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Maybe to elaborate a little bit how you can get more rams in the final duel total: One suit is always the card that you flipped or cheated, another suit can be bought by one soulstone before the flip (for henchmen or masters only) and some models already have a suit in their Ml or Sh stat. There are very few other methods that generate additional suits, the riders have some abilities for example or Lenny in gremlins faction gives rams to gremlins in an aura. But as the other answers already wrote, the damage flip is no more part of the duel total

114) If Sandeep has the To Behold Another World Upgrade and flips Moderate or Severe damage, does the target gain Paralyzed if the damage is completely prevented or reduced to zero (0)? No, it doesn’t gain Paralyzed. To Behold Another World requires the target to suffer damage, which a model taking 0 damage is not (see FAQ #17). For example, if Seamus discarded his Mad Haberdasher Upgrade to reduce the damage to 0, he would not be Paralyzed. (11/1/16) Guess that's it. The wording on mad Haberdasher is "after this model suffers damage this model may reduce the damage to zero" so basically general timing would suggest that the acting can do all stuff based on killing him or damaging him (except after damaging triggers) before his ability kicks in and reduces all damage. But of course the problem is not solved by two very specific cases and a general ruling about getting damaged and then reducing damage or killed and prevent being killed would be nice.

I'd go for targeting at the end. In particular, because a more natural wording would have been: If it does, target other friendly non-leader in 6" may take a (1) action at the end of this model's activation. For some reason they put the phrase "at the end of this model's activation" in the middle of the sentence and the only reason I can think of is to (try to) clarify that targeting is also done at the end of the turn.

For reference: this is in the FAQs 25) The Focused Condition reads: “Focused +1: This model may remove this Condition when declaring an Action to gain a number of + to the Action’s duel and damage flip equal to the value of the Focused Condition removed.” Can the value of the Focused Condition be lowered incrementally, or does the model have to end the entire Condition? The model has to end the entire Condition.

FAQ Nr 12 Yes you can prevent it.

I think it is the same as power ritual, up to a very small change (and the revealed part): to score three VP you must have one of the markers in the enemy deployment zone. This makes a difference only for corner or flank deployment. In power ritual you could score three point with one in your corner and two in the corners on the centerline. In surround them one marker has to be in the opponents corner to score all three points. My reason to believe that this is the way it is intended is due to the extra note (up to a maximum of 2 VP). If the first was mandatory this is superfluous because you can in total only score 3 VP for any scheme. But if you can score it without the first part it is indeed important.

The intention of this wording is quite obviously to limit it to one model although the wording is indeed irritating. Played differently also the alps "never wake up" ability would summon one alp for each alp already in the game if a model is killed by feed on dreams (exponential alp growth yeah!) wording here: if an enemy model is killed by feed on dreams while within aura 3 of one or more friendly alps, summon an alp into base contact with the model before removing it. I guess we can agree that this is rediculous and so I will also play criers using this once only interpretation.

Yes they stack For reference: small rulebook p. 63 box on stacking point 1)

Misdirection, safe in my bed, secret service, defend me: All these defense triggers use the wording that some kind of other model suffers the effects of the action instead of this model. But only safe in my bed (dreamer) and secret service (lucius upgrade surprisingly loyal) have the additional part "as if it had been the target instead of this model, including any triggers" Now for most cases I would treat both wordings as being equivalent. However, when it comes to the terracotta warrior things are difficult. Can the terracotta warrior prevent damage that he got from lucius secret service trigger? For misdirection he clearly can, as the additional part is missing and he was clearly not the target of the action. But the additional part makes things weird for secret service...