Thread: War of the Ring: Second Edition:: Rules:: Nazgûl movement, Free Peoples' Strongholds and event cards

by kvestori

Last nights game of War of the Ring (dramatically ended by corruption at literally the last possible minute) raised a question for which the answer was unclear, as two rules seem to contradict.

The rules for Nazgûl movement are (p. 24, emphasis mine):

When the Shadow player uses a Character Action die result to move his Characters, each Nazgûl (including the Witch-king) can be moved to any region on the game board with a single move. One, some, or all Nazgûl can be moved this way using a single Character Action die result.

The only restriction is that the Nazgûl can never move this way into a region that contains a Stronghold controlled by the Free Peoples player, unless that Stronghold is besieged by a Shadow Army.

Later on the same page (again, emphasis mine):

Like the Nazgûl, any Minion moving without an Army cannot be moved into a region containing a Stronghold controlled by the Free Peoples unless it is besieged by a Shadow Army.

The question we had arose from the event card Nazgûl Search, the pertinent part of which reads:

Move any or all of the Nazgûl. Then, if at least one Nazgûl is in the region with the Fellowship, the Fellowship is revealed.

(A card triggering a similar situation is The Nazgûl Strike.) The Fellowship was in Rivendell, a Free Peoples Stronghold, hidden, but there was no FP army present. We were unsure could the Nazgûl fly to Rivendell and thus enable the Fellowship to be revealed, since the rule about Nazgûl movement emphasizes moving via "a Character Action die result", and the latter part which seems to be more clear uses the phrasing "Like the Nazgûl", which would indicate the same rule as above.

We were able to resolve the situation from an earlier part of the rulebook (p. 8, on the description of the Nazgûl):

Exception: a Nazgûl moving without an Army cannot be placed alone in an enemy-controlled Stronghold.

I guess the actual question is, is there a rules conflict between these two parts of the rule book? Does the rule on Nazgûl movement unnecessarily emphasize moving via the Action die result? Which, actually, is the design intent: to prevent Nazgûl from moving even via event cards to FP Strongholds, or to underline that event cards can move Nazgûl differently?