Re: Making the most of the adventure deck (Hobbit style...)

[lem0nhead]

Okay, sorry for the long delay in spoiling Smaug

Right, so Smaug is all about control, and of course fiery death! Control represents itself here by controlling the site path and destroying sites with our showcase of a site keyword "barren".

Befouled
Event • Shadow
Spot Smaug to replace the current site with a site from your adventure deck; that site is barren until the regroup phase. (A barren site has no terrain keywords.)
Fire leaped from thatched roofs and wooden beam-ends as he hurtled down and past and round again...
H2 C 142

Barren Lands
Event • Maneuver
Spot Smaug to discard a Free Peoples condition; each site is barren until the end of the turn. (A barren site has no terrain keywords.)
There was little grass, and before long there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished.
H2 R 140

Desolation
Event • Skirmish
Spot Smaug to make an unbound companion strength -1 for each barren site on the adventure path. (A barren site has no terrain keywords.)
... they could see in the wide valley shadowed by the Mountain's arms the grey ruins of ancient houses, towers and walls.
H2 U 148

•Smaug, The Magnificent
Minion • Dragon
Str: 19
Vit: 5
Sit: 6
Winged.
When you play Smaug, you may reveal a player's adventure deck.
While you have 2 sites on the adventure path, Smaug is strength +4.
While you have 4 sites on the adventure path, Smaug is damage +1.
While you have 6 sites on the adventure path, Smaug is fierce and gains terror 1. (Another one of the block keywords. Ech time this minion is assigned to a skirmish, the Free Peoples player must exert 1 companion).
... the trees by the shores shone like copper and like blood with leaping shadows...
H2 R 163

I'm not completely sold on this Smaug. When you see the token conditions, you can tell me whether you think Smaug should work directly with sites or indirectly through tokens.

Thranduil