The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Assault on Osgiliath
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Assault on Osgiliath Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Difficulty
Difficulty Level = 8
Encounter Deck
"Assault on Osgiliath" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: Assault on Osgiliath, Mordor Elite, and Southrons. (Mordor Elite and Southrons can be found in the Heirs of Númenor deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)
Controlling Locations
The Assault on Osgiliath is a battle to liberate the ancient capital of Gondor from the forces of Mordor. To represent Gondor's struggle to drive the enemy from every last corner of the ruined city, the players are instructed to take control of Osgiliath locations when they leave play.
Stage 1B reads: "Forced: When an Osgiliath location leaves play as an explored location, the first player takes control of that location." To take control of a location, the first player removes all progress from the just explored location and places it in front of him in his play area instead of discarding it. Locations under any player's control are still in play. Their game text is active and they can be affected by card effects.
Losing Control of Locations
The more Osgiliath locations the players control, the harder the encounter deck will fight back. There are many encounter card effects that force players to return locations they control to the staging area. Also, many of the Osgiliath locations have triggered effects that will cause players to return them to the staging area.
When a player returns a location he controls to the staging area, he loses control of that location and removes all progress from it. If a player is eliminated from the game, each Osgiliath location controlled by that player is returned to the staging area.