Now i am not one that always looks to break a figure or cheese up the game but i did notice something that i wanted to discuss. now i placed the important parts of my question in bold.

first, the rules for charge:

CHARGE Give this character a power action; halve its speed value for the action. Move this character up to its replacement speed value and then it may be given a close combat action as a free action. A character with this power ignores knock back.

and now the new wonder woman clix's special:

#051 R Wonder Woman
Team: Justice Society
Range: 0
Points: 100
Keywords: All Star Squadron, Amazon, Justice Society, Warrior

Speed - Cavalry Charge: Wonder Woman can use Charge. When she uses Charge, she ignores opposing characters and hindering terrain for movement purposes. After actions resolve, any number of adjacent opposing characters may be knocked back two squares.


if wonder woman uses charge to run up next to a mystic TA figure, can she still use charge, not attack, and use the knock back option of her power hopefully knocking him or her into a wall or off a building in turn keeping me from getting knocked for mystic damage?

Thanks guys..

*stares at evil plan*

*applauds evil plan*

I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work.

*Reps evil plan*

Huh. A loophole that actually makes logical sense! Kudos!

But what happened to the close combat action?

You can't use Charge unless you eventually make a close combat attack, right?

Otherwise, it's just a move action.

I know there is a "may" in the description for Charge, but I thought Running Shot and Charge HAD to end in some kind of attack!?!

Well, as written, looks like you don't need to use the attack, but I could see there being some errata on this.

Because of the "may" they don't have to end in an attack.

You might be confused with the Shape Change ruling where a succesful Shape Change roll forces the character to make the free attack portion of the power on another target if possible.

But that would be because you already have chosen to "may" rather than "may not", the shape change just confuses your target.

Here is to hoping that this brilliant idea is correct. Any mods out there that can rule on this?

If you charge and miss SC, can you still FB? Just figured I would ask it here as it seems the logical place.

"May" does, in fact, mean "may", if that is what you are asking.

If your character "may [do something]", it does not have to do that something if you don't want it to do so.

WW may attack... or she might decide not to. Her choice.

FB? Do you mean take knock back (this power has nothing to do with Force Blast)?


If so, then yes, they'd still be knocked back:

Speed - Cavalry Charge: Wonder Woman can use Charge. When she uses Charge, she ignores opposing characters and hindering terrain for movement purposes. After actions resolve, any number of adjacent opposing characters may be knocked back two squares.

All Shape Change does is prevent you from attacking that character and that part of that power doesn't give two shakes of a lambs tail about attacking... it just looks for adjacent opposing characters.

Everyone knows that FB is short for Knockback

I figured this was the case, but I also figured others reading this would want to know, and I wanted to make absolute sure before I said it.

Sorry about saying FB, it won't happen again...

Glad you said that. I thought he was talking about Facebook.

cool... it sounded right, i just wanted to check with you guys and i know my "judge" has already read this.

No, they are both power actions.