A sortie from Dol Guldur charges into the woods that surround the fortress in an attempt to divide the Elves and break the siege.

When Revealed: Remove all tokens from the Lieutenant enemy at this stage and set it aside, out of play. Add the set aside Chieftain Morlug to the staging area, unless it is in a victory display. If Dol Guldur's city strength is 5 or lower (10 or lower if playing epic multiplayer mode), Chieftain Morlug makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.

Chieftain Morlug gets -1 engagement cost for each progress token on this stage.

Forced: At the end of the round, remove 5 progress from this stage or each player at each stage discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded and puts it into play engaged with him. (If the last card of the encounter deck is discarded resolving this effect, shuffle the discard pile back into the encounter deck.) The first player may remove an additional 5 progress from this stage to choose a non-unique enemy at any stage and destroy it.