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this is a spot for those who are new to the game to ask questions that you come across early in your play expericence 

so how many heros can you have in the feild of play how many EC can you have and how many lost souls to one site   how many  heros can be set aside at once do you need a card to tell you to set aside a hero or EC ?

i know these seem easy ?? but im at a loss and im sure others are to and its hard finding answers some times

if your hero was captured do you rescue it like a lost soul ? and if so do you get a point or just the hero back ? i know there are cards that save captured heros


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Hey,

I edited your two posts together with a tip. Welcome to the forums! Unless I read wrong, MKC gave you all correct answers.

thanks Master KChief and for any experienced players if you can think of questions that pop consistenly in game play feel free to post them here also

how exactly dose banding work ?

during battle do I send aaron out with  miriam already banded or do I wait till I have iniative to add her and then after battle phase if I win or i get sent back for some reason dose the bandi get taken off or discarded or do we stay banded  and what if the EC captures do they get both or just aaron and dose miriam get discarded or sent to the teritory ?  thANKS FOR ALL THE HELP

All character special abilities activate when they go into battle, including banding. So you make a rescue attempt with Aaron, his "Band" ability activates, and you then add Miriam to battle. After the battle, they return to your territory, and next rescue attempt you need to activate Aaron's ability again as they do not stay banded. Suppose an opponent plays a card like Stocks (Capture a hero). They only get to capture one hero. Even though Aaron and Miriam are banded, they are still separate cards, so they can choose to capture Miriam or Aaron.

And no, if they capture Miriam you can't band to the captured Miriam.

For future reference, these sorts of questions should be posted in the Ruling Questions forum

Here's the theory behind some of these answers (in case you're a theory person like me). When a Character is captured, unless other Special Abilities act on it, it becomes a "Captured Character" which is a completely separate card type from Character. That is to say, it's not a Character that is captured, it's a different type of card now. Captured Characters in the Land of Bondage are treated as Lost Souls for all game purposes as well as Captured Characters. You cannot band to one because banding abilities only work on Characters, not Captured Characters, and you rescue them normally because they are simultaneously treated as Lost Souls.

A Battle Challenge can be presented if you don't have access to any Lost Souls that Opponent controls. You can add an unoccupied Site to the battle of the same brigade to get Site Access to Sites of that brigade (Multicolor gives access to all Sites), but most opponents will not block a Battle Challenge unless (by something that you play like an effect or adding a Site to battle for access.

I believe winning a battle means that Opponent has to be in battle. (I'm sure someone will correct me if Im wrong here. It happens)

If a Character interrupts an ability that means its temporarily stops that ability. The effect now is treated as if it was targeted a Hero (For ignoring brigades, we are unsure how that works to be honest...)

You guys rock thanks for all the help