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I say yes -
Were you attacked?
Yes - Philly Outpost triggers.
Spy completes first,
Was outpost negated?
No
So you search.

I do as well.

I'm glad we all agree.

I am in conflict with your conflict.    All the answers above were correct.

Easy now, we don't want too much conflict in this thread.

Wanna fight?

I have another question on PO. Can you use it in a side battle too?

No. It is only a response to "if you are attacked," which only applies to a rescue attempt or battle challenge.

In a side battle, who is the attacker?  I always assumed there isn't one.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Is the first character put into the side battle the "attacker" and the other one the "blocker"?  If so, and I convert my Women as Snares to a hero, then start a side battle where your hero "attacks" and I use my converted Women as Snares to "block," do I get to capture all your male ECs?

I'm pretty sure that "attack" only refers to rescue attempts and battle challenges. 

In a side battle, who is the attacker?  I always assumed there isn't one.  Maybe I'm wrong.

I've always assumed the attacker was the character(s) controlled by whichever player started the side battle. Maybe I'm wrong, but this would seem to fit the standard English definition of the word "attacker"--to whit, the person who started a fight.

Is the first character put into the side battle the "attacker" and the other one the "blocker"?

I think the attacker would be the character controlled by the player who started the side battle. I admit the other half of the question puzzles me. Although its seems fairly clear to me that in real life every individual fight has to have an "attacker" (else how does the fight start?), I don't think every fight in real life has a "blocker."

Are you saying that in Redemption unlike real life if a battle has an "attacker" that it must necessarily have to have a "blocker?"

If so, and I convert my Women as Snares to a hero, then start a side battle where your hero "attacks" and I use my converted Women as Snares to "block," do I get to capture all your male ECs?

I would think that you should be considered the attacker if you started the side battle. If your opponent started the side battle and gave you WaS whether or not you could capture the heroes depends on whether or not the opposite of "attacker" is necessarily "blocker."

Once again, I'm not arguing insofar that I have no problems with the ruling. I am merely curious as to why that ruling came to be and took your questions at face value. If your questions were meant to be rhetorical, then I missed the boat.

OK, so it is just by definition.  Thanks, that answers my question.