can use it for Gandalf no I can't why oh later you mean no here even like you don't need anything special for this one yeah you need this one oh I see which you have he needs to be on day two though right yeah for the current Mission so then you need any so and then I need to do that match you want to trade for what I'll take your green so then I can have two matching for gandal oh yeah I didn't see a head and then you'll hopefully have hopefully we can get you a red for that

4:08:16 okay BL card 10 10 10 is add two Orcs to the current challenge area and how they get added again like lowest number something placing or place them the lowest number space is not already occupied by an Orc in your current challenge area so technically one is not occupied by an orc and two two okay perfect okay so how many we got there we have there three okay so now movement for me I can move gimly because I did not get yeah I can move G oh no remember this can be used as this too like this can match one if you want to like oh yeah true plop it but it also does not draw plot cards which is also amazing I can move Lego loss cuz I feel like he need to get here but if he's not an option to kill it Orcs no but I could use the green like you said so now in storytelling I can move Gandalf one I could do this to move Gandalf again and then I could do would you rather not just do the greens that match CU you have a match oh but you want to keep going this to get rid of this in case we don't draw true yeah or you can move Gandalf again or I can move gandal oh I can move Gandalf again I just don't know why you moved him cuz I had to free move so I'm getting position I see that makes sense cuz I'm just hoping that we draw a red and then I can shade it to you rob rules check leg gloss is purple not blue am I blind did I the wrong one sorry what do you mean oh did I spend the wrong card

4:09:47 for him this was me so one less orc so this wouldn't be here uh I I didn't kill so I should have a card back then no worry so then this would just be here yeah at five uh no the next one that doesn't have an orc which one two three four is there there's a four oh yeah okay so then that change that can you kill one I can kill with this the green till was added on your plot card or is my plug card or you're not drawing a plug card what did you do I don't know I use that to move G okay whatever and I killed we have the three if we need to draw okay okay yeah cuz I my first we only one plot card that makes sense okay then I'll draw thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you yeah yeah I spent the wrong card for the wrong character it's Aragorn that uses the swords leg loss is the the purple or whatever yeah yeah I'll take two story cards going for a red Arn's love so use that properly like yeah I can give it to you and then we can complete no no but you need look at you read what it does it's like crazy powerful if you use it just like the other card where we use it all the way complete a challenge using one or more one ring cards without advancing the corruption track so literally you play this on one that like these only need two it's not the best example but we usually have ones with threes you literally can just build up one ring cards discard this with three one ring cards get out out of your hand and complete something like that's how we're supposed to use that last time and you just chucked away for a move and I was

4:11:19 like that's true yeah I can't believe it 14 Okay add three Orcs to the current challenge area oh my God so obviously two five and six yeah wow and somehow we got to kill three Orcs we lose or we got to complete this yes so can we whose turn is it mine yours so I do not have a red I could complete it using this wild unfortunately but I might do it just cuz I do not want to lose well would we be better to do this then and you complete it oh yeah ring yeah trade like a waste I know but if we can move it forward okay so car on where are we at they're both in their spot he's at day two or more we're literally lined up movement wise I can move him there mhm that's where he needs to go I can't move these two guys that's a waste oh let me move AO in no she won't move stubborn stubborn lady uh okay trading y uh here you go no use the ring I'm just joking yeah okay uh so it's this one I don't need technically but I'll just give you this no I'm going to get rid of one I want to keep matching so you take that and then I spend Arwin and complete with this and this yeah cuz they're all going to remov so I don't need to kill any that'd be dumb to waste cards okay remove all Orcs on the current chall CH area and then draw two story cards okay all

4:12:51 right then you cover oh sorry will you cover that one yep the Red's done okay so now we need aorn gimy at the causeway oh so they need to get to here okay wow and then we need red and my balls so killing this aorn to kill leg loss are going to come in there GL is already there but you have quickest way is this

4:13:41 way all know sure done two Reds plot one Elvin reinforcements each player draws a story card hell yeah uh this one was first so I was first sure you take that one okay yeah just quickly was like two cards let's split them up but no I should draw them in order and I guess first player first all right movement let's go one two then we'll play this discard that drawing three cards yep one two three okay we need these special look on the top one yeah okay but you can use it as and you can use it as oh there are no more question marks use as yes you could just use it as a move yeah or use as

4:14:48 ability one can use it as a move so hold on we need aror and gimy at the causeway so these two jerks need to get there yeah one two leg loss is already at Theoden and G off has to be at day three that has to happen but we don't have a green yet not yet that's fine we' seen lots of greens I hold this then we've only seen three well we've seen three greens four left to come hopefully they show up do I move one more or do I wait you can move you can move Lego loss in at the start of your turn the wondering ability is to remove an orc from every space with a character miniature oh that's cool so you'd still have to like have the Min minis there okay do I do it says historically the siege of Vienna by Turks was closest to what this and Gondor Siege depicted at the brink of City falling 18,000 Horsemen led by winged usars that's what that is charged from the hills and saved the city geez is it based like I know like tolken like obviously pulled from a lot of different things like a lot of authors artists everybody does they're influenced by their experiences and what they've read and learned and whatever obviously because if they didn't know it they wouldn't be able to just make it up but um yeah I wonder if he was like inspired by that I bet you can look that up and find like what battles toing like historical things obviously like World War II heavily inspired that stuff right

4:16:19 like what he did and the story is supposed toly a thing like a lot of religion stuff I think if I remember correctly but I am done I'll draw two story cards okay and then plot card oh now 11 add two Orcs to the current challenge area so one and two which I think is okay because we're clish to finishing if we can find a green to move gandal okay your turn so a Gord gimy at the causeway okay gimly hacks with cards I don't have but I could trade mhm I'm debating just moving gimly one and the moving Aragorn one mhm CLE needs to move which I don't have and you don't have oo okay um yeah so we need to save a red you have I have this here which is so I'll trade sword is Aragorn to chop chop yeah and sword we need for the next one five he's too far away I think we might be okay if we can just get the green to move Gandalf I'll trade your red for whatever Grimley needs Chop Chop mm so gimle will just play this one chop chop and

4:17:53 then uh don't like if you can just oh but we don't have the green I know I'm hoping you draw it because then I trade it and we can we can doing this so I save this oh but I didn't save this I have you have so you hope to trade I hope I hope you draw hope I draw it so don't spend this this one I don't care about right now but we care about soon but it'll be a while how many have we seen cuz I'm not I'm not knowing not a lot of cards yet so yeah one two three three

4:18:39 okay then three three add one orc to the current challenge area we're g is perfect okay so move oh man if I move gimy then I know it's like you want to kill an orc before you leave but maybe we have a but if we never see that green then who's killing the Orcs you could swap them like where like leg loss goes and does it if you have leg loss card but you don't no do I just you could just bypass the movement kill an orc and then and then just spend two I don't know but that's kind of waste too but if I draw the green and you can trade it and we move Gandalf then we can get it and then I'll feel silly spending the card well you do whatever do whatever you want excuse me it's all gamble I know they're going to keep coming down so uh let's go I'll just move mhm and then that's in place for you you already have what you need if we do get the green 1 2 3 4 5 I'll have to discard a card should spend one then okay so then maybe I will not move I will attack old oops and then I'll just move one with that so that way you can still get there there it is but six add one

4:20:11 orc okay we don't care about that one anymore so I move to I trade what do I need I have the thing to complete we just need Gandalf oh Gandalf needs to move so I need to trade you you give me okay whatever trade play oh oh no you give me yeah yeah I need to give the ring cuz I need to move we don't want to spin rings so that one moves and then these two are played I think we're there hold on let's just double check Aragorn and gimy at the causeway done leg loss at Theoden Gandalf at day three reward remove all Orcs from the yellow area that's all okay next is now we're in the blue challenge is our current Challenge aorn and legal loss in the Great Hall so aorn and no yeah airor and leg loss Great Hall gimle all the way to here got all the way up there and Gandalf at or Beyond day four okay we' been tossing lots of red so it might be hard to move him okay uh so I draw two can't do anything else there there they are 12 add three Orcs oh my that's annoying one two three we got to cut up works by time for in the meantime so just move and kill works okay I what do you have or killing

4:21:43 I have leg loss and gim okay so get one of them in there and kill them work I think they can move through them right yeah yeah okay so I think I just have go one two there's no rules movement yeah then I will use this one to remove

4:22:08 here then and at the end we okay so now we need to foot in a these are yeah but if you just move these guys up start killing like I don't know CU they need to get in there but I I can move a couple on my turn then I'll spend two to move him in up closer and then I have that okay I can't move him anymore so that's fine yeah wonder if you

4:22:43 yes okay that's okay two story cards mirror of glad blard nine add two Orcs to the current St area one and two two or two oh two and four oh wow okay uh that is awkward 12 I can't even kill an orc we could lose here 14 um I can give you a gimly okay so I'll move gimly risking okay so be one

4:23:33 there actually yeah okay and then we're not moving kandal not yet I'll try to get the two maybe I can try to get those two Reds on my turn then gimle kill okay Brett thank you very much for the Super Chat thank you so much for playing a good game heading out a you're too kind thank you so much I appreciate it thank you thank you thank you too kind Daniel says remember folks the elephants only count for one good to see you Dan hope you're doing well Happy New Year oh I need to try to keep this so we can get a sword okay so I can I need that and you're red okay yeah all right so I'm done I'll just draw and I for what is this called again I keep forgetting what this is called mystery or something no I don't I don't care like in the game oh yeah but in the story what is that little the little thing he takes like the elf healing healing juice or whatever I forget what that's called though it's like there's cards of that in other games we play and stuff I just forget what it's called anyways we're putting three which is terrible wow cuz we have literally no yeah this is where we're in trouble but again if we get the Miniatures on them and you just spend one of these cards you can remove three of them yeah we'll get a corruption but that like literally

4:25:04 saves us like so much mhm okay light of gadriel yeah maybe that sounds familiar here the light of valinor is that right does that sound right the light of the Valor no I don't know I'm just making stuff

4:25:32 up let me Google that why not let's see what AI tells me the F of gladel or Star Glass or ladies glass was a gift that gladel bestowed on froto

4:25:59 bagin I don't know whatever sh happy Christmas and New Year Steve happy Christmas and New Year okay oh oh man I have a move of two I guess we got to get him in the mix here if I use a ring it right now it's only doing two I know but I could use this to get rid of that one so that could be the three I think we have one more card 15 12 and 14 is there yeah one card can add three still so I feel feel like I need to do this okay so remove these two Orcs like there's no card you can spend just to move or you don't want to no I I can't okay that's spent if I corruption went up yep and then if I spend this but we're not moving we need that here and we also oh we don't need this we need this oh I see we know this work but we just have one more card that can do you supposed to be just trading me yeah yeah I don't know what to tell you m one red two red three

4:27:20 Reds three Reds and we have two so there's two more in the deck and uh that could be a while my God I don't even know what to do because if we don't we could lose on this next card because if it brings three there's only one more card that brings three but this you could look to make sure it's not that one and bury it but then you might also rise it to the top which is why I hate cards like that and the and the good card is out so it's not like you're like oh we see a good one whatever it's like you're just going to bring a bad one higher up it's like how I look at but you could have used this to move first to like move leg loss on one use some other card to move uh one of these guys how many greens are in there but either way you could have try to spread out the minis which helps them get to where they need to go and also use that that ring to remove an extra let see how many greens are in there then first some sticking

4:28:26 one two three four five two more also oh all a gamble but remember rings are wild so if we really get stuck then let's do it like that then we'll spend those before I did that then one more is gone we'll save the red for Gandalf okay on two yeah okay the green that's so you have literally the number here oh no sorry I'm looking at the wrong one I keep looking at the wrong one all righty I want to see those eight had two Orcs wow wow wow this game all right so movement I don't even have anything to I do have this yeah okay um give me one but all right so gimy will move one and legal loss will move one and then the odds are that it's a one but I have to trade you this to take this and then I use this for gimly and leg loss are both

4:29:59 on one and done Areno oh there's the sword we need okay okay seven which is two or just going to go here and here okay so now we need oh leg loss is too far that's fine uh I know I had to move on to something no that's fine that's fine you can get this guy up here but that doesn't this guy's got to go one two oh my God there's too many cards one

4:30:45 there literally nothing you can trade me for something like who's the sword aorn can kill an orc or you can trade me for the one ring but they're not on any spaces but if it adds three we're in trouble or only when oh it's only when you need to place so yeah so it's likely a it's likely going to place a one uh S8 yeah maybe overkill on the orc removal 10 11 so it's not going to place two there's one card that places um three and then six the rest of them all only place one the odds are that we place only one there's only one card places three the rest plays only one so we still need to kill two works on your turn or we don't and we just take the odds and we might lose but you could trade the one ring if you just didn't move the way you did just move like gimly only one and then leg loss was here you move like I don't know even just that and maybe move leg back so he can get where he needs to be and then you just trade me for a one ring pop it yeah corruption happens that sucks but you get rid of two Orcs you save these two cards you still can move

4:32:16 Gandalf that these guys are close to where they need to be then on my turn I just need to slam gimy up here and then you got to get the other two guys in oh yeah then yeah yeah which is that's what my two movement is oh no gimy I don't know yeah I don't know I'm this is tough but would you be okay that we take the odds yeah sure so then how many corruption we used already like a few though right I think one we'll have to use them again and we're look how far look how close we are to losing so was like this so Daniel said says I've been mostly checking the videos afterward last year I'll try to check more stuff direct this year it's all good uh you guys and Kyle I guess winky face really help to keep my morale up we appreciate it we that's great to hear hope things get better for you in 2025 Daniel uh A1 can kill an orc and maybe leg loss A1 can kill an orc yes but then I has to lose the red oh Rob has a red now yeah okay so so so you have to but we need Lego loss's card so here I've rewind it back to so I haven't even started my turn yet I'm trying to figure out like so yeah this guy needs to get here these guys need to get in here so one movement of this guy like I said and one movement getting him on his way okay I don't know okay then Awin kills this one and then if I trade you these yeah which I need this for gandal move but then we don't have the sword to finish oh but we I don't want to Auto lose I

4:33:47 know I know and pass me the I just want to see how many swords are left like do we even have a if I spend this are we done 11 cards left one two three four never tell Rob the odd five I think we're okay we're okay we're okay I think we're okay I'll try because I guess we're going to probably lose either way so okay done cards oh that's good oh there it is okay okay four it's only one goes on here okay all right movements uh yoink yoink okay so he's where he needs to be these two guys he just need to move once unfortunately I don't have uh we play the odds now oh but we're not removing Orcs at the end of the blue I know so we got to keep the Orcs going and get Gandalf moving I'm 100% moving Gandalf and then we need orange what uh and then this one I'll just use to remove Orcs and Corruption happens I don't know mhm wait oh yeah there's one under there choose one special card from the story deck or discard pile and remove it from the game then reshuffle the story deck

4:35:19 and discard piles together that's actually good that's good we'll just remove the peak one right yeah yeah that we don't care about don't care about that one yeah remove this one cuz we have like two of them in there I think yeah mirror of glad dril removed from the game but this is good because it shuffles back in stuff we might need and special cards which is good but I don't know so after this all we need to do is get Gandalf to the cliff side right so we just need an orange and a sword okay but no we still need to get these guys in here yeah I know I know but after after that saying we're not done yet man three Orcs on the board and we're still on the razor's Edge I mean we only have three more Block cards left so oh yeah we might lose the time actually but I have a dig so that's good oh can get that played before this

4:36:16 oh yeah and then we need these cards once SC off is I know I know it's still so much so many turns you only draw a couple cards at a time and again got get lucky here I guess all right what's happening I did that I draw two cards uh yeah this is still the end of your turn oh we need that okay good five with which is only one your turn my turn okay so you just need to move these two in here right yep and then I spend this slam those in that completes this each player draws a story card I was first this one uh I'm first my turn okay now we just need Gandalf on day five or the cliff side right so we just need the orang can set five and it's completed but if we can get him to H even better M you to draw cards yeah draw two from the St deck remember wild will get that done too so yes it's the corruption probably what we don't do we still have two scenarios left we're looking for this and the green okay okay we need that to complete game so I will end my turn there draw two you need to trade with me right now to like line something up I mean we can we can move him you'll

4:37:50 have both of these I don't know but then like should these be on my turn should this be on my turn or your turn that's we need to figure out and if so let's use the trade to do it now so then take it CU then if you draw the sword on your turn okay all right your two cards yep lock card lock card is 13 which is the ad three damn one two three okay do they keep getting added even though we're not on that challenge cuz that's not technically our current challenge is it our current challenge I don't even know each challenge has Associated area on the board you must complete the challenges in order yeah like how do we know what's our current challenge area oh yeah I guess cuz we were assuming the other ones were not our current challenge area if we were working on the next one so yeah and now we're on this challenge but this isn't technically a challenge area no it doesn't have it on here really can you move in and out of spaces with Orcs without defeating them yes however if you lose if you must place an orc yeah okay uh so we need to read through this to kind of figure it out I guess when you're required to place an orc place them in the lowest numbered space not already occupied by in your current challenge area yeah we're on white yeah we're on here so maybe we're not adding more

4:39:23 Orcs removing orc wait uh during any player storytelling phase that player may move get off to the next Bas on his path this guarding cards you're right maybe we're I feel like you might be right cuz we're in white now here I don't know and we're now just racing this cuz nothing here says like once we completed this it doesn't say you now on Blue continue and like nothing here says you're like finished with blue the only thing here it says don't remove the Orcs why would it say that cuz I think it just leaves them on the board but like why would it matter so I guess our challenge still currently is blue even though we completed a challenge either way doesn't make any this card is only adding one which is the one we have I know but still but anyways all right carry on uh your my turn yeah so we have this to win you have one to move Gandalf and hopefully you just draw into the sword so I'm moving I don't need to move anybody right I guess I could just move these guys onto works for fun mhm okay Gandalf here you go buddy and then we just hope we draw a sword hope we draw a sword oh I see and if we don't then we just win in on my turn before like cuz we have to we only have okay draw two sword okay so no extra story card I guess that's unless spin a corruption but I don't think that's smart no I don't either okay no move we'll just

4:40:56 end off is on day five boom we completed it we win yay but no special card boom boom boom we are on what 12 okay that's the last um bad card that we have to oh my God she loves Leia she loves Leia okay find the chapter seven plot card okay we'll look at that in a sec I guess I have the big one I'm going just Shuffle the deck

4:41:54 tokens out not the spiders so froto follows Gollum into the dark cave not realizing that this is where the voracious Spider Queen lies waiting find the chapter 7even plot card and put it near the book Shuffle the story deck deal four cards to each player Shuffle the plot deck and place it nearby play Sam wise on the path let me get froto and Gollum at the layer entrance okay put the three web counters below the last person to see a spider goes first that was probably I don't know probably you probably me yep what was you I don't know when our daughter probably said figh her in my room and I just said you're an idiot and I just sit there laughing and then you go and deal with it uh yeah it's probably you okay tight twisting tunnels only one Hobbit can occupy a space at a time froto and Samwise can enter but not leave a space with a with a web counter okay but I guess it doesn't count him so it just hop yeah one hobit okay Gollum the guide Gollum can be moved just like a character miniature he can leave web spaces and share spaces with Hobbits and then naughty little fly players can discard one horn card red card uh or use two matching story cards to remove a web counter in a space in

4:43:26 the same space asit or Golem okay you lose the chapter if you need to place a web and do not have one available or the plot deck Runs Out restart the chapter okay you know what else this game feels like which again was just like kind of a pandemic kind of game remember that Jurassic Park game we played feels a lot like that where we have like you know we're trying to be like super specific with things or like Cooperative mhm just the same like little set collection puzzle kind of stuff feels like and we're like always we're always trying to like keep the dinosaurs from escaping and like guessing where to deal with it and basically just putting out Cooperative fires and collecting sets like classic Co-op 101 yep all right so four cards for you I think that's four one two three four of a matching and I have a red I guess that's good all right okay and then our challenges oh yeah the one ring ability remove one web counter from the board okay don't have to be on it which is nice into the darkness froto Sam wise and Golem must be on different spaces inside shelob's layer okay it's our layer whole thing I think no layer entrance I feel like it's past that oh path to the layer layer entrance I feel like it have to be any space but these starting ones like in here not not those

4:44:56 three okay and then reward draw a story card go in or go back and it's a green and an eyeball froto of the Shire froto is beyond galadrial space Golem and Sam wise must be a to gladel so they can be here here here here draw two story cards and you need to spend two of her little light of gladel thingy narrow escape froto and Sam wise must be on different exit spaces boom boom only two exits yep Golem can be on either Exit space all other challenges complete so we can do these in any order but obviously this one will happen first I think mhm but doesn't have to it depends like which cards you have yeah so either or and then uh you complete the chapter this fellow ain't dead we need this these cards last all right all right uh so sorry we'll look at this one the 1 to 13 is the most common one it's going to happen place a web counter on the location that matches the number on the plot card you drew 14 so one of 15 cards if there is not a web counter on same wise of Space Place one there otherwise nothing Happ happens 15 if there's not a web count on Pho Space Place one there otherwise nothing happens well so everyone places at least one web yeah so we're going to keep him and check because if we do need to place a web we don't have one available or the plot deck runs out we restart the chapter and literally we can only take

4:46:27 one two corruption if we take a third we lose but we literally need to like not spend corruption this time there has to be something gives us corruption back bet it's in these story cards but like that seems weird to me that you could get one and reuse it to move it back but we're not even getting any of those in this one yeah and it's not like there's a side I'm surprised there's not like a side thing that's like if you extra complete a chapter you get to remove one back because then it would incentivize you to spend them to like help you try to do it more efficiently and then maybe get one back but who knows got be something that moves it back this is going to be tough too because the plot card is going to dictate where the web goes and we can only get rid of the web on our space so like if it's like way over here and we can't even get there then you got to get rid of the red or two matching story cards yeah in the same space as The Hobbit or golum yeah this going be rough but again yeah a ring moves it from anywhere you want yeah which we may have to do y but we'll see okay so I'm first so I think we'll get Sam going one two so these guys all have to be in different spaces and I think I can trade this to you so on your turn we can get that done

4:47:46 uh one okay and I'm going to trade you this go ahead do what you got to do um you're going to spend that as a matching or spend these two anyways oh yeah maybe I'll just take that I don't know okay

4:48:12 okay and then pull card six six right here okay Rachel thank you so much for the Super Chat says no longer a baby member one month old oh thank you so so much yay thank you for the support thank you so much happy one mon happy one month thank you so much that's too kind thank you so much Happy New Year happy New Year okay thank you all right and then I did movement yeah so where did the web go six okay so frer needs to get into here oh so maybe I should have had him go this way yeah probably closer sorry uh

4:49:11 actually it doesn't matter okay so that's my move actually you did it here yeah but I can just do this and this and then complete cuz they're in the layer everyone's on a separate space yep draw a story cart okay and then next we need to get everybody adjacent Proto here and these two jokers there but we also need to keep in mind spiders so like take take our time make sure on the number spaces uh and they have to get in there I don't have matching cards so and next is the important one is these symbols which I don't have I have one so I am going to we can't share spaces so froto is blocking things sort of right uh oh only one Hobbit can occupy space Oh yeah so you can move Golem and yeah so Golem can be moved just like a character manure he can leave web spaces and share spaces with Hobbit so leaving him behind his fine he can get through no problem and Golem and the hobbits can remove webs so okay so I will just move froo maybe I have the card to get rid of the web yeah y oh you have the card to get

4:50:41 rid of the web yeah so let me just move him to here then yeah cuz ons to catch up anyway too yeah or I just remove him closer and then move him one more hos or too yeah uh literally it doesn't matter you can go up here just in case that web appears mhm I don't know it's both the same distance done draw Bang B red nice three okay my turn move we're going to have him move here and we're going to have him move there we're going to then spend a red to discard this web we are going to you have we're still digging for those one two three four I want have the discard maybe that's the problem maybe we're using too many cards and then when we need the cards to like run we don't have so maybe I hold and we see what happens okay yeah instead of running into a place I don't know yeah cuz you literally can build up to six cards in hand then you need to start blowing and maybe that's what we're not doing like no I agree we need to like waste cards at that point one so I have I think should have six 1 2 3 four 5 six yeah yeah like you only should play in efficiently

4:52:13 13 that's far but I was just thinking getting past webs for these two guys cuz I don't get Block but whatever but I think they need to also yeah a clear webs so he's going to go there he's going to go here m actually he was here right mm we'll go there okay then I'll pop this to get rid of web and that's it oh there's the C okay good seven okay oh my God they're on the other side and we don't have any more Reds um but I have that you can use matching like or you can spend a corruption anywhere on the board but they only had one at a time right so we have a buffer of one really only need to panic when all three are on the board okay so he's going to go here he's going to go here that's my two move then if I get if you can get Golem here two more it's we're done but yeah and then you'll draw two cards replaced so okay let's do it one two okay so nowo must be on gladel Space Golem and same wise must be adjacent to gladel which is true and I just trade you to get the and we spin these yep and that will

4:53:43 complete that one the reward is draw two story cards where are the special cards allow us to like get a whole mitt full of cards okay then next we need to get froto and Sam must be in different exit spaces so yep and they can remove webs along the way so I could have I could spend this to move here and then those move this he's going to go up that way and Sam will go that way and then Golem just has to be one of them either Exit okay two cards thank you oh there's a red okay and plot card 12 okay so don't I'm matching cards I don't need I have a red if you need it but if you if you don't I'll get him to clear this one next turn so oh I see you can trade yeah yeah

4:54:45 I could go one two no one two doesn't matter two no I'll leave him there I'll just bring him up to here I'll trade you you want to trade me the sword so I have matching sure I'll take that I'll spend this to get rid of web then this is not needed but it could get it with a matching to remove away oh we need a sword and a foot okay we need when we get to the exit okay I think we have some time but I don't know yeah I'll spend move him here try to get him forward yeah so doesn't get trapped in a web okay and then draw eight okay my turn move so I think we go he's fine there we'll leave him yeah yeah one two y Okay then if I do this I can clear that wayb I don't have anything else to move anybody I think we're

4:56:18 fine what card one one is oh up here okay okay we're also digging for a sword which maybe I shouldn't have spent them to do that but I'm

4:56:48 one no let's go one two yeah I have two that I can get rid of it next turn so if we get stuck and it's like somewhere over here but we still are good I think I L just move this guy here and then I just do oh but we need the green we need the green

4:57:22 yeah okay let's do it this way instead he'll move there he'll move there okay then that's a numbered space I should just leave him on a numbered space but

4:57:43 yeah I think I'll just hold yeah we just see what happens yeah okay got matching for web purposes 11 that's six cards perfect okay now we have to remove one web we're to go here we're going to go here okay and then we're going to spend these two to get rid of that web question make sure we can't win we can't win okay yep yep and I don't have any other cards to move anything so I'm done oh still no oh better for webs so you can take if you want oh yeah 10 okay so my turn yeah Golem can go up this way too to get out that way mhm okay so green is super important to save so unfortunately it's like you can trade me also one of your Reds or traing make it

4:58:48 easier oh sorry you gotta move first but yes yeah yeah I'll move uh but where am I moving I guess got to get rid of web you can send him in yeah and then we'll just worry about okay and then

4:59:12 we don't need this oh but then a matching could be a web like keeping pairs is like but then I'm going to draw and lose one anyway so let's just actually hold on what's more likely I'm going to draw into a blue or an orange U two Blues are there one orange two orange three orange two more Blues of five they're actually more likely blue so I'll spin the orange then just move him closer up that way although that might be bad if one comes down here but I need to get rid of one and we should be okay as long as we eventually get the sword okay done I draw to and I want to discard anything oh there's the sword we need okay okay we got this and then and four oh no okay so then he'll move here on his way out and he'll move here okay then I'll use this remove a web to remove a web goes over there you already have so I think I just use this to move him here doesn't really matter but then two turn I got a two which is fine there we go okay my turn movement bang and then spend there's no bonus to get better no uh okay froto and S wise must be on different exit spaces Golem can be on

5:00:43 either Exit space all other challenges completed boom all right man we saw like zero special cards look it two in the bottom three another one I was like yeah look at next two were look all the special cards were in the bottom of the deck oh that's that sucks yeah I was like we're doing very well but it's like where are our special cards luckily we didn't get the webs on them specifically oh yeah true they didn't get trapped yeah I guess we got lucky there okay so remove tokens and then I'll Shuffle and we're going to the final chapter the most epic chapter of all I'm sure which I'm sure will be um Mount Doom probably a Sidetrack like the Gandalf one where it's like fro trying to get froto and Sam into the mountain while also using the other characters like fighting a battle outside kind of thing and we only have two maybe there'll be some Eagles involved sick we'll see oh my god do we win this I don't know we have two corrup two corruption to spare still which hopefully is all we need like hopefully our luck is really good with the deck we see some special cards yeah this one didn't even give us any special cards no trash game I got the here we go we ready holy crap what the hell we planing to explore it oh interesting

5:02:13 the crack a doom Golem Golem escapes with the ring look at this guy's little feet running along here barir here sick mouth of saon what the heck is happening the One Ring ability is swap any two Miniatures what the heck is this the final battle chapter eight all right the final battle froto and Sam make their way to Mount Doom while the fellowship battles from for Middle Earth who knew setup find the chapter eight plot chart and put it near the book Shuffle the story deck and deal four story cards to each player Shuffle the plot deck and place it nearby you did that already I did that I'll just

5:03:15 okay oh two rings to start where are the special cards man Mulligan take Mulligan cut theck Legos we got our all oops that's not gimy gimy Pippen is red Mary is yellow they froto off the of the board okay fr's off the board okay mix up the six double-sided orc counters orc Side Up Place one on each star space okay more counters that are different that's cool come oh sorry I was going to fix them but come on man these badass

5:04:01 tokens okay mix the three footprint counters footprint side face up and put one on each each footprint space Oh so there's some Randomness to this that's kind of cool not just the like deck of cards like setup stuff too which is neat right uh the player with the longest hair goes first I thought I was going to say something about the longest legs that's funny that would have been the last one with the spider yeah oh yeah true true the longest hair like what does that have to do with this oh where do we put hold on did I miss where we put Golem uh oh yeah Golem in IND face uh right here right here okay all right okay so you're going first Sauron attacks when Sauron attacks an area via the plot chart oh yeah I guess we should plot chart says uh one to two Sor attacks knock down all character Miniatures in yellow spaces three to four saur attacks knock down all character Miniatures in Orange spaces 5 to six saur attacks knock down all character mines in red spaces 7 of 15 okay uh go moves one space toward his Escape ooh so yeah he's going to be moving a lot kind of like the go um the ball Rog was the majority of the deck constantly moving and then there's some annoyances in the other cards this will only happen six times maybe we'll get lucky on some of them okay so it says when he attacks an area VI the plot chart all Miniatures in the area are knocked down and placed on

5:05:31 their side players must use a free move or discard a story card to stand the character back up characters cannot move when knocked down no kidding defeating Orcs Aragorn legal Los gimly can defeat a Jason Orcs by discarding the story card shown on their starting spot the same symbols we used to seeing they just ran out of space over here so they couldn't print that on that side cool all right once defeated flip the orc over to reveal aoan witch King Gandalf olant or Army of the Dead oh my God once revealed these counters can be moved by the players to complete challenges some counters can defeat adjacent Orcs by discarding the story card shown on their counter no miniature or counter can share a space okay bite for the ring Golem is oh yeah you guys can't so golum is moved by the plot chart when he lands on a footprint flip it over if he finds froto the footprint is replaced by the froto miniature and all footprint counters are removed if froto and Golem are in the same space and one moves both move together so it's exactly like the ball roog thing kind of I guess in the same direction Sam wise can share a space with Proto or Golem oh Sam already in the track I see you lose this chapter if aorn legal

5:07:05 Los yimy Mary and Pippen uh are all knocked over at the same time Golem escapes with the ring or the plot deck Runs Out restart the chapter so if Golem escapes to the ring Golem escapes to the ring we lose if all five of these guys on this board are knocked over we lose or if the plot deck runs up this is pretty crazy um and then again foto can appear if we're lucky he appears on like the first one but he could appear on any of them and I don't know what the other ones do but uh yeah challenges whoa all right we got Battle of the P of pelenor fields save Fair there's like a whole bunch of steps here save Fair so spend this and this Gandalf and Pippen adjacent to fair so Gandalf is hiding here somewhere right oh yeah Gandalf is under one of these yeah so we got to find hand off hiding under an orc and then use Pippen which I don't remember which one's Pippen Pippen is red I think yeah so Pippen need and the Gandalf we need to find but we could be super unlucky he's like so far away um need to be adjacent to this guy spend those cards then you get to move as a reward Pippen and G off up to three spaces or Pippen or Gandalf up to three

5:08:36 spaces okay wonder if you can split the movement FAQ probably I'll read this in a sec okay first one where's gandle they got calls that the at the Ravensburger office excuse me I'm about to play scenario 8 and I can't seem to find my Gandalf put it on the book all right raise an army A green foot Cod story card you have to have Aragorn adjacent to both Army of the Dead counters so there's two Army of the Dead counters hiding under here and we got to get a Gorn engines to both of them okay what the hell and then if you do that you draw or you get to move aorn up to three spaces and draw two story cards that still only counts as one so spend any two matching cards and again our special cards could be one of those leg loss or both of them I guess leg loss adjacent to the olant counter and gimly adjacent to Legal loss oh my God reward remove one olant counter move legal Los or gimle up to three spaces draw one story card I am no man Mary and aen adjacent to witch King oh witch King's under there too yep Jesus uh witch King oh they have to be on opposite sides of him oh my God reward remove AO and witch King and move Mary up to three spaces draw a story card so it's all little challenges happening on the

5:10:07 battlefield basically and they all revolve flipping tokens over to find them and then movement puzzles the battle of the black gate the Battle of pelenor fields complete so you have to do all of these oh my God all these have to be completed before moving on to the Battle of black gate uh and Aragorn has to be at the mouth of saon right here so all these complete Aragorn there reward draw story card ring spaces can now be occupied what the hell is that these oh these oh R little blob there that say oh this says no character can enter a ring space until the battle of the black Gates completed ah okay okay oh my God and we only have 15 rounds to do all of this like what's this blue line here I think that's I don't know maybe that'll tell you in that okay uh destroy the ring of power all the challenges complete Sam wiise rodo and Golem in the crack of Doom oh my God the current player May discard story cards matching all icons covered by a counter or miniature in Mordor whoa okay so after you complete these challenges I was wondering why do you need to move all these guys so the current player must discard story cards matching all icons not covered by a counter or miniature so there are oh not those oh here oh down

5:11:37 here yeah so account counter has to be on here so one of our good people we can move around like Gandalf and stuff we got to try to get them in here covering things up holy moly but after they complete their little challenges over here they'll get to zoom in there hopefully move in three spaces yeah we're not winning this but we made it the last scenario and I'm happy with that to be able to see everything but if we do epic but again I don't see any way we could move stuff back I don't know but anyways all right question where's Gandalf he's on the back of one of the orc tokens defeat the Orcs reveal him and then use him to help you complete the rest of the chapter question can a figure complete a challenge or defeat an orc while they knocked down no question if I have to play one ring cards to complete the final challenge do they move up the corruption track answer yes they do you'll have to plan wisely to cover as many of the One Ring icons as you can do the One Ring move it back or something hold on what's that last one again what are we covering the Rings or The I icons are recovering all of these and these you're like what the hell can you go on why do you want to go in ring spaces we miss something oh uh no wonder ring ability swap into two Miniatures can you read this one again for me sorry all other challenges complete Sam wise rodo and Golem on the crack at the crack of Doom and the

5:13:08 current player must discard card story cards matching all icons not covered so the more we cover the easier the CH it's like a random challenge then we win the game so then what are the rings for I don't know I'm not sure I feel like if you get guys on here it should move it back no character can enter ring space till the ballot of black gate is completed and then here it says draw one story card ring spaces can now be occupied but who cares like why is there something we missed I don't think so fight for the ring Golem is moved by the plot chart when he lands on the footprint flip it over uh frone Golem are in the same space as one moves both together same direction same wise contr space with froto like do these have rings on them or something I feel like we're missing something this doesn't mention Rings no defeating Orcs yeah I feel like I'm missing something or does going here let us do the One Ring ability if we're on spaces you need to spend up to five rings what oh so we need to cover these two so we probably want to spend cover the Rings and not the oh I get it I get it I get how much corruption we have so technically right now to win we would need to spend 10 cards from the current player when all this stuff's satisfied the crack of Doom's covered we' need to discard 10 cards that's literally impossible CU you only can have up to six on your turn yeah unless you use a special card to draw a little more yeah so we got to

5:14:40 start covering these are import more important to cover yep but they put this little blue wall here which I'm assuming means you can't cross into these without going around I think you can just not until this until we can go on the Rings then why is this here covering this I don't know yeah I know they didn't what is this like this blue line I don't see anywhere talking about a blue line showing a blue line explaining what a blue line is I don't remember in the rules of explaining blue lines but let's check there's nothing talking even about map spaces yeah I wonder if that is just to kind of signify like the two different battles I don't know yeah if nothing says we can't move through that I'm moving cuz I think we can still go on the red we just can't go on the ring spaces yeah yeah so sure okay I don't think we're going to this this is such a challenge but it this does say though that um what did I read here once revealed these counters underneath here um can be moved by players to complete the challenge so we can move these guys around once they're flipped up oh it's a wall yeah uh None Shall Pass says Ray K uh this always a red flag too when you go on BGG for a game and you're like oh there's 157 posts for the game that's not a lot but that's fine but when you see that 87 of those are all rules questions that's a little scary that's a little scary they're not

5:16:12 majority reviews they're not majority people just discussing how cool the game is or where to find the game or whatever or strategy or variance and stuff it's like it's 87 of 157 is rules how exactly just St m r uh chapter eight Great Eagle card man I wish we had a great Eagle card mm oh corruption in last move no eight yeah this is like somebody going for the win with one last they were that close like

5:16:48 Sam just had enough he summoned all his strength pushed froto and Golem over the edge and let ended the fellowship of R oh Jay little designer you're absolutely correct for your house in a different house perhaps a hobbit hole this would result in the slimmest of losses or the perfect ending as far as I'm concerned ring had to be played discarded to trigger the game State a check to see if the challenge were completed challenge is not completed the last Rings discarded but that card does trigger the loss condition check since it pushes the corruption track to end all is loss okay anyways I was just curious yeah so we definitely can't r a ring card to do the last thing and still win

5:17:43 there's a lot of the same question being asked yeah let me do this uh oh this searches like every single

5:18:14 extended FAQ oh there was a chapter eight there I'm confused about how the ring spaces and icon spaces work for destroying the ring to complete last challenge have meting the requirements uh you must pay a cost like in other challenges by discarding the respective cards the difference is that the cards to be discarded determined by the icons on the board which are not covered example you have four characters covering four ring spaces one character covering the inside icon between the game you have to discard five cards one one ring card one courage one Mastery one Adventure one Warfare no don't forget that a character Miniatures can't be knocked down for you to complete the challenge yeah if they're knocked down they don't count as covering the icon wow on the board there's a wall on the right side that extends three rows of xx's can Miniatures counters move through this no confirmed by Creator it serves as a full barrier even after ring spaces can be occupied oh good to know Ray K says I'm telling you it's a wall Ray K I don't know who you are uh I let me see is your name on The Box do you have the lid uh I have the lid raay K I'm not one to just believe anybody okay I I know you're saying it but like you didn't say like oh it's on PG or the designer said already right there's no names on the yeah yeah Li story so like I know it's cool you're like I know everything listen to me I'm important but it's like you gave me no followup game design Jason little Marcus Ross system design Ryan Miller maybe you're

5:19:45 on the play test credits I don't know but you are no official answer sir unless you correct me I do not see you Ray K where are you on the credits are you here no I don't I don't see Ray in the play testing well we don't know what your actual name is so maybe you are but so you can tell me all you want but you my friend your Corrections are meaningless without backup but now we know makes sense it's a wall there's a black gate and you must pass through the gate just above that talks about the wall just above Mike's a little behind oh refresh your stream Mike if you're hearing this you're a little behind uh Mak sense it's a wall there's a black gate and you must pass through the gate unfortunately you can't climb the wall that's true yeah but Mel was saying like once we're allowed to go here it's not existent so I it's good that we read that too yeah cuz I would have thought you could cuz she was thinking it just blocks this until it's open but it's like no it just blocks forever good to know yeah okay wow there's a lot going on here yes we're just do as much as we can all right so but right now we literally need to cover three of these minimum to win if working backwards probably will'll need to cover more if we have to use one ring abilities to switch Minis oh my God this is insane well we'll just try to get as far as we can I guess in 15 rounds um Gandalf and Pippen must be

5:21:15 Jason to Fair okay uh we don't know where we got start killing or killing Orcs is like step one what do I have to kill Orcs I have legal loss okay and adjacent okay so I can then let's move legol loss two he's a Jason here let's actually no let's have him move here so he's adjacent to two this way spend that uh 5050 let's go for the further one just in case who's

5:21:58 that what the heck is that even it's like a flying hor oh it's a horse oh is that Gandalf yes that's Gand oh my God we found Gandalf writing on Shadow facts I could not tell ready to go sud zud says good luck do not forget there's hidden characters that can help to cover icons we need most of those characters flipped anyway to do the first part so if we're not flipping them we're like not getting past this anyway but yeah yeah we need to start flipping first is most important I appreciate that so then and also thank you mted milk for subscribing sorry if I missed that why does Gandalf have a foot on him uh because we can spend them once reveal these count uh yeah there once defeated flip over nor reveal okay once revealed these counters can be moved by players to complete challenges some counters can defeat adjacent or oh some counters can so this guy uses green cards to to defeat Orcs beside him okay okay so I don't have anything at the moment I think I just that's me done cuz I have two rings so that's annoying mirror of gladville all righty and then here seven seven is Golem moves one space okay okay so so now we know Gandalf and Pippen need to be adjacent to faier yeah but let's just flip some Orcs and see what's up yeah sux he so far away too uh

5:23:38 and then aornus swords Legos leg oh you moved him already he oh these are oh I see these spaces here are like free spaces that don't get hurt they don't get hurt okay so put him in a free space get him out of the way G oh want move g off back one yeah I think I don't know yeah keep him safe where's Legos going Chas an Ola fan counter which might be and let's leave G where he was right oh yeah I didn't realize I moved him to already no that's okay that's okay okay uh yeah let's just

5:24:27 gimly that is the witch King I think no that's um army of the Dead oh okay they're good for us I think they should be Army of the Dead oh you can any card with them to defeat Orcs that's sick uh okay and Aragorn I could just defeat here that is what the heck is is oant oant oh okay so Ola Fant counter legal Los needs to be jent to it and give give me adjacent to leg loss so that sucks it's all the way over here but we can move this yep cuz we can move all the counters okay and then but we just have to like Shuffle and switch it's like one those stupid little puzzles where like you got to like rotate things yeah uh then this green I could just flip this one yeah let's just get our information oh okay oh so I think so Army of the Dead uh just oh uh Aragorn adjacent to both Army of the Dead counters and spend a green oh that's actually not bad one two okay that's not bad we can and then you get to remove them and then move Aragorn up to three spaces they're nice to help defeat Orcs

5:25:58 but I mean if we're already flipped all the Orcs there's only two left then it's fine I I guess could looked at card training but whatever all right well is golum moves one space oh he's going to flip over his first foot counter it is blank okay that sucks all right movement so we can get Aragorn I can get that challenge done who needs to be adjacent to faier Pippen pien and Gandalf right yeah yeah so maybe we leave these guys cuz gimy can flip that one over he didn't have the card

5:26:51 yet let's go with if you get legal Los to here and then gimly adjacent to him so gim would have to move one two three legal Los one two three that's done oh yeah cuz then you can just spend any two matching cards which this counts as one of them any other card you want one two I don't know just a thought then again you gotta be careful because you block other things so you don't want to undo any movement M I don't want to know then do I just spend one to move oh yeah but then you're moving away who's defeating this guy yeah I feel like we need to see all the orc all the Orcs flipped first before we decide anything like I can move him closer yeah well whoever's not where they need to be like cuz I can go like that where's he going in adjacent to both Army of the Dead counters but it needs to be adjacent to this and these guys so it moves who does for another challenge no no aorn's not part aror is just these leg loss and gimle are are counting they're defeating the Olan and counting it as one on their little they're like competing it's the from the movie so this is their story can do aorn goes and deals with army of dead gets him to help them out and then he frees them so they get to they get to get away from their their their duy's been fulfilled whatever you have to draw more cards if I do this uh which one the army of the the Dead uh yeah draw two story cards and you can move airor up to three spaces okay so let's do that okay so these are removed okay uh again I don't know that was the green one green one

5:28:22 done uh air going up to three spaces and you get to draw two story cards okay is there oh gim is there anywhere that we want him to be well you eventually need to cover things but he also can be used to defeat ORS could be a thing also getting him out of way of people and off of colored spaces are also things to consider oh somebody has to be adjacent to this go him uh the Battle of pelor oh aorn at the mouth of SW okay one two three oh he can't go yeah he just can't go in the Rings okay so let's have him there gimle can flip that this one over oh it's aen and she needs to be she needs to find the witch King which we know is now under here okay so Mary and aen so Mary and aen need to be on opposite sides of this guy so I guess that would be like you need to move this guy out and then put uh move him here and then you need aen here and then oh and aen can flip that one over with the red okay so then let me just get pipin out of the way he needs to be beside is yeah adjacent to fair and Gandalf also adjacent to faier that's end my turn oh I can move one more uh maybe I move Gandalf there's a crazy play where this is white so you could like put him there to be safe so he never gets knocked down you don't have to waste a move but then technically you have to waste a move to get him off of

5:29:53 it anyway so uh but yeah just start moving someone near where they got to go which could be her moving to Somewhere Over Here yeah let's move her this way it could be Gandalf moving him up but just remember minis get knocked over so I moving these around is safer cuz they never get knocked and the Min leaving them to where they need to be until they got to go okay oh you pitched this eh that's like this oh I don't have to that using it for move is like the the not again but if you're desperate and it like makes sense I'm not I'm not well wait yeah you have you have room oh my God more Rings no okay uh card four uh all Orange characters are knocked down oh there no Miniatures are in the orange so we're good Dodge so remember there's only one more card that's going to hit orange so orange could be safe soon but okay uh all right movement uh what do I have uh no I don't have what cards we need for that we need oh we need an orange or the G still counts as one matching cards which I have but I don't enough to move

5:31:14 and if I move them now they're in the open they don't get blocked by gandal okay I'll move Gandalf and then uh matching cards I could just play these to do stuff but they're also needed here and could be needed here mhm and I can hold so I'm going to just hold Miniatures are all safe except for this guy and who is he up to he needs to go where ao's going right I think no who is this this is Pippen Pippen needs to be with Fair yes so technically Pippen needs to get here and this guy needs to get the hell out of here where does he need to go he just needs to be on the opposite side of this with her so we need this guy to like be here and and her to be here okay but we need to flip yeah she needs to flip it when she gets there yeah so okay uh that's that draw cards okay 13 move Golem one space oh my oh wow offro we're so unlucky okay so unlucky so movement damn we do not you have the cards if I get Gandalf in place to do that one I can rewind this but if I put Gandalf here this is complete as long as you spend these yeah which you have on your turn okay sure so then I can now start I have one card maybe I don't one two three four

5:32:46 five I'm going to have to discard let's spend a red like gim leg Los need to get by this olant but this olant you can move to closer to them actually yeah oh yeah we can use them to cover stuff too right will need so we need things on this side of the board yeah let's not move these guys all the way over there right yeah so I spend that to move that okay two cards please one two three four five six oh my God another ring clog in my hand yeah you need that we need that rwi card so you can use that to like yeah just to pitch a couple cards at a hand one Sauron attacks knocks down all yellow which is just this one okay my turn I'll spend a movement point to get this guy up I guess yeah yeah cuz we need and then a movement point for this guy okay so now I complete this one Gandalf and fair and Pippen all have in a party uh and the reward is to move Pippen or gandal up to three spaces now was it one or the other or both I didn't get that answer when I was looking on line but I draw a story card maybe that's in there I think it

5:34:18 says or right what you was your question oh it is in there because I knew that would be my question is something that's needs to be answered officially some Challenge Rewards allow me to move one or the other character up the three spaces can I distribute the moves between or by both characters considering how the move mechanic works in the rest of the game I say yes okay this is just some random dude making this up for example on completing the save Fair challenge you can move Gandalf two spaces and Pippen one I'd say yes based on the Move mechanic sure sounds good it's not official you could rule that either way but yes you can split movement between characters normally so that makes sense just worded a little weird uh so in that case I want to get the mini wait red gets hit too right yeah oh damn and it hasn't

5:35:26 yet want them to block okay one one two yes okay uh next is still only counts as one that's you completing that with that card so I will now

5:35:56 move uh or this yeah getting her over is so annoying mhm okay okay so I'll just move leg loss and then I'll move gimly too they're all lined up and ready he's adjacent he's adjacent to him so all it needs to be spent is two matching cards which you could use this as one of them with any other card you have to complete that that would remove the olant off the board so then you can get some space there and then you get to move leg loss or gimly up to three spaces and draw a story card okay so there here so but the only problem is aorn's kind of block them but you get free movement first so you could do whatever but the out of cards pretty much oh ring and a paler 11 move Golem this has to be for imagine it wasn't it's like oh no we didn't have the wrong right printing okay so froo get added to the board right here okay so now we need to move them back as well and how does that work again Golem is moved when he lands on the footprint flip it over he finds froto the footprint is replaced by the prototo miniature and all all footprint counters removed from uh removed if froto and Golem are in the same space and one moves oh so we can just move them normally like a miniature there's no special discard cards which is neat uh okay so we have a place to spend extra move if we're not sure where to spend movement yep but definitely he's way too close to this so he never moves more

5:37:27 than one though so yeah spend one and then Sam needs to also get here too so that's like 1 2 3 4 5 six and then what happens when Golem moves is does he take RTO with him or no yeah they both move together like the other and Sam is allowed to share a space with them so he just needs to like move on over wow and I think I move him here he's not in the way anymore yep okay then I yeah we need these covered like super important but he also needs to get on this space so these two are to finish still only counts as one we're going to remove the olant counter okay and then uh move leg lost or gly up to three spaces and draw one story card Lego Los or gimy and or gim so one like three spaces of movement total and it can be either of these two Minis and we can't go on the ring spaces yet oh yeah no character yeah until we're done this I am no man which is her quest with this guy and this thing okay gimly or so just moving them in here is still great but they could get knocked down Beyond red but they also get knocked down Beyond orange he's safe there so maybe I just do one oh this is not good yeah one Nothing is Stopping him from going through here too so but you could stop him on there but then he's just blocking eror yeah you don't want to do it but I'm just saying no I just leave him here cuz he's going to you should spend all three points of movement though I would definitely do that cuz he's blocking everyone so I would just get him all the way in the corner then okay if you're going to put them on the red is that the one we want to block I

5:38:58 don't know like we could start counting colors but as long as we have them in here we can do little shuffles but we got to be super efficient with movement though purple or swords maybe it's swords actually just based on what I just see swords there's a lot of swords in here already gone so yeah do that easy okay and then I can still do something with this green so I don't have to discard it so there is also the play where you keep him kind of North in case we want yeah he needs to go up here but like I don't know you're call then I'm going to spend this we need to get her moving this way okay done two cards where are the special cards man I know again okay we got one yeah where's glad we need glad when arwind to help you clear your hand yeah wow nine Golem moves one all right your turn mhm we need a red too with her okay Two Reds actually cuz she needs to flip this guy with one red yep and then to do the challenge we need the purple I the purple swap any two Miniatures with the one ring I think we're allowed to do

5:40:25 that that's it uh yeah Thro of them are okay but yeah I can move them oh there's one red two Zur knocks down yellow no Miniatures in yellow dodged okay my turn she's where she needs to be no she's not wait how is this worded um Mary and this is Mary right he needs to be here yeah but just double check um Mary and aen adjacent to the witch King on opposite sides which is why I was saying leave the space open she needs to feet flip we move him here and then they're opposite okay so then but then like this guy's all the way in the corner so I don't know maybe I just move yeah yeah that's where you spend extra movement where you're like I don't know where to spend movement you spend it up here okay and then now if I trade you this I actually you think something else yeah where was he here yeah so like here's the problem you keep moving him this way and he keeps moving back you're just waste is it wasting movement I don't know but like if you move this guy he never moves back so like spinning movement now doesn't get undone yeah and then I move him one as well so it's like maybe yeah I don't know and keep trying to like push them a little bit but technically he can go all the way there and it's totally fine and then we have to but I don't know and then if you're okay if I trade you the red whatever then I can flip this which we know is the witch King as we said I you have

5:41:57 that one so technically so maybe I could move the witch King unless because we we don't need to spend the movement I wait you have oh my God uh do I move it or do you want to do it on your turn you could undo one of these movements you did here to move that but then I could move on my turn anyway I couldn't because these have to be before I flip the oh okay yep yep yep but I'm going to have to discard a card anyway so oh then yeah yeah we'll just do that answers that question not draw a plot card this turn is something good okay a draw PL card 14 Golem moves they're all in the same space come on you dummies get over here your turn so I guess I'm just moving here move them all together mhm okay and then I don't have you don't have um

5:43:23 yeah I don't know it's like not good to put these guys all in the same color good St for that all right draw I guess I could have traded and then I don't know if you're going to draw what we need oh yeah dra trade this for this and then just play this but then you need to have cards to play so you don't like I don't know well I'm just we're just digging at time but if you have both of those then I can't trigger it on my turn like if you have the purple and then you draw the red so if I trade you this for the purple and then if you draw the red I can trade just play this right now not draw card okay then I draw two cards yes okay okay we got it and then no PL card card my turn movement um so he needs to be here yep and then technically is many of these things after this is done they'll get you free move off that too I think I just move him here then I trade you the r about moving him okay sorry then I'll move because yeah cuz like that never gets undone and then that end of the game you can just pitch cards for him to run in there but I don't know yeah okay cuz like you're losing you're just wasting movement points but you moved him and then what else did you move uh put leg loss on oh yeah yeah that needs to be done okay and then I give this to you and I take the red okay and now I can do this here which is the last one boom I

5:44:55 am no man marry and aen adjacent to the witch King on opposite sides reward remove uh these two oh my God yeah I thought we'd have more to cover stuff but like seems to be only the Miniatures uh and gendal I guess um and then move Mary up to three spaces not is that Mary oh this is Mary one two yeah just get him on his way cuz we want him in here to cover stuff and then draw a story card oh that's the red we need okay that's perfect okay so this is all done so now we can go on the Rings and so now the Battle of pelenor fields complete which we did and then aror at the mouth of sa and then you just spend these okay which I have so you can trade me that one and then we to I get to draw a story card then ring spaces canot be occupied so we get in there problem is I have to discard okay that's fine let's draw and we'll see what I have oh yeah cuz you can just discard something you just drew yeah cuz you draw first then you do plot cards okay so now one two three oh plot cards sorry five saon attacks knocks down all character measures in Red O Okay and then one two three four five six seven I have to discard one you need this red so red and sword are important uh this is and then whatever is left uncovered is important but at this point I feel like we haven't seen much orange so I don't know this point whatever my turn y definitely have to stand him up you can't do anything this

5:46:27 guy can hold on yeah we can leave for now uh this guy can move here I guess I don't know oh but maybe getting Miniatures out of yeah covering up some of the Rings and stuff I don't know hold on red is five and six yeah tell me if Red's already come up in a safe no there's no one more red what about orange orange three and four course's the freaking four one more orange and yellow yellow both we're all out of yellow it doesn't matter yeah damn so you want to kind of keep them separated and maybe get lucky

5:47:16 so I do one here let's just I in one there okay okay then uh trade it's fine we need to complete so okay then we're going to do the Battle of black gate argon there draw a story card where are the special cards man this is gross like we're literally getting hosed here uh okay and then ring spaces can now be occupied so these are all fully open okay okay and that's oh I got a card now h yeah this a problem our hands are loaded with ring cards so like we need that rwind to get rid of them but like I would only get rid of one no but listen I think you actually can use her on the final thing to win it all because you literally can just spend them all and they don't harm you so like if even if we don't have these all covered like you have five ring cards as long as we have five symbols covered you can discard all rings with her and you don't get punished okay okay and you can even add other Rings if you had more but I don't know how that would happen but again the card draw one's in here still y so like that could dig into that so like there's a chance we get this like sick little play if they come in the right order uh

5:48:47 but yeah this is very annoying um to see them all shov at the bottom and like cut it and Shuffle and I don't know it's annoying okay uh okay but yeah you can spend that red to move something yeah so obviously getting Rings covered mhm and he doesn't get a free move after that come on man well I'll just move him onto a ring it's closest one to it just makes sense although you do have five rings so like literally I don't think I should cover those yet but if we spend unless we get that one card right well rings are wild Mel this is what I'm saying no I know so like as long as we cover up anything if we find Arn you're golden we just need to cover five things oh yeah so it doesn't matter so I'm just going to move him in here and we can shoot him based on what's going on okay done draw two gladel you piece of crap where have you been where have you been oh I can take it maybe to all right and then six hey blanky cat hey left during chapter 4 and wow you guys are not resting no we are like in it man this is serious business this is like the most tense thing ever like the world depends on Middle Earth depends on us right now we will not rest until it's safe uh this is good though okay the crazy part is if we don't use corruption literally can reset and play again and like maybe it shuffles up maybe froto appears earlier like yeah and these guys will all appear different it's crazy anyways it knocked down red that's the last Red knockdown so ah okay so we can

5:50:19 get everyone in red and we're fine that's not bad okay that means orange is going to hit and if they're in there we need like get them all out right mhm so I think we can leave him knocked down for now absolutely let's move for two cadal did anyhow did not participate in the battle so I could just literally go one two he's where he needs to be I would get these guys off of orange that that guy is like he never moving get off of orange is what I'm saying get them as close as they can cuz maybe you don't draw the card if they knock them down it's wasted movement one two yep do you want to trade and like draw but then you'd still be discarding that's bad I wouldn't do that yep now if I trade you or if I trade you a ring or that cuz I can discard a ring and I'll be back on track yeah but then you're going to discard other cards no because I can discard this I'll get three cards I can play them what if you draw Arwin yeah okay I think it's still fine sure so playing discarding that one two three just three but yeah you had the M yes see no but I'll take them back I'll switch them back sure sure sure uh we'll see so now I can spend two more moves okay Gand off out of the way no you can just get that guy into red at least so it's one last guy that and then this guy's safe in white right now this guy's not but like it's going to take longer to get in so I S off to the Rings no right because we have the Rings covered we send Gand off this way do we have the Rings covered one two three I'll take another one from you

5:51:51 let's just read her make sure we're right complete a challenge using one or more one ring cards without Advance the corruption track yep so literally these are all you can use them for this you can use them for whatever you want yeah and you don't get punished amazing okay rwin MVP if we can do I think we can all right and then draw two and I won't have to discard sweet okay and then 10 Golem moves back one that'll be our problem think yeah one two three four five six seven move needed up there all right here go so we don't need to have everything covered just some and these guys don't count as covering them if they're laying down right where is that show me not moving their knock down maybe they can I don't know yeah just tell me knocked down and played players must use free move story stand the characters Up characters cannot move when they're knocked

5:52:56 down doesn't say actually yeah just here says when they get knocked down uh so when saon attacks an area via the plug card all Miniatures in the area are knocked down and placed on their side players must use a free move or discard story to stand the character back up characters cannot move when knocked down doesn't say they're not covering where they are okay I I don't see that but let's read here on that fq right I don't know but let's read here all other challenges complete Sam wi throw on Golem at the crack of Doom the current player must discard s cards matching all icons covered by counter or miniature in Mordor making sure we don't lose if they're all knock

5:53:43 down the pass me the back of the book I can look at that one oh yeah it might St on that one oh it does can a figure complete a challenge or defeat an orc while they are knocked down no oh okay that says no wait that doesn't answer it cuz they can't complete a challenge for knock down we're not completing it with they're just covering icons you're right you're right so then I don't know it it's not in here yeah it's not in here so based on the rules here unless we miss something but I don't think so cuz like technically you're not completing with them it's these guys that are completing this one Sam wise thr and Golem have to be at the crack of Doom this one is not related if these guys were knocked down yes these guys have already their challenges and they couldn't do these challenges or this one which we already did it so even though aorn's down here he's still like covering that even though that space doesn't matter I think we're fine if they're covered by laying down guys cuz otherwise like I don't know how we have enough movement if we keep reading up guys that don't it doesn't matter yeah we just need to cover one more space and I think we can no two more spaces I think and get those guys out and we have three more plot cards okay so where we at your turn start of my turn yeah and that's why you were looking that up to know so movement uh I mean we got to move these guys right mm put him

5:55:17 there this one is one we need but again like I think we can cover up all those okay what do we need to cover up we need this guy to cover here but he's laying down that was the problem we need him covering something before he fell so if we cover these these have to be ring though the opposite is is not true where these can be a ring can cover any of these so it's still more important to cover a ring so yeah so maybe I leave him there I ready him up cuz you only have three rings so you don't have five cuz you spent some trade me back one but I'll still need to move him onto one mhm then you trade me for this for a rank sure oh and then I can spend this y to move something else Yes red won't get knocked down again also this guy never gets knocked down I can move this guy off here and we have this guy to move in rings can count for these that's fine we just need Rings covered so I think I get Gandalf moving that way so he can still move here but like this movement is the problem but it's like whatever I don't know oh man okay block card three three knock down an orange that's fine we don't need him

5:56:48 I don't think okay all right my turn I think we need Sam I feel like we need him to move too right sure I just wait till the latest to move him cuz then if you have to resend the movement anyway maybe I'll wait maybe I'll wait and I spend I send hand off here yep so now you just need three ring cards which I have and then this can be anything one of these oh I see but I can know I can do

5:57:22 this okay so now two rings cover this but you still need three proper Rings which I have okay but you have one wild covered so you need one of these two things you didn't trade me yet but you you could but then you only have rings to trade so that doesn't make sense this okay now I trade you again you trade me for a ring which like I said if you have a m full of rings with her you're you're busted okay so three have to be rings and then you need three that are extra wild which you don't have that but at least we're like lined up so based on what you draw we just need to cover the right things here but we also need the movement here which I don't know if we can do I mean we're going to try I'll draw but I have to discard probably both of them because I don't have anything else 1 2 3 four 5 six yeah I have to discard them both one two three four five six seven no oh wow cuz I have the five rings and then this card oh okay okay oh ouch that's it's okay I'm hoping that could you oh you can only switch minis oh if you want to spend a corruption to move something instead of losing cards cuz we still have is what you're saying oh no wait you drew these you'd have to spend two you could spend two corruption no problem and maybe just move froto or move like someone into cover see I see I see I see cuz like you this is movement or something that you just tossed away but then I don't have the five ring but

5:58:52 I only need three rings you only three that are rings and then the other ones are nice to be wild but like oh I'm holding these so these being up are good and that's here so like we could just technically move around okay I'll move I'll move him twice oh yeah so you get these but like you already move those four five six okay yeah yeah now'll shuffle them back corruption goes up twice but doesn't punish like we're not Lo we haven't lost yet and then you drew yeah this oh yeah eight eight is gmu's back and I can tell you what that last one is uh eight maybe I have to put them in order to do that I think one two is done yeah three and four four five it's a six so he's going to knock down oh wait no it's not no it's not he's so Golem's going to move back one is what that number is going to this one's going to do

6:00:13 well it's my turn yeah and then we'll only have my turn to finish it so so the problem is when you like this guy is like covering what you could use that sucks you have like the wrong this is probably going to be the card that helps us here right to be able to draw more cards to be able to do something with I choose a player to draw two cards from the story deck oh you have to move first sorry yeah okay move first and he's moving back for sure with this card he'd be here one two yeah I wouldn't have enough to move him so he needs to be moved at least once who does him yeah cuz then he's going to move back here and then one two one two like I could use the two cards I have to get them there I'll just move them again okay okay uh so I'll start by playing this card which will draw us two cards which who should draw them I could let you have them and then you're just like lined up but again like we don't know what I'll see what you get and then based on that I can spend my cards or not spend my cards like get guys up and move them yeah cuz I won't have to discard down till the end of my turn that's what I'm saying but like if I'm holding them I don't you have a turn like what's the point but and then we only can trade once

6:01:44 so yep yep yep okay so are we choosing you to draw I mean it's not I can trade you a ring I can trade you a ring too like with one of these right we haven't traded yet no so that gives you a wild that can count for anything down here but you're right though maybe maybe me having them is better cuz I don't have to discard if it is a ring good all right here okay ouch but then we know can we know this one so one is covered so I can trade you either this symbol or a ring which is anything it's probably better for the ring sure because then it doesn't matter what I do here mhm so I just need to cover you have three rings that are covered right yep I have three rings plus I have the purple and I have a wild so if we can move gimly here yep gimle moved there done okay then I think we got it okay I'll spend this we just need them up there to move this guy I'll spend this to move oh but he's going to move away anyway that's fine and then I'll move him on my turn and then I and then you can pick this guy up so that people like Ray K can can like not leave angry comments on her video um for thematic reasons for poorly written rules in in board

6:03:15 gaming uh are poorly play tested Rule books and Rule sets and rush to print without checking all right done done draw okay 15 we know Golem's moving back one Gollum and froto move one okay started my turn I'll move Gollum so they're in the crack do already here okay I think I can even so now it says all other challenges are complete done Sam wise FR on Golem and the crack of Doom done the current player must discard story cards matching all icons not covered by a counter or a miniature in Mordor okay so you need to for this cover with story cards completing a challenge you need uh I uh Little Light of um light of a glad Dr mhm so that's these two okay the light this is a wild totally fine because you're playing this card first which says complete a challenge with one or more one ring cards so they're all Wilds or you can use them as one rings in this case and without advancing the corruption track which would cause us to lose so that's played and that allows you need three rings for sure one two three down here can be a wild or these two symbols which you have a wild and one of the symbols and then we've completed it and I'll just boom ready them up too so everybody's standing done and we Ed rwin to cover that challenge completed cuz she was the MVP wow hot damn wow I did not think we

6:04:48 were going to win that so I was complaining the whole time about the the cards being on the bottom but literally she needed to be like as late as possible cuz we needed to save her for the end yeah so that actually was good so when I was bitching about that I was totally in the wrong I'm glad the special cards stay at the bottom yeah at least those ones did WOW doesn't someone need to be hit at the middle no we did that before yeah yeah we already did that the Battle of black gate was uh muron uh where Aragorn was already standing on it and then completed it yeah and then we moved him off jeez I wi for the win yes 100% yeah when I I realized your hand was clogging like we're screwed but then I was like no wait if we can see her at the right time and this is like the best case scenario cuz she helps you better when you need to spend more icons for a challenge and we started only getting into ones where you needed twos at a time so then she starts not being as good but then cuz we we got her after like we started seeing the threes which sucked but then we ran into one that literally I mean technically you could have had like even more rings and like some of these even not covered and she helps in that situation yeah cuz I had I had extra cards yeah yeah cuz we had extra cards because of actually elron also needs a assist credit yeah cuz allowing her to draw cards on my turn and not have to hand check increases Arn's power and then I just wanted to see um gadriel how she worded oh no this is only you can draw cards so we couldn't have done that the same way so actually the fact that this

6:06:19 guy was used with her like that is actually huge not broken but it allow us to like claw back in basically yeah cuz I really did not think when we read through what we had to do here I was like there's no way we're winning this and then yeah Mike saying uh or no sorry Daniel says Golem uh fall in the volcano destroying the precious yeah the precious Yep they're all in the crack of Doom they're dead literally also like we would have lost there too if we didn't so I want to see some of these other special cards like what we could have had so oh yeah we need to play this at the very end we draw it from the deck automatically and a great Eagle comes by and like picks them up and they're safe and they're back home okay uh Great Eagle move each character miniature up to one space each oh that seems huge in the final scenario where every character Ministry needs to be moved wow Shadow fact you may move one character minist up to three spaces yeah we didn't get any movement abilities which is weird so but we got card draw which could be turned into movement right yeah elbow's Journal during the draw phase you may choose two cards from the discard pile instead of drawing from the story deck you cannot choose special cards but yeah you grab what you need yeah how many times were we like just digging like oh we're just waiting for this one so there was another glad ral's hair there was another wisdom of El I think there's two of each one maybe another shadowfax another great Eagle oh no there's three great Eagles three great Eagles another RN's love another Elven cloak and another bbo Journey H so the fact that there's all these special cards and we didn't even see some of them and you can get like duplicates of some make it very interesting on a

6:07:50 future playthrough yeah of like the special cards you get and maybe we can win the challenge to get more more special cards yeah cuz we left two on the table right but this balance of playing when to push this track to to save your butt and like also thinking like when you're playing blind and you don't know what's coming in the future and I was always assuming like challenge 6 seven and 8 are going to need we need to use this or we're done and when we started flying up it so early after like on on number three right I thought we were in trouble well if we lost we would have been cuz we would have had to probably spend more corruption again we wouldn't had any at the end of spend yeah and we were probably lost in like seven or something um but yeah we may have made some goof UPS during that whole thing and we're not sure again we're playing blind the first time playing ever I read the rules yesterday um and yeah but and we read a little bit today but we're just having some fun today it's New Year's Day we're chilling this is relaxed this is like definitely a nice light not complex game to play on the channel pretty much a part of game no I'm just kidding but uh yeah definitely a nice family weight like um kind of like pandemic light it's like even lighter than pandemic M and it reminds me of like again like I said uh Castle Panic like putting out fires cooperatively trading cards people trying to play the right cards on the right turn uh and sequencing matters and then also like the hand management and a little bit of that Jurassic Park we played which was again just like a knockoff a pandemic Legacy kind of idea but still the same idea of like trying to choose where to put things and hoping for the best and and like you know figuring out what cards have we seen what will we see like you know kind of betting the odds like will this dinosaur do this or that dinosaur do that should

6:09:21 we kind of I'm trying not to spoil anything in that game but you know like but if you seen Jurassic Park like what do you expect in a game about Jurassic Park like you might need to take care of some fences you know what I mean but which fences which dinosaur is going to break through and which ones not you know kind of idea yep uh and yeah this was a fun little game though I like it yeah it is a little nutty though I mean hardcore Gamers like us like yeah we could play this all in day no problem if we weren't streaming It And discussing everything out in the open and teaching it and all that stuff or like explaining it and unboxing it and all that you could definitely play this over a day with with some even lighter Gamers and just take it slow but you definitely could just play like a couple scenarios and that's a session MH leave it on the table or save it whatever doesn't take up a lot of space it's like it's so small so small I love it uh very small table presents which makes it great for like solo to have everything like right in front of you and uh yeah I like it it's neat uh velco says are you playing uh playing Wizard of Oz or Princess Bride adventure books anytime we're debating it I want to see how this went cuz we never played one I would easily play one of those so tune in next New Year's Day when we play the next one tune in in one come back one year yeah maybe come back one year uh yeah maybe I mean this was fun I would do this again here's the difference though I love Lord of the Rings and I know we have quite a few people on the channel who obviously are like-minded who come here to watch The Lord of the Rings games I love and gush over so we have fans on the channel who will watch just like me I'm a sucker

6:10:51 I'll buy things I have Lord of the Rings on the box uh even if they're great or not and I know there's people out there like you guys who also just like me are suckers when when it has Lord of the Rings on the box and you'll come and watch it right so I know there's like a less risk of learning and spending like a whole day playing a game but I don't know that about Princess Bride I don't know that about Wizard of Oz anytime we play like family weight games or ones with like light themes uh way less people tune in on our Channel because our audience is more of the hardcore gamer Fantasy Star Wars IP Marvel that kind of stuff like you know and it's it's okay to play a lighter game on the channel but it has to kind of have a connection to the other games we play on the channel I've learned over the years doing this for over 10 years is like yeah it has to have a connection there so this has a connection easy sell like I we play like kids D and D games on the channel like literally made for children as a joke way more people will watch that than if we play like a game in the top 10 on BGG that has nothing linked to anything else we play on the channel seriously it could be one of the highest rated games but if it's about a theme that no one's interested in or a type of game that no one's interested in out of our Channel membership it's like yeah new people will come to the channel but if it's not the type of game we play they're less likely to watch other stuff and stick around if that makes sense although with Trump's all that is this Rob's gaming table I kind of play what I want uh we're supported by you guys so thank you to those who click the join button send super chats our way who support us on patreon every month for

6:12:21 for years it's you guys that allow us to play whatever the hell we want it's just secondary I care what you guys want to watch right but number one is me and Mel I choose what we want to play first right and then we think about you guys second to be honest is this is how it is but uh yeah so what I'm thinking I know there'll be people who tune in if we play Princess Bride all day for fun but it's like I know I'll find other fun games that we can play that I'll set so we'll see I got to show Mel that movie first if she has no interested in it but I'm not in a rush to play it if we're going to play it it' be like yeah we have other games that i' rather play first but yeah I like what the system is and I definitely would play it again Spencer stop it Spencer thank you so much for the Super Chat thank you so so much says Happy New Year's here's to another year filled with cardboard and happy memories hell yeah thank you so much thank you thank you Happy New Year Spencer the other thing too is like if we did play it on a new on New Year's is there the audience of people that are just like lounging around all day there's nothing to do that'll just watch whatever we play we played Lord of the Rings the deck buing game last year and that's not even like in print it's not the best game ever completely surprised at how many views that got but yeah we definitely people came in and love that stream and like it still say day people love that stream I could see it but yeah Daniel says for children I don't know about that last no literally we played a d and d game for children literally a game that's targeted at kids it's it's like literally was so basic you can play it with like a six-year-old uh not

6:13:53 really maybe like eight but yeah we played on the channel uh it's called Uh Adventure begins Dungeons and Dragons Adventure begins it's literally a game for children we played it people watched it we had a blast uh yeah it's cuz it has Dungeons of dragons on the box it's fantasy themed it's a Dungeon Crawler people would tune in and they're interested cuz again if you're a parent and you want to play a Dungeon Crawler with your young ones or an RPG that is that was not a bad game for that to be honest and it was like 20 bucks we bought it for something less it was like on clearance or something but yeah yeah it was definitely a cheap gag but it still was like not a bad game yeah Daniel remembers yeah you remember that's the game I'm thinking of but I think Daniel might have been talking about this one oh no yeah this game's not for children I'm just saying in other situations like I could if we could find a Lord of the Rings game for children I will play it on the channel and I guarantee you more people would watch than they would watch a princess bride board game or a wizard of odds board game Wizard of Oz for sure Princess Bride I don't know it seems like May Princess Princess Bride would be more than wizard of O I think maybe some Nostalgia will be there a little bit I don't know but again I play what I like I play what I know and like so you know we need one based on the Monty Python the Holy Grail one or whatever right that's what that's we need and and that would be awesome that was an epic day eh oh Daniel says well we did watch you play Candyland I think the name was I don't know about that I I don't think we ever played that game on the channel in the

6:15:24 middle of a live stream secretly or only people who are there would know what we're talking about no we never did that I don't know what you're talking about D we would never play that kind of game on the channel MTH Market poorly design super old game never never never Kurt the Viking says that was fun listen listening while working all day thanks Rob M thank you that's awesome we kept you busy that I'm glad you're getting paid to listen to us play board games that's you're doing it right time and a half I hope yeah yeah yeah you're doing it right thank you guys for subscribing I see those numbers I see those numbers cranking up thank you guys for that almost at 850 uh but yeah it was definitely fun that was fun I'm a little tired but was that was not as drain as I thought it'd be and I was trying to save energy there for that last scenario and I didn't think we were going to make it there and we did yeah I didn't think we jackp man says next up Snakes and Ladders no no tomorrow we're streaming more Lord of the Rings though uh yeah because we don't need to play this again so yeah we'll be back Playing Lord of the Rings living card game continuing our campaign through arid mithan if you want to join us for that go check out the playlists on the Channel full of Lord of the Rings stuff fantasy Stuff Game of Thrones stuff I don't know whatever stuff I don't know what's similar to this but uh you know what game this is similar to it reminds me of to If You're a Star Wars fan you like this type of game that Mandalorian game this reminds me of that very much yes although that's a little bigger of sessions you can't just sit down and play that in like four or five hours or whatever I don't think I feel like that would take longer if I remember correctly but it yeah now that

6:16:55 you say that but it's the same thing flip them in a book you're moving around on the hex's the rule sets not very complex every scenario adds some new tokens switches up the rules yeah your goals and like your setup is on the sides y this yeah yep yeah that's very good yeah and and that one's I think a better game than this one but this has Lord of the Rings on the box which automatically makes it better than Star Wars I said it uh but that main learn game is just up this alley so if you're looking for a game like this and you played one of these Adventure book games uh and you know some family or friends that would like that type of game or loved it and you want to play Star Wars yes I would recommend looking up that Mandalorian game that came out this year um yeah I forget what it's called is it just made glor in the adventure something yeah I think it has Adventure in the title too down here and yeah the Mandalorian Adventures yeah it's a 2024 yeah this game we played through it on the channel so if you want to go see us play it and explain it just go watch the first episode of that series just Google Rob's gaming table Mandalorian whatever um but yeah this one's pretty solid and it's a similar aide except for I think it was only five little Mission stories but then they added other missions in later but definitely it's a step up I think only drawback for this are the rules of my opinion does a very good job for what it is an adventure book yeah I know it's not meant to be complex but remember V like sometimes like being able to play a game at the table with people who are non-gamers or like family younger kids you know

6:18:26 significant others who aren't really into heavy board games and you're able to still get some Minis on the table and play in a world you love like Lord of the Rings or whatever just be play that time at the table sometimes these games like yeah we make fun of them sometimes when they're like the light trashy poor quality ones that are at Mass Market stores this one's actually pretty good quality and it did a good job here and I can definitely say this like a a respectable game I would recommend to people or playing with people if you just want to get some newer Gamers at the table or non board gamer heavy board gamers you know and play a game with a little more quality to it but like not complex to like scare them away and again you can play it in like 20 minute sessions if you wanted to um where you just just teach them in 10 minutes start the game play you lose reset play again you win okay we'll carry this on later you know so great for kids who only have so much attention span mhm and literally all the cards like most of the cards in the game don't even say anything on them just the story cards yeah just the yeah the special cards they're special super easy to explain to your kid what they do and they just know by the art like yeah I don't know I think I did a good job I think too we also over complicate the rules like we play so many games that we look at the scenario and it's like we're we're looking at it like high level right from the beginning and we're like what's this what's this how can we do I don't know yeah why is this not explained what's this rule what rule even matter yeah I don't know I don't know yeah we we like game it pretty hard yeah we're like read the rules all that's written matters anything not there doesn't they're trying to test you you know don't forget about this thing

6:19:56 yeah yeah uh Daniel says they released a mass effect of Interest 2 I only played like a few hours of one Mass Effect game over the years on my PlayStation 3 I remember couldn't really get into it too much uh maybe it's just a Sci-Fi thing I prefer games like that like with the fantasy theme to it obviously I know there's a fantasy version uh which is uh oh why can't even remember what's the fantasy one that's based on the same engine from the same publisher Dragon Age Dragon Age right is it Mass Effect and Dragon Age are like the same just like Fallout and um Elder Scrolls are like like you know literally just always leap frogging each other on the same engine full of the same bugs by the same publisher that doesn't know how to make a solid framework for a video game uh but yeah anyways uh yeah yeah Dragon Age right yeah I tried to get into Dragon Age too but it's just like maybe or Dragon Age yeah I forget which Dragon Age but I tried to play one of those also around the same time I just couldn't stand I felt like the graphics were bad the game was buggy the the controls and like the um just like the engine didn't feel solid and responsive and like very sloppy and like I know the scope of the game is big and obviously games that are big like that they put less effort in that stuff like even the old GTA games are like so cool all the stuff you can do in them but you can tell it's like they're more basic Graphics cuz they're trying to fit a larger World in and stuff like that it's just hard I I don't know I don't mind smaller worlds if they like improve the graphics and tighten the controls but yeah those just felt

6:21:27 like a little sloppy to me but that's me and like yeah like the facial animations like all it's just everything felt cheap I don't know that's me but yeah if you haven't tried play Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor War I did play some of the first one I didn't play the the other the second one the war one or whatever yeah they're cool yeah you like literally are like you're basically like fighting you're like I think like a generic character pretty much and then you were like fighting different like bands Of Orcs And and goblins whatever but they have like like leaders like named bosses or like G enals or whatever and they remember you and they like learn and then like when you see them later and fight them later they're like calling you out and they remember what happened in your battle and you're like improving but they're also improving it's like very strange concept but very like epic game and like was very cool um yeah but was weird that was a weird one but it's like who thought of this this actually was pretty cool and different I don't know maybe I go back they have like H like like uh remasters of those games cuz those were like PS3 era to right and we're like talking PS5 now Nemesis oh the Nemesis engine it was called right or something like that yeah where they like remember what you did and what happened in the Battle and then they're like calling you out later when you see them and stuff that's funny yeah it's very weird all right that was it that's it for New Year's Day uh six almost six and a half our stream I think we're good I think we we did kept you guys busy thank you all for watching

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