[LSJ]Q: Improvised tactics

Improvised Tactics [Anarchs:C2/PAG2] Cardtype: Combat Discipline: Auspex/Potence/Protean Requires a ready anarch. Only usable before range is determined on the first round. A minion can play only 1 Improvised Tactics each combat. [aus] During the press step each round, draw one card. Discard down to your hand size afterward. [pot] At long range, each round, this minion may strike for 2R damage each strike. [pro] Once each round, this vampire may burn 1 blood to get one maneuver. Ok, no I've got an Anarchist Rex with an auspex skill card who enters combat with, any given minion Rex plays improvised tactics. Pays one blood. Can I use all 3 abilities during the following combat, with the limitations stated by the card, or only one of them? Can I pay one to maneuver with pro, then strike for 2r, then draw a card during press step each round? Or have I to choose when I play the card if i'll use the pro/pot/aus version? Thanks in advance, Smiling Tom

Smiling Tom, The Anarch wrote: > Rex plays improvised tactics. Pays one blood. > Can I use all 3 abilities during the following combat, with the limitations > stated by the card, or only one of them? Only one. For instance, if a vampire with superior Fortitude plays Skin of Rock, he can prevent either 1 or 2 damage. He cannot use both effects to prevent 3 damage. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:16:42 -0400, LSJ <vte...@white-wolf.com> scrawled: >Smiling Tom, The Anarch wrote: >> Rex plays improvised tactics. Pays one blood. >> Can I use all 3 abilities during the following combat, with the limitations >> stated by the card, or only one of them? > >Only one. For instance, if a vampire with superior Fortitude plays Skin of Rock, >he can prevent either 1 or 2 damage. He cannot use both effects to prevent 3 >damage. Not to mention Rex doesn't have auspex... salem domain:canberra http://www.geocities.com/salem_christ.geo/vtes.htm

"salem" <salem_ch...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:k5r2evsdnkurkvrp1...@4ax.com... > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:16:42 -0400, LSJ <vte...@white-wolf.com> > scrawled: > > >Smiling Tom, The Anarch wrote: > >> Rex plays improvised tactics. Pays one blood. > >> Can I use all 3 abilities during the following combat, with the limitations > >> stated by the card, or only one of them? > > > >Only one. For instance, if a vampire with superior Fortitude plays Skin of Rock, > >he can prevent either 1 or 2 damage. He cannot use both effects to prevent 3 > >damage. > > Not to mention Rex doesn't have auspex... Just to be fair, he did say that Rex had a Auspex skill card on him. -- Comments Welcome, Norman S. Brown, Jr. XZealot Archon of the Swamp

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:27:34 -0600, "XZealot" <x_ze...@cox-internet.com> scrawled: [ quoted text not captured ] ok. my apologies. i only saw lsj's post, not what lsj was replying to. my damn newsreader seems to be dropping posts occasionally. grr. [ quoted text not captured ]

> > > > >"salem" <salem_ch...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > >news:k5r2evsdnkurkvrp1...@4ax.com... > >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:16:42 -0400, LSJ <vte...@white-wolf.com> > >> scrawled: > >> > >> >Smiling Tom, The Anarch wrote: > >> >> Rex plays improvised tactics. Pays one blood. > >> >> Can I use all 3 abilities during the following combat, with the > >limitations > >> >> stated by the card, or only one of them? > >> > > >> >Only one. For instance, if a vampire with superior Fortitude plays Skin > >of Rock, > >> >he can prevent either 1 or 2 damage. He cannot use both effects to > >prevent 3 > >> >damage. > >> > >> Not to mention Rex doesn't have auspex... > > > >Just to be fair, he did say that Rex had a Auspex skill card on him. > > ok. my apologies. i only saw lsj's post, not what lsj was replying to. > my damn newsreader seems to be dropping posts occasionally. grr. > Don't mind about it, i was sure you misread. I guess there is some kind of "lag" on the recieval of messages from the NG, depending of the local time set up on our computers. Due tu this, we recieve the answer before even the question has been set up. Smiling Tom [ quoted text not captured ]

In message <bc4bds$mt0$1...@nsnmrro2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net>, "Smiling Tom, The Anarch" <t...@almadrava.net> writes: >Don't mind about it, i was sure you misread. I guess there is some kind of >"lag" on the recieval of messages from the NG, depending of the local time >set up on our computers. Due tu this, we recieve the answer before even the >question has been set up. This can happen where your local news-server is particularly crappy. This used to happen a lot. News servers were on very slow connections (like everything else), and there were only so many people swapping news. So sometimes things would get very out of sequence. That news server over there sends me some random articles - and it just so happens that it sends me the reply before the original. Or maybe it didn't get the original either! Nowadays, this is rare - except when a news-server is particularly crappy, overworked (particularly if it carries binaries) or your ISP doesn't honestly care about Usenet. In those instances, getting a new news server is a good idea: http://news.cis.dfn.de/ You have to register (details on the web-page), but it's free, fast and efficient. Yes, it's based in Germany, which means you'll be slightly slower than a local server, but unless you're downloading thousands of posts, the difference is trivial. Read the FAQ, too. -- James Coupe PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 So you don't confuse them with mountains. 13D7E668C3695D623D5D

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:16:21 +0100, James Coupe <ja...@zephyr.org.uk> scrawled: >Nowadays, this is rare - except when a news-server is particularly >crappy, overworked (particularly if it carries binaries) or your ISP >doesn't honestly care about Usenet. i suspect my ISP doesn't care about usenet. > >In those instances, getting a new news server is a good idea: > > http://news.cis.dfn.de/ > >You have to register (details on the web-page), but it's free, fast and >efficient. Yes, it's based in Germany, which means you'll be slightly >slower than a local server, but unless you're downloading thousands of >posts, the difference is trivial. Read the FAQ, too. I did this about 2-3 weeks ago. I got my account details about 2-3 days ago. Apparently they do all their applications by hand for quality control reasons. HOWEVER after putting their server details into Forte Agent, and restarting Agent, there were 1174 new messages. Compared to my local ISP's 11. Took about 20 mins to get them all (i'm on 256kbps ADSL). including a bunch of posts i had made through my own ISP's news server, which my ISP didn't have for some reason!?!?!!? I highly recommend news.cis.dfn.de 5 stars. :) [ quoted text not captured ]

In message <neglfv8jo985unvab...@4ax.com>, salem <salem_ch...@yahoo.com> writes: >>You have to register (details on the web-page), but it's free, fast and >>efficient. Yes, it's based in Germany, which means you'll be slightly >>slower than a local server, but unless you're downloading thousands of >>posts, the difference is trivial. Read the FAQ, too. > >I did this about 2-3 weeks ago. I got my account details about 2-3 >days ago. Apparently they do all their applications by hand for >quality control reasons. It's a particularly useful thing to do to produce a delay anyway. Someone wants to spam Usenet with their latest offer, you make them wait two to three weeks. A lot of them will find somewhere else instead. After that, you get to spank them hard anyway too. > >HOWEVER after putting their server details into Forte Agent, and >restarting Agent, there were 1174 new messages. Compared to my local >ISP's 11. Bear in mind that variable expiry times can have an impact here. For instance, two servers which are both great but where one only has rec...jyhad on 7 days expire[0] vs 30 days expire, the 30 days one will always have more posts. >Took about 20 mins to get them all (i'm on 256kbps ADSL). including a >bunch of posts i had made through my own ISP's news server, which my >ISP didn't have for some reason!?!?!!? That can happen. If, for instance, your ISP news-server runs across a bank of servers, it's possible for them to get out of sync. You post, they lose it. Also, if your ISP has a short expire time, it's possible that you post your messages, log off before downloading anything more and then log back on a few days later - after your posts have expired. It's also quite possible that they're crap. [0] A number of Universities I know of have things down to 3 days, which makes weekends a bit of a pain - especially long weekends, bank holidays and the like. [ quoted text not captured ]