Help Unlooked For

[giorin]

In our last game the Shadow besieged Erebor. The Northern Alliance was passive and not at war. Could the NA armies in Dale have helped the dwarves of Erebor with the "Help Unlooked For" event card?

Is it possible to attack the besieging shadow army with the army of a Free Peoples nation that is not yet at war if you play this event card? After all event cards can supersede rules.

[Krieghund]

No. Event cards only break the rules when they specifically state that they do. If a rule is not explicitly overridden by the card, it is still in force. The only exception is recruitment cards, which have specific rule overrides stated in the Rulebook that apply to all of them.