The Book of Nakita Agents

[rdhight]

Originally Posted by zettian_guard

Would it be possible to have this clarification placed somewhere on the Nakitas' first page? With the impending release of the Wolves of Badru, and their Special Attack, this situation is bound to come up in future games. A listing on the first page should clear up any questions before they are asked. Thanks.

Yes. It's nice to have this answered, and it belongs on the front page of the Book. I've encountered this question myself when "placing" fresh zombies on the board, and the number of figures that provoke it is only going to go up and up.

[Matthias Maccabeus]

I have a question that came up yesterday while playing. Let's say that you moved up 2 of your 4th Mass and one of them engaged a Nakita and survived the engagment strike roll. There's a marrow warrior getting ready to spawn exactly 6 hexes away from your 4th Mass that engaged the Nakita. You try to kill the Nakita with your other 4th Mass so that you will free up the 4th Mass engaged to the Nakita to attack the Marro Warrior. The Nakita rolls for smoke powder and succeeds. Can your 4th Mass that is engaged attack the adjacent Nakita since you don't meed LOS when engaged or does smoke powder cancel out the attack since it says "the Nakita no longer has any visible hit zones for the remainder of the turn." So does that mean that the Nakitas are in essence invisible and we can't attack even if you're engaged or does that mean that melee attack can attack even if there's no visible hit zone?

[donaldb]

I am pretty sure you can still attack them. Like you said, you don't have to see the unit when attacking it without range.

[ChaosChild]

Yes, you can attack a Nakita that was successful with her smoke powder if you are adjacent.

[LongHeroscaper]

Originally Posted by ChaosChild

Yes, you can attack a Nakita that was successful with her smoke powder if you are adjacent.

I am not sure why (really want to learn here ). Is it because when you attack adjacently, LoS is not required, which implies that hit zone does not have any role? Can we argue like that?
If not, then the 4th mass will not be able to the Nakita if she gets her smoke powder successfully.

[Sherman Davies]

Originally Posted by LongHeroscaper

I am not sure why (really want to learn here ). Is it because when you attack adjacently, LoS is not required, which implies that hit zone does not have any role?

That's it exactly. You win a kewpie doll.

[Aldin]

Okay folks, help me out here. Assume you are down to a situation where the only remaining units are Nakitas vs. Medium-sized melee squad opponents. At what blend of attack/defense of the opposing units does it make sense to risk the disengagement strike to pull away so that they will need to move adjacent again and suffer the engagement strike? I know the Nakita has a 50% chance of instadeath versus 30% for the enemy AND she has to take the risk first. Still, it seems that against a unit like the Minions it could be a good deal - especially if in so doing a height advantage becomes a possibility.

~Aldin, doing the danse macabre

[Dysole]

Originally Posted by Aldin

Okay folks, help me out here. Assume you are down to a situation where the only remaining units are Nakitas vs. Medium-sized melee squad opponents. At what blend of attack/defense of the opposing units does it make sense to risk the disengagement strike to pull away so that they will need to move adjacent again and suffer the engagement strike? I know the Nakita has a 50% chance of instadeath versus 30% for the enemy AND she has to take the risk first. Still, it seems that against a unit like the Minions it could be a good deal - especially if in so doing a height advantage becomes a possibility.

~Aldin, doing the danse macabre

Nakitas have almost no chance of killing the Minions before the Minions kill them even if they go first. (Just ran like 50 simulations) However with 4 attack dice the Nakitas chances improve greatly even without the engagement strike.

Although you do run a 50/50 risk, I would say against a squad like the Minions or some other squad that can do some heavy damage and has good defense or some defensive ability like counterstrike (e.g. fully bloodlusted Tagawa Samurai), it's a risk worth taking. If the squad has anything more than two attack, they stand a good chance of killing the Nakitas anyway.

In the situation you named, you'll usually have two choices.
1. Stay there and hope the dice work out for you
2. Disengage, potentially die, but potentially have much greater odds
I'm not usually a gambling man, but in this case, I'd be willing to take the (calculated) risk.

[nyys]

Interesting, though I would never try it since 'outside the box' thinking like that never seems to benefit me.

Against a unit like the Minions it may very well be worth it, their 6 defense dice alone would make me desperate enough to try it never mind the 2 for 1 skulls.

[Sherman Davies]

Hey, a question about their Engagement Strike came up in my game yesterday. I tried a search for the answer but didn't manage to find it.

Anyway, does the Nakita's (or Arkmer's, for that matter) Engagement Strike work against Phantom Walk characters like the Ninja of the Northern Wind if the ninja don't stop adjacent to them? In other words, if the ninja move through them and keep going do the agents get a roll?

My opinion was that the strike does happen, but we played the other way until we could find out the ruling.

[Revdyer]

The way I read it, Ghost and Phantom Walk allow the figure to move through another figure without having to take a disengagement strike. They would still, if small or medium, take an Engagement Strike from the Nakita, even if not stopping.

[Jexik]

Originally Posted by Aldin

Okay folks, help me out here. Assume you are down to a situation where the only remaining units are Nakitas vs. Medium-sized melee squad opponents. At what blend of attack/defense of the opposing units does it make sense to risk the disengagement strike to pull away so that they will need to move adjacent again and suffer the engagement strike? I know the Nakita has a 50% chance of instadeath versus 30% for the enemy AND she has to take the risk first. Still, it seems that against a unit like the Minions it could be a good deal - especially if in so doing a height advantage becomes a possibility.

~Aldin, doing the danse macabre

The only figure I could see it maybe making sense against is DW7K. As a medium figure with one life worth 100 points, he seems like the best engagement strike target in the game. Even then, I'd probably stay adjacent to him to try to punch through his non-stealth dodge defense.