Hi,

Someone at my venue used HSS to move up to a Skrull who made a successful Skrull roll. The judge allowed the player to continue HSS and move next to another opposing figure to make an attack.

Is that a legal play?

Nope.

filler

They must make an attack from that square. They can continue movement with or without doing so, but can only attack then.

EDIT: D'oh! Ninja'd

I don't that from the rules, and darnit I haven't got the rules handy. I need to explain it to him and show him. What should I show him?

Harpua's post?

lol

I hear you. But I want to be able to refer to it during future games when the call is made again. I'll have the PAC and rulebook, but be without Internet connection.

TIA

Here is the wording for Shape Change

Check out the bolded sentence.

The HSS figure "makes the attack unless there are no targets." That tells me that if the SC is successful the figure tries to find another target from wherever they are. If they can't attack from that square, the HSS figure resolves the action "without an attack."

More specifically, he resolves the free action within HSS that gives the attack. Since you only get one of those during the HSS, there's no way to initiate a second one.

You are allowed to make an attack during your movement when using HsS. If you target a Shape Change figure, then you have declared the attack so the attack must be made from that square. If you can't attack the SC figure, and there is no other eligible target from that square, then no attack occurs.

Terrain is a legal target, as well as objects. If they have 3+ damage at the time of the attack, and there is terrain they are able to target, then they must destroy it.

EDIT

Under the current wording you are not forced to choose another target if the first target rolls shape change. So you don't HAVE to target terrain.

I never realized that they must destroy terrain. You learn something every day!

This is not true under the current rules. Shape Change, as posted above, says:

Shape Change
When this character is chosen as the target of an attack, you may roll a d6. On a result of 5 or 6, the attacker can't target this character with an attack this turn and the attacker may choose another target character instead. The attacker then makes the attack unless there are no targets, in which case the action resolves without an attack.

If your target makes their Shape Change roll and you pick a new target for the attack, the new target must be a character.

Also, per the above wording, changing targets is optional. You aren't forced to pick a new target.

You were forced to make a new target at one point. If I had last years PAC handy, I would take a look.

Yep, I think the change first occurred in the 2011 rulebook.

Dammit! Now I didn't learn anything yesterday. NOOOO!!