I know any attack that deals 3 damage can destroy a square of barrier, but what about an energy explosion that has been Shield or Enhanced to 3... Does it take out all barrier squares around the initial target? Does it effect characters also adjacent to the target square?

Second does ESD come into play against splash damage of an explosion? Since the character was not the target of the attack, can they still use their ESD for splash?

I would say just like nailing 3 figs adjacent, if it does three damage all around, the barrier is down.

I would think that the ES/D wouldn't activate, kind of like with Stealth in the same situation

EE cannot target/damage terrain, as per the FAQs.


ES/D works against all ranged attacks, not just if that character is the target. Read the PAC carefully.

A barrier is terrain and terrain cannot be the target of an EE attack. You couldn't target it to begin with and even if you attacked a fig that was next to a barrier, the barrier would take no splash damage.

From the FAQ... "An attack using Energy Explosion cannot target objects. It does not affect objects or terrain."

I would say "no" because it is splash damage off of an adjacent character, but I can't find anything in the PAC or FAQ to back me up.

From the General FAQs --
Since you can only damage characters with an EE attack, you cannot use it on the wall, no matter how high you Enhance/SHIELD it up.
No
It ONLY affects characters. You cannot target the wall with EE.
From the Universe PAC --
So it works against EE since EE is an ranged attack.

Yeah... I read that, but "logically" it didn't make sense. That's what I get for attempting to apply logic to HC rules again!

What PL said... it only requires a ranged combat attack to activate ES/D, so EE will trigger it even if we are talking about the splash. Same with Super Senses. It's activated on a successful attack, so it also works against splash.

Oops my bad...forgot about that

How does it not make sense logically? If you have an energy shield or are able to deflect people's attacks, then why shouldn't you be able to shield yourself from like Pyro's flame balls or something? It makes perfect sense to me.