Question on Side Step skill...

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Question on Side Step skill...

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The rule says:

A player with this skill is an expert at stepping neatly out of the way
of an attacker. To represent this ability, his coach may choose which
square the player is moved to when he is pushed back, rather than
the opposing coach. Furthermore, the coach may choose to move
the player to any empty adjacent square (from where the block
occured), not just the three squares shown on the Push Back
diagram. Note that the coach may choose which square the player
is moved to even if the player is knocked over after the push back.

Q: How do you interpret the "from where the block occured"? is it the blocking or the defending players square....
if attacker - wouldn´t that mean that a defending player could potentially side step the the "6 o´clock" square of his attacker?

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The defending player can side step to any of their adjacent squares. They can not move into the attacking players square because the attacker follows up after the defender has moved, and it is therfore not an empty square.

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Post by High & Mighty »

from where the block
occured), not just the three squares shown on the Push Back
diagram.
If they meant adjacent to the blocker's square, there wouldn't be that caveat about not just the three squares shown in the Push Back diagram.

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Post by Nagash »

High & Mighty wrote:
from where the block
occured), not just the three squares shown on the Push Back
diagram.
If they meant adjacent to the blocker's square, there wouldn't be that caveat about not just the three squares shown in the Push Back diagram.
yep - nicely pointed out - also it says:"Furthermore, the coach may choose to move the player to any empty adjacent square...." Obviously that rules out side stepping your player directly behind the blocker....
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If your opponent follows up, yes u can take his starting square, because it is adjacent (by definition of a block) to u at the start of the block. If he does not follow up best u can do is end up next to him again.

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If your opponent follows up, yes u can take his starting square, because it is adjacent (by definition of a block) to u at the start of the block. If he does not follow up best u can do is end up next to him again.
Only problem is, you have to decide where to sidestep before the blocker decides whether to follow up, so during the moment you have to decide, the blocker's square isn't eligible.

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If thats so then it has been changed in that respect since 3rd edition.

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Since you've always had a resolve push backs before follow ups you've never been able to move into the blocker's square. :wink:

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Correct Ian .. that's the point .. you CAN'T side step into the bockers square .. that would be like blocking him again!!

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Post by longfang »

Did my earlier post not say all this. Hmmmm lets reiterate.........
longfang wrote:The defending player can side step to any of their adjacent squares. They can not move into the attacking players square because the attacker follows up after the defender has moved, and it is therfore not an empty square.
yep, thought so!.

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I just love Longhfangs "grumpy " way of repeating himself.

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Post by Ancalagon »

On the spanish board we were talking about sidestep too and some questions had no clear answer:
What happens to a player being pushed by a sidestep player who has been blocked? Who chooses were has to go this third player? I used to think that after first player is pushed (doesn't matter if he has sidestep or not) the rest of players were pushed into the square chosen by the owner of the player.

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Post by longfang »

So long as you stay within the rules for push backs, the attacking player can choose where they are pushed back too.


Is there some kind of spacial anomoly on Talk Bloodbowl at the moment, cos I keep getting these strange feelings of "deja vu"?

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Ancalagon wrote:What happens to a player being pushed by a sidestep player who has been blocked? Who chooses were has to go this third player? I used to think that after first player is pushed (doesn't matter if he has sidestep or not) the rest of players were pushed into the square chosen by the owner of the player.
A player with Side Step always chooses where to go if pushed back. IMO that this applies if the player is pushed back as a result of a push back on another player.

It also applies if there are no empty squares around the player - he still chooses which of 3 squares he goes back into. In such a circumstance he can't choose any square.

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So a player who is blocked cannot be pushed if there are no empty squares?? if think I'm getting mad...

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