The Way Into Mordor - Wraiths (10/9: "Always creeping, creeping.")

[lem0nhead]

Flickering Candles
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 4
Vitality: 1
Site: 4
Twilight.
To play, spot a twilight minion.
"‘They're all round us now. Are we trapped?'"

Ok....

Dead Things
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 6
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Twilight.
This minion is strength +2 for each character in the dead pile.
"‘They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water.'"

Ooof maybe 3 cost? Hmm maybe not 

Pale Shapes
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 7
Vitality: 1
Site: 4
Twilight. Fierce. To play, spot a twilight Wraith.
Each time a Free Peoples character is killed, add a burden.
"‘The Dead can't be really there! Is it some devilry hatched in the Dark Land?'"

Cool. Could cost 2 easily.

•The Fallen
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 14
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Twilight. To play, spot a Wraith.
While the fellowship is at a marsh, twilight minions cannot take wounds (except during skirmishes).
Regroup: Exert a twilight Wraith and remove a burden to make the Free Peoples player wound a Ring-bound companion (or wound an unbound companion twice).
"‘I know not who they are; but I thought I saw there Men and Elves, and Orcs beside them.'"

Awesome 

Always Creeping
Event • Shadow
Exert a twilight Wraith and remove a character in the dead pile from the game to add 3 burdens.
"‘Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Orcses shrieking. They fought on the plain for days and months at the Black Gates. But the Marshes have grown since then, swallowed up the graves....'"

Could cost 1 i reckon. Nice and evil.

[DáinIronfoot]

Made several tweaks, the most significant ones being to Always Creeping. How is it now?

[Gate Troll]

Flickering Candles
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 4
Vitality: 1
Site: 4
Twilight. To play, spot a twilight minion.
"‘They're all round us now. Are we trapped?'"

Definitely UP. Maybe make it:
Flickering Candles
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 4
Vitality: 1
Site: 4
Twilight. To play, spot two twilight minions.
"‘They're all round us now. Are we trapped?'"

 
Dead Things
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 6
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Twilight.
This minion is strength +2 for each character in the dead pile.
"‘They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water.'"

Good. Fits the dead pile strategy well.

Pale Shapes
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 7
Vitality: 1
Site: 4
Twilight. Fierce. To play, spot a twilight Wraith.
Each time a Free Peoples character is killed, add a burden.
"‘The Dead can't be really there! Is it some devilry hatched in the Dark Land?'"

Okay, I guess.

•The Fallen
Minion • Wraith
Strength: 14
Vitality: 2
Site: 4
Twilight.
While the fellowship is at a marsh, twilight minions cannot take wounds (except during skirmishes).
Regroup: Exert a twilight Wraith and remove a burden to make the Free Peoples player wound a Ring-bound companion (or wound an unbound companion twice).
"‘I know not who they are; but I thought I saw there Men and Elves, and Orcs beside them.'"

Merh. Seems under-priced.

Always Creeping
Event • Shadow or Regroup
Exert a twilight Wraith and remove a character in the dead pile from the game to add a burden (or 3 burdens if played during the regroup phase).
"‘Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves, and Orcses shrieking. They fought on the plain for days and months at the Black Gates. But the Marshes have grown since then, swallowed up the graves....'"

This strategy seems to rely on killing characters for bonuses. Yet, many of the minions are woefully underpowered. Is a swarm strategy, a burden strategy, a wounding strategy or all three at once? 

I'd like to see some events and I'd prefer it if it were all one culture instead of a pointless mix of and .

[Thranduil]

I'm complaining about complexity again with Always Creeping - make it add 3 burdens in both the shadow and regroup phases or just make it a regroup event. I also agree with GT about underpoweredness - the Fallen could easily be fierce and/or enduring.

Thranduil