This is something I can't figure out from the 3.0 base rules - when two abilities resolve at the same time, the player whose turn it is gets to choose the order of resolution. But that doesn't address when you have to declare such abilities in the first place. For example, a bunch of stuff in this game now happens "at the start of the hero phase" - notably heroic actions and battle tactics, but also stuff like Blood Tithe. Many of these things are optional, and in many cases it's extremely beneficial if you can wait to declare them until after your opponent declares their battle tactic (i.e. responding to slay the warlord with finest hour, using blood tithe to move a unit away after your opponent declares a plan that involves killing it, etc).
To the extent that sequencing matters, the player whose turn it is chooses the order of resolution - but that doesn't answer the question of order of declaration. My read is that because declaring a battle tactic is mandatory, that gives the opponent a chance to react to that by exercising any optional ability they may have that also occurs at the same time. Does this seem right? The heroic action example is complicated further by the fact that the player whose turn it is has to declare first, making it clearer that the player whose turn it isn't gets to react to that choice, and thus presumably also to the battle tactic - unless the player whose turn it is can elect to do heroic actions first, and only declare their battle tactic after they're all done?
When both effects are optional, I honestly have no idea what you're supposed to do if both players are playing "chicken" and want to wait for the other person to declare. A concrete example would be that it's my opponent's turn, and I would rather wait to see what heroic action he picks before I choose whether to use Blood Tithe, but he'd rather wait to start declaring heroic actions until I declare whether I'm going to do anything with Blood Tithe. Do you just have to roll off and whoever wins can force the other player to declare whether they'll use theirs first? Is there some answer to this conundrum I've missed in the rules?
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This is something I can't figure out from the 3.0 base rules - when two abilities resolve at the same time, the player whose turn it is gets to choose the order of resolution. But that doesn't address when you have to declare such abilities in the first place. For example, a bunch of stuff in this game now happens "at the start of the hero phase" - notably heroic actions and battle tactics, but also stuff like Blood Tithe. Many of these things are optional, and in many cases it's extremely beneficial if you can wait to declare them until after your opponent declares their battle tactic (i.e. responding to slay the warlord with finest hour, using blood tithe to move a unit away after your opponent declares a plan that involves killing it, etc).
To the extent that sequencing matters, the player whose turn it is chooses the order of resolution - but that doesn't answer the question of order of declaration. My read is that because declaring a battle tactic is mandatory, that gives the opponent a chance to react to that by exercising any optional ability they may have that also occurs at the same time. Does this seem right? The heroic action example is complicated further by the fact that the player whose turn it is has to declare first, making it clearer that the player whose turn it isn't gets to react to that choice, and thus presumably also to the battle tactic - unless the player whose turn it is can elect to do heroic actions first, and only declare their battle tactic after they're all done?
When both effects are optional, I honestly have no idea what you're supposed to do if both players are playing "chicken" and want to wait for the other person to declare. A concrete example would be that it's my opponent's turn, and I would rather wait to see what heroic action he picks before I choose whether to use Blood Tithe, but he'd rather wait to start declaring heroic actions until I declare whether I'm going to do anything with Blood Tithe. Do you just have to roll off and whoever wins can force the other player to declare whether they'll use theirs first? Is there some answer to this conundrum I've missed in the rules?
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