Anyone have an idea how this works, I'm stumped???

YOU APPEAR MORE WORTHY: Once per game, give Apocalypse a power action and choose two characters: an adjacent opposing character not on its starting line and a friendly character on the map with a point value higher than the opposing character but lower than Apocalypse. The first character becomes friendly to Apocalypse and gains the Horsemen of Apocalypse keyword. The second character becomes friendly to the first character's force and is healed of 1 damage.

Thanks

from what i read, you pick an opposing fig that's not on it's first click, then you pick one of your own figs that has a higher point value (but still under 500 points) and they switch teams.

you get the opposing fig for the rest of the game while your opponent gets yours and gets to heal it for one click.

That's how I read it.. Which is nasty since you can send someone to get beaten up and then swap them when they are almost dead for another.

Basically, Apoc is adjacent to an opposing character that is 50 points and not on his first click. He likes that guy better that the one that's on his team and is 51 or more points. He makes them switch sides. The 50 point injured guy heals on click and is now a Horseman. The 51 or more point character is like "screw that noise" and joins your opponents team.

Almost..

It's like this:

Character 1 - adjacent opponent that's X points and not on his first click
Character 2 - friendly character that's X+1 or greater points (but lower than appoc)

Character 1 now becomes friendly to appoc and gains the horesman keyword

Character 2 becomes friendly to your opponents force and gains a click back.

Now here's my questions!
1)
If Character 1 is sabretooth who's managed to hit character 2 with mortal wound.

and Character 2 is anyone of higher point value than sabretooth.
I assume during the trade character 2 would not get his click due to the power..
99.999% sure of that but its worth checking. The power does saying healed and sabretooths power prevents healing.. I can forsee some NASTY tactics with that..

2) If your opponent had a theme team (all shared the keyword) and the character you "traded" did not. Do they lose the theme bonus? If your only character was not a theme team with Apocalypse and then via trade you've now got the horseman keyword, do you gain the theme team probability control bonus?

Hmm..DC75th Sinestro or Crisis Black Adam look like good targets for the figures people like to play around here.

The possibilities for this power are endless. It may just make playing the worst figures EVER a viable option LOL.

That could be funny but risky.

You place APOC and the AV A-Bomb on your team. You have to wait until the conditions are met before you can swap A-Bomb for a better character, while the opponent could just focus and take out A-Bomb.

This belongs in the rules forum.

@DemonRS: Theme team prereqs are only checked at the start of the game. Swapping characters won't remove theme team status for your opponent. Just like swapping out alter-egos doesn't affect theme status.

Cool I wasn't sure.

But the charcater that become friendly to you gains the Horsemen of Apoclypse Keyword, a fact that can be useful sometimes like, said, if you play others with the Warbound feat, for example.

Thank you for that. I couldn't think of a single reason why adding the keyword was in the power since none of Apocalypse's SPs use the keyword as a trigger.

Pretty much.

Correct. It would be no different than if it happened during MC (Or happened during MC to a Possessed figure).
As stated, it wold have no effect.
If there were some way for a naturally friendly figure to do this, then it would sorta work.*

As is, there is a rule on page 19 that states that an opposing figure cannot use your feats even if it becomes friendly.

*BBB Madrox or WL Hal would be an example. You've got Warbound assigned to The Atom and Indigo-1. At construction time, Hal does not have the Keyword, so he is not assigned the feat. When you reveal your force, you have him pick "Indigo Tribe" as his new keyword. (Note: it's early, so my head may be fuzzy on this one.)

Note that the requirements of the bold part do not include anything about needing to have been assigned the feat.

How would these work together can i trade the possessed character? (since its friendly) What would happen to Deadman? Would he still be possessing them and thus they remain friendly to me or would be be bounced out and come back? or would he be defeated?