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E Merrill wrote:
> I was reading over this 'base and the wording seemed a little confusing.
> What exactly does it mean that you can burn 1 pool to move up to 3 blood
> counters from the blood bank to this card, or move one blood counter from
> this card to your pool.
"As a MPA, you may burn ... or move..."
Your choices are:
1. burn a pool to have 3 counters put on the PB
2. move a counter from the PB to your pool
>
> Also, it says that the card is burned when the last blood counter on it
> is removed. Since it comes into play with no counters, is it burned
> immediately? I suppose this would be no, since no blood has been removed.
Correct. Since you haven't removed the last counter, the PB is not
burned.
> So you must have to do this:
>
> 1) Take a Master Phase Action to burn a pool and put three blood onto the
> 'base.
> 2) Take another Master Phase Action to burn a pool to move a blood
> counter to your pool (do this three times, or get a Sabbat Vampire to
> move all the blood to your pool)
> 3) Burn Powerbase: New York.
You don't have to burn a pool for step 2. And Your Sabbat vampires
cannot steal the pool for you, since that's a (D) action.
Also, before removing the last pool, you could burn a pool to put
three more counters on it (making it like a standing Short Term
Investment).
> Maybe it was just worded confusingly and should be more of "...you may
> move one blood counter from this card to your pool, or you may burn one
> pool to put up to three blood counters from the blood bank to this card...
> "
Correct. To mean what you read, it would have to say "... or to
move one blood counter..." (using the infinitive form instead of
the conjugated form).
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