Guys, we had a question come up in our game last night. Unfortunately I don't have the card on me right now so please bear in mind some of the names may be wrong.
We encountered the barrier zombie horde last night, which has everyone at an open location encounter a zombie minion henchmen. The only two people that needed to deal with it were Valeros and Mersiel (Valeros found the horde). The card states that if even one zombie minion is not defeated (it does not say undefeated like most cards do) then the barrier is undefeated. So if Mersiel evades the henchman, then that means it was not defeated, and the barrier is undefeated as well. Is this correct?
We had Mersiel defeat the zombie, it wasn't a difficult check at the moment, but we were curious. Thanks.
You are correct.
Each character at an open location summons and encounters a Zombie Minion henchman. If any character does not defeat the Zombie Minion, the Zombie Horde is undefeated.
So if Merisiel had evaded her Zombie Minion, then each character would not have defeated the Zombie Minion and the Zobmie Horde would be undefeated and thus shuffled back into the location deck.
This is different than Skeleton Horde (and other similar barriers), the henchmen from that Merisiel can evade with out negative consequences.
So, as my wife put it last night, if Meriseil wanted to be a !@#$, she could evade it.