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[DeadSirius]

Sorry, I've never actually played (any L.A. groups looking to beat up on someone?), and there are some points in the basic rules I'm trying to understand:

Home Terrain - Even though I choose my own home terrain, am I still able to capture it as a condition to win the game? In other words, in a 2-player game, where there are 3 terrains in play, do I get to choose any 2 of those 3 to capture?

Reserve Movement - During the Reserve Movement of a single turn, is an individual unit able to move into AND out of the reserve area? Or if a unit enters the reserve area during a turn, must it wait until the Resrve Movement of the next turn before it can move out?

Terrain 8th Face - Another player has captured a terrain where one of my armies is located, and it’s now my turn. If I roll to maneuver and succeed, does it stay on the 8th face and become captured by me, or does it go down to 7, and I can only capture during my next turn?

Thanks for your help.

[Majiken]

Well, I'm not a rules lawyer, but I'm up early, the coffee is kicking in, and so I'll try to answer these correctly. Chime in if I'm wrong, gang, but these are pretty easy questions...

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[DeadSirius]

Thanks, yes, it's all clear now. I knew they were easy questions, but not having actually played with anyone, I have only the rules to read, and they're not crystal clear on these points.

(I find it amusing that the rulebook that came with my dice is a small pamphlet, but the official rules are a 27-page document.)

Thanks again.

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[deputyfife]

I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, but I've got a few questions. This seemed appropriate, so here's a little ditty for the rules lawyers:

Let's say after rolling saves, my army takes 3 points of damage. The army has only uncommons and rares, including one uncommon dragonkin (who has not rolled a belly, and whose auto saves haven't been counted yet.)
Can the dragonkin's 2 auto saves take off 2 points of damage, preventing any loss of units in this case? When is the proper time to add a dragonkin's auto saves?
What if a rare Dragonkin is targeted by a SAI or spell that does 4 points of damage, but allows an idividual save roll? If the dragonkin fails the save roll, does it still survive due to the 3 autosaves(since 1 point of damage can't kill a dragonkin?)

Let's get a little more specific:
Say a missile attack is rolled, and a bullseye comes up, among some regular missile hits. The bullseye(4 icons) is applied to a rare dragonkin. The dragonkin harmlessly rolls melee results for the save roll. However, the auto saves count for individual and army rolls, so 2 hits are repelled by autosaves. Do the remaining 2 hits apply to the dragonkin for the rest of this missile action(save roll, and applied results?) In other words, does this rare dragonkin now have only one health point left until this action is resolved?
Regardless of the answer to that question, the dragonkin has survived the bullseye. Now the army rolls for saves. The dragonkin again rolls a useless melee result(but not a belly.) When totalling the army's saves results, do the dragonkin's 2 auto saves *again* apply, adding to whatever the rest of the army has rolled? Or are they "used up" for this particular action(by the bullseye save)? Either way, depending on the answer to the first paragraph, after saves have been applied, let us assume there is only one net point of damage(including autosaves, if necessary.) If the dragonkin only had one health point left, and the rest of its army consisted of only 2 health point and greater units, would the dragonkin have to be lost in that case, or would its rarity prevent the owner from having to lose it?
Thanks for any answers in advance. And no, this situation hasn't happened to me yet, but I want to be prepared.

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[deputyfife]

[chuckpint]

OK, now I have to ask, are you reading the new rules? In the new rules, it quite clear (I hope so anyway), that you can target multiple units. So if you have 4 points of Bullseye, you could target 4 commons, 2 uncommons, a common and a rare, or any other combination that adds up to 4. If you look at the section that talks about applying Special Action Icons (SAIs), then you'll see that anytime you get two or more of the same SAI, if that SAI targets health, then you can combine those for extra effect. For example, if you roll 2 4-point Bullseyes, you now have 8 points of Bullseyes that can be targeted any way you want. If you want to send 6 points at a rare (nearly always a sure kill), and 2 points at an uncommon, you can.

[deputyfife]

[deputyfife]

Okay, let's go back to the "no saved damage" rule again. Just to clarify, then, an army rolling magic at a terrain, targets another army with many different spells that cause damage. Not multiples of spells, completely different ones. This would be a fuitless effort, then, since each spell would be resolved on its own, so that whichever units in the army survived one spell attack would have full health for the next spell attack? Is this correct?

Is there any way in the new starter sets that you guys could include some fairly extensive, convoluted, and complex examples?
I'll post this somewhere more relevant, also, but just my personal vote:
the battle mats are great, especially for new players. They make it much easier on someone learning the game the first few times, so that the person doesn't have to keep in mind "Okay, that's my dead pile, and that one is my buried pile." This makes the battle mats most essential to a beginning player, one who might be hesitant to plop down extra $$ for a mat separate of the dice they already have. (This is if SFR even makes the mats again.) However, I realize the battle mats are too expensive to add to a starter set and keep the cost attractive to new buyers. Is there some way to make a cheaper battle mat, then, made of a thin cloth/fabric? Or you could print the battle mats in small sections(say, fourths of the current mats) that just have one corner of the current mat, such as dead, plus part of the middle "home" circle. Make them in different styles for the races, and randomly insert the various corners, and you can force us to buy packs to collect the battle mat pieces.
Heck, there's already people who want one of each dice bag. (Anybody have a spare red?)

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[ddicerc]

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[deputyfife]

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