Armus wrote:Follow-up: if I use her ability to smoke bomb at the start of a battle that happens during a mission attempt (say, from Sleeper Trap) and my personnel huge from the battle, does the mission attempt continue?
No. All personnel are stopped.
I apologize for my brevity; I am on my phone in a (boring) meeting and can't quote Glossary entries, link cards, or deliver any of my usual rants.
Smoke Bomb is a valid response to the initiation of a personnel battle, cancelling that battle. See
actions - step 2: valid responses. It functions the same as Asteroid Sanctuary (In space) or Resistance Tactics.
Because the battle was initiated, all personnel involved are stopped. See bullet point 6 of
battle.
This seems wrong to me. Cancelling a battle should function the same as nullifying a dilemma; it adds uninteresting complexity for these identical concepts to have different impacts. The non-standard wording of Smoke Bomb compounds this. But thems the rules as they stand today.
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Also, +1 to bhosp's note that Anastasia doesn't have to be present, just at the location (in orbit, in a facility, whatever). This is also a bad rule that adds unhelpful complexity, IMO, but it is the rule. And I have been doing 1E nonsense for so long that I legit forgot that 1e's technical definition of "location" is not immediately obvious to everyone.
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