Recruitment in Rohan

[gloin]

Hy there!

I already found the answer in a long thread in a German forum but i would like to suggest that you add to the FAQ the hint that in the Rohan-Game the free people action tokens may not be used to place a new recruitment token in a fp settlement. This is easily misunderstood even in the English version (don't ask me about the German translation )

[madwoffen]

I bought the game yesterday. I've been reading the instruction late night but something is bugging me.
If I understand well, neither a recruitment die nor the action token allows to put a recruitment token in settlements...only some events can do it. So why is there so many recruitment tokens for the Rohirrims ? Am I missing something ?

[Veldrin]

The reason behid the Recruitment tokens is that no two games become the same since you cannot be sure what you will be able to muster.

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

[madwoffen]

Haaa ok, it is just for the random factor.

Thanks for the answer. So many pieces for so few possibilities of recruitment made me read the rulebook backward and upward in search for an answer.

[smold]

You start out by using 8 tokens.

Éomer gives another 4
Theoden gives 2

Cards:
WHERE NOW THE HORSE... gives 2
WESTU THEODEN HAL! gives up to 6

That's a total of 22 tokens out of 29 tokens. True it gives a slight random factor.

[madwoffen]

Yes but...when I asked the questions, I didn't read yet the cards.

And I think you have no certitude about playing both of them in a game.

[mcfly]

Theoden gives you more than 2 recruitment tokens if you have more than 2 settlements free (as Eomer can give you less than 4..)
There is also some common cards which give you the opportunity to place recruitment tokens on the board. So, i guess, there is no random factor.