Rules

Skill Action, Hold Action

Skill Action

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When you perform a Skill action, simply apply the card text. A Skill action is always the Primary action.

All of the keywords that you may find in the card text are listed in the Concepts and Keywords section on pages 17-19.

Remember! You may only resolve one action on the card! If you perform a Skill, you will not be able to use the Movement action.

Arien’s Liquid Leap card beside the board, with the spaces he may place himself into highlighted in green

Arien may use the Skill action of his green “Liquid Leap” card to place himself into any of the empty spaces in Range 2 highlighted in green. He may not place himself into spaces highlighted in grey or Red, using this Skill, because those spaces have a Spawn point, or are adjacent to an empty Spawn point.

Note that Arien can still use his secondary Movement 2 action to reach the spaces highlighted in grey. He cannot reach the space highlighted in red, however, because of the obstacle on his way.

Brogan’s Bolster card, with the radius of 2 spaces around him highlighted

Brogan uses the Skill action of his green “Bolster” card to protect his minions in a radius of 2 spaces around him. The card is Active the entire round (See page 17), but an Enemy hero could attack the melee minion which is outside of Brogan’s radius with a potential Ranged attack next turn.

Brogan’s Onslaught card and Dodger’s Burning Skull card, with Brogan moving one space so the melee minion falls inside his radius

Knowing that the only Range 2 attack Dodger has is on her Red card, Brogan plays his gold “Onslaught” card to act before the enemy hero in the Initiative order. Brogan uses the secondary Movement action on his card to move 1 space north-east.

Since the “Bolster” Skill is still active, the melee minion is now in radius 2 from Brogan and is protected, giving Brogan an option to prevent Dodger from removing the minion.

Note: Although the effect of “Bolster” can prevent the removal of the minion, Dodger would still gain 2 coins for ‘defeating’ it.

Hold Action

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Unlike other secondary actions, a Hold Secondary action is not represented by an icon on your Action cards.

You can choose to perform a Hold action when resolving any one of your cards.

When you perform a Hold action you simply do nothing.

The most common scenario when you might want to perform a Hold action is when you have played a card, but performing any other action is either not possible, or is not to your advantage.

Since you can perform a Hold action with any Action card, it means that you are never forced to perform an action if you don’t want to.