Engage and... And...?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:31 am
Ok so two parts to this question and I'll get my excuses out of the way first.
Part 1 - Can a unit engage and shriek and gaze? I'm pretty sure its a case of either or (engage and shriek or engage and gaze) not both because 6.11.1.1 states 'Engaging units may perform one (my emphasis) of the embedded actions listed within the Engage and... action table' but I thought I'd check just to see how broken I could be.
Part 2 - The bottom paragraph in the first column on page 166 says that different warriors within a unit can engage and... with different embedded actions. So can I then do the following:
A dreaguth thain is attached to a unit of dreaguth. The unit decides to engage and... move to engage an enemy unit. So they decide to charge and... to get some combat bonuses. The dreaguth thain wants to engage and shriek and the dreaguth unit decides to engage and gaze. The gaze attack, along with all the other shooting attack must happen at half the engage distance along the engagement line. The shriek attack can happen at any time. So does this mean that, presuming the dreaguth thain is in range of the target unit, the thain can shriek first to halve the skill of the target unit then the unit can gaze at the newly unskilled unit so that its easier for the dreaguth to hit with their attacks and its more difficult for the engaged unit to pass their gaze test so they're at a higher risk of taking gaze damage rather than glance damage?
The more I think about what the dreaguth and ghast can/could do, the more I think they're complete power house and toolkit units.
Part 1 - Can a unit engage and shriek and gaze? I'm pretty sure its a case of either or (engage and shriek or engage and gaze) not both because 6.11.1.1 states 'Engaging units may perform one (my emphasis) of the embedded actions listed within the Engage and... action table' but I thought I'd check just to see how broken I could be.
Part 2 - The bottom paragraph in the first column on page 166 says that different warriors within a unit can engage and... with different embedded actions. So can I then do the following:
A dreaguth thain is attached to a unit of dreaguth. The unit decides to engage and... move to engage an enemy unit. So they decide to charge and... to get some combat bonuses. The dreaguth thain wants to engage and shriek and the dreaguth unit decides to engage and gaze. The gaze attack, along with all the other shooting attack must happen at half the engage distance along the engagement line. The shriek attack can happen at any time. So does this mean that, presuming the dreaguth thain is in range of the target unit, the thain can shriek first to halve the skill of the target unit then the unit can gaze at the newly unskilled unit so that its easier for the dreaguth to hit with their attacks and its more difficult for the engaged unit to pass their gaze test so they're at a higher risk of taking gaze damage rather than glance damage?
The more I think about what the dreaguth and ghast can/could do, the more I think they're complete power house and toolkit units.