Category:Temptations of Fate

Rules Clarification:  : Sacrificial Pawn and/or Sucker! and/or Grim Salvation     (Edit)
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• Sacrificial Pawn is optional.
  Grim Salvation and Sucker are not optional.
• Grim Salvation only works vs basic attacks, not special attacks, power attacks, chain attacks.
  • Spells are not basic attacks, because they are not "made with a weapon". (Infernal Ruling)
  • CRA and CMA are basic attacks. (Infernal Ruling)
  • If a Special Attack generates an additional attack (such as Multi-Fire), the second attack will be basic and as such can have Grim Salvation used vs it. (Infernal Ruling)
• Sacrificial Pawn & Sucker! don't work against melee attacks.
• None of them work vs magic attacks (spells).
  All of them work against Magical Ranged attacks, though.
• The model the attack is transferred to is always hit, even if they have an ability that makes them automatically get missed (such as Stealth).
  Automatically missing is determined earlier in the timing sequence than when the attack is moved. (Infernal Ruling)

From here down, the terms Sacrificial Pawn, Grim Salvation, and Sucker! are interchangeable

• Using Sac Pawn moves all damage and effects onto the other model.
  • Including stuff that triggers "on hit" (such as Blind) (even though the Pawn kinda wasn't "hit"). (Infernal Ruling)
  • Because the other model counts as the one "hit", it can break a Chain Attack. (Infernal Ruling)
• The new model hit may use any abilities that trigger on being hit/damaged by an enemy attack (such as Vengeance and Shock Field).

• Sprays and AOEs
  • With reference to the timing chart in Appendix A: placing a spray template down occurs at Step 3. Using Sacrificial Pawn occurs at step 6. Placing an AOE template down occurs at step 7.
    Therefore if you use Sac Pawn vs a spray, the placement of the spray template does not change. If you use Sac Pawn vs an AOE, the placement of the AOE template does change.
  • A model indirectly hit by an AOE attack cannot use Sac Pawn vs it.
  • Since a spray template doesn't move, it may cause the Pawn to be hit twice by the same spray. So you then resolve two damage rolls against it.
  • When/if you shift an AOE template, the original target may be clipped by the edge of the AOE anyway (depending on how far apart the original target and Pawn are).

• Quick Draw vs Sacrificial Pawn (Edit)
  • If enemy "Model A" shoots you, and then you use Quick Draw against "Model A", but they use Sac Pawn to move your Quick Draw attack to "Model B" then ... Quick Draw has no effect (or rather, it affects "Model B" who isn't currently shooting you so is irrelevant). Point is, "Model A" can continue shooting you.
  • This won't happen with Shield Guard though (outside of a very low-probability scenario) because Shield Guard can only be triggered during an enemy turn.