Re: [DL] High Noon edits

[phadris <phadris@mciworld.com>]

> >p. 19  under "Timing" it says:  "If troops on Hold want to interrupt
other
> >troops' Hold actions, everyone involved must make Smarts tests."  I would
> >delete the second "Hold", and say if you're interrupting an action you
must
> >make a Smarts test.  I know this is a different interpretation to the
> rules,
> >but it negates a sleaze move.  As it's written, you have a choice to
either
> >step around a corner and get blown away by someone on "Hold", or you can
go
> >on "Hold" yourself, then shortly after come off "Hold" and then make him
> >outsmart you.
>
> This scenario could not occur, since you would not be able to go on Hold
if
> you already moved.

Let me try again:

My opponent has a posse in a barn on Hold.  I need to go in there and roust
them out.  My action card comes up.  I have two choices:

a)  I can either go in there and let them shoot first as they come off Hold,
or

b)  I can go on Hold myself, wait a bit, come off Hold and move in there
(admittedly at half speed).  This would make them beat me in a Smarts
contest to get the first shot off.

I think it's awkward.

Tom Huntington
The Truth Is Yonder