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Originally Posted by RobW
The rules you cite from p102 do not contradict this. These are different points. One set describes conditions allowing change of options (from the pointless initial declaration), and the other describes the options you can change between.
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That's not really true, or at the very least not exactly true.
Let's break down the problematic paragraph on 102:
"An
option is a set of actions." -- there are multiple parts to an "option" and these are called "actions"...
"A figure may execute
one option each turn" -- you get one set of actions... "and may
not mix actions from different options." So you can't mix and match. You can't pick Attack
and Defend, or Defend
and Dodge, or Disbelieve
and Change Weapons, because nowhere on the list can you find any of those paired within the same
set. Of importance is that this prohibition on
mixing has only been made is reference to actions, not to movement (which TFT treats as a separate thing).
"The options available to a figure depend on whether it is engaged, disengaged, or in HTH combat at the moment its turn to
move comes." Yes, this is exactly true. When it's
your turn to move, some options are unavailable depending on your engagement status. Really, really important here is that this rule does not speak to what options may or may not be available or what the criterion for those choices will be
after your turn to move. Restrictions on
your turn to act are impossible to make at this point, because everyone gets to move first -- positions, engagement status, range and other details are all in flux until the movement phase is over. This rule about "options available" is only speaking to the immediate, the movement part of the turn.
Now the juicy part: "During a turn, a player may change his mind about a figure’s option, as long as
• that figure has not yet acted,
and
• that figure did not move too far to allow it to take the
new option." <- [note that is past tense]
Wait, why isn't this in contradiction of the rule against mixing actions from different options? Because no actions have happened yet. There's no rule against mixing movement and actions from different options, only against mixing actions with actions from different options.
There is the constraint, given in the second bullet point, that the action you do settle on has to be part of an
option (that set of actions) that followed
the same movement you already executed. You can't have moved too far. Whether or not that finished move was constrained by engagement status, and whether or not that engagement status has changed after everyone has moved,
is not even brought up. It is immaterial.
Not once does this paragraph on ITL 102 say the action you are choosing now, after the completion of movement, has anything to do with your engagement status
at the time you moved. Your move itself was already constrained by your engagement status at the time, and that's over and done. There is no double jeopardy. As long as the move you made agrees with the set of actions found in the
option you want now, and that
option is allowed under your current engagement status, you are fully entitled to pick it. The RAW doesn't prohibit this, in fact it's literally telling you to do it.