Can a character who is a flier make a xlose combat attack against an opponent who is on higher elevation if they are on the rim of the elevated?

Only if the character can use Leap/Climb or Great Size. Flight does not let a character on a different elevation.

Huh. Weird. Also counter intuitive.

(Not arguing, I always believe you guys with the rules. Just weird.)

logically wierd yeah. but if you read Leap/climb and the abilities that the wing symbol provides in the PAC you'll see the difference.

Thanks. Your also saying you can attack opposing characters at a higher elevation if you have great size?

note that it doesn't say lower elevations though...

Also, wait, what? Giant's don't ignore water terrain? oooooh...

Water is hindering on movement. Giants ignore hindering on movement...

This is true!

so a character with green for improved movement ignores blue and green terrain? odd, i would have thought those separate with the new (VERY) specific formatting. So i guess those with just blue don't get to ignore green... >< ah well, it makes sense. just wish Dolphin got some more usefulness

Giants can in fact attack down.

As for green vs blue I like to think of it like squares and rectangles. A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not necessarily a square. Water terrain is hindering that doesn't affect targeting, but hindering is not necessarily water. So in the same way if you ignore rectangles you ignore squares, if you ignore green you ignore blue as well. Blue is a subcategory of green basically.

Well that's nice >< haha you'd think thered be a difference, but it is JUST a game.. Oh well! swimmers get 'hosed' again!

and... i don't see that Giant Reach wording in the 2013 pg, but i do see this..

Combined with the Great Size wording, if you're not on the edge of elevated, you can't attack someone off the edge (equal to or greater elevation). But if you are at the edge, then it's fine to attack down. Or am i reallllly missing something here...

Nope, that's correct. You must be able to draw LoF to the squares to consider them adjacent so a setup of 1 being a grounded figure 2 being elevation level 2 and and G being a giant, G would not be able to swing at 1.

1 2 G

If you go to the PG pdf do a find for "giant reach". It is in Section 3 Abilities

ahh i was just thinking in different terms!
And back to the original question by clixjunkie89, there are a tiny handful of characters with flight AND leap/climb, so feel free to mix it up!

Oh, I realized what Quebbster said was true, I didn't have to look at the rulebook again. It's just strange that a character can jump and attack, but a character that can be pretty much as high as he/she/it wants can't. You'd think that would have been changed by now.