Re: WotR - Escorting the Ring with army units.

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

Shouldn't there be a chance that if you stack the ring with other units,
it seduces some of them and possibly gets taken (as happened with
Boromir). Perhaps a chance that increases for every turn stacked with the
same units (so you can spend a little time with Gandalf or Galadriel
around, but then they ought to part ways).

And perhaps even more likely, a chance that stacking with the ring ends
up spreading knowledge of where the ring is to Sauron and Saruman. I'm
not sure how those boardgames handle hidden information.


At 10:43 PM 10/21/2021, you wrote:

It is not quite that simple.

Iâ??ve seen several games where the Ring is moved from
Rohan to Minas Tirith with an army escort.  But the
Ringbearer has to leave armies behind, because there is
no way those armies will get into Mordor.

For that matter, if an army is defeated in army combat,
all characters escorted by the army are automatically
captured.  So sticking Frodo with a 5-7 cavalry unit is not
without risk.
 
Warm regards, Rick.

On Oct 21, 2021, at 10:14 PM, David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com > wrote:

Only takes one unit that can reach the fellowship, though.

And it's pretty much completely against the spirit of the story.

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David

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 15:47, Rick <rick_ww@lightspeed.ca> wrote:

For that to work, the unit had to be mobilized.

That does not usually help until the mid to late game.

Rick

> On Oct 21, 2021, at 7:30 PM, David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com > wrote:

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> My memory of War of the Ring was that if the Fellowship player found a military unit early they could attach it to the fellowship and walk through all the obstacles unhindered, so they did.

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> --

> David