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How does First Strike work, and what can the attacker do afterward?
The First Strike card text, its note and the momentum rule say this.
- Commands & Colors: Ancients rulebook · Rulebook · Tactic Cards (17 cards)
- Commands & Colors: Ancients rulebook · Rulebook · Momentum Advance
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Play it after the opponent announces a close combat and before dice are rolled. Your defending unit rolls first as a pre-emptive battle back. If the attacker is neither eliminated nor forced to retreat, it then attacks normally. The First Strike unit is not eligible to battle back afterward and cannot take a momentum advance, while the attacker still can. The attacker cannot evade in response to the pre-emptive strike. Replace the card at the end of the turn.