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A player, 18 September 2010
I'm unclear about the reaction timing in the following situation. Could you please explain what happens and why?
At a battlefield I have two ninjas, one of whom has an attached flawless assassin. The flawless assassin is bowed. I use Fall Back! to move the ninja without the flawless home, and straighten the unit remaining at the battlefield with the flawless. Can the flawless now react to the movement or is too late?
Flawless Assassin: Ninja Limited: Give a target Personality without a Poison token a -1F Poison token. Reaction: After one of your Personalities moves to or from this unit's location, if this unit has no non-Ninja Personalities or Followers: Move this unit to any location.
Fall Back! Text Battle: Move your target Personality home. If he moved, straighten his unit, and you may straighten one of your other units.
Thank you!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 18 September 2010
I'm unclear about the reaction timing in the following situation. Could you please explain what happens and why?
At a battlefield I have two ninjas, one of whom has an attached flawless assassin. The flawless assassin is bowed. I use Fall Back! to move the ninja without the flawless home, and straighten the unit remaining at the battlefield with the flawless. Can the flawless now react to the movement or is too late?
Flawless Assassin: Ninja Limited: Give a target Personality without a Poison token a -1F Poison token. Reaction: After one of your Personalities moves to or from this unit's location, if this unit has no non-Ninja Personalities or Followers: Move this unit to any location.
Fall Back! Text Battle: Move your target Personality home. If he moved, straighten his unit, and you may straighten one of your other units.
Thank you!
After Fall Back straightens Flawless, it is too late to take its reaction to Fall Back's previous moving effect.