Question the First:
I think we did this properly, but I just want a second opinion. Last night, we my group had Absolute Zero, Bunker, Haka, Mister Fixer, and Tempest taking on Citizen Dawn. At one point Dawn had a handful of Citizens, “Return With the Dawn,” and both copies of “Luminous Leadership” in play. Absolute Zero busts out “Fueled Freeze” (destroy up to 3 Ongoing cards; deal that much damage to all non-heroes) removes “Return with the Dawn” and the “Luminous Leaderships,” and damages Dawn and her cronies.
Now, am I correct in understanding that for “Fueled Freeze,” any Ongoing cards are fair game: AZ’s own, other heroes’, the villain’s, anything? It just seems odd that this card allows you to take the villain’s stuff, then knock them down, especially since AZ’s powers tend to run toward a “hurt myself to hurt them” theme, not so much “hurt them to hurt them some more.”
Question the Second
This question concerns the validity of targets. The rulebooks’ Glossary says a Target is “anything with hit points.” Some cards specify targets: “Any non-Hero,” “any target besides the Villain card,” “any Villain card,” etc. In the same game outlined above, Citizen Dawn had “Merged with the Power of the Sun,” so the heroes were mostly kicking back and building up for when she flipped back and we could start hammering her again, managing environment cards and whittling down the Citizens for knockout blows when Dawn flipped.
Anyway, AZ had both Cryo Chamber (+1 cold damage taken, -1 fire damage taken) and Null-Point Calibration Unit (cold damage taken is converted to healing) on the table. Mister Fixer had Grease Monkey Fist (+1 damage, choose damage type) and Pipe Wrench (+1 damage dealt, -1 damage taken). Absolute Zero had taken some pretty nasty beatings so far and needed some help, so Mister Fixer would target AZ with his Strike power, dealing 3 cold damage, allowing AZ to heal three HP.
Again, Strike says “Deal 1 target 1 Melee damage,” and the rulebook says “Target: Any card with hit points.” So, unless a card or power specifies a type of target, the heroes can slap each other around? Admittedly, outside this circumstance, why would you want to, but the question is posed: With no specifics called out by the card/power used, is it legal for heroes to target each other?
Thanks in advance for clarifications and opinions!
-CSR
