Frodo, old Bilbo's heir
The One Ring, Isidur's bane
Free Peoples (32):
Gandalf, friend of the shirefolk[start]
Boromir, son of Denethor x3
Merry, friend to Sam
Aragorn, ranger to the north x2
Legolas, greenleaf
Gimli, son of Gloin
Barliman Butterbur x4
Farmer maggot x2
Glamdring
blade of Gondor
Hobbit sword x2
Ranger's sword
Aragorn's bow
bow of the Galadhrim
Gimli's battle axe
Gimli's helm
saga of Elendil
servent of the secret fire x3
strength of spirit x3
sleep, Caradhras
Shadow (32):
Lurtz, servent of Isengard x4
Orthanic assassin x2
troop of uruk-hai x2
uruk slayer x2
uruk rager x3
uruk warrior x3
uruk soldier x3
uruk-hai sword x4
greed
bred for battle x4
Lurtz's battle cry x3
Saruman's power
Sites:
1 Farmer Maggot's fields (get merry)
2 Trollshaw forest (play weapon: draw card)
3 Riendell terrace (play man to draw a card)
4 Hollin (uruks not roaming)
5 the Bridge of Khazad-Dum
6 Galadriel's glade
7 Silverlode banks (exert all companions)
8 shores of Nen Hithoel (big cost)
9 slopes of Amon Hen (cheap uruks)
bid 2 or 3 burdens try to go first and pull merry. get boromir set up w/ him and you can him twice add make merry +3 and then exert merry twice to pump any companion with his strength(now +3). other companions help out w/ archery, fighting, defending against swarm(big) and they pump gandy. get farmer maggot to heal merry and frodo heals maggot. use strength of spirit to exert for no token to help out with EVERYTHING and use butterbur to get them back as well as SotSFs. discard butterburs to heal him to get events back. sleep, caradhras rocks.
minions do big damage if they win their fights and card discarding is splashed in to cause even more damage to opponent. if they get 6 companions, get greed and do as much damage w/ it as possible. lurtz's battle crys kill companions big time, and sarumand power is really nice