War of the Ring: Second Edition

Each turn you gain the Action Dice indicated plus any from leaders or cards and spend them to perform actions matching die icons (Character, Army, Muster, special); players alternate taking actions using dice from the common pool until it’s exhausted or skipped (pp.18–21).

The Fellowship can be moved while hidden but must obey impassable borders and declaring/revealing limits; entering Mordor and certain moves are governed by the Fellowship and Mordor Track rules and may force revealing or other effects (pp.36–39, 43).

The Shadow conducts the Hunt by rolling dice from the Hunt Pool against the Hunt Level; successful Hunt results inflict wounds on the Fellowship or force a reveal and increase the Corruption counter, and if Corruption reaches 12 it causes a Ring victory (pp.40–43, 44).

Muster results place units into the appropriate army/stronghold boxes or onto the map according to each nation’s placement rules and stacking limits; some Event Cards can alter mustering—follow the muster and recruitment placement rules (pp.26–27; see p.22 for card exceptions).

You assign casualties: for each hit you may remove one Regular unit or replace one Elite with a Regular, and for two hits you may instead simply remove one Elite—casualty choices are decided by the owning player per the rules (p.30).

A Ring victory happens if Corruption reaches 12 or the Ring is destroyed; Military victory is by settlement-control Victory Points (Shadow needs 10 VP, Free Peoples need 4 VP) as described in the victory rules (p.44).