I know it's been discussed in one form or another in different threads but the tactic came up in a game this week and I wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page at our venue.

First, I think we all agreed that you can pick up or put down and object during each of the two moves of HSS (as outlined on the WIN at https://win.wizkids.com/bb/viewtopic...1cc3c74#p29666 ) but the debate was if a figure can move out, grab an object, stop without a valid target to attack (meaning no attack is made), and make another movement to drop said object. In this particular situation, a side point was if the first movement was the full speed and the second movement was a 0 move action to drop it. Can all of this be done?

For what it's worth, it didn't impact the game, but one said you could do it and was a tactic used at a WKO (which aren't already judged perfectly, either), but the rest had never heard of it.

I think that is answered in the WIN link. You still get two movements if you can't make an attack in the middle. Each movement gets to either pick up or set down an object. Moving 0 is still moving and a black box in the rule book notes that

The weirdest decision this current rules team consistently makes is that the attack in the so-called move and attack powers are optional. They said the rules update would make things easier and remove corner cases, but I think the "you don't have to make an attack here" causes more confusion than some of the old rules ever did.

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