Confusion and Wormtongue

[adamico]

Two unrelated questions on these event cards:
1. Can the Shadow Player use a leader re-roll to avoid a hit caused by a die roll of 1 when Confusion is played?
2. The Wormtongue card says Rohan cannot be activated by any effect except by a Companion's special ability. This is confusing because it appears that no Companion has the special ability to activate Rohan. Would the Witch King be considered a companion for this purpose (if he is brought into the game is Rohan activated even if Wormtongue is on the table)?
Thanks

[eXistenZ]

1) I remember that "confusion" says you get hits for 1's in the combat roll, so no matter if you can or not have leader re-rolls (they are leader rolls...)

2) Gandalf, Aragorn (it seems to me) and the hobbits have the ability to activate each FP nation. If you bring WK into play and Wormtongue is in play, the card has the priority, so all the nation but Rohan are activated (usually it is the trick I use when I play as shadow...)

[Veldrin]

eXistenz is correct:

Gandalf (both versions) Aragorn, Heir to Isildur, Merry and Pippin can all Activate Rohan.

Bringing in the Witch-King will not Activate Rohan if "Wormtongue" is in play.

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[adamico]

Thanks. Sorry I keep thinking that the 'All free peoples' icon is the same as Gondor only since the tree seems to be the dominant graphic in there.

So just to spell this out for the Confusion event - if the Shadow gets a 1 on the combat roll they will get one hit, but they can still re-roll this die on the leader re-roll to try and have it cause one hit on the Free Peoples?

[eXistenZ]

yes, of course you can reroll that "bad" die (if you can because of leaders) to make it work

[Veldrin]

The one rolled on the Combat roll scores one hit on your own Shadow units but you can still re-roll it using a Leader re-roll to score a hit against the FP units as well.

[glow=green,2,300]Veldrin[/glow]