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Must a player play a combat card in every battle?

The rulebook's battle steps and Saruman's ability state these cases directly.

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation rulebook · Rulebook · Battle
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation rulebook · Rulebook · The Sauron Characters: Classic Version
  • Triggersten · Community · 2022-02-12
  • jojobinks · Community · 2010-11-10

Yes, once the battle reaches the card step. The exceptions are a character defeated or forced to retreat by a character ability before cards are played, and the abilities that let a player declare no cards are played (Sauron's classic Saruman, or Aragorn in the variant). Strength values do not decide this.

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