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From: Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE>
Subject: Re: GAQ, Wanted, and Combat
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 05:28:37 +0200
Jon Edwards wrote:
>
> >>The exact text is "...trash wanted afetr resolving combat..."
therefore
> >there
> >>must be combat to trash wanted, if you GAQS the runner there is no
> >>combat and
> >>wanted stays.
> >
> >Exactly. The important point here is that resolving combat doesn't mean
> >the wanted runner has to die. If there is combat the card is trash,
> >whether or not someone dies.
>
> This brings up an interesting question, and one that is open to anyone, but
> most specifically directed at Loki and Tony....
>
> What defines combat, and more pointedly, if a Green Apple Quicksteps is
> played on a runner taking up a Wanted, does that count as a combat action,
> or pre-combat?
>
GAQ is pre-combat, since combat only consists of calculating damages and
body losses, and no Stinger can be played into an ongoing action (not
meaning a run, which is a chain of short actions), only before or after.

Felix

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