[DaviddesJ]

The similarity he's talking about is that both games have as a key mechanic outguessing your opponent as to which combat card to play in each battle. It isn't going to matter how brilliantly you play either game if you pick the wrong combat cards and consistently lose battles by a hair (or once in a while "waste" a big card, winning a battle by a lot). This is the major form of luck in both games (since good strategy involves a random choice between several cards, not predictably always choosing the same one in the same situation). Indeed, the luck factor in DT combat is greater than LOTR:C combat, because you don't have the "special" combat cards.

I like all of the other aspects of DT more than I like this combat system.