Recently, we came across an argument during a game.

A hero spent 2 fatigue to move 2 spaces before declaring his actions. The OL believed that heroes have to declare actions before movement points can be spent. The OL wanted to play a trap and force the hero to waste a battle action by insufficient movement. The hero believed that he should be able to use fatigue to move into position first.

The p.18 rules say " Spending Fatigue for Movement - At any time during a hero's turn, he may spend one fatigue to gain one movement point, even if he is currently taking a battle action. " It's obvious that a hero does not need to declare a movement half action to spend movement. I haven't been able to find anything in the rules that restricts movement points only being spent after declarations.

Since it states fatigue can be spent for movement points at any time during the turn, does that imply that the movement points gained can be spent at any time as well?

"A hero is not allowed to do anything except refresh and equip before he declares the action he is taking." (JitD pg. 8)

Thanks for the reference James

mtnshredder718 said:

I've run into this before and James is correct. In my experience the player should declare what action he is taking, move the 2 with fatigue, then take the action he chose from the new position on the board.

Oddly, there's no rule requiring you to specify which half-actions you're going to take when you declare a Ready action, so it appears you could spend fatigue to move before deciding whether you're going to do the "move" or "attack" part, or which order you're going to place.

Antistone said:

Interesting. I never thought of that. Gives some tactical options for the ready order.