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A player, 14 May 2008
I just recently got my hands on an experienced 3 Hida Yakamo and I am a bit confused about his battle action. it says he gains a force bonus equal to twice the number of crab or naga personalities which ever is lower. now my question is what if you don't run any naga's? would he not gain any force bonus because there is nothing to double or would he get a force bonus equal to the crabs because no naga's exist. I am wondering because we have a tournament coming up and if i use his ability i know that at least two of the spazz's i play with will be jerks about the rule. the store GM said he would gain the force bonus but the players of course won't go for it. so yeah could someone please help me out with this one?
and another question about Hiruma Aki experienced, his ability says he can destroy 1 or more followers with force equal to or less than his force or gold cost. does this mean if someone is making followers that have no gold cost i can destroy them all? or no, and also do i add up their gold cost/force and then compare it to his or do i do it one at a time?
Roger Giner-Sorolla (rules official), 14 May 2008
I just recently got my hands on an experienced 3 Hida Yakamo and I am a bit confused about his battle action. it says he gains a force bonus equal to twice the number of crab or naga personalities which ever is lower. now my question is what if you don't run any naga's? would he not gain any force bonus because there is nothing to double or would he get a force bonus equal to the crabs because no naga's exist. I am wondering because we have a tournament coming up and if i use his ability i know that at least two of the spazz's i play with will be jerks about the rule. the store GM said he would gain the force bonus but the players of course won't go for it. so yeah could someone please help me out with this one?
and another question about Hiruma Aki experienced, his ability says he can destroy 1 or more followers with force equal to or less than his force or gold cost. does this mean if someone is making followers that have no gold cost i can destroy them all? or no, and also do i add up their gold cost/force and then compare it to his or do i do it one at a time?
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Brook Cunningham (rules official), 14 May 2008
1. Hida Yakamo Exp 3: When using his ability in an army with no (other) Nagas, would gain +2F, because he himself is a Naga. If he has somehow lost the Naga keyword, he would gain +0F.
2. Hiruma Aki Exp: I'll answer these in reverse. You do compare the total Force or Gold Cost of all the targets at once. For example, he could not destroy 3 Followers that each cost 3G, because that would not be less than his cost of 9, but he could destroy them if they each had 1F because their total Force is less than 6; you get to choose which comparison you use, because of "or". And this does mean that Aki could indeed destroy every Follower without Gold cost that he could target, regardless of their Force, in addition to up to 8 total Gold worth of other Followers.
Roger Giner-Sorolla (rules official), 14 May 2008
And more generally in reference to point 1, zero is a number that is lower than any other (positive) number.