Is the total number of wounds to compare against wound threshold the number of normal wounds plus critical wounds? Or are only normal wounds compared to the threshold? I thought it was just normal wounds, but when putting together a rules summary sheet last night I noticed the Player Guide made a point to refer to total "wounds", not normal or critical, when comparing them to the character wound threshold. And when talking about injury levels it refered specifically to "normal wounds" and "critical wounds". It made me a bit confused.

Critical wounds are a sub-type of wound, as in "you have 6 wounds, one of which is critical, meaning 5 normal and one critical".

Visually, imagine wound cards - you have 5 face down and 1 face up, but you have 6 cards.

When something talks about total number of bounds, it means "normal and critical" (# of cards).

Injury level refers to type of wounds you are suffering. All normal (1 challenge die on First Aid and recovery etc.) or any critical (2 challenge dice on First Aid and recovery etc.).

This confusion comes up sometimes also when reading cards with effects like "score normal damage +1 critical".

That does not mean do normal damage and then give an additional wound as a critical wound. It means, "do normal damage, translate into wounds by subtracting To etc., and then of those wounds left flip one over as a critical" (assuming the minimum damage rule was not invoked).

Rob

So in short, you are saying: Yes, when comparing wounds to wound threshold you use the total of all normal wounds and critical wounds.

As valvorik said. Critical Wounds *are* wounds. They just have an additional effect. Essentially, you count the number of Wound cards themselves (regardless which side is showing).

Awesome. Thanks for the responses guys.