Sidestepping, Chain Pushback and the Follow up

[someone2040]

I had this come up last game, and it was an interesting little thing.

I had an opponent push my Saurus into my Skink (Had to get the Saurus tackle zone off the ball carrier). My Skink had sidestep, so I chose to sidestep into the square the Saurus was in, as follow ups are done after pushes.

I'm just wondering if that was actually the correct order of events, as the Chaos Warrior had no option to follow up in the end.

[halinn]

The push by the saurus is also done before his square is open, so no sidestepping in there, either.

[someone2040]

You think so? I just gathered that because the Saurus was moved into the square with the Skink, the Skink immediately has to vacate it.

But I guess looking at it as another push (And hence, the Saurus follows up) is probably the correct way to look at it.

[Grumbledook]

yer I dont think you can do that

think of the pushbacks as a simultaneous instance you can't sidestep through someone being pushed at you to where they are

also, the square they left has to be open for the blocker to follow up into, again a simultaneous way of thinking of the actions in a turn based game would dictate against sidestepping like that

[DoubleSkulls]

You can't sidestep in the square occupied by the player pushing you.

[Smeborg]

I find it easiest to think of most BB situations as strictly sequential (one step at a time).

In the case of a pushback:

- The opposing player is pushed back (with relevant skill use such as Sidestep).
- The blocking player chooses whether or not to follow up.
- The blocking player follows up (if this is what he has chosen to do).

Following the sequence order makes life simple and tends to reduce potential rules questions.

Hope this helps.

[zephard]

For some odd reason I did not think you could use Side Step on a chain push. Don't know why.

[khudzlin]

must come of playing too long with skijunkie's javabbowl -- it won't let you, though the rules clearly say you can