Apologies in advance, if you dislike hideous RAW twistings read no further.
So in my game today I had a situation where my Thunder Archer performed Rain of Arrows (at the end of the turn make a (2)Sh Attack Action) and choose to shoot Bad Juju, failing a Horror test.
There was a bit of discussion whether the Paralyzed Condition remains on the model so I looked through the rules.
After reading the rules for Actions, Activations, Horror Duels and the Paralyzed Condition I realised something odd.
Horror Duels
"A model that fails a Horror Duel immediately gains the Paralyzed Condition"
"Note that models that gain the Paralyzed Condition during their Activation immediately end their Activation", pg.48 big rulebook
Paralyzed Condition
"The Paralyzed Condition is removed at the end of a model's Activation"
"If a model gains the Paralyzed Condition during its Activation it loses all of its AP, may not take any more Actions, and ends its current Action with no effect." , pg.52 big rulebook
The last statement is conditional, the effects only apply to models gaining the Paralyzed Condition during their Activation.
However in the case in point the model is taking an Action outside of its Activation so therefore there is nothing in the rules to say that it ends its current Action. RAW the Action still goes through but the model gains the Paralyzed condition. I can't see anything in the rules to contradict this.
Of course at this point my opponent pointed out the obvious situation I'd forgotten, that of Obey and Terrifying. So we're all playing that you Obey a target to Attack a Terrifying model and give them Paralyzed, ending their Action. So of course that's how I played the Rain of Arrows situation, anything else would be odd (mind you Obey - Terrifying is a bit odd, as is the carry over Paralyzed), but it doesn't quite read that way.
Of course there could well be something I've missed.
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Apologies in advance, if you dislike hideous RAW twistings read no further.
So in my game today I had a situation where my Thunder Archer performed Rain of Arrows (at the end of the turn make a (2)Sh Attack Action) and choose to shoot Bad Juju, failing a Horror test.
There was a bit of discussion whether the Paralyzed Condition remains on the model so I looked through the rules.
After reading the rules for Actions, Activations, Horror Duels and the Paralyzed Condition I realised something odd.
Horror Duels
"A model that fails a Horror Duel immediately gains the Paralyzed Condition"
"Note that models that gain the Paralyzed Condition during their Activation immediately end their Activation", pg.48 big rulebook
Paralyzed Condition
"The Paralyzed Condition is removed at the end of a model's Activation"
"If a model gains the Paralyzed Condition during its Activation it loses all of its AP, may not take any more Actions, and ends its current Action with no effect." , pg.52 big rulebook
The last statement is conditional, the effects only apply to models gaining the Paralyzed Condition during their Activation.
However in the case in point the model is taking an Action outside of its Activation so therefore there is nothing in the rules to say that it ends its current Action. RAW the Action still goes through but the model gains the Paralyzed condition. I can't see anything in the rules to contradict this.
Of course at this point my opponent pointed out the obvious situation I'd forgotten, that of Obey and Terrifying. So we're all playing that you Obey a target to Attack a Terrifying model and give them Paralyzed, ending their Action. So of course that's how I played the Rain of Arrows situation, anything else would be odd (mind you Obey - Terrifying is a bit odd, as is the carry over Paralyzed), but it doesn't quite read that way.
Of course there could well be something I've missed.
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