Question: Do I have to strike?

Philippus Baalman (j.p.a....@student.utwente.nl) wrote: : do I have to strike in combat, or can I choose not to strike at all? I'd have to think about it and peruse the rules and such, but I do have this question: In what situation might you NOT want to strike at all? -James

In message <4lgiue$j...@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> - j.p.a....@student.utwente.n l (Philippus Baalman) writes: :> :>Hello, I have a question, :> :>do I have to strike in combat, or can I choose not to strike at all? :> :>Philippus Actually, you don't have to strike, but if you do not, your minion will inflict one point of damage to its opponent (Wether you want to or not) Stephane Doiron step...@ulix.net www.ulix.net/shadow/index.html

In article <4lgiue$j...@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl>, j.p.a....@student.utwente.nl (Philippus Baalman) wrote: : Hello, I have a question, : : do I have to strike in combat, or can I choose not to strike at all? : : Philippus You must choose a strike in combat. If you do not wish to play a strike card (or use a weapon) than you must strike with hands. Note that this applies regardless of the range of combat. If you are at long range without a ranged strike, you are still (technically) striking with hands. I hope this helps stephen beaulieu hi...@mail.utexas.edu

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j.p.a....@student.utwente.nl (Philippus Baalman) writes: >do I have to strike in combat, or can I choose not to strike at all? You must choose a strike. If you have no other options, you must use your inherent (hand) strike - usually for one point of damage (or zero, if at long range). Note that you can choose a strike that has no effect (such as 'hands' at long range, or 'strike: destroy weapon' when your opponent has no weapons). -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | If thine enemy wrong thee, http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | buy each of his children Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. | a drum.

jam...@gw.digibd.com (James Puzzo) wrote: >Philippus Baalman (j.p.a....@student.utwente.nl) wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] >-James Well, say I bleed my prey and he deflects it to his prey, that person blocks my vampire, since we have nothing to do with eachother, we might decide to not let our vampires strike, so no blood is lost... [ quoted text not captured ]

James: >I'd have to think about it and peruse the rules and such, but I do have this >question: > In what situation might you NOT want to strike at all? Here's an extreme example, but one that actually came up: Me : 3 pool Predator : vampire w/ 1 blood remaining -- Fame. Predator Bum Rushes a 2 hand strike vampire. I have no Manuever(sp!) I get ousted. Alan (aj) -- wWWw | Alan Flesch Member, Order of the Harper wWWWWw |Fritz: I come seeking Political Asylum! o<.WWWWW |Bloodnok: Take a bus to the House of Commons, that's the ^ ^ | greatest Political Asylum in the world!

Alan Flesch (afl...@charon.usc.edu) wrote: : Here's an extreme example, but one that actually came up: : : Me : 3 pool : Predator : vampire w/ 1 blood remaining -- Fame. : : Predator Bum Rushes a 2 hand strike vampire. I have no Manuever(sp!) : I get ousted. Mm, good example. Wooda been a good time to be able to block that Bum's Rush, eh? ;) -James

In article <4lgp07$9...@gw.dgii.com>, jam...@gw.digibd.com (James Puzzo) wrote: >Philippus Baalman (j.p.a....@student.utwente.nl) wrote: > >: do I have to strike in combat, or can I choose not to strike at all? > >I'd have to think about it and peruse the rules and such, but I do have this >question: > > In what situation might you NOT want to strike at all? > >-James Well against Fame is a good place to start as if you put a vampire with this card in torpor its prey takes 3 pool damage!Also if a Brujah is Brujah frenzied onto a vampire with no blood that is his metheusalah's prey's prey,you may not want to put him in torpor.... LS

Lord of Shadows wrote: > > In what situation might you NOT want to strike at all? > > > >-James > > Well against Fame is a good place to start as if you put a > vampire with this card in torpor its prey takes 3 pool > damage!Also if a Brujah is Brujah frenzied onto a vampire > with no blood that is his metheusalah's prey's prey,you may > not want to put him in torpor.... > LSOr if someone took over one of your Malkavians with a Malk.Dem. and forces her to fight against one of your other Vamps... you might want to avoid hurting him... Marc