First, the rules state, "When A villain card is reduced to 0 or fewer HP, the villain is destroyed and the hero's win the game". This seems to indicate that to win you just have to defeat a single villain (instead of all the ones you may be fighitng), but I can't imagine that is really the case. Anyone know for sure?
Second, when damage is absorbed but abilities proc based off damage dealt is that ability calculated pre or post damage reduction. As an example would Tachyon's Hypersonic Assault (deal each non-hero target 1 sonic damage. Targets dealt damage this way cannot deal damage until the start of your next turn)prevent a target from dealing damage if it had a -1 dmg modifier on it and the sonic damage did 0?
Another more complex example would be in the use of Absolute Zero's abilities and equipment. Let's say he has both the equipment that reduces fire damage taken by 1 and the equipment which allows him to damage a target equal to the fire damage he takes in play. In addition lets also say that he has the equipment that increases all cold damage dealt by him by 1. When something does 1 fire damage to him (resulting in 0 damage inflicted because of the DR) does he get to deal 2 damage to a target as cold, 1 damage to a target or does that equipment not trigger at all?
Sorry if either question has been brought up before I did some searching but couldn't find anything on it.
Only the mian villain is considred the villain. If there are exceptions to the rules in the book (e.g. Omnitron, the Ennead), it is listed on the character card.
If Tachy doesn't do at list 1 damage, the effect doesn't happen. You don't take 0 damage, you simply don't take any damage. It doesn't count as being done, so counter-attacks wouldn't kick in either.
Thanks for the response. I get what you are saying about Tachy having to do at least 1 damage, but don't understand what you mean by "main villain".
For example, last night some friends and I faught against the Matriarch, Spite and Omnitron. Would we have had to kill all three of them in order to win or would killing just one of them have been enough?
At the same time? Trust me, Matriarch is PLENTY hard enough on her own without needing that kind of assistance. Were you playing with like 10 heros or something?
We played with 5 heroes. It was rough. We killed Spite, and got the Matriarch to less than half HP and Omnitron down to 4 hp before the last of us died. That said, we'd played the game wrong in that we didn't realize that you were supposed to reshuffle the trash pile of heroes back into a draw pile after the hero ran out of draw cards. By the end we had multiple heroes with no cards left to draw which was ultimately what led to our deaths (not to mention we only used powers on rare occassions for fear of burning through our draw pile too quickly thanks to that ridiculous Spite drug that makes heroes burn 5 cards whenever they use a power).
That all said, I'm pretty sure we'll play by our own house rules to allow for multiple villains as it was fun to try to win despite the odds.