I guess a 6 dice attack is a bit much for a counterstrike.  In a large number of cases, it would be a stronger attack than that of the aggressor!

Thanks for the replies!

Hey guys,

We had an interesting situation arise last night which we decided to resolve to the best of our knowledge.  However, we would like clarification.  It was quite a complicated turn of events and board state, so here goes...

(Apologies for not linking the cards, I have forgotten how to, and can't find the instructions.)

Two adjacent spaces (A and B) are divided by a Coral Barrier.  In space A is a Knight of the Red Helm with a face down enchantment.  Space B contains a Bed of Urchins and a Merren Harpooner.

The Merren Harpooner attacks the Knight of the Red Helm using the Harpoon attack (4 attack dice and effect die 7+ Snatch).  Wreck of Viridian Lace grants 1 extra attack die, so 5 attack dice and effect die 7+ Snatch.  The enchantment is revealed under the Knight of the Red Helm, it is Eye for an Eye.

The attack dice result in 3 normal damage and 1 critical damage and an 11 on the effect die.  The questions/clarifications are as follows:

i) Knight of the Red Helm received 1 damage (3 armour).
ii) Merren Harpooner received 4 damage (no armour)?  Would armour affect the damage received should the creature have armour?  The confusion lies in the fact that 1 damage was 'suffered' by the Knight of the Red Helm, though 4 damage was rolled.  Would Merren Harpooner only 'suffer' 1 damage too?
iii) Regarding the Snatch - Does each creature pull the other into their starting zone causing a passage attack by the Coral Barrier on each creature, or are the Snatch effects negated? (We carried out the attacks and place swap).
iv) On entry to space B, following the attack by the Coral Barrier, the Knight of the Red Helm was attacked by the Bed of Urchins.

If there are any other details required, please let me know.  Hopefully there is a definitive resolution!  We consulted the example in the rules insert, Codex etc. and it seemed correct.

Thanks!

Hey guys,

Does Wreck of the Viridian Lace grant melee +1 and ranged +1 to all pirate creatures in the same zone as WoVL or to all pirate creatures in the arena?

Thanks!

That and a lair

Ha ha! Nice one Coshade.

Nice one Schwenkgott, that makes absolute sense. Good news for the [mwcard=MWSTX1CKC08]Gargoyle Sentry[/mwcard] (and any other 'interceptor')!!

I would expect that by ignoring the guard, due to the Pest trait, the intercept cannot 'trigger'.  From the codex for Intercept:

..this creature may redirect that ranged attack to itself, as long as it can be a legal target for that attack.

The fact that it's guard is ignored by the attacker would make it an illegal target, hence the pest cannot 'redirect that ranged attack to itself'.

I think that it is a good counter for creatures such as [mwcard=MWSTX1CKC08]Gargoyle Sentry[/mwcard].  This guy, with [mwcard=MW1E36]Rhino Hide[/mwcard] has 6 armour when guarding and using Intercept.  It's great for the defending mage and a pain for the attacking mage.  So, Shrink is perfect for this situation (providing that the above is correct, of course).

Umm, yeah. To be honest, a different conclusion came to my mind...

Would you care to elaborate jhaelen?

I haven't played a single game of Mage Wars where either myself or my opponent haven't made some kind of mistake or another.  Even during tournament play there's always a forgotten spawnpoint channelling, a targeting error or something along those lines.  It's not surprising, as there is so much to keep track of and so much going on.  This is one of the features that makes Mage Wars such an amazing game to play; there are so many levels of depth.

As Coshade said:

The possibilities are crazy for this game!