Massing at Osgilliath 3B

By Ranger of the Force, in Rules questions & answers

3B is up and there are no enemies in the staging area. I do not want to lose a hero or ranger to commit my characters to the quest, so I take my chances. I reveal the top encounter and it is a Ranger of Ithilian. I take control and he is exhausted and committed to the quest. I then trigger his surge and reveal a wolves of mordor. Ranger is questing for 2 the wolves are 1, I gain one and progress to 4A right? My thinking is that I did not commit any characters so when the Ranger popped up he automatically is committed but is not my character or a character at all since he is an objective and his willpower counts and I don't have to discard him. Am I correct?

Ranger of the Force said:

3B is up and there are no enemies in the staging area. I do not want to lose a hero or ranger to commit my characters to the quest, so I take my chances. I reveal the top encounter and it is a Ranger of Ithilian. I take control and he is exhausted and committed to the quest. I then trigger his surge and reveal a wolves of mordor. Ranger is questing for 2 the wolves are 1, I gain one and progress to 4A right? My thinking is that I did not commit any characters so when the Ranger popped up he automatically is committed but is not my character or a character at all since he is an objective and his willpower counts and I don't have to discard him. Am I correct?

yes you correct. this is a really rare situation but if this happen you lucky.

Very fortunate, but it did allow me to defeat the scenario for the first time so I will take it complice