Fliers cannot ignore flying patrollers. The usual rules of the patrol zone apply, meaning if you want to attack with a flier at all, that flier CAN attack patrolling fliers so it must do that rather than attack other things such as non-patrollers or tech buildings. — Sirlin
To mean that you’d have to attack the patrolling bird before you can attack anything. But the way you understand is that it blocks you from attacking non-patrollers but allows you to attack non-flying patrollers? Is that the case?
I’m pretty sure what that means is that while flyers normally can ignore the usual attacking rules and attack what they like, if there is a flying patroller, then it cannot be ignored, and the normal attacking rules apply. However, once the Squad Leader is dead, I don’t need to ignore the normal rules, because I’m allowed to attack someone in Scavenger normally. So I’m not ignoring your flyer, I’m attacking a legal target. If your bird was in Squad Leader I wouldn’t be able to ignore it and attack scavenger because the attacking rules say that you have to attack Squad Leader if there’s a unit there.
Though in this case it wasn’t about the SQL dying, but about the fact it didn’t have flying. You could have attacked the bird even before Cuddles died.
I see the point - all the patrollers, other than squad leaders, are in one line. And the bird blocks your way to anything behind that line but not to anyone in the line. I thought that as long as the bird is in the line you’d have to attack it but I now see what you mean.
Yes, you’re right, I could have killed Sparring Partner with Aven even if Cuddles was in Squad Lead. Sorry if that was misleading.
P2T6
StartingHand Workers
STARTING HAND
Arrest
Liberty Gryphon
Liberty Gryphon
Manufactured Truth
Traffic Director
WORKERS
Jail
Reputable Newsman
Porkhand Magistrate
Bluecoat Musketeer
Building Inspector
NextHand
Macchiatus, the Whisperer
Spectral Tiger
Spectral Hound
Manufactured Truth
Traffic Director
Tech 0 card(s)
Get Paid + scav - ($11)
Quince & Mirror - ($9)
Liberty Gryphon - ($6)
Gryphon kills Rook, Quince to L3
Bigby and Aven kill Grave, Quince to L5, you draw
Liberty Gryphon #2 - ($3)
Quince maxband turns Mirror into Gryphon
Mirrored Gryphon destroys your Tech II, your base to 18
Gryphon #2 destroys your Tech I, your base to 16
Spectral Hound - ($2)
Reteller of Truths - ($0)
Thanks for the gracious game, @jadiel. I definitely learned how to play by forum and I enjoyed the game, but there’s clearly a big skill difference and it takes some time to learn the cards. I’d love to play some more but it would probably be better to find an opponent of my level?
No, not at all - if you had patrolled bird in SQL and I couldn’t have killed Setsuki, I think she could have caused me a lot of trouble. I also misplayed on turn 4 I think, I shouldn’t have patrolled either Hound, as I was pretty sure you couldn’t get through Oni in SQL, and I was opening myself up to Grappling Hook. Although you could have used GHook to kill Oni then I guess.
I’ve never played blue before, so it was an interesting experience. I’m up for another game if you are?
ETA: I don’t think the skill difference is as big as you think, but if you’d prefer to play against someone else, that’s fine
I patrolled it in Elite to kill your Aven if you attacked it, because it gave me a tremendous headache.
I’m happy to play again, if you don’t mind the fact that I don’t know what I’m doing. I would love to play purple of black. You can play whatever you like.
I told you that I have no clue what I’m doing. Even though I’ve already played against blue and suffered from that damned Aven. So I took care of it now. I took care of it NOW!
"P2T2
Tech StartingHand Workers
TECH
Now!
Now!
STARTING HAND
Battle Suits
Tinkerer
Temporal Research
Time Spiral
Hardened Mox
Now!
WORKERS
Forgotten Fighter
Temporal Research
NextHand
Neo Plexus
Plasmodium
Time Spiral
Fading Argonaut
Discard
Now!
Battle Suits
Hardened Mox
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid - ($6)
Worker - ($5)
Nullcraft kills the inspector, you draw
Midband Geiger - ($3)
Geiger discards to draw
Now! on your Aven - ($2)
Tinkerer - ($0)
Lawful Search
Manufactured Truth
Brave Knight
Traffic Director
Tech 2 card(s)
Get Paid + float - ($7)
Oni casts Lawful Search on your hand, I draw - ($6)
Overeager Cadet
Traffic Director - ($5)
Oni casts Manufactured Truth on Traffic Director, turning it into Nullcraft - ($4)
Nullcrafts trade
Oni kills Tinkerer, taking 1 damage, you draw
Worker - ($3)
Just a question: here, you could have attacked first with Oni and then cast Lawful Search to see my hand including the new card, correct? The only wrinkle is that if you did that we wouldn’t be able to play easily on the forum as we do because You’d have to stop your turn to see what I draw?
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Fuzz cuddles (2/3)A
[I]Elite[/I]: Bird (2/1)
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Sparring Partner
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20
[I]Squad Leader[/I]: Fuzz cuddles (2/3)A
[I]Elite[/I]: Bird (2/1)
[I]Scavenger[/I]: Sparring Partner
[I]Technician[/I]:
[I]Lookout[/I]:
Base HP: 20