Wounds, Vitality and Life.

[Odin]

I recently came across an interesting situation. Background Scenario: Assume I am playing shadow easterlings against a fellowship knights. I play a two-vitality minion - say Easterling Guard with an Easterling Polearm. I can spot two burdens, thus making my Easterling Guard unable to take wounds. My opponent has a beautiful lineup of fortfifications, including Stone Tower. Now, to the question.

According to Easterling polearm, my Easterling Guard cannot take wounds. However, assuming Stone Tower is transferred, does it effectively reduce my vitality to zero - thus killing me off without ever placing "wound tokens", or does it transfer into wound tokens - which in effect cannot be placed because of Easterling polearm - thus making my minion immune to the fortification?

I'm thinking the first scenario makes more sense. Motivation: compare the situation to a an exausted Legolas bearing The Tale of Gil-galad. Assuming the tale is discarded, it doesn't matter if I play an event to "prevent a wound" - Legolas vitality has effectively been reduced to zero, and thus he dies without ever having a wound token beeing placed.

Is my logic right or wrong?

[jdizzy001]

Yes it would kill the easterling. Reducing vitality via fortifications is not the same as wounding.

Take this example. A minion with vit 3 eats the same fortification. The minion is now vit 1. He is still unwounded but has lost 2 of his 3 vitality (similar to your legolas example)

[Panch]

^ Good old stone tower

[Odin]

Yep. Thanks for the clarification!