The Book of Capt. John Varan

[faure]

Not adjacent to whomsoever is being attacked

Thanks -- that's what I figured and made the most sense, but wanted to get it confirmed.

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by The CEE

When using battle valor special attack are you forced to follow the sequence of move, attack, move, attack; or can you use all of your movement value followed by all of your attacks?

Well, you can always choose not to move during the move part, or not to attack during the attack part, so you could, e.g. do "move, move, move, attack," or you could do "move, attack, attack, attack." But you couldn't "move, move, move, attack, attack, attack," no.

Does that answer the question?

[LordEsenwienIV]

Here's an example CEE:

I moved him three spaces Attacked with 2 dice, then move 0 spaces Attacked with two dice again, and the moved 0 spaces and attacked with 2 dice a third a final time. But the two dice could not penetrate the Phantom Knight's defense.

ZBeeblebrox posted that.

[Anitar]

Originally Posted by Xotli

Not adjacent to whomsoever is being attacked (which in this case means the Human you control who follows Jandar and is adjacent to Varan).

So, absurdly, the attacker could be adjacent to Varan and activate Purple Heart. (but only if it's a friendly unit so they're not engaged) The only practical use for this that I can think of is a scenario that starts with a truce.

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by Anitar

So, absurdly, the attacker could be adjacent to Varan and activate Purple Heart. (but only if it's a friendly unit so they're not engaged) The only practical use for this that I can think of is a scenario that starts with a truce.

That's an interesting scenario. I don't know what the official rules for a truce are (if there even are any). Is the truce broken as soon as you try to target someone on the team you have a truce with? Which would mean you couldn't shoot them after all. But I don't know how that would work, technically.

[lefton4ya]

Sorry to ask so many questions, but here are some quick scenarios that are likely to come up:

If you have one or a few lifes left on Capt. Varan and an adjacent figure gets wounded:

1. Can you use Purple Heart to kill Varan?
2. If an adjacent figure would take more wounds than Capt. Varan has life left, can you still use purple heart, and if so does the adjacent figure take no wounds or just subtract how many wounds they would get minus how many life Catpt. Varan has left?
3. Can you split wounds between captain Varan and an adjacent figure with purple heart - i.e. if you got 2 unblocked attacks on a figure, could you take one wound on Varan and one wound on the figure?

If a one life figure adjacent to Varan gets 2 or more unblocked attacks and you use purple heart, does Capt. Varan take only one wound (what the figure would get) or more than one (what the figure deserves)?

Can you use purple heart on any of the following: Evil Eye Defense, aura/ranged auto-wound powers such as Fledgling Acid Breath, Explosion attacks where the person is not the main target?

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Sorry to ask so many questions, but here are some quick scenarios that are likely to come up:

If you have one or a few lifes left on Capt. Varan and an adjacent figure gets wounded:

1. Can you use Purple Heart to kill Varan?

Sure. It's no different from someone attacking Varan directly and rolling more skulls that they need to kill him.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

1. If an adjacent figure would take more wounds than Capt. Varan has life left, can you still use purple heart, and if so does the adjacent figure take no wounds or just subtract how many wound they would get minus how many life Catpt. Varan has left?

The adjacent figure never receives any wounds. "All" the wound markers go to Varan, like the card says.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

1. Can you split wounds between captain Varan and an adjacent figure with purple heart - i.e. if you got 2 unblocked attacks on a figure, could you take one wound on Varan and one wound on the figure?

Nope, the card says "all" the wounds, so it's all the wounds.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

If a one life figure adjacent to Varan gets 2 or more unblocked attacks and you use purple heart, does Capt. Varan take only one wound (what the figure would get) or more than one (what the figure deserves)?

If it's multiple wound effects, you have to resolve them separately. The first time the adjacent figure gets one unblocked wound, you can activate Purple Heart and have Varan take the wound. At that point, the adjacent figure is unwounded. Next time said figure takes an unblockable wound, do it all over again.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Can you use purple heart on any of the following: Evil Eye Defense, aura/ranged auto-wound powers such as Fledgling Acid Breath, Explosion attacks where the person is not the main target?

I'm a little fuzzy on this one, so I'll let someone else chime in. I think that Fledgling Acid Breath and explosion attacks would be a "yes," since that's still an attacking figure. However, EED (and counterstrike) are not coming from an attacking figure (it's actually a defending figure), so I think that's a "no." But don't quote me on that.

[dok]

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Can you use Purple Heart to kill Varan?

Yep.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

• If an adjacent figure would take more wounds than Capt. Varan has life left, can you still use purple heart, and if so does the adjacent figure take no wounds or just subtract how many wounds they would get minus how many life Catpt. Varan has left?
• Can you split wounds between captain Varan and an adjacent figure with purple heart - i.e. if you got 2 unblocked attacks on a figure, could you take one wound on Varan and one wound on the figure?

All wounds go on Varan, like the power says. I believe that answers both of those questions.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

If a one life figure adjacent to Varan gets 2 or more unblocked attacks and you use purple heart, does Capt. Varan take only one wound (what the figure would get) or more than one (what the figure deserves)?

Varan takes every unblocked wound.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Can you use purple heart on any of the following: Evil Eye Defense, aura/ranged auto-wound powers such as Fledgling Acid Breath

Purple heart refers to attacks, and those are not attacks, so no.

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Explosion attacks where the person is not the main target?

Those are attacks, so yes.

[mrkurtb]

Love the theme. Capt John Varan puts the "Hero" in Heroscape.

I just want to make sure I'm interpreting his card correctly. If Capt JV has 4 wounds he can move up to 15 spaces in a turn, is that right? Thanks.

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by dok

Purple heart refers to attacks, and those are not attacks, so no.

Well, technically it refers to wounds from an attacking figure. But you're right that Fledgling Acid Breath is not an attack, so I guess that means the Black Wyrmling is not an attacking figure. So probably it doesn't make any practical difference.

[Xotli]

Originally Posted by mrkurtb

I just want to make sure I'm interpreting his card correctly. If Capt JV has 4 wounds he can move up to 15 spaces in a turn, is that right? Thanks.

Yes. Although the scenarios where you would actually get to do that are going to be pretty rare, I'd imagine.

[ZBeeblebrox]

Originally Posted by mrkurtb

Love the theme. Capt John Varan puts the "Hero" in Heroscape.

I just want to make sure I'm interpreting his card correctly. If Capt JV has 4 wounds he can move up to 15 spaces in a turn, is that right? Thanks.

Yes that is correct. Capt. Varan used Battle Valor to move three spaces and attack; andthen he can take four more uses of Battle Valor (one for each wound) thus may move up to 15 spaces.

When he is almost dead he is the most dangerous because of his Valorous persona.