Can a Brood brought in on click 3 be healed to click 1?

No. A character may not heal past its starting line.

Why is that its starting line? Her trait just says to bring it in at click #3, not on its blue starting line. I think you could heal it to click #1, but you also give away 50 points when it's KO'd.

Admittedly it is a little vague, but the fact that we're told to bring it in on a click with a specified point value/starting line makes it seem that was the intent.

Feel free to ask on WIN if you disagree.

It's also been previously ruled that a character cannot heal past a starting line it's been brought in on. It's not in the E and C right now, but I'd be surprised if they let you do it.

Right, but you're not bringing it in on a starting line, you're bringing it in on a specific click number. It's been ruled before that you could heal a replacement character back to click #1 as long as you are using the full point version.

But click 3 is a starting line.

The click # you bring it in on is considered its starting click. It has been ruled that you use the starting line (and point value) associated with whatever click # a piece is brought in on. Also, these Brood are not replacement characters.

As is, there is no specific ruling that covers these, at least that I can find. You're welcome to ask on the WIN, but given all the other rulings concerning these sorts of things, I highly doubt they'll say anything different than normalview has.

Not true. There are some effects which bring in characters on non-starting line clicks. Those character are perfectly okay to heal. For example:



If THERE'S NO END IN SIGHT is used to bring in a Drone on click 3, absolutely nothing prevents you from using that Drone's Regen to heal to click 1. Because click 3 is NOT a starting click.


There is just enough ambiguity here that it wouldn't hurt to ask on WES. I doubt healing is allowed, but I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

From the E&C:
There is a difference between Starting Click and Starting Line. For those Sentry's, click #3 is their Starting Click. Their Starting Line is still the line before click #1.

That's new. Yay stealth-additions!

I would agree that the blue line heavily implies that (in addition to the way they answered the similar Ultron Sentry question). I asked any way.

Note the Ultron Sentry Question on WES suggests what normalview said...
http://win.wizkids.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5129&

I asked on WIN just in case? I have 20pts left over on a Brood team and considering adding on Night Nurse.

That E&C entry doesn't really apply to this.

The Brood isn't beginning the game on any click.

The term "starting click" isn't new. A units search shows it's been used since Brave and the Bold.