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Simplicity
07-15-2004, 01:42 PM
One miracle card I got that seemed overly powerful and confusing was the
transpose enemy armies card. For either two or three faith (I can't
remember which) I could switch the positions of the armies in two enemy territories.

Questions I have here:
1) Do the gods go with?

2) Is there anything to prevent me from throwing the enemy army right
into a plague area?

3) If I transpose gods into a plague area, do they instantly die then?

In the game, I followed this card up with a "Purge the land" card that wipes out a plague marker but kills every army in the territory. So for 5 faith, I transposed my opponents largest army with a plague area's single army. Then I killed everyone in that largest army, including all of the gods. (Which also, because it killed everyone, cost the player a continent.) Finally, because this huge army used to be at a border, I was able to launch a pretty effective attack and took a second continent.

It just seemed like I was abusing the system somehow.

Mike Selinker
07-15-2004, 03:50 PM
1) Do the gods go with?

2) Is there anything to prevent me from throwing the enemy army right
into a plague area?

3) If I transpose gods into a plague area, do they instantly die then?

1) Yes. (The Siren Calls says so.)

2) No.

3) No. The armies have not conquered the territory (see page 5), which is what sets up the next set of effects. So the effect of the plague is put off until the player's next Suffer Plague step.

Mike

Simplicity
07-15-2004, 04:03 PM
Thanks for the quick reply. A few more questions though...

Can this army move on the player's next turn if it cannot *attack* another player? Or does it have to wait for the fortify round? If it has to wait for
the fortify round, then the effect will eventually happen (unless another
miracle is used to save those troops).

I guess another way to phrase the question is: can you "invade" your own
territories, or do you have to wait for the fortify round?

Mike Selinker
07-15-2004, 11:36 PM
can you "invade" your own
territories, or do you have to wait for the fortify round?

No, you can't invade your own territories. If the plague land is way inside his own borders, he may be in trouble. Then again, if he's got so much territory that this is true, he may not be.

Mike