Robert McCowen

I’m the consular for a store championship, and just ran into an unusual issue. The Advanced Positions deployment allows trooper units to end the deployment phase outside the deployment zone. The Bombing Run objective assigns claimed objective tokens to unit leaders within the deployment zone. (This appears to be a “must” effect.) Red player (who had not clearly read the objective card) ended with only one unit within their deployment zone. A strict reading implies that only one claimed objective token could be assigned. What would have been the correct resolution for this situation?

I’m stuck on some apparently contradictory rules language regarding Shoves. The description of the Shove directed effect on page 31 says “The affected character may be Pushed… then the shoving character may immediately Pull itself”. That’s pretty clear! I don’t have to perform effects if they “may” happen. But on page 29 of the rules, Ahsoka helpfully explains that “Once a player has chosen to apply an Option from their combat tree, they must apply all the listed effects in that Option.” So a Shove isn’t a “may” effect after all, but rather a “must”? Muddying the water further, searching the forum turned up a topic (https://forums.atomicmassgames.com/topic/12327-combat-tree-options-do-i-have-to-apply) that agrees with Ahsoka that you can’t skip directed effects once you’ve chosen an Option. But another (https://forums.atomicmassgames.com/topic/11596-shoving-attacker-pulls-itself-forward-without-pushing-the-defender-away) implies that both the Push and the Pull are optional. So before I play it wrong in another game… which is it? Is Shove a “may” effect or a “must” effect? (Or, perhaps, is Shove is a “must” that consists of a “may” Push and a “may” Pull?)

The new “Drive Them Out” command card for Tempest Force has a triggered effect that’s worded this way: ”This round, the first time a friendly vehicle with a faceup order token displaces an enemy unit during its activation…” There are several ways to have multiple vehicles issued faceup tokens. Does this trigger occur once per round or once for each vehicle?