Posted: 02 January 2007 at 2:27pm | IP Logged

ok situational question here.  If I play The t1 Expanding universe with the rule increases in strength 1 per turn and generates economy equal to its strength And I play an A10 Artificial landmass which it raises the strength to 20 and repairs 5 damage to terrain per turn; On the next round does it generate 20 economy? on the round after that does it generate 21 or stay at 20?  If after 5 rounds the A10 is time skipped do I generate 25 economy or 5 or 1?  And once the A10 comes back, does it resume at 26 or begin again at 20?  And what if the A10 ability cards is somehow negated rather than time skipped?  OK what about this  I play the same 2 cards does the strength and economy generated stay at twnety or does it stay at 20 until 21 rounds later when the strength of the expanding universe would be larger than the A10 under normal circumstances? 

PS. we played no... can the vektrean T/B's have artificial Landmass? 

Posted: 07 January 2007 at 11:51am | IP Logged

I do not have a rulebook handy but... All cards are played to something. whether it is to the fleet, against a fleet, to a unit or to a location.  A Hazard card is usually played to a card.  In the rules, somewhere, if cards are played to or against a location and that location or unit is destroyed, the cards played to or against it are also discarded.  The Maelstrom hasno direct duration but the duration could be infinite if you could repair the unit it is played against equally.  Cards that say discard after use has a duration of one though it does not say one turn.

1) If you play the hazard against a location that is immune to hazards then you just wasted a card play and it is automatically discarded.  Not all cards have directly stated durations numberwise, but implied as until cancelled, destroyed or even stolen.

2) The M7 Ghost Fleet lasts no more than 7 turns, and the ships cannot not fire heavy weapons, since you cannot allocate points to them.  But the fleet loses 1 point each allocation phase and is there fore discarded when it reaches 0.

3) the Mealstrom increases each turn by another point of damage dealt. The H5 allows the H7 to repeatedly activate until its duration ends, so it continues to do damage to the unit until the unit is destroyed and per the rules all cards played to or against it are discarded as well unless a reaction card in someway prevents it. Eg a R/E2 Clown Car can transport 1 crew to another location thereby savings a crew off the unit being destryed. As for playing it on a card that says discarded after use( duration 1) we played that the h5 would only activate the card to it's duration of 1 and both would be discarded.