The rematch between Team Greenhouse and Team John H. Briggs.
With Greenhouse taking the unusual stance of playing the DS, all of Middle-Earth waits with bated breath to see if the chaos of Freedom will prevail, or if the wisdom and order of Sauron will end the possibility of resistance^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H war and conflict in the region.
A red sun rises; troops move; the lands wait greedily to accept the sacrifice of blood in the name of Chaos or Order.
Good luck to you as well – but hopefully not as good a luck as we had (I couldn’t believe where the Artifacts were located). We had crap for starting spells and starting character locations but the Artifacts were practically under the sweeper for us.
But luck or no luck, I’d just settle for the first 5-10 turns going off without major deviations from good play. THEN we can gripe about who got lucky vs. who played well.