The White Council Set - Men

[caprylz]

Time for another addition to the White Council Set! This is the Evil Men culture, in which I tried to resurrect some of the ideas from The Two Towers block with a few twists. Southrons get powerful Mumakil riders and new ways to get more consistent archery fire through the Mumakil Basket, but it comes at a high price. Easterlings, on the other hand, return to playing with burdens with a few new cards that add burdens easily, but only for one turn. The combos in this culture may be a little too complex to work in actual gameplay, so I'm curious to know if you feel that they would work. Meanwhile, here's the other cultures we've covered so far:

Other cultures:
The One Ring and Sites
Dwarves
Gandalf
Shire
Wraith
Uruks

•Desert Lord, Haradrim Warrior
Minion • Man
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
Archer.
When you play Desert Lord, you may reinforce a token for each other archer you can spot.

•Easterling Captain, Warlord of Rhun
Minion • Man
Strength: 11
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
Fierce.
The twilight cost of this minion is -1 for each burden you can spot.
Each time a burden is added, each man is strength +1 until the regroup phase.

•Easterling Phalanx
Minion • Man
Strength: 10
Vitality: 4
Site Number: 4
This minion is strength +1 for each burden you can spot.
While you can spot 2 burdens, it is fierce.
While you can spot 4 burdens, it is damage +1.
While you can spot 6 burdens, it cannot take wounds.
While you can spot 8 burdens, it gains hunter 2.

[10] •Mumak Commander, Mighty Warrior
Minion • Man
Strength: 18
Vitality: 4
Site Number: 4
Damage +1. Fierce.
To play, spot a minion.
When you play this minion, you may remove X threats to add .
This minion is considered to be mounted and may not bear possessions.

•The Mouth of Sauron, Token Bearer
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
Lurker.
Response: If a companion loses a skirmish involving a minion, exert this minion to discard a possession or artifact that companion bears.

Agents of Isengard
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 3
This minion is strength +2 and damage +1 for each Free Peoples culture over 2 you can spot.

Halberdier of Rhun
Minion • Man
Strength: 5
Vitality: 1
Site Number: 4
When you play this minion, you may spot another man to add a burden.
Each companion is resistance +1.
If this minion is killed, discarded, or returned to hand (except during the regroup phase), the free peoples player may remove a burden.

Mumak Master
Minion • Man
Strength: 14
Vitality: 4
Site Number: 4
Damage +1. Fierce.
To play, spot a minion.
When you play this minion, you may remove X threats to add . This minion is considered to be mounted and may not bear possessions.

Rogue Mumak
Minion • Mumakil
Strength: 13
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
Damage +1. Fierce.
To play, spot a minion.
When you play this minion, you may remove X threats to add . This minion may not bear possessions.

Soldier of Rhun
Minion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 2
Site Number: 4
While this minion is assigned to a skirmish, each time the free peoples player plays an event, you may add a burden.

Southron Sneak
Minion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
Fierce.
When you play this minion, you may remove to make it gain ambush until the regroup phase.

Southron Yeoman
Minion • Man
Strength: 3
Vitality: 1
Site Number: 4
Archer.
Response: If a possession this minion is stacked on is about to be discarded by a Free Peoples card, discard this minion to prevent that.

Warlord of Rhun
Minion • Man
Strength: 12
Vitality: 3
Site Number: 4
When you play this minion, the free peoples player may add a burden to discard it (or, if you have initiative, they must add an additional burden to discard it).

Warrior of Rhun
Minion • Man
Strength: 9
Vitality: 2
Site Number: 4
While this minion is assigned to a skirmish, each time the free peoples player plays an event, you may add a burden.

•Bill Ferny, Informant of the White Hand
Follower
Site Number: -3
Aid - .
Bill Ferny may not bear other cards.
When you transfer Bill Ferny to a minion, the Free People's player must reveal X cards of his or her choice from hand, where X is bearer's vitality. You may place a card revealed beneath the Free People's player's draw deck.

Easterling Armor
Possession • Armor
Strength: -1
The twilight cost of this possession is -1 for each burden you can spot.
Bearer must be a man.
Bearer may not take wounds.

Easterling Helm
Possession • Helm
Bearer must be a man.
Skirmish: Discard this possession to cancel a skirmish involving bearer. The Free Peoples player may exert the ring-bearer or add a burden to prevent this.

Halberd of Rhun
Possession • Hand Weapon
Bearer must be a man. Bearer is strength +1 for each burden you can spot (limit +3).

Mumakil Basket
Possession • Support Area
For each archer stacked here, the minion archery total is +1.
At the end of each shadow phase, exert a mounted minion for each card stacked here or discard this possession.
Shadow: Stack a minion from play here.

Oliphant
Possession • Mount
Strength: +3
Vitality: +1
Bearer must be a man. Discard any other possessions borne by bearer. Bearer may not bear other possessions.
While you can spot 3 threats, bearer is damage +2.

Stolen Horse
Possession • Mount
Bearer must be a man. When you play this possession, you may discard a Free Peoples mount to reinforce a token.

•Bereft of Lordship
Condition • Support Area
Each time Denethor wins a skirmish, you may spot a man to wound Aragorn.
Each time Aragorn wins a skirmish, you may spot a man to wound Denethor.

Leaving these Shores
Condition • Support Area
While you can spot a minion and an elf, the Free Peoples player may not draw cards or reveal cards from Shadow players' hands.

•March to Mordor
Condition • Support Area
When you play this condition, you may spot X men to add X burdens and X tokens here. Other shadow cards may not discard this condition or remove tokens from here.
Each companion is resistance +1 for each token here.
At the start of the regroup phase, remove a burden for each token here. Discard this condition.

•Vigilance
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot a man.
Each time a free peoples card is about to remove a burden, you may discard another card from play (or 3 cards from hand) to prevent that.

Gathering
Condition • Support Area
At the end of each Shadow phase, if you cannot spot a burden, you may spot a man to add a burden.
At the start of the regroup phase, you may remove X burdens to make X Man men gain muster. Discard this condition.

Herald of Woe
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot a minion.
Response: If a companion is played, transfer this condition from your support area to that companion. Until the regroup phase, bearer may not be assigned to a skirmish and bearer's special abilities may not be used.

Look Fair and Feel Foul
Condition • Support Area
To play, spot a man.
Each time the Free Peoples player plays a man, you may spot X threats to add .
If a companion is played and you cannot spot a threat, discard this condition.

Mistrust
Condition • Support Area
Each time a follower is attached to a Free Peoples character, you may exert a man to draw a card.

No Respite
Condition
To play, spot a Man. Plays on a site you control.
Regroup: If you control X sites, spot a man and discard this condition to discard each ally whose home site is any site X or less.

Search Party
Event • Skirmish
Spot a burden to make a man gain Hunter X, where X is the number of burdens you can spot. If that man is skirmishing a ring-bound companion, he is fierce until the regroup phase.