I can't help thinking that this question has been answered, but I can't find anything searching on the forum or looking through the FAQ or errata documents.
Q: If i have a steampunk arachnid swarm, and my opponent takes kill protogee on it, what happens when I use the (1) scatter ability?
The specific wording from Rulebook 1.5 is:
"Sacrifice this model. Summon three steampunk arachnids into base contact with this model before it is removed from play. Any effects on this model are applied to each steampunk arachnid. Any wounds on this model are applied as evenly as possible to the steampunk arachnids. The steampunk arachnids may not swarm together this turn."
Because the summoned arachnids are summoned, rather than "replaced", this seems to bypass the FAQ's answer RE the new target of a scheme.
The options I've come up with so far are:
A) the swarm is sacrificed (by me) so the kill prot fails
The kill prot is an effect, and passes to one of the individuals
C) the kill prot is an effect and passes to all of the individuals (in which case do you get it for killing one of them, or all 3?)
D) the "sacrifice" should be a replace (when 3 individuals swarm together, they are "replaced", but a swarm isn't "replaced" when it scatters!) and it's just an error in the writing.
As I said, I'm sure this problem has come up before (as arachnid swarms are expensive, so they're likely to be kill prot targets a fair bit), but couldn't find an answer.
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Hi folks,
I can't help thinking that this question has been answered, but I can't find anything searching on the forum or looking through the FAQ or errata documents.
Q: If i have a steampunk arachnid swarm, and my opponent takes kill protogee on it, what happens when I use the (1) scatter ability?
The specific wording from Rulebook 1.5 is:
"Sacrifice this model. Summon three steampunk arachnids into base contact with this model before it is removed from play. Any effects on this model are applied to each steampunk arachnid. Any wounds on this model are applied as evenly as possible to the steampunk arachnids. The steampunk arachnids may not swarm together this turn."
Because the summoned arachnids are summoned, rather than "replaced", this seems to bypass the FAQ's answer RE the new target of a scheme.
The options I've come up with so far are:
A) the swarm is sacrificed (by me) so the kill prot fails
The kill prot is an effect, and passes to one of the individuals
C) the kill prot is an effect and passes to all of the individuals (in which case do you get it for killing one of them, or all 3?)
D) the "sacrifice" should be a replace (when 3 individuals swarm together, they are "replaced", but a swarm isn't "replaced" when it scatters!) and it's just an error in the writing.
As I said, I'm sure this problem has come up before (as arachnid swarms are expensive, so they're likely to be kill prot targets a fair bit), but couldn't find an answer.
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