What are people's thoughts about these few Rules questions:

1. If a Unit like Runesmith, can grant another Unit a power bonus (+1 in Runesmith's case), if you have 2 copies of Runesmith in play, does they each grant a +1 bonus or is it only a one-time bonus regardless of how many Runesmiths you have in play?

2. Can you still assign damage to a Burning Zone? Say someone plays a card that gives me the opportunity to assign where some damage goes - can I choose to assign it somewhere (like a Burning Zone) where it would have no effect?

What do people think?

Wytefang said:

1- I'd say yes, they does. There's anything preventing them to do so, nor in the rules, nor in wording.

2- I'd say no. Even if rules does not specify that it's impossible, i think it'd be meaningless. ;-)

IMHO ;-)

1) yeah, you can stack it.

2) No, you can't. Some cards say it in reminder text. It would make indirect damage kinda pointless.

As for the first question about bonuses Runesmith's ability requires you to pay 2 resources to have target unit gain 1 power icon until the end of turn, and can only be triggered when Runesmith is in the Quest zone.

You would not get a second bonus from a second Runesmith in play for only paying the 2 resources to activate the action of a single Runesmith.

Example: you have 2 Runesmiths in your Quest zone, you designate Runesmith 1 as triggering his Action paying 2 resources. Runesmith 2 does not contribute anything in this example as he has not triggered his Action.

However, since there is no limit printed on the card, and this game does not use a mechanic such as tapping to prevent the same unit/support/development from activating an ability a second time, you would be able to pay the cost of 2 resources any number of times designating either of the Runesmiths as the unit completing the action for each Action that was triggered.

A card such as Defend the border: (While defend the border has 3 or more resource tokens on it, redirect the first point of damage done to your capital each turn to another target unit or capital); would also not benefit from two copies in play with 3 tokens each on them as it only redirects the first damage.

However, If you had a card such as Keystone Forge in your Kingdom zone, (Kingdom, Forced: After your turn begins, heal 1 damage to your capital) would benefit from having 2 or more copies in play as each's Forced action is triggered from you beginning your turn and does not specify a specific damage to heal (as Defend the border designates the first point of damage each turn to redirect).

Marius, which cards say you can't assign it to Burning Zones? I can't find any (I'm probably totally overlooking it).

Thanks for the answers, fellas.

Murdernator, that makes sense (about the 1st answer). Thanks.

Wytefang said:

My mistake, Sigmar's Intervention reads: " Action: Redirect the attack to a different one of your zones. ( An attack cannot be redirected to a burning zone. )"

It doesn't say anything about damage. But I'm still quite sure...

I'd agree, Marius.

I, like some of the others, was under the impression that damage could not be assigned to already-burning board sections, it makes sense: the defending player cannot waste another player's damage dealing abilities & why would someone WANT to waste damage on an already-burning section?