Sonnia Criid - Scorch the Soul

[TheyreDeadDave]

Hi,

New to M3E and Sonnia.

Does a target enemy model have to have a minimum of 5 Burning in order for the summon element of this attack action to work?  

For example, using the action against a model with 1 wound left and burning 1, whilst I’ll kill said model I won’t get to summon off it? 

Many thanks. 

[Sweet Tooth]

No, you don’t need Burning 5 in order to get the summon, the enemy simply needs to die from the damage. So even with 1 wound and Burning 1 you’d get the summon. 

[TheyreDeadDave]

Excellent, thank you.

It was the “reduce the value of the target’s Burning condition by 5” part that was confusing me. It reads as if it’s a cost to be paid before being able to move onto the next step of the action (the summon part).

Thanks again. 

[Adran]

All costs are in Italics. If the words aren't in italics, they aren't costs. So you will go through the action effects step by step doing as much of each as you can. 

Firstly you deal damage equal to the burning condition (up to a maximum of 5).

Then you lower the burning condition by 5. Page 29 tells us you can't reduce the value below 0, once it gets to 0 you just remove the condition, so Burning +1 to +5 would all just end up being ended by being reduced by 5.

Then if the model dies you do the summon

 

There are a few actions that do say "if you do x, do y". But in this case the if you do x is just if you kill the model with the damge, not if you remove 5 points of burning.