From:	Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE>
Subject:	Re: Fusion Gate (Was Re: Guardian Dracoform)
Date:	Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:16:14 +0200

Loki wrote:
>
> ---Noah Overton <NOAH_OVERTON@*************.OM.HP.COM> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > >>>>
> > Fusion Gate doesn't do damage before the Runners do. You just allocate
> > damage to the Runners, but they still do full damage. Otherwise it
> > would state "Fusion Gate deals damage first." ---Felix
> > >>>>
> >
> > not from what i was told at GenCon by the FASA guy. they said if they
> > cant sleaze it you do card text. then treat rating. it make sense to
> > me your team walk up and gets zapped and then they have to break it
> > down.
>
> That's how it was told to me when we were playing at GC'97 last year, and how
> we've always played it.
>
> The 5 point damage from the card text is doled out first, killing or wounding
> Runners. Then you get go to combat and see if the survivors can hack through
> the gate.
>
> Thus why it has a threat rating of 0/10 (A2). Otherwise it'd be listed as 5/10
> (A2) and just state that the owner of FG decides how the damage is allocated.
>
> Subsequently, a FG on Roboplant would deal it's 5 damage per the card text,
> and then have the runner team face a 1/10 (A2). The +1/+0 would not mean the
> owner of FG gets to dole out 6 points of damage as he chooses.
>
For reasons of a lack of means for information mediation between players
and officials, answers to questions to FASA keep coming through private
channels instead of being publicly announced. I´m glad we´re getting the
newsletter. Then the situation will be over where players interpret the
rules/card texts wrongly and insist on their way to play, even in
officially counted tourneys. Unfortunately FASA/FanPro can´t send
referees to most of the tourneys, and there are too few people who know
the rules and errata and are willing to supervise a tournament without
taking part. Not a single player I know in Germany has ever played
Fusion Gate the way apparently intended by FASA, but I guess it´s too
late for a card text amendment in 2nd Run. ---Felix