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[Rule Question] Usable vs Requires?

2 messages from 2 participants · 01 March 2004
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Ben Swainbank

With equipment does "Only usable by" mean the same thing as "requires"? In particular I'm looking at Stolen Police Cruiser... Stolen Police Cruiser [Anarchs:R] Cardtype: Equipment Vehicle. Only usable by an anarch. This anarch gets +1 bleed. Allies and younger vampires get -1 intercept when attempting to block this anarch. Any vampire can burn this card as a (D) action that costs 1 pool. If that action is successful, this anarch is tapped and doesn't untap as normal during his or her next untap phase. A minion may have only one vehicle. If my Repo Man finds me a Cruiser and I have no Anarchs (yet) can I place it on a Vampire (who could not "use" it yet, so, I assume it does nothing) in anticipation that Vampire becoming an Anarch? Or does it just burn because I have no legal targets? Can my non-Anarch take an action to equip it? Does it burn instantly? As a potenitally moot follow-up, if I can place the Cruiser on a non-Anarch, I assume it can still be burned as an action, but that the "this anarch is tapped" effect would not take place. Correct? Moot? -Ben Swainbank

LSJ

bswai...@hotmail.com (Ben Swainbank) wrote: > With equipment does "Only usable by" mean the same thing as > "requires"? No. > In particular I'm looking at Stolen Police Cruiser... > Only usable by an anarch. This anarch gets +1 bleed. Allies and > younger vampires get -1 intercept when attempting to block this > anarch. Any vampire can burn this card as a (D) action that costs 1 > pool. If that action is successful, this anarch is tapped and doesn't > untap as normal during his or her next untap phase. A minion may have > only one vehicle. > > If my Repo Man finds me a Cruiser and I have no Anarchs (yet) can I > place it on a Vampire (who could not "use" it yet, so, I assume it > does nothing) in anticipation that Vampire becoming an Anarch? Or does > it just burn because I have no legal targets? The former. Unless all your minions have vehicles already. > Can my non-Anarch take an action to equip it? Does it burn instantly? Yes. No. > As a potenitally moot follow-up, if I can place the Cruiser on a > non-Anarch, I assume it can still be burned as an action, but that the > "this anarch is tapped" effect would not take place. Correct? Moot? Correct. -- 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/