Best Lord of the Rings trilogy since the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This really appeals to my obsessive details orientated, rules based character haha. What an amazing game to get obsessed with

Awesome Vid, thanks for the shout out! Your examples were fantastic. This will help new players a great deal! The only clarification I'd like to add is for your "Protector of Lorien" + "Doom, Doom, Doom" example around 19:50. The concept was spot on and existing as a hypothetical it does illustrate the point well. However, abilities that use "until the end of the phase" actually can't technically exist at all "at" the end of the phase. They wouldn't even be able to be triggered since they can't change the game state and are "N/A" so to speak. So this is why we can't use Protector in the situation of Doom, Doom, Doom or the end of the phase locate test during "The Dead Marshes" 1B. The concept is spot on but the examples I prefer to use are spirit Frodo and spirit Dain. This is because it's actually possible for these abilities to exist in the "at the end of the phase" limbo between phases. They don't use the word "until" but still have limits charged to the next phase if used in limbo. Once you are "at" an "until" lasting effect can't even exist until a new phase starts.

Thank you. This game is 10+ years old but I am so glad I jump in this year and there exist a content creator like you. Can’t imagine how many dozens of rules I wont get it right without videos like this

Thank you for the definitive series on how to play this fantastic game.

The Return of the King! This rules playlist has been a huge help; can’t thank you enough !

Thanks a lot for this! :) these expextions and caviats really show the limits of the lotr rules set. It seems a bit messy now 😅 oh well

This is the best LOTR LCG tutorial series! Some of the rules I think I will play wrong intentionally, as it makes the game a bit easier. Like lasting trechery effects (resolve "when revealed" and forget about the card ;), "at" and "in" phase ("at" always last thing to play in the phase, not outside) etc. ;) but I'll see how it goes. I know it is the last part but I would love to see some other LOTR content. Thank you for the amazing job!

Really fabulous work. "When explanation is good THEN click like"

This is such a great video. I'll never remember it all, but it is so great that it exists.

Thanks for all the work on these LOTR LCG videos. I've scoured a lot of youtube videos about the game and yours are the best by far. It definitely helped me make the decision to buy it and now I'm starting to buy the revised expansions and get into deck building. I've come back to watch them regularly just to pick up new things. Very clear. Great tips.

Nice work, will be returning to this one several times

Please do more videos! 😊 Maybe on the newly released Sagas, Dream Chaser and Ered Mithrin. Thank you.

I don't think I ever clicked on a notification for a video this fast! I have been waiting for this!

Thanks for these videos they're so helpful to me learning the game and still after playing for a bit its always nice to have these videos available for a refresher 😍🙌🏻 lovely work and now relax 😅👍🏻

Thank you again for taking time to make these! I think I learned more from this one than the other ones. There was so much that I had no idea about or didn't think of! I didn't catch that effects with "then" have to have everything before that completed in order to perform the effect. Or that actions that attack an enemy don't count towards your one attack against an enemy. That does make Haldir more interesting. And wow encounter "until" card effects affect everything played after that?! Well I have been doing that wrong then. I thought those whiffs were too generous. And "until" effects expiring before "at" effects begin I didn't know. And the timings for post-questing I didn't know, and that changes things. The once per game limit being a player limit is interesting and I never would have guessed that! And the timing for ability resolutions I didn't know either. And "when" effects happening before "after" effects when they activate during the same time I didn't know. It's good to know the couple situations where you need to shuffle the encounter deck during the questing phase before it empties. So if a card were to instruct you to look at the top specific number of cards and you didn't have that many left, you would shuffle the discard pile back into the encounter deck and then resolve the effect? The whole ability charge thing I didn't know either and makes certain cards more annoying. I didn't notice that Quick Strike works against enemies that are immune to player card effects! I didn't think of using tactic hero Legolas and Blade of Gondolin in that situation to add the last quest counter and then 2 on the next quest! Some of these odd situations are very funny, and I'm glad when people point these out! I've never thought of the Gandalf and Erebor Guard! That is a very funny one and is good to know! I have wondered about the situation where you play Host of Galadhrim with Galadhrim Weaver in your discard pile, so thank you especially for that one! I play sylvian elves more than anything else. There were a few other little things that I didn't know, but there were more things I didn't know than did I think, so it's a very good thing I saw this! The more of these videos in this series I watched, the more things I find that I have been doing wrong or didn't know and the more I realize that the game is even more complex than I thought. I thought Mtg was complex, and this game was comparable to it at first, but at this point I'd say this game is more complex. But wow it's a very good thing I saw this early on just about a year and a half after I got my core set before playing too much of this game because it would be even more painful finding out that I have been doing so many things wrong for a long time and not having a true victory on the scenarios! Thank you! Also, I went to check out the White Tower Watchman, and I have seen one of his videos before in the past! It was the one on active location quest card progress. I think I found it when looking up for answers for a situation that came up during a quest one time. I don't remember when or which one it was.

Thank you for part 3!

Thank you for all of your instructional and review videos. They have been extremely helpful in learning/ enjoying this game. I'm hooked

Great video. Well-presented, insightful, and entertaining. Thank you!

This is so awesome - thanks!

The best videos are those, which come unexpected. Thank you so much for your helpful lotr lcg content. 👋👍🇩🇪

Just found your channel. Would love to see an in depth analysis of the Dream Chasers player box, like you did with the Agnmar player set.

Thank you so much for these videos, they're really really helpful for new players!

you're the best lotr lcg channel there is :D

Please keep posting!

Amazing mate :D thanks 😍

Thanks for this video, it’s a great resource 👍🏻👍🏻

15:25, unless you are playing Easy Mode or Sleazy Mode, since you add extra resource at the hero setup 😅

Great - Great - Coverage for everyone but I think especially for intermediates trying to better understand advanced issues like me. I have been going over this video multiple times in digesting all of the meat. I only wish that you left the example cards on the screen a few seconds longer so they could be thoroughly absorbed and helped in that digestion. But then again that is why we have the pause button :) While still in the study mode I have something to add and a card question (Adding words to your immediate attack segment) When drawing an immediate attack in the quest phase the enemy drawn is not yet in staging but is in a transition state therefore none of the player card effects on enemies in staging can be applied. (The Card Question) Breaking Of The Fellowship - Location - Slopes Of Amon Hen, Forest Hills - "A player at this staging area engages 1 enemy in any staging area to travel here". (Question) - if there are no enemies anywhere can I still travel there? There isn't a prefix or additional words that state the player has to have an enemy available before traveling here thus my question. Same Location But Now Referencing Quest 1b that states "Enemies get +2 defense and cannot be engaged. Skip the encounter phase" (Question) - if there IS an enemy or enemies in staging, can I still travel to Forest Hills and not engage the enemy as this quest phase requires? Thank you for all of the difficult work that I'm sure was involved in making this complex and much appreciated video.

I’d love to see you play through some scenarios, no need for high production value or effects, just drawing cards and talking through your decisions

This is a great 3 part series that showcases the game and its rules. I have been looking to get into a really challenging deck building solo game and did some research after watching your videos. My major concern is that experienced players have come up with decks that are able to win all quests on nightmare difficulty in 1 attempt. I have also seen sacrificial decks in multiplayer that trivialize the challenge and essentially break the game. I checked to see if the revised core edition would tone down the power level of specific cards that enabled decks to break the game, but it seems this isn't the case. Can you confirm that this is true and the game has been "beaten"?

I really enjoyed your videos. I ignored it's initial release after being annoyed by its nickel and dime release of Descent 2. I fell so in love with that game, I grabbed what I could get. Got most of the campaign addons etc, but nobody to play with... 'oh, well not a fan of apps with boardgames, but let's try it out'. First play actually was pretty exciting since so many things happened in the app which you don't see much in a usual boardgames ... . Anyhoo tl:dr; I finally got to the boss ... with everything in miniatures distinguished even between regular or elite ... facing the Big Baddy -> it's just a pathetic piece of carton.. and the first enemy I had no mini for. .... That was pretty much the reason why I either went all-in in most stuff (or felt like I'd miss stuff for NOT, even though the plastic doesn't seem to be that useful and also the reason I _REALLY_ started to hate DLC.

This is best L.C.G review!~ Please keep uploading steadily~ And please upload the lord of the rings other extended card games, like fellowship of the rings and the two tower please!~~ :)

After exhausting all other attempts at an answer I'm "forced" to come back to the guru :) I hope you don't mind. By the way my wife just told me tonight that I've gotten more than my money's worth out of this game now two years going. That's still an understatement to be sure! My question has to do with the word "AT" in the Two Towers Urak-Hai and Grishnakh. The card says "Forced At the end of the quest phase, deal 1 damage to the attached Captive". If so, then a 2 hit point captive hero would be eliminated after the quest phase in the very next round. Reading from the Visions of The Palantir he indicates two rounds before this captive is killed (Merry was my choice) but I'm thinking he'll be gone after the quest phase in the next round. I guess that one can potentially heal the hero in this and in every additional round as an alternative until gathering the strength to dispatch Grishnakh. I'd also be interested to hear how you have dealt with this Orc who can be worse then Ugluk since at least you can plan for the latter. Generally I think my question can be stated as to whether the word "at" occurs just before or just after the end of a phase.

We need videos for the new content!

Question for clarification: removing progress from the quest targets quests but not locations, but what about player side quests?

Thx for the great video! I have a question: when i attack an enemy with a character that has the dwarrowdelf axe equiped, at which step in my attack does the 1 point damage resolve? Before damage calculation (=after declaring the attack) or after the damage calculation?

Hi there I’ve got a question, Can I assign additional attackers to an enemy even if only one of the attackers is needed to destroy the enemy card? This is so I can exploit Legolas effect. Thank you ! Great series by the at I’ve watched them all.

How You get all this knowledge? I did not see many of this informations in rulebook. Hard to learn and remember all of that stuff... :/

What!? Another video!?

TheGamelocker videos: when revealed subscribe to his channel and hit the like button 😉

Goddammit man, check your video sound its all over the place.. too loud on intermissions 🫥🫥