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Can a shut-down robot fire its laser or use upgrades?

Posters lean one way, but the current rulebook never mentions lasers for a shut-down robot, so this is a best reading.

  • jgrundy · Community · 2008-04-13
  • Phil Fleischmann · Community · 2015-11-06
  • markgravitygood · Community · 2012-01-23disagrees
  • RoboRally rulebook · Rulebook · Shutdown

Probably not, but the current rulebook does not say so outright. It says a shut-down robot resolves no programming cards, and two of the three posters take that to stop its main laser too. Older rulebooks state that a powered-down robot cannot fire weapons. A minority reading holds that lasers are not cards and still fire.

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