I still don't understand if Splitlip affects the hammers why old man Logan can't replace a hammer with a different relic once assigned to him.

This thread makes me want to burn a copy of the Fear Itself TpB

Oh how I hope this doesn't sell out, like the CW FF, so the secondary market doesn't go ape s---.

Saving this for future reference.

Here's a timing question...

If multiple free actions happen at the beginning of the turn and active player gets to choose the order for what free actions happen first, can you place a hammer, then free action to pick it up (thanks to Splitlip), and then free action quake, thus doing damage as an "equipped" character and triggering the turning of the BotS dial?

Also, this is a side question, but with there only 4 hammers out at the moment... once you've equipped 4 different characters with a hammer, can you then move one of those hammers to a character already with a hammer so they have 2?

Here's the text that I'm referring to:

The opportunity to free-action Quake is immediately after placing the Hammer in the square, so you would have to do that before equipping.

I don't see how: there's no mechanism I can see for doing it. There's a mechanism for swapping, but not for simply reassigning.

That's what I figured, just making sure.


Hmm, I guess I misread that. Nevermind.

I dunno, quite a few armor pieces out there, and FI is giving us more Asgardians every month. But I get your point.

Just wish I had seen this thread a couple days ago. Played with it yesterday thinking it would work how it does. Then in the middle of the second round started looking at the wording and got the OP's same question. So I played it the other way just in case.

Oh well, next time Gadget.

Why can't he? I don't see any reason he couldn't, only that the hammers are only worth 3 points each when they come attached to the resource and that limits the options. Do you have a link to a ruling that says he can't?

Yeah, I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I thought, "Oh cool," and made an Asgardian team. Then I realized that by the actual wording, you wouldn't be able to auto-pickup on a free action, so I didn't do that.

And that cost me the win! Oh, wait, no, I won the tournament anyway because 20 points for Splitlip was not very much to pay for something that only had a mild effect on the game.

I wish you could equip more than one kind of hammer, like on the UB. That would be cooool.

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showth...ight=man+logan

I feel like there are conflicting views on this between at least three oranges. Would love to get a final ruling! Thanks gambit.

I believe this is incorrect. The hammers are not worthy any points at all unless you let the automatic pickup window laps in which case they become standard relics as described on the card.

The 3 pts per hammer is actually the increased value of BoS. You're paying for additional hammer slots and not the hammers.

If you KO a character with a hammer they got from the BoS, you get 3 points and the hammer is removed from the game.

Correct. You score +3 points because that's the instruction for BoS. Those points are not directly related to the cost of the hammers though.

I may have missed this if it was mentioned in one of the other Book of the Skull threads, but, between the beginning of the turn Free Action until the Power Action to pick up the Hammer (or for the rest of your turn if you chose not to pick up the hammer), what is that hammer considered to be for game purposes?