If the ruling is that he gets the +1 for his first damage, why not just print his damage 1 point higher? These types of things in this game are kind of a minor annoyance.

It is funny that for at least the damage part of the power it works almost the opposite way it reads at first look.

Because he doesn't get the bonus when doing a close combat attack.

Yea. Like I said. Minor annoyance.

I really like this new Crossbones and was playing "I shot Cap..." like the OP mentioned but after further review this seems correct; however, due to the new general rule on multiple attacks the damage modifier offsets for the second attack:

The process of analyzing and testing the items on the Watch List demonstrated there was one general issue contributing to an unhealthy game environment – the ability to create situations where a single character could make multiple attacks during the course of a turn. Therefore, the first major rules change to come out from the Watch List is: “Each time a character makes an attack in a turn after their first, their damage value is modified by -1 until the end of the turn, minimum 1.”

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