As a challenge, or maybe just for the twisted fun of it, I wondered about seeing what the worst three Heroes for Threat value would be like as a Hero Team. And, to my surprise, it doesn't look bad!
As we have seen, the three Heroes with the worst Threat Values are Hirluin The Fair (88%), Tactics Merry (83%) and Bilbo Baggins (67%). Going by the way designers normally price Heroes, we should have a starting threat level of eighteen, but we actually have a starting threat level of twenty-three! But although we aren't getting good value for money from the printed stats, this is where the team starts looking surprisingly OK. Because none of these Heroes are what you might call a team "Captain" (Threat Cost above ten) we still have an extremely low starting threat, so enemies won't be too quick to engage us.
This works to our advantage for two of the Heroes. First, Hirluin is worthwhile only if you include as many Outlands ally cards as possible in your deck, so we can assume that we will do this. As mentioned in our previous post for him, if given enough time to build up an Outlands army, this can be very powerful.
The second advantage that we have from the time gained by the low threat is Bilbo's ability to give us an extra card every turn (if we are playing solo). He is the worst Hero for Threat Value, but it can be argued that he has the most powerful and versatile power out of all Heroes in the game. So he can make it more certain that we will find the Outlands cards that Hirluin can pay for.
If it seems like Merry is left as the weak link in this team, that isn't the case. Since two of the Heroes in this team are Hobbits, his Attack strength is raised to two. This means that he can be a fair quester or attacker on any turn, or, thanks to the hobbit-exclusive Lore card Fast Hitch which Bilbo gives us access to, both.
So this team that was made up of what one formula considered the "worst" Heroes in the game turns out to prove that it really isn't just all about the numbers.
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