FEC Command Ability Heaving Masses

[nuttyknatty]

Hi all.

So, does this CA require a hero to be on the boards in order to use it?

[Sutek]

Unlike other CA's it doesn't reference needing to be within a certain distance of a hero.  However the core rules say that that CA's need to be issued so I think there would need to be a hero on the board to do this.  It says you have to pick a friendly model to issue it which would have to be a hero or totem as the unit champion would have been destroyed with the unit.

 

[yukishiro1]

If the question  is whether you have to issue it from a hero - this is sort-of addressed in the FAQ to the core rules. There's a long section on command abilities where it breaks them down into different categories, but this is the only one that seems to fit:

Quote

 Some older command abilities only affect a single unit, usually
the one that issues the command, or do not affect any other
units at all. When this is the case, the command is assumed
to have been issued and received by the unit specified in the
command ability.

For example, the Booming Roar command
ability from the Allherd subfaction in Battletome: Beasts of
Chaos says:
 ‘You can use this command ability at the start of your hero
phase if your general is on the battlefield. If you do so, you
receive 1 Primordial Call point.’

 This command ability is issued and received by your general
(if they are on the battlefield).

So I think the answer here is that you don't need anything on the field to do this except the unit itself - which weirdly in this case uses the CA when it is destroyed, so technically the unit using the CA isn't even on the table any more itself. 

[nuttyknatty]

Thanks👍👍