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If an event says you may do X to do Y, can you still do Y when X cannot be carried out?

Posters split on this, the rulebook text points both ways, and no designer answer exists.

  • Triggersten · Community · 2025-06-11
  • Adrian2 · Community · 2025-06-11
  • NeedlesandPins · Community · 2025-06-11disagrees
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  • pietu85 · Community · 2025-04-12disagrees
  • Tronin · Community · 2025-08-02
  • Black Orchestra rulebook · Rulebook · Resolving Effectsdisagrees

Probably not. The stronger reading treats X as a cost: if you cannot pay it, Y is lost. The rulebook's general rule that an unresolvable effect does not block the others points the other way, and no designer ruling settles it.

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