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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Official Rules & Errata => Ruling Questions => Topic started by: TheKarazyvicePresidentRR on December 09, 2009, 12:40:23 PM
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Well as seen in this thread
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=18908.0 (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=18908.0)
Us T2 players have hit a bit of a snag. What exactly IS a successful block? Is blocking a BC a successful block?
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Hey,
An Evil Character that wins a battle challenge has made a successful block.
Tschow,
Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly
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So if there is no LS at stake, what exactly is being "blocked"?
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I have to disagree with Tim. This means that one evil character in a side battle of two evil characters will get credit... so they're both "blocking?" This does not seem right to me.
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Hey,
I have to disagree with Tim. This means that one evil character in a side battle of two evil characters will get credit... so they're both "blocking?" This does not seem right to me.
A side battle is not a battle challenge. There is no experience credit earned in side battles. No one is blocking in a side battle.
Tschow,
Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly
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My understanding is that a successful block is when a hero fails to redeem a lost soul in a rescue attempt when an Evil Character is blocking.
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I have to disagree with Tim. This means that one evil character in a side battle of two evil characters will get credit... so they're both "blocking?" This does not seem right to me.
Woman as Snares does not work in a side battle as she must be blocking... as Maly said, neither blocking or rescuing happens in a side battle.
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Wow... I'm an idiot. This whole time I've been thinking "side battle," not "battle challenge." I agree with Tim and you should get credit for blocking a bc. ::)
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Again I ask, if there is no LS at stake (e.g. battle challenge), what exactly is being "blocked"?
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A Hero trying to destroy your deck ;)
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Again I ask, if there is no LS at stake (e.g. battle challenge), what exactly is being "blocked"?
I think blocking is successfully beating the hero.
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Again I ask, if there is no LS at stake (e.g. battle challenge), what exactly is being "blocked"?
I think blocking is successfully beating the hero.
It really needs to be well-defined, because Bryon hinted at future hero-EC side battles. If it is indeed only related to a RA or BC type of battle then it should be spelled out explicitly in the rules.
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Agreed. But I think as of now that's the general definition.
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Bryon ruled at today's tournament that the REG quote I had was wrong. One can block both a rescue attempt and a battle challenge.
Thus, RR was right. (My apologies for butting in when you had it right all along, and I must have misunderstood something when Bryon first explained T2 rules to us a couple years back, combined with almost never being in a situation where somebody accepts a battle challenge and expects to survive it.) The hero gets experience when they rescue a lost soul, and a evil character gets one anytime they successfully block a hero.
So if there is no LS at stake, what exactly is being "blocked"?
Bryon pointed out that if I made a battle challenge with Joshua (the gold hero), you would be blocking my attempt to steal your site.