I've been playing with Mind Control lately and ran into something that I'm not sure that I've been playing right.

This is probably still an easy question:

According to the Danger Room PAC, when a character is Mind Controlled, they're given a free action and made friendly to your force until the end of this action. In the case of multi-target mind control, does this mean that they become no longer friendly when they've completed the free action? Or is it until all of the mind controlling has been done? The wording seems pretty vague.

Thanks for any info on this one.

Exactly. So if you've controlled character's A, B, and C they are all friendly to your force initially (meaning they can't attack each other). But if you make character A move up to character B, that move action is A's free action and it is no longer friendly at the end of the movement. Then character B can attack A... and at the end of that combat action, B is no longer friendly to C, which can turn around and blast the now opposing B into oblivion.

I hoped that helped.

That was exactly what I was looking for. I wasn't sure if the action referred to the free action or the action of mind controlling.

Thanks again!

I got a MC question: Can you mind control multiple targets?

Was my explanation of the previous question not an obvious enough answer


Yes, if you have multiple targets and can perform a ranged combat attack (i.e. not adjacent to an opposing character), you may try to control multiple characters. Note that if you do successfully hit all the characters with the attack, you must control them. No saying, "Well, I really don't want to take a lot of feedback damage, so even though I hit Superman with this attack, I'll only control Bullseye." If you hit 'em, you control 'em (and take the appropriate amount of feedback damage).

Rep for telling me. But a question though: Can N'Starith MC multiple Targets, even with one adjacent? He is a flyer.

He can no longer attack out of base contact. As a flier, he can make a ranged attack on anyone who is basing him though, so it depends. If he is being based by more than one figure, then he can control as many as three of them, but if only one figure is adjacent to him, then that's the onyl one he can control.

He must also have LoF to all the targets, so if adjacent to 3 figures, one has Stealth and is in hindering terrain and one is adjacent on the diagnol between the other two, he could only MC the 1 he has LoF to:

N A
A A
N=Nasty N'asti
A=Adjacent enemy Clear LoF
A=Adjacent enemy w/o LoF

He could however MC any of the figures individually through Close Combat.

BoT