Behind Strong Walls question:

So when it says "ready defending Gondor Character" Does that mean you ready a character the just exhausted to defend? Or does that mean you can ready a character already exhausted to defend?

Goblin Cleaver question:

So when you "exhaust a weapon" does that mean you cant use that weapon anymore for that turn and it ready with your characters during the refresh phase? Or do you just exhaust the weapon but that weapon can still do anything?

Thanks,

Khamul

as for the first, i think that it is the same in that a character is only 'defending' until it has finished that particular attack. so there can only be 1 character (or sometimes more with card effects) who it can target. so i would say you exhaust the character who is then defending, and you have until the end of that attack to use the card....or am i missing something?

the weapon still function as normal so a rivendell blade would give -2 defense ready or exhausted. however obviously yew bow cannot be used again if it is exhausted. the weapons ready with the characters at the refresh phase

Thanks

So what I was confused with for the first question is, can I use the card on a character who, for example, exhausted to quest, to defend an attack?

oh i see now. no, i just read it as 'ready a character who has just exhausted to defend etc..'

rich

Behind Strong Walls -- use it during enemy attack resolution. I think the character is considered to be "defending" only if they are declared the defender for an attack (so no, you can't use it to ready a character that was committed to the quest and was not declared a defender). And would no longer be considered to be "defending" after step 4 of combat resolution (determining and placing combat damage).

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OK yeah. I thought defending character might mean a character that is just going to be declared as a defender. For example I am going to ready Beregond who had committed to the quest is going to be my defender so he is a "defending" character.

Thanks you both for answering

Not sure why you would commit Beregond to a quest since he has no willpower, but, yea, you ready someone who is finishing up defending so that they can defend again, or attack.

in siege beregond is amazing questing...so probably there, and not anywhere else

Yeah he's great in Cair andros. I made a deck that beat cair andros solo 7/8 times. in the time I lost I got a mumak first round then i got a siege ram second round and it just got worse from there. But yeah the deck I used absolutely crushed cair andros. I even won 2 games with a mumak on turn 2-3 and killed it both times.