Beatdown
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Beatdown is a standard type of Shadow strategy which aims to win skirmishes through sheer bulk and slaughter its way through the Fellowship until the Ring-bearer has no protectors left. The idea is simple: play minions with high strength, often supplemented with Fierce or Damage effects, put companions in the ground, wash, rinse, repeat. Victory may come through wounding companions to death, or it may come through overwhelming them instead; the important thing is that they die in skirmishes. Frequently.
Shadow cultures that often use beatdown strategies include Isengard, Wraith, Sauron, Orc, and Uruk-hai.
Other Shadow strategies include archery, corruption, direct wounding, and swarm.