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From: Kent Riskedahl <krrisked@****.CO.NET>
Subject: Re: Crash Confusion...?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:10:05 -0500
I am confused about the importance of whether Crash would take out all of
the electrical challenges at once or one at a time. You still do the
challenges one at a time.
Say that you are playing a 4-player game and you know that 2 of the
challenges are electrical and one is not. You still have to get by that
last non-electrical challenge.
As for taking out all electrical challenges before you've even seen them
is stupid for a number of reasons.
1. Why should your opponent reveal to you what challenge he has down if you
are not going to encounter it? It's better to leave it as a bluff.
2. Most people who use Crash are also using Browse. You can find out for
yourself what the challenge is. If Crash is used the way some people are
saying, it would be like a superbrowse on all objectives.
3. Player puts an objective face down. You don't know what it is, but you
don't want to leave it undefended so you put a challenge down. The player's
next turn, the objective is flipped over and you realize that your challenge
is invalid. Do you pick it up and put it in your discardpile?Noooooo!
Leave it as a bluff until you can get some legal challenges.
4. What if you do Crash on an objective that removes all the
challenges(coincidentally) and then another player plays Change of Plans?
That objective is left undefended for the next player.
5. Also, on Objectives like Urban Brawl, it doesn't matter what kind of
challenge it is, just that it isn't a bluff. You couldn't Crash it since it
is a threat rating challenge now.
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