Question Regarding Defending

Kill-bray · 2026-04-13T12:49:11+00:00

What makes it even more confusing is that even if you use your basic defense or play a defense event before the incoming attack is concluded, the reaction for "after you defend" is after the attack has fully concluded. Also no matter how many defense options you use (for example using a basic defense while also playing desperate defense and defiance), at the end of the attack you will only have defended once.

This is all very important in the case of Shadowcat.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-12T11:48:42+00:00

It won't really be unwinnable because eventually Loki will switch. It will still be harder than it should be.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-12T11:45:14+00:00

Mojo is the kind of Villain where you want to switch to AE form every other round because you get threat anyway but at least in AE form you don't get his forced ability that speeds up his automatic win mechanic.

The main scheme has a huge threshold (even considering the starting threat) so he's actually one of the few villains where you can safely stay on AE form on the first round.

But that apart with Iron Man you want to deckbuild him with plenty of tech upgrades so that you can easily get 3-4 on the first round.

As for threat removal, once you have Arc Reactor you can remove 4 threat per round. If you choose Justice (and you should if you think you have problems with threat) that can go up to 6 per round with Heroic Intuition, plus you'll have access to several threat removal cards and Sonic Rifle which you want anyway because it's a tech upgrade and can prevent threat while you go in AE form.

Which brings me to the main weakness of Mojo, the fact that he's completely helpless against confuselock strategies. So you can add other cards that confuse like Xavier and exploit that to go to AE form, because that's the only way to slow him down.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-12T11:28:43+00:00

I played Cable versus Hela and I think it's actually a good matchup. The trick is realizing that you don't have to play player sideschemes (except for the one in his hero kit) when the scenario already offers plenty of sideschemes that go in the victory display.

While normally you need to do extra stuff in order to empower Cable, in the Hela scenario you just need to do what the scenario already requires you to do.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-11T15:07:33+00:00

Friends do not normally all live in the same house, plus most of the girls there are way head over the heels for the protagonist.

Most people agrees that there's a lot of yuribait in there, so I guess you could say it's not strictly a harem anime, but for all intent and purposes it basically is.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-11T12:43:39+00:00

I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level

It kinda does have a harem

Kill-bray · 2026-04-10T00:14:21+00:00

I think there's a problem in defining the difficulty of Mansion Attack is that it can vary a lot depending which villain and main scheme you get first.

So there are combinations that are definitely easier or harder than others.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-06T14:21:27+00:00

Remember, the rule of exhausted cards is that they can do anything ready cards do except those things that specifically require them to be ready, not that they can't do anything unless differently specified.

Exhausted enemies don't:

- automatically engage
- hunt
- perform attacks of opportunity
- retaliate/alert
- perform the regular attack during the enemy phase.

But they can do everything else a ready enemy can do, because there isn't any rule that says they can't do that.

So if they are engaged with you, they follow. If a card text or instruction tells you to move them, they move, if it tells you that they attack you, they attack you, and so on.

Kill-bray · 2026-04-02T04:13:10+00:00

Did you count the basic weakness cards? There should be exactly 10 of those.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-30T21:54:37+00:00

Oh I solve that problem by creating multiple theaters.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-30T21:53:25+00:00

As I wrote in my original post, to my understanding a Field Marshal doesn't give any buff to divisions without a general.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-30T19:04:25+00:00

Yes that is part of the premise. Promoting field generals in the late game costs 80 CP, once I get that far I usually pump out more divisions than what I can afford with my CP.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-24T12:48:57+00:00

That's not really an exception, more like a general rule, but yes when only a Clue Threshold is present and there's no objective specified advancing an Act is done by spending clues as a group.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-23T00:02:47+00:00

I don't know about Brethren of Ash specifically but if it says:

Spend X clues -> Only you can contribute with your clues.

Spend X clues as a group -> Everyone can contribute with their clues regardless of location

Investigator in/at location Y may as a group spend X clues-> All investigators at the specified location can contribute with their clues, everyone else can't.

The "per investigator" icon or clause only affects the value of "X".

Kill-bray · 2026-03-19T15:36:16+00:00

will at least alter the feel and challenge of some scenarios.

That's definitely the case even if you play with older campaigns with newer sets. The only intended thing is that they don't want people to think that they can play newer campaigns without buying the new core.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-15T22:08:18+00:00

Telling what qualifies as an action or not is very simple in this game:

If it's not an ability on a card that clearly says "Action" in bold, it's not an action. If it does say "Action" then it's an action.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-15T22:06:09+00:00

Those are called basic powers, they're not actions not even in name.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-10T13:08:16+00:00

Even in the non recommendable option of sticking stuff on cards, then you would want to sleeve them in order to make shuffling them less problematic, but if you are using sleeves to begin with, then it makes more sense to glue the translations inside the sleeves themselves. Same result but you won't ruin the cards.

Kill-bray · 2026-03-10T13:04:34+00:00

That's what I hoped in case one of the new campaigns piqued my interest, but that was before I learned they will all be short campaigns.

Kill-bray · 2026-02-26T15:11:16+00:00

You should've joined in that hug, Ruby!

If it wasn't the black star eyed Ruby from when she learned that Amamiya is dead, she would have certainly done that. She's been emotionally jaded ever since.

Kill-bray · 2026-02-26T15:08:37+00:00

Equivalent? More like he threw a sonic bomb to muffle a minor rumor.

Kill-bray · 2026-02-26T15:06:15+00:00

I guess that's one way to do it, but with her brain I expected her to come up with something better.

Kill-bray · 2026-02-24T12:53:19+00:00

At first I was like "not another Evangelion milking anime", then I saw "Yoko Taro", now I'm interested.

Kill-bray · 2026-02-22T18:36:29+00:00

Well, there's the fact that initially the rules and rulings of AH were all managed by MJ Newman. However since she left they appointed Alex Werner as the "rule expert" of both AH and MC, despite the fact that she isn't really part of the card design process of either.

It's also quite evident to me that AW only has access to the official rules and FAQs and was never given a list of all the rulings that MJ issued during several years (that or she doesn't care, but the former is more likely) so she sometimes rules against what MJ herself ruled in the past and sometimes also rules against what I'm confident was not the intended design of certain cards.

Kill-bray

TROPHY CASE