Eternal Flame and Burning Immunity

[Jokerboy]

I'm not sure how the ability from the Eternal Flame works. It says that models around it lose the Immunity to the Burning Condition. Do the also lose the Ability to not suffer Damage from Burning (like Shenlong) and how does it work with Hamelin?

[solkan]

Immunity to Burning isn't the same thing, and is completely unrelated to, immunity to damage from the burning condition.

The difference:

A model immune to a Condition can never receive the Condition. If an Attack (or other source) causes damage and applies a Condition to a model, the model still suffers the damage, but it would not gain the Condition if it is immune. If a model gains immunity to a Condition while it has the Condition, it immediately removes the Condition.

For a good example, the Rail Golem is NOT immune to Burning.  That's why it's rule says:

Forged in Fire: At the end of the Turn, this model does not end its Burning Condition and it does not suffer damage from the Burning Condition.

If the Rail Golem were immune to Burning, then it would never have any Burning on it to interact with its other abilities or actions, and Stoked Fury would be unable to add Burning +1 each activation.

 

Edited October 28, 2015 by solkan

[Jokerboy]

Thanks

[Fineapple]

And Hamelin and Nix are also not Immune. They can just choose not to gain the condition.