A question which has come up at my table here in Hamburg :
If you use Cryptic Mission to steal one life from a retainer, does he
get a damage counter, which would mean that you could steal another
blood from him with another cryptic mission ?
My understanding is that retainers can only be damaged in combat at
long-range, and, assuming that they survive said combat, heal all the
damage inflicted to them after combat ends. Taking that into account,
I think that if you use Cryptic Mission on a retainer in your turn,
and it has more than one life, you can steal one blood (i.e. life ),
but cannot kill it with a second cryptic mission. Correct or false ?
Thanks !
Magnus
"Magnus" <magn...@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> My understanding is that retainers can only be damaged in combat at
> long-range, and, assuming that they survive said combat, heal all the
> damage inflicted to them after combat ends. Taking that into account,
> I think that if you use Cryptic Mission on a retainer in your turn,
> and it has more than one life, you can steal one blood (i.e. life ),
> but cannot kill it with a second cryptic mission. Correct or false ?
actually your guess is not correct =)
a retainer can be damaged outside combat, via cryptic mission (while we're
at it). A retainer damaged outside combat permanently loses life. wihch
means you can harm a retainer with two life in two different turns and still
kill him. =)
by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion, and gain one
blood of the action is successful (superior text).
reyda
In message <3d2b9655$0$27977$79c1...@nan-newsreader-03.noos.net>, reyda
<true_...@hotmail.com> writes:
>by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
>from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion,
The current card text uses "remove" or "damage", depending on the type
of minion.
This is of relevance when, say, doing it against Ambrosius, or any other
normal damage immune retainer or ally. (Who just ignore it, prevented
or not.)
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"James Coupe" <ja...@zephyr.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <3d2b9655$0$27977$79c1...@nan-newsreader-03.noos.net>, reyda
> <true_...@hotmail.com> writes:
> >by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or
blood
> >from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion,
>
> The current card text uses "remove" or "damage", depending on the type
> of minion.
>
> This is of relevance when, say, doing it against Ambrosius, or any other
> normal damage immune retainer or ally. (Who just ignore it, prevented
> or not.)
thanks for the catch ;)
reyda wrote:
>
> "Magnus" <magn...@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:70eabfe1.02070...@posting.google.com...
>
> > My understanding is that retainers can only be damaged in combat at
> > long-range, and, assuming that they survive said combat, heal all the
> > damage inflicted to them after combat ends. Taking that into account,
> > I think that if you use Cryptic Mission on a retainer in your turn,
> > and it has more than one life, you can steal one blood (i.e. life ),
> > but cannot kill it with a second cryptic mission. Correct or false ?
>
> actually your guess is not correct =)
> a retainer can be damaged outside combat, via cryptic mission (while we're
> at it). A retainer damaged outside combat permanently loses life. wihch
> means you can harm a retainer with two life in two different turns and still
> kill him. =)
Correct.
> by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
> from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion, and gain one
> blood of the action is successful (superior text).
"burn blood" from the vampire or "1 damage" to the ally or retainer, but
otherwise correct.
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"reyda" <true_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3d2b9655$0$27977$> actually your guess is not correct =)
> a retainer can be damaged outside combat, via cryptic mission (while we're
> at it). A retainer damaged outside combat permanently loses life. wihch
> means you can harm a retainer with two life in two different turns and still
> kill him. =)
>
> by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
> from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion, and gain one
> blood of the action is successful (superior text).
Ok, thanks to you and LSJ for the clarifications.
A question comes out of this : if you can "permanently" damage a
retainer outside combat, does that mean that the damaged retainer will
have less life during the next combats ?
Magnus
"reyda" <true_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3d2b9655$0$27977$> actually your guess is not correct =)
> a retainer can be damaged outside combat, via cryptic mission (while we're
> at it). A retainer damaged outside combat permanently loses life. wihch
> means you can harm a retainer with two life in two different turns and still
> kill him. =)
>
> by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
> from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion, and gain one
> blood of the action is successful (superior text).
Ok, thanks to you and LSJ for the clarifications.
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"reyda" <true_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3d2b9655$0$27977$> actually your guess is not correct =)
> a retainer can be damaged outside combat, via cryptic mission (while we're
> at it). A retainer damaged outside combat permanently loses life. wihch
> means you can harm a retainer with two life in two different turns and still
> kill him. =)
>
> by the way, when you play criptic mission, you don't "steal" life or blood
> from another minion, you merely burn one on the target minion, and gain one
> blood of the action is successful (superior text).
Ok, thanks to you and LSJ for the clarifications.
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"Magnus" <magn...@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> A question comes out of this : if you can "permanently" damage a
> retainer outside combat, does that mean that the damaged retainer will
> have less life during the next combats ?
yes =D
reyda
"Magnus" <magn...@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> A question comes out of this : if you can "permanently" damage a
> retainer outside combat, does that mean that the damaged retainer will
> have less life during the next combats ?
yes =)
reyda
"Magnus" <magn...@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> A question comes out of this : if you can "permanently" damage a
> retainer outside combat, does that mean that the damaged retainer will
> have less life during the next combats ?
yes =p
reyda
"reyda" <true_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3d2c90ff$0$19545$79c1...@nan-newsreader-01.noos.net>...
> yes =)
<grumble> Sorry for the multiple posts, Google was kind of on the
fritz and the first times it didn´t seem like my message had passed.
Thanks for the answer ! :)
Magnus
In message <70eabfe1.02071...@posting.google.com>, Magnus
<magn...@gmx.de> writes:
><grumble> Sorry for the multiple posts, Google was kind of on the
>fritz and the first times it didn´t seem like my message had passed.
>Thanks for the answer ! :)
I recommend registering at:
http://news.cis.dfn.de/
This is much faster and more efficient than Google, which has delays of
several hours on arrival.
For news-readers, I recommend Free Agent, Calypso or Gravity under
Windows, all of which get good reviews at various points. Unix has a
plethera of available software.
If people *really* want to use Outlook Express for reading Usenet, I
also recommend:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/quotefix.php
The first section (in red) is how lots of posts from OE users come out
on other systems. (Possibly also their own.)
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