Hey, this is my first time posting a thread question in here, my apologies if I somehow screw something up... tried to read all the rules and stickies and such first... But on to the question:
We were playing a match yesterday, and at the final site, the final fight came down to quite a showdown, with a bunch of strong (15/16) minions that were fierce taking on a pretty full slate of 8 companions. The companions were all exhausted though (except Frodo had 2 health I believe), and there were 3 threats.
So had the battles all played out, my Nazgul's special abilities would have exerted Frodo until he was exhausted, and the first 4 companions would have died, leaving 3 fierce minions and the issue of the threats. So, I thought I had won, since the threats would kill off the exhausted companions.
After the first skirmish was resolved though, when the first companion was killed, my cousin assigned all the threat wounds to the companions currently assigned to skirmish all my fierce minions (including those Nazgul). So because the threats didn't kill any non-assigned companions, he put the 3 fierce ones on the 3 non-ringbearers, ending the game with 8 dead companions but a still breathing Frodo.
So, was this just pure genius and good fortune for him? Or is there some kind of rule about how threats are added, that they can't be used to
escape a skirmish, or must wait until all skirmishes are resolved? From what the rulebooks say (or rather don't say), it seems like this is most likely legal (dang!) but we wanted to know for sure, so he could be sure his victory was complete.
Sorry description is so long, thanks for the help!
Topic: Threats to avoid skirmishing? (Read 3166 times)