Do you need to have a ranged weapon to do a ranged attack? Can you do a ranged attack with a dagger (thrown) for instance? This also applies to melee and magic. Am I able to use any weapon as any form of attack?
Thanks in advance.
Noob Question About Ranged Attack.
A dagger is classed as a melee weapon and can only be used for melee attacks. Weapons generally can only be used for one type of attack. The weapon card will tell you which dice to use and will include either the Red Die (Melee), Blue Die (Ranged) or White Die (Magic Attack). The closest you will get to throwing a dagger is to use Throwing Knives which are ranged weapons.
Drenik said:
Do you need to have a ranged weapon to do a ranged attack? Can you do a ranged attack with a dagger (thrown) for instance? This also applies to melee and magic. Am I able to use any weapon as any form of attack?
Thanks in advance.
The weapon specifies the dice you roll and thus the type fo attack. Red = Melee, yellow and green = Ranged, White = magic (sort of ranged)...
Technically, the weapon specifies the type of weapon it is, and separately specifies the dice used in the attack. Right underneath the word "Weapon", the card specifies the attack type. Hypothetically, if the card said "Weapon - Melee", then that weapon would make melee attacks even if it rolled a white die (though no such weapons have been published to date).
But to answer the original question, yes, you need a ranged weapon to make ranged attacks. Weapons only make the type of attack that the card specifies, and the only attack that can be made without a weapon is an unarmed attack, which is always melee.
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Titeman said:
Drenik said:
Do you need to have a ranged weapon to do a ranged attack? Can you do a ranged attack with a dagger (thrown) for instance? This also applies to melee and magic. Am I able to use any weapon as any form of attack?
Thanks in advance.
The weapon specifies the dice you roll and thus the type fo attack. Red = Melee, yellow and green = Ranged , White = magic (sort of ranged)...
Wrong !!!
Ranged is Blue :
Yellow is very small buff to damage and power surge and added range for Magic and Ranged attack.
Green is large buff to damage, small buff to power surge and range.
Only Red/Blue/White die define and attack type, that is why you only roll one of them and they have a X.
Ivan Kerensky said:
Titeman said:
Drenik said:
Do you need to have a ranged weapon to do a ranged attack? Can you do a ranged attack with a dagger (thrown) for instance? This also applies to melee and magic. Am I able to use any weapon as any form of attack?
Thanks in advance.
The weapon specifies the dice you roll and thus the type fo attack. Red = Melee, yellow and green = Ranged , White = magic (sort of ranged)...
Wrong !!!
Ranged is Blue :
Yellow is very small buff to damage and power surge and added range for Magic and Ranged attack.
Green is large buff to damage, small buff to power surge and range.
Only Red/Blue/White die define and attack type, that is why you only roll one of them and they have a X.
Yeah, serves me right for not double checking that Ranged color. But the point remains...
Oh, and you can point out my mistake without being quite so blatant... 3 exclamation points? Really?...
Besides the three exclamation marks, it is simply wrong that the dice define the attack type. As Antistone stated, for a weapon the attack type is defined by its descriptor (Melee, Ranged or Magic) written on its card, not by the dice.
By extension, the type of a monster´s attack is defined by the symbol on the monster card, right underneath the speed symbol.
While the dice colour / attack type correlation works in most cases, there are a few exceptions: Golems in Advanced Campaigns roll a White die (no red one) but still make a Melee attack, while a Chaos Beast (or any monster with the Morph ability) can have any combination of red/blue/white dice while making any of a Melee/Ranged/Magic attack as long as all requirements stated for the Morph ability are met.