Thread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Limitations on Ranged?

by black spark

"A character with the ranged keyword can be declared by its controller
as an attacker against enemies that are engaged with other players.
A character can declare ranged attacks against these targets while
its owner is declaring attacks, or it can participate in attacks
that are declared by other players. In either case, the character
must exhaust and meet any other requirements necessary to make
the attack." -LotR:LCG rulebook, page 24


I'm concerned that I may be misinterpreting the above statement, or perhaps
taking it too literally. There are two situations I want to check on.


1) Player A has Legolas and a Horseback Archer (two ranged characters).
If Player A uses Legolas to initiate an attack in Player B's play area,
can the Horseback Archer participate in this attack?
(My concern is that the Horseback Archer would participate in an attack
that was declared by its own controller rather than by another player.)

2) Player A has Legolas, Player B has a Silverlode Archer (a ranged
character), and there is a Goblin Archer (from the Khazad-dum expansion)
in the staging area. (The Goblin Archer has the text, "Characters with
ranged are eligible to attack Goblin Archer while it is in the staging area.")
If Player A uses Legolas to initiate an attack against the Goblin Archer
in the staging area, can the Silverlode Archer participate in this attack?
(My concern is that the attack is not being made against an enemy
engaged with a player.)


Any feedback would be appreciated.