Safe Throw & Bombadier? (experimental)

thechosengobbo · Post by **thechosengobbo** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:47 pm

How would these skills work under the proposed experimental rules?

I imagine the bomb would still go off as per a fumble, but would you guys say he effectively gets to treat a fumble as a re-roll (the rules say a catching player MUST throw the bomb, and he's effectively a catching player).

I'm just curious...

alternat · Post by **alternat** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:42 pm

I imagine the bomber frantically trying to extinguish the fuse after regaining control of the bomb, instead...

thechosengobbo · Post by **thechosengobbo** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:45 pm

Ah yes, I'd love to see that hapenning...

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:01 pm

I agree this is something we need to clarify. Probably making it clear that Safe Throw doesn't work with bomb throwing.

Technically you would not need this as the bomb explodes when its done moving and since the bomb cannot be thrown again ... that would be what happened and while I'm 100% confident that this is what the rules say ... I agree its advanced rules interpretion that we don't need to ask of players.

However ... its a doubles roll for Goblin Bombardier so I question if this skill would ever really be taken in the first place (over say Pass or Accurate).

Galak

Marlow · Post by **Marlow** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:23 pm

It is more likly to be when the Elven Thrower Intercepts the Bomb and wants to throw it back...

Smeborg · Post by **Smeborg** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:16 pm

A classic, albeit minor, case of rules clarification creep caused by an amendment to a longstanding rule. Never mind.

I'm not entirely convinced clarification is needed. If you clarify things such as this, you are never finished.

In practice I suggest the Bombardier would take Hail Mary Pass followed by Pass on doubles rolls. So as pointed out above, we are talking in practice about a subsequent catcher of the bomb.

Maybe to make things easier we should just allow "suicide bombers" who choose to blow up in their own square...

Hope this helps

Post by **GalakStarscraper** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:33 pm

Smeborg wrote:A classic, albeit minor, case of rules clarification creep caused by an amendment to a longstanding rule. Never mind.

Adding two words to one skill isn't that big of a blow.

Galak

thechosengobbo · Post by **thechosengobbo** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:30 am

Smeborg wrote:In practice I suggest the Bombardier would take Hail Mary Pass followed by Pass on doubles rolls.

As a well practised gobbo coach, I'd agree. But then again, there will ALWAYS be a couple of nuts who decide to go this route and argue about the rules interpretation. It's not like I'm complaining that (lets say) the whole of the way the blocking system has always worked is WRONG, I was merely asking if there was any interaction between these skills. Little things like that allow the BBRC make what is an already fantastically tight and thought out rulebook a little but tighter.

The less ambiguity, the better.