If I run Highfather and my opponent has a team of Worldbreaker Hulk at 350 points and a Brood at 49 points, do I get to use his Pact at all?

THE PACT: At the beginning of the game, you may announce a pact. If you do, the highest point character on your force and the highest point character on your opponent's force (300 points or less) can't target opposing characters with an attack until one of them has taken damage from an attack or they are the only 2 characters on the map. This ability can't be ignored.

thanks

I don't think it works....or why you'd want to use it if it did.

It says 300 points or less, so no.

I'm just wondering if it then goes to the next highest point character

No because it's not the highest point figure. If it said "the highest point figure under 300". The I would say ok but it says the highest.

Do things in parenthesis have actual effect on the game?

I can't think of another case where a parenthetical counted as actual rules-text for an ability.

The best interpretation as I read it is that parenthetical statements in an ability are not actually part of the ability (but rather, are likely holdovers from testing where that is how they wanted it to work but it didn't get re-written into actual rules text).

I would say that until we get an orange-ruling, things in parenthesis are 'suggestions' rater than the actual rules. But then again almost everyone disagrees with me anyway :P

The highest point character 300pts or less would be Brood at 49pts right?

For more lack of information, here's my previous thread:

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486555