Rhosgobel Release Date

By Shelfwear, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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lleimmoen said:

Jekzer said:

GUYS ! New Rhosgobel info: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2555

Nice theme (race against the clock scenario) and nice tactics ally :D

Super.

First thought about Landroval's response bearing in mind the Boromir spoiler, it say destroyed, not leaves play. So I assume you can use Boromir's action to discard him and then in response bring him back in play due Landroval. That would surely be too powerful.

Still, the card is very nice. Finally, Tactics has some edge over Spirit now as Landroval is surelly better (although I in general do not like such comparisons) than Fortune or Fate. With the above mentioned exception, the latter can bring Boromir back after he uses his action.

Also interesting, the article mentiones Self Preservation as a possible help to Wilyador but his card states that he cannot have any attachments. So I guess Glorfindel, Lore of Imladris and then new Radagast will be the only options?

Yup. I like the fact to make some of the "2nd line heroes" (that's an opinion, each player plays different :P ) shine.

And yeah, there was an error on that post, Self Preservation is an attachment, hence Wilyador can't take it.

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Jekzer said:

lleimmoen said:

Jekzer said:

GUYS ! New Rhosgobel info: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=2555

Nice theme (race against the clock scenario) and nice tactics ally :D

Super.

First thought about Landroval's response bearing in mind the Boromir spoiler, it say destroyed, not leaves play. So I assume you can use Boromir's action to discard him and then in response bring him back in play due Landroval. That would surely be too powerful.

Still, the card is very nice. Finally, Tactics has some edge over Spirit now as Landroval is surelly better (although I in general do not like such comparisons) than Fortune or Fate. With the above mentioned exception, the latter can bring Boromir back after he uses his action.

Also interesting, the article mentiones Self Preservation as a possible help to Wilyador but his card states that he cannot have any attachments. So I guess Glorfindel, Lore of Imladris and then new Radagast will be the only options?

Yup. I like the fact to make some of the "2nd line heroes" (that's an opinion, each player plays different :P ) shine.

And yeah, there was an error on that post, Self Preservation is an attachment, hence Wilyador can't take it.

the eagle says he can't have a restricted attachment; self preservation isn't restricted, is it?

On Edit: d'oh! i was looking at landroval, not wilyador. whoops! :)

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lleimmoen said:

"First thought about Landroval's response bearing in mind the Boromir spoiler, it say destroyed, not leaves play. So I assume you can use Boromir's action to discard him and then in response bring him back in play due Landroval. That would surely be too powerful."

Sadly, no. Boromir's ability requires you to discard him to use, not destroy him. Right now the only thing that destroys characters is them receiving damage in excess of their hit points.

P.S. These boards make it really hard to quote people if you're editing a post :(

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I second Radiskull's statement. I think that's exactly the reason why they use "destroyed" in Landroval's ability and not "leaves play" as most other cards.

On p. 9 of the Rulebook, upper right it says (in relation to allies): "[...]remain in play until they are destroyed or removed from play by a card effect."

That proves = destruction of a card and leaving play are not the same, though after a card is destroyed (by excess damage for example) it leaves play afterwards.

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Shelfwear said:

I second Radiskull's statement. I think that's exactly the reason why they use "destroyed" in Landroval's ability and not "leaves play" as most other cards.

On p. 9 of the Rulebook, upper right it says (in relation to allies): "[...]remain in play until they are destroyed or removed from play by a card effect."

That proves = destruction of a card and leaving play are not the same, though after a card is destroyed (by excess damage for example) it leaves play afterwards.

Of course, I was merely stating it. They surely had Boromir already in mind - as he should come soon afterwards. I still have not seen the picture though.

The quoting is tricky, yes. 8)

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I admit: I was wrong on this. I give up trying to logically deduce the release pattern of FFG. I guess they dont know themselves...

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You still have four days to be right, and even if it does come in the first week of September, FFG was pretty close to getting the release out in August.

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Dain Ironfoot said:

I'll totally admit that I have to eat crow after doubting you earlier, though I can't help but wonder if the Carrock announcement was late because of Gen Con (though, it's not like you can't set articles to post to a future date; however, the sheer number of articles posted after they got back from Gen Con suggests they didn't/don't do that).

If it does come out that soon, great.

The last time Rhosgobel was updated on the Upcoming page by FFG was on 7/14/11 and it's "At the Printer"...so it's entirely possible you are correct! :)

I will say that Gen Con really throws a wrench in FFG's schedule, as they take EVERYBODY to the Con, because they need absolutely every last person working there. As I was told by one of the FFG employees demo'ing a game there last year, there's no special sales team that they send to Gen Con, and everybody else stays home. The entire office has to go. The company only has about 80 employees, and they need every one of them to run a Con presence the size of what they have at Gen Con.

So if news items get postponed because of Gen Con, it's because there's literally no one back at the office to post them.

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Polish rhosgobel is released on september 1st.

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guciomir said:

Polish rhosgobel is released on september 1st.

Do they usually release before or after US?

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The foreign publishers arent allowed to release the APs before the English version, so far the release date was global and the same for all versions (at least this was what the German publisher told me).