Newbie Questions

[mille1212]

I am trying to teach my kids how to play this game.  We love the movies and the game looks fun.  I have a couple of questions for clarification.  If someone could answer them, then it would be appreciated.  Sorry if these seem silly.

1.Southron.  Remove 3 to wound.  Can this be done more than once in one skirmish if enough twilight allows?
2.I ran in to a couple of cards that say wound a minion.  One was an event (quick as may be) and the other was a possession (rohirrim bow).  Does the minion player decide which minions are wounded or does the companion player decide this since he/she played the card?
3.If there are two minions against one companion and the minion combined total wins, does the companion receive two wounds or one?
4.What does the term valiant mean?  I saw it on a theoden and eomer card.

Thanks.  I may have more questions from time to time as situations arise.  I would like to thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

[Haszor]

1.Southron.  Remove 3 to wound.  Can this be done more than once in one skirmish if enough twilight allows?
2.I ran in to a couple of cards that say wound a minion.  One was an event (quick as may be) and the other was a possession (rohirrim bow).  Does the minion player decide which minions are wounded or does the companion player decide this since he/she played the card?
3.If there are two minions against one companion and the minion combined total wins, does the companion receive two wounds or one?
4.What does the term valiant mean?  I saw it on a theoden and eomer card.

Thanks.  I may have more questions from time to time as situations arise.  I would like to thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Welcome to the forum!  This post belongs in Archives as its a rule, but I'll let the mods handle that.  Question #1 I assume you are referring to Desert Spearman?  If so than the answer is no as his text says at the start of the skirmish, which only happens once.  #2 the shadow player does not choose where those wounds go.  They would had the card said, "choose a shadow player to wound a minion"  #3 Only if one of the minions is damage +1.  #4  Valiant doesn't do anything inherently, however there are cards that require valiant men to use.

[FM]

1.Southron.  Remove 3 to wound.  Can this be done more than once in one skirmish if enough twilight allows?

No, abilities that say "when", "whenever", "each time" or some other type of this refer to an event in the game. Once that event kicks in, the ability happens. If the event happens more that one time, each time the ability happens. As for the ability, it says "At the start of each skirmish", so, each time you're starting a skirmish you can use it. That means only once a turn normally, but if he's fierce and skirmishes again, you could use it one more time.

2.I ran in to a couple of cards that say wound a minion.  One was an event (quick as may be) and the other was a possession (rohirrim bow).  Does the minion player decide which minions are wounded or does the companion player decide this since he/she played the card?

The owner of the card or ability performs the actions in them as written. If the card is played by the Free Peoples player and says "wound a minion", the Free Peoples player will select a minion and wound him. Even in the example given by Hasznor, you're instructed to pick a Shadow player, which you do. He wounds a minion, because the card instructed him to. He can wound any minion, not only his own minions (if you're playing a multiplayer game, for example), again, unless the card instructs him to.

3.If there are two minions against one companion and the minion combined total wins, does the companion receive two wounds or one?

When you assign more than one minion to a skirmish, they are treated as a single "entity" (unless you need to count something, like A minion's strength, A minion's vitality, etc, which always refer to a single character), with the exception that, if they lose, each of them takes a wound. Their a single entity, so they add strengths and deal only 1 wound, however, they are an entity with the combined abilities of them all, so if they are both damage +1, you'd deal 1 damage from the entity, +1 from one of the abilities, +1 from the other ability.

4.What does the term valiant mean?  I saw it on a theoden and eomer card.

Valiant is what is called an unloaded keyword. It has this name because it is a keyword (meaning cards and game mechanics might refer to it, like, say, spot a valiant man), but it does not do anything on its own, unlike fierce, which is a loaded keyword (it may be referred to by cards and abilities, but it also does something on its own if it shows up).

[mille1212]

Thanks for the detailed explanations FM.

I still was unsure about the 2 minions against one, but that helped clear things up nicely.