Munchkin Booty Ship Enhancer Question

[Zachary1234]

Normally, can Ship Enhancer cards be moved from being attached to a ship and being active, to being turned sideways, inactive, carried and not used, non attached, at the choice of the owning player?

[MunchkinMan]

No. Once a Ship Enhancers is played on a Ship, it stays on a Ship. There are explicitly stated cards which are exceptions, and the fact that they are so explicitly stated should make it clear that they are exceptions.

[Zachary1234]

I have read somewhere that a ship may be arbitrarily discard during battle,
particularly if it stipulates a running away penalty.

Is this true? Does this apply even without a discard penalty? Does this apply with a discard penalty imposed on the ship by a ship enhancer item?

If the ship enhancer item has or imposes a discard penalty, may that ship enhancer item be arbitrarily discarded in a similar sort of fashion?

[Clipper]

Originally Posted by Zachary1234

I have read somewhere that a ship may be arbitrarily discard during battle,
particularly if it stipulates a running away penalty.

Is this true? Does this apply even without a discard penalty? Does this apply with a discard penalty imposed on the ship by a ship enhancer item?

If the ship enhancer item has or imposes a discard penalty, may that ship enhancer item be arbitrarily discarded in a similar sort of fashion?

It doesn't say you can 'arbitrarily' discard a ship during battle, it says you can discard a ship in that particular case only. There's nothing arbitrary about the case it describes.

When you attach a ship enhancer that has a penalty, I believe it is meant to be interpreted as the ship now having that penalty. So if the enhancer gives the ship an overall penalty, you can now choose to discard the ship the next time you are about to run away from something. You certainly can't detach the enhancer and discard it alone, but if the whole ship is now negative, it qualifies to be discarded via the other rule.

[RL]

Originally Posted by Zachary1234

I have read somewhere that a ship may be arbitrarily discard during battle,
particularly if it stipulates a running away penalty.

Here is what you're referring to from the Munchkin Booty rules:

If your Ship gives you a penalty to Run Away, you may discard the Ship before you roll to flee.

So note that you can't discard it at any time during battle, but only when you've lost and are about to run away.