So I just played my first game tonight and a couple questions came up.

1. The Brutal keyword. It says they get +1 ATK for each point of damage. To us that read as if they have 3 points of damage that would be +3 ATK. But in the tutorial video, they only give a flat +1 it seemed like. Which is the right way?

2. Units in HQ. This is actually a two parter:

2a. Say I win a battle at the first planet and the only guy left has 1 point of damage: Does he retreat into the HQ area with damage intact? I'm referring to the area where you'd normally put like your support cards and stuff.

2b. And if so, do I have to pay his deployment cost to deploy him again (as if he were in my hand) or can I just choose to redeploy him? I'd imagine the damage carries with him as well?

Sorry, last one (for now...) since typing that last one reminded me of another related question:

Damage on your warlord is persistant correct? Like if they take 3 damage and then choose to retreat in a battle. He retreats back to HQ but the 3 damage stays on him?

Thanks in advance everyone!

1. Yes. Butal means +1 ATK for each damage, so 3 damage means +3 ATK. I haven't watched the tutorial video, so I'm not sure if there is an explanation for the disconnect (like only 1 damage on the card, etc.).

2a. When a unit retreats to HQ (or returns to HQ after surviving a battle at the first planet, or just moves to another planet through a card effect), any damage on it persists. In fact, once a unit takes damage, that damage stays until it is specifically removed by a card effect, or the unit leaves play. There is nothing in the rules saying that damage should be removed at the end of a battle, or anything like that.

2b. Units in the HQ cannot be deployed. They are already deployed and in play, so that they don't need to be deployed and put into play again. You get units in the HQ to new planets during the Command Phase. They follow the warlord to whatever planet it is committed to during the Command Phase (exhausted). Check the rules on the Command Phase again for full details.

3. See 2a. Same answer. Damage doesn't work any different for warlords than it does on any other unit.

Just checked the tutorial video, and it does look like all the attack examples they showed with Brutal were units with just one damage on them. FFG probably should've had a unit with 2 damage attack, to clarify exactly how Brutal works.

It's not the only oversight in that video. It also shows the Space Marine player win a planet when his exhausted warlord kills the Ork player's only unit there, where technically Cato needs to refresh first before he can claim victory.

Thanks!

The HQ thing would have really changed the game around for me haha! Oh well, live and learn!