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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha
No, you declare All Out Defense when you see the need while being attacked, during your defense "turn", having to declare it first during your previous attack "turn" would mean you're psychic.
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Nevertheless that's how it works. When you choose Maneuvers at the start of _your_ Turn you can pick All-out Defense and are in All-out Defense until the start of your next Turn. this si the only way you can get the benefits. There are not separate "Attack" and "Defense" parts of your Turn. There is only your whole Turn and you must chose at the beginning of that Turn.
So AoD and AoA are temporally asymmetrical. With AoA you give up an attack _now_ to gain a Defense benefit lasting 1 second. With AoA you give up all Defense in the next 1 second for an Attack benefit _now.
This is why choosing AoD does not signal to the canny fighter that he's free to AoA. That tends to work out badly for the guy in AoA.