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Bloodbath



Bloodbath

Bloodbath



Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Game Text:
Tactic.
Play before committing characters to stories during your story phase.
Action: During all (C) struggles this turn, the player who wins this struggle may wound an additional character committed to that story for each (C) he won the struggle by.
Set: TC
Number: 102
Illustrator: Woodrow J. Hinton III


3 Comments

When playing Bloodbath (The Yuggoth
Contract F102), which reads: “Action: During
all # struggles this turn, the player who wins
this struggle may wound an additional character
committed to that story for each # struggle
he won the struggle by.” which player chooses
characters to wound? Can I divide up the extra
wounds between characters however I want?
The player who wins the combat struggle
chooses which characters get wounded.
That player may choose to distribute
the wounds however he wants among
characters committed to that story,
as long as it is legal. This does mean
that a player can, for instance, put two
wounds on the same character with no
toughness (because the wounds are dealt
simultaneously), if he wants to. However,
he cannot choose to wound a character
with Invulnerability.

Good for forcing unopposed successes I suppose, but the fact that it's telegraphed means you'll probably never actually get to assign the extra wounds.  The opponent will just stay away, or block with one guy who has Toughness or Invulnerability, rather than voluntarily walk into a Bloodbath.  I suppose some "lure" effects would support this card, but now we're talking a lot of set-up for a marginal pay-off.  Who is going to pay 3 for a bloodless Bloodbath?

    • RichardPlunkett and RitualZnAkE like this

Bloodbath might enable you to close the game out, succeeding at a closely contested third story and denying the opponent a premptive (I) win. This is more a Story Winning than  a Wounding card I think.


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