Nexus, One of Many - Join Us

[HawketheArcher]

My group has run into a rule confusion. It has to do with the Join Us action, specifically if the trigger still resolves if the target dies from the damage from the attack? It doesn't state After Killing as the timing, but there was a step in the sequence rules that said demise abilities or "after the target is killed" triggers might still go off. I attached the parts we are looking at to clarify, but it is Pg 35 Step C - 2 - e.

[TheUnseemlyOne]

Because Join Us doesn’t state its timing, it defaults to an After Succeeding trigger. So Join Us resolves at step VI-f and the model would be killed at step VI-e.

Because of that timing, the model Nexus is attacking needs to survive the initial attack for Join Us to go off. Otherwise it’s killed and removed before the trigger is resolved. 

[HawketheArcher]

1 hour ago, TheUnseemlyOne said:

Because Join Us doesn’t state its timing, it defaults to an After Succeeding trigger. So Join Us resolves at step VI-f and the model would be killed at step VI-e.

Because of that timing, the model Nexus is attacking needs to survive the initial attack for Join Us to go off. Otherwise it’s killed and removed before the trigger is resolved. 

Thanks!