combined actions

[jdizzy001]

I read in the rules that you can't combine actions.  I don't understand what this means.  Please help.

[ephen]

you can't use 2 morgul gates when playing a nazgul. that would be combining actions.

[TheJord]

Another example, you couldnt use Buckland Homestead and Dark Approach to both play a cheap Nazgul and discard a condition.

[ephen]

Just don't confuse this with having 2 copies of Goblin Armory and playing a weapon which would add 2 because its triggered and not activated.

[jdizzy001]

Just don't confuse this with having 2 copies of Goblin Armory and playing a weapon which would add 2 because its triggered and not activated.

That's where I'm confused.  how do you determine triggered and activated?

[Gil-Estel]

Well I'll give you an example. Recently I built a deck with Sauron Trolls. Look at the cards Their Marching Companies and Great Siege Towers. Both have a shadow ability. Shadow is bold printed which makes it a special ability, you are able to use it. But since I can't combine phase actions, I can't play a besieger from a site I control, and add a token for that besieger. I used the besieger for the first action.
If, like Goblin Armory, Great Siege Towers would say: 'each time a besieger is played' it wouldn't be a special action, it would be a card that is triggered. Goblin Armory is triggered as soon as a weapon is played.
I hope this makes a bit sense

[Gerontius]

There are probably enough examples already, but I think the rulebook explains it somehow like this: if you have both Weapons of Isengard and Attack on Helm's deep out, and you play an uruk archer, you can't add a token to each. However, if one of them said "each time", you could use the bold ability on the other to play the uruk, then the second would be triggered.

[jdizzy001]

That makes much more sense.  I think I understand now

[Elessar's Socks]

I think the rules specifically mention phase actions (performing non-response special abilities, playing non-response event cards)--basically actions using a bold phase name. You choose one and complete it before you can perform another, so as mentioned copies of Morgul Gates can't be combined.

Triggers include actions beginning with "When", "While", "Each time", "At the start of", etc. When the described situation happens, all cards that meet the situation trigger. An example of this would be each active copy of Orc Banner triggering when a companion loses a skirmish. Though technically you still aren't combining them since they're resolved one at a time.

[ephen]

Just make sure to notice the slight change in newer cards like Dark Approach, which doesn't have a bold phase name like morgul gates instead it says event-shadow which is the same thing as the bold shadow on morgul gates

[jdizzy001]

I did catch that.  Thank-you so much for all your help.