Manipulative and multi-action actions

[Drowsheep]

Hey,

 

So, I can't find my rule book at present, but last night a friend and I both had manipulative characters and wanted to know what the verdict was on attack actions that are either part of a charge and/or part of a trigger for a previous attack.

Our thinking was that, ultimately, each is its own action, so you'd have to flip multiple times, once for each attack with a flurry, a charge, a rapid shot, or triggers off a previous attack.

I just wanted to make sure that is accurate.

[Adran]

Manipulative X: If this model has not yet Activated this Turn, when an enemy model targets this model with an Attack Action, the enemy model must pass a TN X Wp duel or the Action immediately fails.

 

This will work for every single attack against the model until it activates. 

[Dogmantra]

Adran is correct because you have to declare an action when you take it, regardless of if you spent AP or got the action for free, and part of declaring the action is to pick a target.

However, bear in mind that Manipulative is only against attack actions, and so you don't have to test for the Charge itself (or Flurry or Rapid Fire), just each individual attack. On the other hand, if they were Terrifying, you would have to test for the Charge because Terrifying works against all actions.