Hi all,

If my opponent is using a non-standard crit effect, lets say HIE, and he shoots at my ISD with Brunson. He rolls 1 blue crit, 1 red hit, 1 black miss. He modifies no die, and chooses to activate HIE.

When I exhaust Brunson, the blue crit is removed. Do the HIEs still proc? I'd argue no because the die with the crit is removed from the attack.

And if so, since that is the crit effect chosen, my opponent can't default to use the standard crit?

IIRC you get to remove one whole dice and all associated effects of that dice with Brunson, so in your example you would just suffer one red hit, no crit effect would be resolved.

If the red dice rolled up crit, and you had cancelled the blue crit, your opponent could still resolve a standard crit.

edit -re timing as that is the subject. If your opponent was able to re roll for example his black dice due to ordinance experts, you may wait until all his re rolls are completed before deciding which dice to cancel with Brunson.

http://cannotgetyourshipout.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-attack-sequence-and-you.html

Read up on the attack order!

The Spend Defense Tokens step is before the attacker declares a critical effect, so if Brunson removes the only die showing a crit, crit effects can't be resolved. If the attacker has multiple crits to choose from, they can pick from the legal options after Brunson resolves.

Indeed.

The issue here is the attacker is declaring their critical effect TOO EARLY and complicating mattters.

Premature Crit Declaration as it were.

2 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

Premature Crit Declaration as it were.

If you suffer from PCD there is a little blue pill you can take for the condition.

But don't overdose, it can have side effects.

See its not so much the timing of Brunson I struggle with, it's keeping a straight face afterwards...

I guess its akin to what Rieekan/Biggsball/GH players had to practice for years, Internalising that chuckle...