RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2024-05-16

191 – I have a rules question about the Wrecking Crew scenario. For their special boost abilities, both…

Question

191 – I have a rules question about the Wrecking Crew scenario. For their special boost abilities, both Escaped Convict and Chaos In The Prison refer to “this attack”, implying that if it is a boost for a scheme, nothing happens. Is this correct? Also, if I drew “I’ve been Waiting For This!”, as a boost to an attack, which caused the scheme for which I drew Escaped Convict as the boost, does that change the answer (since the original boost effect is to make a different villain scheme before the attack resolves)?

Answer

You are correct, that if a boost ability references “this attack” when no attack is being made, that part of the ability is ignored. For Escaped Convict, no additional attack would occur; for Chaos In The Prison, you would not discard an upgrade.

As for “I’ve Been Waiting For This!”, I’m checking if we understood the sequence correctly:

Villain 1 attacks and IBWFT is the boost, causing Villain 2 to scheme;
you’d resolve the rest of Villain 1’s attack, then immediately resolve Villain 2’s scheme;
you’re almost guaranteed to be in hero form from Villain 1’s attack, so when the boost ability on Escaped Convict resolves, a new attack will initiate and resolve once you’re finished with Villain 2’s scheme.

Does that answer your question? The current rule is you don’t interrupt one enemy’s activation with another enemy’s activation; instead, you resolve the new activation immediately after all steps and Responses to the first activation are finished.

— Alex