Operative: You're fighting a war you've already lost.

[Jesy Blue]

Can an Operative just walk out of Engagements because the Enemy model treats the Operative as friendly for its Action?

Can it Interact because its not Engaged?

Can it take a Action or Charge?

 

 

 

 

[solkan]

5 hours ago, Jesy Blue said:

Can an Operative just walk out of Engagements because the Enemy model treats the Operative as friendly for its Action?

Engagement is defined as follows:

• Engagement range is the range of your longest range melee action.
• If an enemy model is within your engagement range, you engage it.

None of that cares whether the actions treat the model as an enemy.  So even if all of the attack actions a model possessed said 'cannot target anything' or said 'friendly only', they would still cause engagement to enemy models.  Because engagement doesn't specify a requirement that the actions be able to target the other model.

In order to avoid being engaged, Infiltrator would have to have a greater scope for its 'does not treat this model as an enemy model' rule.  

What Infiltrator does is make it so that anything that says things like 'target enemy' don't work on the model.  For example, a Hunter has three attack actions:

• Metal Claws.  'Target suffers 2/3/5 damage.'  No requirement to be an enemy, it works fine.
• Harpoon Gun.  Neither action nor triggers specify 'enemy' so it works fine.
• Pounce on Chest.  "Enemy only" restriction.  Can't be used.

Likewise, things like Stealth 'Enemy models cannot target this model more than 6" away." will not work against the Infiltrator model.  Neither will Butterfly Jump, because Butterfly Jump specifies 'enemy Attack Action'.

 

[touchdown]

I think you're right that they are unable to be engaged. So it's a super-dont mind me