Reply: Virgin Queen:: Rules:: Re: Response Cards in General as events

by SW_Cygnus

zackss wrote:

Swiss Mercenaries

If played by France or Ottomans, the French player places 4 new French mercenaries. If played by any other power, place 2 new mercenaries. Mercenaries are placed in any combination of spaces already containing friendly land units (even just before a field battle or assault), but not in a stack under siege. May also be used as an event card to add mercenaries in a player's own impulse.

There's no question about all the cards that in one of their options say "play as an event". Those cards obviously can (and must be played that way for those effects), but I don't see any reason to think that the "some" text in the action round rules refers to all responses without triggers rather than just the response cards that provide a event option, as HIS had the same rules text and had to add special card text to those response cards which had the option.

Very true Zack, all of the restrictions of play can be found on the response cards in HIS (and VQ). In HIS, every response card has restrictions on it, whether it can be played as an event, or as a response.

In VQ the number of response cards has more than doubled, from eight to eighteen. All I am postulating is that each card has all the specific restrictions for play already on each response card. In the case of Experienced Pilot, no restrictions are listed. In this case, the card could be played as an event (a power's card play), or as a response during an action round.

On the other hand, Dragut Falls, has two options and the first option has a restriction. The first option is restricted by stating, "Play just as a stack containing Dragut has been involved in a combat or piracy attempt". This first option can only be played as a response to a naval combat or piracy attempt involving Dragut. The second option has no restrictions so could be played as a response OR as an event.