Can I use surges from my weapon on the melée attack from Bivs Close and Personal?

On his starting weapon it wont matter of course but it might later.

No, you cannot use surges from your weapon. There is an upgrade card you can purchase forum that gives close and personal some surges though. Also, you can always surge to recover a strain.

Thanks for the answer.

I just wanna know what you base that on?

If you compare with his skirmish ability then he can use surges on the melée attack there, Luke can use surges on his saber strike. Why is this different?

IIRC, it has to do with the fact that his regular weapon is a Ranged Weapon with Ranged Weapon upgrades on it. When Biv does Close & Personal, he is making a Melee attack.

Luke, and Biv's skirmish card, can spend these surges on their melee attacks because they are part of their character abilities as written between the portrait and the other info. However for the Campaign, the surge abilities come from the weapons themselves, and you may not use a ranged weapon for a melee attack, or include any ranged weapon modifications. He may use abilities that come from Character Cards (Gideon's surge for Stun being an example) and some come from Class cards (Biv's Crushing Blow card, for instance), and he gets that or the Vibroblade (which IS a ranged weapon modification, however it states right on the card "While using Close and Personal..."), but I *think* that's the reason.

I don't have my books with me, my apologies in advance for any errors.

Thanks for the answer.

I just wanna know what you base that on?

If you compare with his skirmish ability then he can use surges on the melée attack there, Luke can use surges on his saber strike. Why is this different?

See the Twin Shadows campaign guide p.5:

ATTACKS:

* Some abilities allow a figure to perform an attack with a different attack type and attack pool than their normal attack

- When a hero performs an attack using an attack pool unrelated to his weapons (such as "Close and Personal" ...), he cannot use any abilities from his weapons during that attack

- When a figure corresponding to a Deployment card performs an attack using an alternate attack pool (such as "Close and Personal" ...), they may still trigger their surge abilities, unless the abilitiy triggered the attack states otherwise.

During skirmish it works like normal. During the campaigns, heros can not use surge abilities with such attacks.

Thanks for the answers.

Makes perfect sense now.