Declare Action vs Take Action

[Steve-El-Tragger]

Hey folks,

is there a difference between declaring action and taking an action?
For example mollys Lethe's Caress.
If i declare an attack action with an Onslaught trigger, which says "take this action again", does my model suffer the 2 damage or not because it was taken and not declared?

thanks in advance guys

[Adran]

The first step of taking an action is to declare it. 

[Mycellanious]

51 minutes ago, Adran said:

The first step of taking an action is to declare it. 

So if Fuhatsu triggers Quick Shot: take a gun action, even if this model is engaged, can he then discard and rapid fire off of this triggered shot even if he is still engaged or because he has to declare the shot, would it be invalid because hes engaged

[Adran]

19 minutes ago, Mycellanious said:

So if Fuhatsu triggers Quick Shot: take a gun action, even if this model is engaged, can he then discard and rapid fire off of this triggered shot even if he is still engaged or because he has to declare the shot, would it be invalid because hes engaged

I can't see anything in rapid fire that would allow him to take awhile engaged. So no, he couldn't if he was still engaged. It's also why quick shot specifies that you can do it while engaged. 

[solkan]

5 hours ago, Mycellanious said:

So if Fuhatsu triggers Quick Shot: take a gun action, even if this model is engaged, can he then discard and rapid fire off of this triggered shot even if he is still engaged or because he has to declare the shot, would it be invalid because hes engaged

The bullet point in Engaged:

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Engaged models cannot take  Actions.

The word used in Rapid Fire:

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.... it may discard a card to take that Action again.

The word used in Quick Shot:

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Take a  Action, even if engaged.

The only thing that Rapid Fire accomplishes while Fuhatsu is engaged is throwing away a card.  There's no follow-on permission applied because the original ranged attack was generated by Quick Shot.

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To go back to your original question, Lethe's Caress inflicts the damage specified after the "Declare Action" step of the Action process.  Declarations of the impossible in step one don't do anything, because it's a game, not politics.