Lord of the Rings

Lucy and I had a Lord of the rings session on Sunday. First off with a game of Knizia's Lord of the Rings. This seems to be a challenge with two players. We have won it once out of about five plays.

It seems to me that there is a lot of luck in the order in which the event tiles are revealed. We cruised through Moria without much difficulty, but had a really tough time in Helm's Deep, losing most of our cards and incurring losses on the life tokens too. We entered Shelob's Lair without much expectation of getting through, but with help from Gandalf we made it out alive. We knew that Mordor would be too much for us after this and, almost straight after Lucy sacrificed herself for the ringbearer, it all came to an end at space 54.

Then a quick game of Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation. We both won while playing with the Fellowship players, but I had only two survivors and Lucy had three, so a win for her. We have found that the Fellowship player has won about two-thirds of all encounters so far. The two-game approach seems to work well in ensuring this is balanced out.