Hi everybody,
I played the fourth mission yesterday and a couple of questions arose. I'm playing with Mak and Gaarkhan and Mak has his class card disengage.
So quite often the instruction told the nexu to pounce to Mak. As an IP I would anticipate that Mak might use disengage (if I really want to attack him I might use a move action first to see if he is disengaging...if he does I pounce after him...if he doesn't I attack him). This - of course - is very situational. I usually played it that way, that I pounced at Mak; Mak moved away and the Nexu was only able to do another repositioning. I could have targeted Gaarkhan instead (since I know that he cannot move away). Playing it that way resulted in a Nexu that couldn't attack for 2 or 3 rounds. This feels wrong somehow. Nevertheless I think it is according to the rules.
How do you play this?
The other question is concerning ranged attack figures (like ST). They usually move to attack. The rules say they should try to move to adjacency for the attack. With a blue and a green die e.g. ST will always have at least 3 Acc. So why move adjacent? Often the next instruction is 'Move 2 (or 3) to reposition 3 (or 4)' which very often is impossible if the ST was adjacent in first place. I know that in this case I simply have to move as far as possible.
I changed the rules during my mission yesterday. With ST I only moved as close as 3 fields. Then I let them attack and afterwards I let them reposition.
Any objections? Or anybody else that is playing it this way? Any reason why they should move to adjacency (with Trandos I always want to be adjacent for the extra effect)?