Question on Side Step skill...

christer · Post by **christer** » Tue Jul 02, 2002 4:31 pm

So a player who is blocked cannot be pushed if there are no empty squares??

You read it wrong..

What Ian said what that if you push a player with sidestep, and all 7 squares the player could choose to be pushed to are occupied, the player may only choose to be pushed into the three "normal" squares and not all 7.

Hope that clears it up..

-- Christer

Ancalagon · Post by **Ancalagon** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:47 am

If we read carefully the LRB description of sidestep we can find this:

The player may not use this skill if there
are no open squares on the field adjacent to this player.

So once all squares have players, this skill doesn't work and the player is pushed to one of the three normal squares chosen by the blocker. I'm right?

christer · Post by **christer** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 7:27 am

That's how I read it as well...

-- Christer

Mestari · Post by **Mestari** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:21 am

I didn't remember having that in the LRB, and I didn't find it there... until I realised that a new version must've been released, and found the 1.2 version.

Well, the way it is worded now seems pretty clear: no free squares = can't use side step = pushed to one of the three squares just like in a normal push-back.