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The Battle of Lake-Town


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Catching Fire Catching Fire
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: Choose and shuffle 1 Pier location from the victory display back into the encounter deck. If no location was shuffled into the encounter deck by this effect, Catching Fire gains surge.
Shadow: Defending character gets -2 [Defense]

Set: TBoLT Number: 13
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Lino Drieghe
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Close to the Flame Close to the Flame
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character in play.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character in play. Any player may discard a hero to cancel this effect.

Set: TBoLT Number: 9
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Michael Rasmussen
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Dire Magnificence Dire Magnificence
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: Each player must choose and discard 1 ally he controls, if able. Deal 2 damage to Lake-town for each player that cannot.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, Smaug engages the next player and makes an immediate attack against that player.

Set: TBoLT Number: 12
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Diego Gisbert Llorens
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East Pier East Pier
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 2
Lake-town. Pier.
Burn 1.
"When Revealed" effects cannot be canceled.

Victory 2.

"Look!" said one. "The lights again! Last night the watchmen saw them start and fade from midnight until dawn. Something is happening up there." - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 20
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: David A. Nash
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Esgaroth Wharf Esgaroth Wharf
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 3 Quest Points: 4
Lake-town.
Burn 1.
All locations are immune to player card effects.

Victory 4.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 [Attack]. Then it makes an additional attack after this one.

Set: TBoLT Number: 24
Quantity: 4
Illustrator: David Demaret
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Fire and Water Fire and Water
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Encounter Info: The Battle of Lake-Town
Quest Points: 10
Smaug cannot have more than 12 damage on him.
When the players quest successfully, any number of progress tokens that would be placed on this quest may instead be discarded to remove the same amount of damage from Lake-town.

"...every vessel in the town was filled with water, every warrior was armed... before the roar of Smaug's terrible approach grew loud, and the lake rippled red as fire beneath the awful beating of his wings." - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 2
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Sabin Boykinov
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Fisherman's Dock Fisherman's Dock
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 2
Lake-town.
Burn 1.
Travel: If there is 1 active location, exhaust a hero to travel here. (There are now 2 active locations.)

Victory 2.
Shadow: Add this location to the staging area.

Set: TBoLT Number: 23
Quantity: 4
Illustrator: Alexandre Dainche
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Great Bridge Great Bridge
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 3 Quest Points: 4
Lake-town.
Burn 2.
When Revealed: Discard X cards from each player's deck. X is the amount of damage on Lake-town. (If no cards are discarded by this effect, Great Bridge gains surge.)

Victory 4.


Set: TBoLT Number: 22
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Michael Rasmussen
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Great House Great House
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 6 Quest Points: 6
Lake-town.
Burn 3.
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play.

Victory 6


Set: TBoLT Number: 21
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Titus Lunter
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Lake-town Lake-town
Type: Objective
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
City.
If Lake-town has 50 or more damage on it, Lake-town has completely burned and the players have lost the game.

It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a promontory of rock which formed a calm bay. - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 73
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Paolo Puggioni
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Merchant's District Merchant's District
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 4 Quest Points: 3
Lake-town.
Burn 1.
Travel Action: Deal 2 damage per player to Lake-town to add this location to the victory display.

Victory 3.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage on Lake-town. (4 damage instead if undefended.)

Set: TBoLT Number: 19
Quantity: 4
Illustrator: Stu Barnes
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North Pier North Pier
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 2
Lake-town. Pier.
Burn 2.
Smaug cannot be damaged.

Victory 2.

Once more water was flung by a hundred hands wherever a spark appeared. - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number:
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: David A. Nash
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Reckless in His Rage Reckless in His Rage
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: If Smaug is in play, he gets +2 [Threat], +2 [Attack], -2 [Defense] and gains the text: "Allies cannot be declared as defenders." This effect lasts until the end of the round.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character resolve all burn damage on locations in play.

Set: TBoLT Number: 14
Quantity: 2
Illustrator: Alexandre Dainche
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Scorching Blast Scorching Blast
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play.
Shadow: Resolve this card's "When Revealed" effect. Any player may discard a hero to cancel this effect.

Set: TBoLT Number: 10
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: David Demaret
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Smaug the Magnificent Smaug the Magnificent
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat Threshold: 30
Threat: 5 Attack: 8 Defense: 8 Hit Points: 20
Dragon.
Immune to player card effects.
Excess damage from attacks by Smaug the Magnificent must be assigned to Lake-town.
When Revealed: Move 3 damage from Smaug the Magnificent to Lake-town.


Set: TBoLT Number: 6
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Christopher Burdett
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Smaug the Mighty Smaug the Mighty
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat Threshold: 40
Threat: 7 Attack: 5 Defense: 9 Hit Points: 20
Dragon.
Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Smaug the Mighty makes an immediate attack against each player (deal and resolve a shadow card for each attack.)


Set: TBoLT Number: 4
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Christopher Burdett
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Smaug the Terrible Smaug the Terrible
Type: Enemy
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat Threshold: 35
Threat: 6 Attack: 7 Defense: 7 Hit Points: 20
Dragon.
Immune to player card effects.
When Revealed: Resolve all burn damage from all locations in play.

"My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 5
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Christopher Burdett
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South Pier South Pier
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 1 Quest Points: 4
Lake-town. Pier.
Burn 2.
When faced with the option to travel, players cannot travel to other locations.

Victory 4.

A great bridge made of wood ran out to where on huge piles made of forest trees was built a busy wooden town, not a town of elves but of Men... - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 17
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: David A. Nash
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Terror from the Mountain Terror from the Mountain
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Encounter Info: The Battle of Lake-Town
Quest Points: 14
Setup: Shuffle all copies of Smaug into a separate Smaug deck. Search the encounter deck for Lake-town and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck per player, and add it to the staging area.

Smaug cannot have more than 6 damage on him.

When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to Lake-town for each player in the game.

"Then warning trumpets were suddenly sounded, and echoed along the rocky shores. The cheering stopped and the joy was quickly turned to dread. So it was that the dragon did not find them quite unprepared." - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 1
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: David A. Nash
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The Dragon's Wrath The Dragon's Wrath
Type: Quest
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Encounter Info: The Battle of Lake-Town
Quest Points: -
Forced: During the quest phase, reveal 1 additional card from the encounter deck.
Refresh Action: Reset the quest deck to stage 2B.
The players must defeat Smaug to defeat this stage. When Smaug is defeated, compare the number of damage tokens on Lake-town with the number of Victory points in the victory display. If the players have more victory points, they have won the game. Otherwise, Lake-town has burned and the players have lost.

"Roaring he swept back over the town. A hail of dark arrows leaped up and snapped and rattled on his scales and jewels, and their shafts fell back kindled by his breath burning and hissing into the lake." - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 3
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Derek Zabrocki
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The Master's Manor The Master's Manor
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 4 Quest Points: 8
Lake-town.
Burn 3.
When Revealed: Move all damage from Smaug to Lake-town.

Victory 8.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, defending player discards his hand.

Set: TBoLT Number: 16
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Alexandre Dainche
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The Old Thrush The Old Thrush
Type: Objective
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Creature.
Guarded.
Action: Exhaust a hero to claim this objective and attach it to that hero when it is free of encounters.
(Counts as an attachment with the text: "If detached, discard The Old Thrush. Response: After attached hero exhausts to attack Smaug, discard X cards from hand ot reduce Smaug's [Defense] by X.")


Set: TBoLT Number: 8
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: Paolo Puggioni
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Town-Baiting Town-Baiting
Type: Treachery
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
When Revealed: Smaug makes an attack against Lake-town. The last player may declare a defender against this attack. Excess damage from this attack must be placed on Lake-town. This effect cannot be canceled.

Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze and wither every field and pasture. Just now he was enjoying the sport of town-baiting more than he had enjoyed anything for years. - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 11
Quantity: 3
Illustrator: Christopher Burdett
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West Pier West Pier
Type: Location
Encounter Set: The Battle of Lake-Town
Threat: 2 Quest Points: 2
Lake-town. Pier.
Each location in play gains Burn 1.

Victory 2.

Fire leaped from thatched roofs and wooden beam-ends as he hurtled down and past and round again, though all had been drenched with water before he came. - The Hobbit
Set: TBoLT Number: 150
Quantity: 1
Illustrator: David A. Nash
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