Elves on Speed
Malk’s UK nationals winning deck
I basically played Elves on Speed - the idea was to attack lots and fast -
all reinforcments were chosen to be, ideally, able to attack on the turn they
were played. Only the Demon and Valanthe could not do this (assuming Alaric
is used to plug a gap in the front rank and Elenitakis is used to pump
fighters) and I have already found replacements for most of those: Valanthe
to be replaced by SS-saurth who can spend forward and still use his tail
attack (thanks to Andrew, winner of the Nothrog medal, for pointing that one
out).
Many of the item cards and action cards were either made for use by
Rathe or could be discarded to bring Rathe up fast - every game I would look
at my first 5 cards and try to see which two I could most live without...I
would then make sure that Rathe got down and dirty right away causing
a potentially crippling 7 attacks in the first turn not counting any
from other reinforcements. A lot of the action cards are pretty but
discardable.
On more than one occasion I used Whirlwind Attack to get Rathe
to the front only to use his normal attacks more effeciently against an
already thin front rank.
Rathe is a very "bad-draw" forgiving Warlord in that respect - drawing the Tooth and no level 2 reinforcements isn't the end of the world - discard the tooth (and something else) to get to the front
and just wipe out the enemy plebs anyway.... The Alarics, Balmtear's and,
again, Rathes power help ensure that he doesn't die. Games are usually so
fast that any kind of build-up deck doesn't have time to get much stuff on
their characters (not even Xod) tooled up before the Warlords are already
exchanging blows.
This is very much a Rathe deck based around his ability to help cripple the enemy ranks early then retreat to safety once/if wounded (the Ponies and Hole also help a lot there.)
Starting Lineup:-
Warlord: Rathe.
Second rank : Artheon x2
Front Rank : Jigoral x3.
Characters (30 when including the 6 above):-
Artheon
Whispershot x3
Kether x3
Gueniveure x3
Wythien x2
Valanthe x3
Elenitakis x3
Keridwen x2
Demon of Kvar
Prince Alaric x3
Items (only 15 in total)
Scout Pony x3
Invisibility Potion
Kezia's Loris Daggers
Wyvernsting Bow
Portable Hole
Dwarven Signet
Yedraw's Tooth
Long Sword x3
Bracers of Ogre Power
Balmtear's Potion x2
Actions (15):-
Meet at the Inn x3
Throw x3
Sand in Your Eyes
Over the Top x3
Nimble Fingers
Backstab x2
Whirlwind Attack x2.
TTFN,
Malk.