[Torg] many on one

[Kansas Jim]

Mark writes:

>              i have a question thats kinda related to this one. the many 
> one one action ........ i had a situation early on in my games mastering 
> where a character purpously put himself in harms way of 20 nile shock 
> troopers. on my turn i did the 20 troopers doing a many on one action by 
> forming ranks of kneeling and standing and opening fire. the plan of the 
> pc then became apparent, he had an opponent fails card. at the time i 
> let him have his moment but is this technically legal? if the 20 
> troopers all fired individually he would have been wasted.

I had a player try something similar once. The card states "an
opponent's action" so I'm pretty sure my ruling then was that it
would stop one successful attack out of the group, not the entire
group attack. So if the result indicated that six of the Nile
shocktroopers hit, the card would reduce that to five who hit.
(Since five and six successes give the same damage bonus on the MoO,
playing the card in that situation would be useless. But if it
reduced five to four, that would drop the damage bonus down one
step so the player might consider that worthwhile.)

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