Mystic Empowerment (Dr. Strange's Defenders Leadership) And "Retaliation" Style Attacks

[Maple]

I recently learned that paying to use Dr. Strange's defenders leadership on a rapid fire attack only affects that single "volley"; similarly the same is true for area and beam style attacks: Only one of the attacks in the collection of that action can be empowered. However lets say Daredevil uses Man Without Fear or Venom uses So Many Snacks in retaliation to an attack made against them, can they pay to use the mystic empowerment leadership on their retaliation attack?

I'm fairly certain they can, but wanted to be certain and haven't seen anything on this yet. Thanks!
(Fingers crossed since DD really needs some help. RIP my Beamfenders list though...)

Edited September 7, 2022 by Maple

[Maple]

To clarify, it's my current understanding of Mystic Empowerment that:

1. When used on a rapid fire or ricochet attack, only one of those attacks will receive the leaderships effect.
2. When used on a beam attack or area attack, only one of attacks in that series will receive the leaderships effect. (IE one of three models caught under the tool instead of all three.)
3. The leadership can be used on a character making a retaliatory attack outside their own activation (thread topic).

Edited September 7, 2022 by Maple
further clarification

[Negoldar]

3 hours ago, Maple said:

To clarify, it's my current understanding of Mystic Empowerment that:

1. When used on a rapid fire or ricochet attack, only one of those attacks will receive the leaderships effect.
2. When used on a beam attack or area attack, only one of attacks in that series will receive the leaderships effect. (IE one of three models caught under the tool instead of all three.)
3. The leadership can be used on a character making a retaliatory attack outside their own activation (thread topic).

You are correct on number 1 as well as number 3 assuming the once per turn limit is not broken. 

For number 2, Mystic Empowerment changes the attack profile so all of the individual attacks made during the resolution of a beam or area attack will benefit from it. 

[Maple]

Thanks! Clears that up pretty cleanly. Just got mixed up on the beam thing after seeing and misunderstanding some posts. In any case confirming Strange working with retaliatory attacks as well as beams helps breathe some much needed life into Daredevil and Warmachine for instance, so this is great news.

One last thing that I'm extremely positive also works just so this thread can be as thorough a resource as possible for this leadership for future viewers:

4. The leadership can also be used on attacks that come from tacticards such as Helios Laser Bombardment unless the tacticard specifically states that the attack found on the card cannot be modified.

Once that's in ink here I think we're good to go. Thanks again!

[Thoras]

On 9/7/2022 at 11:00 PM, Maple said:

The leadership can also be used on attacks that come from tactic cards such as Helios Laser Bombardment

Yes

On 9/7/2022 at 11:00 PM, Maple said:

unless the tactic card specifically states that the attack found on the card cannot be modified

This would depend on the specific wording of the card.