G.I.Joe Firefight FAQ

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• About Cards: Agent Faces and Sci-Fi are not tapped and in my front rank. My opponent attacks Sci-Fi (so he becomes tapped). I use Agent Faces "Disguise" ability. When I swap Sci-Fi and Agent Faces, is Sci-Fi tapped afterwards? Is Agent Faces tapped?
  Each card remains in the state it was before it switched. So if AgentFaces was untapped, and Sci-fi was tapped, they would switch places soAgent ...
• About Game Play: How can I get more units into my ranks?
  There is no game rule that lets you add more units to your team. You need cards with specialabilities in order to do that. For ...
• About Abilities: Does the "anti-draw" Boost ability (like that found on Recondo) work when my opponent uses a: "This combat is a draw." Boost card, or does it work when our One-on- One combat totals are the same?
  Both. It doesn't matter how the combat became a draw; your opponent's unit is discardedeither way. ...
• About Abilities: In One-on-One combat, I play a Boost card that gives Boost +20 but says that my unit is discarded. My opponent plays a Boost card that says, "This combat is a draw." What happens?
  The combat is a draw. Your Boost ability says that your unit is discarded, so you must discard it.Your opponent's unit isn't discarded. ...
• About Cards: Moray Hydrofoil is manned by a sailor. A vehicle with Collide attacks Moray Hydrofoil. Moray Hydrofoil's Power + Boost card is higher than the vehicle with Collide. What happens? What if Moray Hydrofoil's Power + Boost card is lower?
  In both cases, Moray Hydrofoil is discarded. Moray Hydrofoil's Outrun ability only prevents itfrom being discarded as a result of losing One-on-One combat. It won't ...
• About Abilities: Which comes first, a team untap due to all of a team's front rank units being tapped or the ability Counterintelligence?
  You would use Counterintelligence before the untapping of all your front ranks. Counterintelligencehappens before a player would untap units because all his front line units ...
• About Abilities: Fang III's Evil Eye ability is in play with a Blue APC: Is the APC Blue, Gray, Purple, and Gold or is it just Gray, Purple, and Gold? The second scenario is you now have the Missile-Storm Copter with Eagle Eye alongside the Fang III: Does one ability override the other (for example the first one played or your choice each round)? Or do they stack (i.e all your land and sea vehicles are now all 6 colors)?
  In the first scenario, The APC would just be Gray, Purple, and Gold. If you have both Missile-StormCopter and Fang III in your ranks, the ...
• About Abilities: I use the Explode ability of one of my units. Do I flip a normal Firefight card for that unit in the Firefight?
  No. By the time you flip Firefight cards, the unit with the Explode ability isn't in your ranksanymore, so you don't flip a card for ...
• About Abilities: If I use a unit's Explode ability, when does the unit behind it move up?
  Right away, before you flip Firefight cards. Units in the back rank with no unit in front of them alwaysmove up as soon as possible. ...
• About Abilities: I have BAT v 2.1 in my ranks and my opponent has Barbecue in his ranks. Can my opponent wait until after I use Explode and discard BAT v. 2.1 before he discards Barbecue to Extinguish the Firefight?
  No. Extinguish can only be used just before a Firefight begins. After both players have attacked inOne-on-One combat, a Firefight will break out. Between these ...
• About Abilities: Can a soldier with the Fury ability end up in the back rank somehow?
  Yes. You must put soldiers with Fury in the front rank during setup, but a unit's ability in thegame can move that soldier to the ...
• About Abilities: I have one unit with Long Range. Can I use a Direct Hit card on a unit in my opponent's back rank to defeat him?
  Yes, if you only flip that one Firefight card. If you flip more Firefight cards, the Direct Hit won'tdefeat the back-rank soldier. You must assign ...
• About Abilities: Can I choose to attack with a soldier who has the Stealth ability if that soldier is in the back rank?
  Yes. Even though the rules say you must attack with a front rank unit, units with Stealth are anexception to that rule. ...
• About Abilities: At the start of One-on-One combat, after you draw your Boost cards, if the Night-Attack Chopper is unmanned, can you choose a Pilot directly in front of the Night-Attack Chopper and move it behind the Chopper?
  No. You can't choose a Pilot directly in front of the Night-Attack Chopper with this ability. Inorder to move a Pilot behind the Chopper, the ...
• About Cards: How does Agent Faces's Disguise ability work? If I switch him for Lifeline in the middle of the combat, what Boost number do I use?
  You play a Boost card on Lifeline and look at the white number. Then, you may choose to switchAgent Faces and Lifeline if you like. ...
• About Cards: I'm playing a mixed deck, and I have Agent Jinx, Ninja/Intelligence Agent in my ranks along with some Cobra units and some other Joe units. Can my opponent use Firefight cards on my Cobra units, or does Agent Jinx protect them?
  Agent Jinx's ability lets your opponent use Firefight cards on a maximum of 2 Joe units, but itdoesn't affect how he deals with your Cobra ...
• About Cards: In One-on-One combat, I play Annihilator as a Boost card and lose. Can I put Annihilator into play before I move my back rank unit up?
  No. Units in the back rank with no unit in front of them always move up as soon as possible. Youdon't put Annihilator into the ...
• About Abilities: If I have Blackout in my ranks during a Firefight and my opponent has Mega-Armored BAT in the front rank, do I have to play five Hits on the Mega-Armored BAT or can I get away with just three 1-Hit cards?
  Mega-Armored BAT's ability happens when you start to put Firefight cards on enemy units, andBlackout's ability happens when you check to see which units are ...
• About Abilities: I have Blackout in my ranks during a Firefight and my opponent has Mega-Armored BAT in the front rank, but I only have three Firefight cards and their value is less than 5-Hits. I must put all of the cards on Mega-Armored BAT first. At the end of the Firefight round, there are three Firefight cards on Mega-Armored BAT, is it discarded regardless of the Hit value because of Blackout's ability.
  Yes. That is exactly right. ...
• About Cards: I attack in One-on-One combat using Brawler. Because of Thundering Attack I take an extra card from my deck. That card has a Boost value of "DRAW". Is this One-on-One combat a draw?
  No. Brawler's ability just states that you add the Boost value to your current Boost card, notthat you play it as a Boost, so if ...
• About Cards: I attack in One-on-One combat using Brawler. Because of Thundering Attack I take an extra card from my deck. My original boost card was Dusty. Do I get to add a third Boost card? How should this be played?
  Brawler allows you to draw an extra card and add that card's Boost value to your original Boostcard. If you played Dusty as your original ...
• About Cards: During the first half of a One-on-One combat, Player 2 uses Chief Torpedo as a Boost card. If Player 2 chooses to have the extra combat, does each player draw a new Boost card and have the combat with that drawn Boost card right away? Or does each player draw a new Boost card, and then choose between the two Boost cards in their hands for the next combat? I understand there can be three combats, I'm just trying to determine if the "extra" combat must use the "extra" drawn Boost card.
  The extra Boost card doesn't have to be used in the extra One-on-One combat. ChiefTorpedo's Boost ability has each player draw a card. Then it ...
• About Cards: Chief Torpedo and Big Boa are played as Boost cards in a One-on-One combat, what is the order of play? Does each player draw a new Boost card for the One-on-One combat or draw and place a new card into their ranks before the extra One-on-One?
  When two things try to happen at the same time, the player who is going first in the game does histhing first, then the other ...
• About Cards: Do I have to use Cobra Commander, Enemy Leader's Hideout ability, or can I choose to leave him in the front rank?
  You must move him before each Firefight if you can. The ability is not optional. ...
• About Abilities: I have Barbecue and my opponent has Cobra Commander, Enemy Leader. I discard Barbecue from my ranks to skip the upcoming Firefight. Does my opponent have to move Cobra Commander to the back rank?
  It depends on who's going first this game. Both of these abilities try to happen at the exactsame time, before a Firefight starts. In that ...
• About Abilities: I have Cobra Commander, Sinister Dictator and an unmanned Killer WHALE in my front rank. Cobra Commander gets defeated in One-on-One. Do I get to Emergency Evac Cobra Commander AND discard one of my opponent's front rank soldiers?
  Yes. When Cobra Commander loses in One-on-One combat, he's put into your discard pile.That makes both Cobra Commander's Revenge ability and Killer WHALE's EmergencyEvac ability ...
• About Cards: What if I have Croc Master in play, and my opponent has only vehicles in his ranks? Does Croc Master have 0 Power?
  Yes. Treat the 0 just like any other number in One-on-One combat. In a Firefight like this, if youropponent uses any Hit cards on Croc ...
• About Abilities: My opponent is going first and defeats my Destro, Weapons Supplier in a Firefight. Will Destro's Arms Dealer ability still let my cards give me when I use my Firefight cards?
  No. Destro must be in your ranks when you use your Firefight cards in order for his Arms Dealerability to work. The same goes for ...
• About Cards: Does Destro, Weapons Supplier's Arms Dealer ability apply to cards with both missiles and one bullet? Does Hi-Tech's Tune up ability apply to cards with both missiles and one bullet?
  No. Missiles still count as a type of hit, so if a card has one normal hit and one missile hit, you couldnot use Destro's ...
• About Cards: Dr. Mindbender and Firefly are facing each other as opponents. How do their abilities interact? Dr. Mindbender states draw four and then discard two Boost cards. Firefly says draw your cards and then look at your opponent's hand and discard one. It appears Firefly' ability may work in between Dr. Mindbender's draw and discard. So Dr. Mindbender would allow Player 1 to draw four, and Player 2's Firefly would cause Player 1 to discard one card, draw another one, and then finally Dr. Mindbender would discard two more cards. Or is it a matter of who goes first?
  Dr. Mindbender's ability happens instead of drawing two cards at the beginning of aOne-on-One combat. Firefly's ability happens after your opponent draws cards at thebeginning ...
• About Cards: I am playing Flint, Warrant Officer in my ranks. After a Firefight round, my opponent has no units left. Flint' Engage ability happens after a Firefight round. The rules state a game is not over until the end of the firefight round. Which happens first, the round is over (and thus the game) and then Flint's ability would happen (which would be void at this point). Or would Flint's ability happen first and then the firefight round ends but the game continues?
  The Rulebook says that "You always do any effects that happen when you discard units."Flint's ability is not a discard effect. The game checks for ...
• About Cards: Lady Jaye says you can only flip four cards during a Firefight. Hi-Tech says once you flip your Firefight cards, you can discard all the 1-Hits and flip that many new cards. Because of the wording, you are technically flipping more than four Firefight cards violating Lady Jaye's ability. How does this play out?
  For the most part, Lady Jaye will cancel Hi-Tech's ability. Let's say you have six units inyour ranks. You start flipping Firefight cards, but you ...
• About Cards: I am playing standard rules and have multiple HISS Tanks in play. What happens with the Launch ability in play? Is it cummulative?
  Launch replaces the Missile symbol on the card with 1 Missile and 1 Hit. You only get to use theability once even though you have ...
• About Cards: If I am playing a Joe Deck and have five soldiers in my ranks including Lady Jaye and my opponent has a Laser Viper in their ranks, would I get three or four Firefight cards? Similarly, if I have four units in my ranks, including two cards with the ability Firepower. My opponent has Lady Jaye in play. How many Firefight cards to I get to flip?
  Here's how Lady Jaye works. Each player determines how many Firefight cards he/she would flipnormally, taking into account abilities like Suppressive Fire and Firepower. After ...
• About Cards: Major Bludd, Hired Gun has the Flee ability. How does this work if he's the first card flipped during setup?
  No. Major Bludd does not "Flee" during Setup. ...
• About Cards: Major Bludd, Mercenary Officer releases captives to your opponent's front rank when he is discarded. Are these captives tapped, untapped? In order to have captured them, Major Bludd would have attacked them, making them tapped - do they come back "as is"?
  Yes. The captured soldiers come back in the state in which they left the game. ...
• About Abilities: Alley Viper's Boost ability says that after this combat you may switch the position of any two enemy soldiers. Assuming Major Bludd has captured an enemy soldier already, can Alley Viper switch the position of the captured soldier with a different enemy soldier? For example, Major Bludd had captured a Greenshirt Communication. During the next One-on-One Combat, you use another unit to fight and play the Alley Viper as a boost. Can you then switch the Greenshirt Communications with a higher prize like Hard Drive protected in the back rank?
  No. The captured unit can't be affected by anything. ...
• About Cards: Wet-Suit and Moray Officer's Boost abilities state you may choose one of your soldiers and move it behind a front-rank unit. Will this allow you to "free" one of your captured soldiers?
  No. The captured unit can't be affected by anything. ...
• About Cards: Over Kill is in One-on-One combat against a Moray Hydrofoil and wins. The Moray Hydrofoil is manned by a Sailor when it loses. Moray Hydrofoil's ability says it isn't discarded after it loses. Over Kill's ability says he gets to attack the unit behind the losing unit. Does Over Kill now get to attack the Sailor that was manning the Moray Hydrofoil even though the Moray Hydrofoil is still in play?
  Yes. Over Kill will attack the Sailor behind the Moray Hydrofoil because his ability isn'tcontingent on the front rank card being discarded, it only cares ...
• About Cards: Blowtorch is in One-on-One combat against a Moray Hydrofoil and wins. Will Blowtorch discard a Sailor that has 3 Power or less?
  Yes. Blowtorch would work in a similar manner. The Moray Hydrofoil was defeated even though itwas not discarded, so you would discard the Sailor behind ...
• About Cards: Over Kill attacks, and my opponent plays a "DRAW" Boost card. My Boost card says: "If this combat is a draw, discard the enemy unit." Does Over Kill get to attack again?
  No. Even though the enemy unit was discarded, Over Kill didn't win in One-on-One combat.The One-on-One combat was a draw. ...
• About Cards: If Skull Buster is played as a Boost card on Over Kill, Over Kill more than likely wins. Does Over Kill get to have a second combat before he is discarded?
  No. Over Kill's Rampage ability lets him start a new combat. However, Skull Buster'sBoost discards Over Kill after the current combat. Over Kill won't get ...
• About Cards: I have a SAW Viper that has no supply points. Is he free during Setup?
  No. Some SAW Viper cards were mistakenly printed without any supply points. The rest of the SAWViper cards were correctly printed with 2 supply points. ...
• About Cards: If I win a One-on-One combat using a manned Skystriker with the Strafe ability, does my opponent discard a card in addition to the defeated card (two cards), or just a different card other than the defeated card (one card)?
  If you win a One-on-One combat using a manned Skystriker with the Strafe ability, then youropponent would discard the card that lost, as well as ...
• About Cards: My Slice is in One-on-One combat with one of my opponent's units. His Boost card is Dusty. Dusty is discarded and my opponent uses the top card of his deck as his Boost card. Does my opponent add Dusty's Boost number to his new Boost card?
  No. Slice's ability means that you get to discard your opponent's Boost card before itdoes anything. Ignore everything it says. Then your opponent gets a ...
• About Cards: My Snake Eyes, Covert Mission Specialist wins in One-on-One combat against Cobra Commander, Sinister Dictator. Can I move Snake Eyes to my back rank before my opponent uses Cobra Commander's Revenge ability?
  It depends on who's going first this game. Both of these abilities try to happen at the exactsame time, right after the One-on-One combat ends. ...
• About Cards: How does Zartan's Shapeshift ability work if I copy a soldier like Lifeline? His ability refers to "Joe soldiers."
  The ability probably won't help you much. Zartan will become a gold, 4-Power soldier with theMedic ability that says, "Your other Joe soldiers get +1 ...
• About Cards: What happens if I copy my opponent's Zartan with my Zartan?
  You only get one chance to copy. If you copy Zartan, your Zartan stays as a gold, 4-Power soldier.You won't get another chance to copy ...
• About Cards: What happens when Zartan comes into play in the middle of the game?
  Nothing special. He only gets to use his Shapeshift ability right after setup, so he will stay as a4-Power soldier. ...
• About Cards: If Zartan is used to copy a soldier in my opponent's ranks and the soldier's ability refers to that soldier by name, will Zartan gain that ability regardless of the name? For example, Zartan copies Roadblock, Combat Camo Soldier, whose ability says "Roadblock gets +2 Power in One-on-One combat." Will Zartan, who is copying Roadblock, get +2 Power in One-on-One combat?
  Zartan will count as that soldier when the ability refers to their own card. But effects that say thingslike "All Joe Soldiers get +1 Power" ...