A New Chapter - Ancient Enemies

Now I look at the second chapter of the Clash of Arms expansion. This is still a black border chapter pack.

Here's the breakdown of the chapter pack -

7 Characters - 1 Baratheon, 2 Greyjoy, 1 Lannister, 1 Martell, 1 Neutral and 1 Targaryen. (Starks got no love in this one)

4 Locations - Greyjoy, Lannister, Martell and Stark each gets one.

1 Attachment for the Targaryen.

2 Events

6 Plots

The characters in this pack is nothing to write home about, most of them are not even very useful though they're not completely crap. The Greyjoy and Targaryen got 2 cheap characters to use, especially the Dragon Thief of the Targaryen, who is a very efficient weenie character.

The locations are much more useful. With the exception of the Greyjoy location, who requires a little more planning to be useful, all the other 3 locations are quite easy to adapt into most decks as they mostly deal with manipulating challenges and killing characters. The Stark and Lannisters both have critical locations that are almost universally useful in their respective decks - Bear Island is a killer location that can be very threatening in a all-Stark deck, and Toll Gate is just plain annoying and almost an absolute necessity in any Lannister decks that can't handle Military attacks very well. (Which is like, everyone of them...)

The Targaryen Attachment is almost a must for a Dragon deck.

The 2 Event cards deal with King & Queen tech, and is useful if you're running any King or Queen star decks.

This is the first chapter pack with extra plot cards for you to work with, and they are great additions to your deck building assets. All 6 Great Houses get one of these "Fury" plot. Every one of them has a 5-7-1 composition, and all possess an ability to manipulate specific opponent Houses' characters after you win a specific kind of challenge. All of them comes with a Trait as well, are either Military Battle, Intrigue Gambit or Power Struggle, therefore you can see that these are good options for you once you accumulate enough cards to explore those plots or events that capitalize on plot Traits. (There are quite a few of those) I must say that these plots are the key reason to purchase this pack.

All in all this is a pack that I think most will eventually get, though I see very little reason to buy 3 of these since only the unique Stark location is worth getting 3 copies of, and even that is questionable. The Plot cards in this pack however, is almost a must to have if you plan to build multiple decks for the Houses, they're all good plots with good stat balance and a reasonably useful ability.

(o.o)