A. Yes.

A. No, because Unholy Ground produces an Elimination, not a Kill.

A. No. Unlike other Units, the Watcher just loses 1 from his strength when he is “Eliminated”, and Azathoth loses 1 die from his Combat.

A. When replacing a removed Cathedral, you must obey Cathedral placement rules. For example, if you removed a Cathedral from a particular Yellow Sign Glyph’s Area, and all your other Cathedrals were in play, you could only rebuild it in an Area with that same Yellow Sign Glyph.

A. Yes, if such Actions are available to you.

A. No. They simply need to start their Move in an Area with another friendly (non-Reanimated) Unit.

A. Yes, the intent is that Ancients can Eliminate Nyarlathotep with Unholy Ground.

A. No, a Cathedral is not a Unit.

A. Yes.

A. The Ancients are ignored for this purpose. For example, the Ancients need not have a Great Old One for an independent Azathoth’s controller to earn his Nuclear Chaos Spellbook.

A. Yes! For instance, if he Moved using Screaming Dead and then immediately attempted a Desecration, this would cost him a total of 3 Power (or 2 Power, if Third Eye was in effect).

A. No. Elder Gods do not provide Elder Signs for Rituals of Annihilation, except in conjunction with special abilities. Also, since Bubastis can only “Control” one Gate (the Moon), a non-Requires Attention ritual only ever adds 1 Doom. Finally, if you DO use the Requires Attention ritual, you do NOT add another 1 Doom for the Moon’s “Gate.” You only get the flat 4 Doom bonus. Really, it’s Bastet adding 3 Doom, plus the 1 extra for the Moon, so you’re not losing anything.

A. Yes. If you choose to use Zagazig, both sides get the benefits

A. First Zagazig changes Bubastis’ rolled Kills to Pains, and rolled Pains to Kills. Then all of Bubastis’ rolled Kill results count as Pains due to Demand Sacrifice. Sleeper’s rolled Kills and Pains are reversed as per Zagazig.

A. No. They’re not Cultists, though Dreams, Zingaya, and Ghroth treat them that way. Crawling Chaos can never get his “Capture” Spellbook requirement from Bubastis, which means you can’t use Crawling Chaos and Bubastis as opponents in a 2-player game. Except as a prank, I guess.

A. Yes, of course. Elder Gods just inflict results. They don’t roll dice, and they don’t require dice to be rolled for their results to take place. Also, if Bastet is alone, she also still gets her ability to reduce the enemy-rolled Kills by 1.

A. You’d have to Summon them on the Moon, which always counts as an Area with a Controlled Gate.

A. Yes, he can use They Break Through. No, he cannot “Move” the Moon via Beyond One. He also cannot Move a Gate TO the Moon, because there is already a Gate present. He can’t Move Yog-Sothoth to the Moon, but he could Awaken him there, if he had a Spawn of Yog-Sothoth on the Moon.

A. Nothing, unless he has some way to add Earth Cats to his faction.

A. She gets two Power, because Sleeper must first pay 2 Power to Move the two Units. He then gets a refund of 1 Power back, but that doesn’t apply to Bubastis.

A. She gets stuck with a Dark Demon, like anyone else and loses an Earth Cat, Because spells affect her Earth Cats as if they were Cultists, this means she cannot Summon Earth Cats unless her Dark Demon is in play.

A. No, because Control may not be seized from Bubastis, including by a Glacier. I guess you could put a Glacier there if you wanted, but it would have no effect.

A. Yes.

A. Yes.

A. Yes.

A. Yes. But the presence of another Enemy Controlled Gate does not increase this reward.

A: No. Although they aren’t technically “being Captured,” the Action still results in them being Captured, so the answer is no.

A: No. Actual Power was not spent.

A. The Daemon Sultan Faction can change the marker’s position each time you Awaken Avatar Thesis.

A. Yes, of course. For example, say Daemon Sultan Awakened Avatar Thesis, paying 2 Power. The Azathoth Glyph Token is set to 2. Then, on the next turn, a player Awakens the independent Azathoth. As part of that process, he rolls the Azathoth die and scores 7. The Azathoth Glyph Token is therefore moved from 2 to 7. Now, if Daemon Sultan Awakens Azathoth Antithesis, he’ll only have to pay 1 Power.

A. In that rare case, that start area counts as both Daemon Sultan and the other Faction’s start. Place his token there.

A. No. Using the Chaos Gate Spellbook still costs 1 Power.

A. You can only use Cosmic Ruler to transfer a death to an Avatar which isn’t already being Killed in the Battle. In other words, you can’t use it to “double up” Kills in this way.

A. Yes, if no Unit is present. Gates, Chaos Gates, and Cathedrals are buildings, not Units.

A. Yes, even if no Gate is present.

A. Yes.

A. The Daemon Sultan player chooses and they can select any Cultist. This includes High Priests, Eihort Brood Tokens, Brain Cylinders, etc., assuming that Eihort or Brain Cylinders are in this game.

A: Yes. If there is a normal Gate there, it is destroyed. Otherwise, the Daemon Sultan now likely just acquired a nice reward by subverting Control of that Lord’s Shadow for minimal investment. Watch out for Animate Matter! Try and keep a Gryllus around to Scavenge potential Animate Matter situations.

A. Opener gets 2 Power for Yog-Sothoth during the Gather Power Phase. He also gets 1 Doom for having Yog-Sothoth on the Map during the Doom Phase. If he performs a Ritual of Annihilation, he gets 1 point for Yog-Sothoth as a Gate (plus an Elder Sign for Yog-Sothoth as a Great Old One).

As a Gate, Yog-Sothoth can always Summon Monsters into his Area. Unlike other Gates, he can coexist with a normal Gate, and he is never considered to be Abandoned. Cultists do not Control him, nor can they ride him. He cannot be Moved with The Beyond One as if he were a Gate.

A. Yes, because Yog-Sothoth is an Enemy-controlled Gate in the ocean!

A. If Yog-Sothoth is the ONLY Gate in the Area, then yes. If there is another available Gate, then you must replace THAT Gate with Ithaqua instead.

A. Despite this fact, yes, you can Beyond One to Yog-Sothoth’s Area.

A. Yes, to all three.

A. No. The Invisibility Spellbook states that the Unit “takes no part in the rest of the Battle.” This includes all Post-Battle abilities and effects.

A. Yes. You can cycle Units through your Pool in this way to promote them.

A. Million Favored Ones happens after all the Pains and Kills are applied, so the Spawn first Retreats into a neighboring Area and THEN shatters into multiple Mutants. This also means that if a Spawn is Eliminated by a Pain result because it was surrounded by its opponent, you do not receive the Mutants.

A. No, they do not participate in the rest of the Battle and so cannot use their abilities.

A. Dread Curse is not considered a Battle, despite the fact that Combat dice are rolled. It cannot be combined with Channel Power or any other Pre-Battle, Battle, or Post-Battle effects (such as Regeneration, Necrophagy, or even Madness).

A. The victim selects the targets; you just choose which results apply to which Faction. Thus, if you rolled a Kill and two Pains, you could apply the Kill and a Pain to one Faction, and the remaining Pain to another.

A. After the victim selects which Units are Pained, Opener of the Way selects to which adjacent Area each Unit Retreats. He can include Areas that contain Opener of the Way Units (these Units cannot be Eliminated by being surrounded).

A. No, because that Spellbook requires you to apply the Combat results to particular Factions. In the case of Abhoth, once he is back in play the Filth tokens may be targeted, but as the Zoogs are never under the Control of a particular Faction they can never be targeted.

A. Yes. You can keep re-rolling misses (rolls of one, two or three), paying one Power per re-roll, until you run out of Power or all the dice score results.

A. Yes, because it is not an Action—it is simply an effect that you can apply at any time.

A. You and another player will be tied for most Power, so the previous First Player will make that decision.

A. No, because Yog-Sothoth is not technically a Controlled Gate

A. Yes! For example, if there are 4 Enemy Faction Great Old Ones on the Map and Opener Controlled Chaugnar Faugn, then Yog-Sothoth’s Combat would be 11 (8 + 3). However, if Opener also Controlled a normal Gate in the same Area as Yog-Sothoth, you would still only add 3, and not 6, to your Combat in that Area. The ability reads “in an Area,” which means that you get the Combat bonus once per Area rather than once per Gate.

A: No. By Yog existing in an Area with a Lord’s Shadow, he overrides control, so it is no longer an enemy-Controlled Gate by virtue of Yog being in that Area.

A. Yes, it lowers the count. A Gate on Sleeper’s Faction Card is not on the Map.

A. Yes.

A. Yes! Using Energy Nexus does not require it to be your turn, so the rule that your turn is skipped when at 0 Power (or Hibernating) doesn’t apply.

A. No, because returning the Serpent Man is not an Action—it occurs during the Doom Phase.

A. Any Pains converted into Kills become single Pains. I recommend against using Bloodthirst!

A. We recommend defenestration as the quickest way of managing such a player. More seriously, Sleeper cannot use Lethargy if no one else is active; just go ahead and finish out the Action Phase.

A. Ancient Sorcery doesn’t affect the targeted Faction at all. However, I think what you mean is, “how does Sleeper benefit from using Ancient Sorcery on Great Cthulhu or Yellow Sign?” The answer in the first case is that a unique ability that names a specific Great Old One allows Sleeper to apply that ability to Tsathoggua. Thus, if Ancient Sorcery affects Great Cthulhu, Sleeper can re-Awaken Tsathoggua for 4 Power (and will also earn 1 Elder Sign). With regards to Yellow Sign, during the Gather Power Phase, Sleeper will gain 1 Power for each Area containing one or more of his Units plus a Desecration token (which, admittedly, had to be created by Yellow Sign).

A. Yes. Sleeper’s Units are able to fly while burrowing. Tsathoggua is not from this part of the universe.

A. It means that the Action, if tied to Map Areas, must begin in those Areas. For example, you can only use it to Move OUT of the Area (Burrow would apply), and not into it. You could only use Ancient Sorcery if the Serpent Man comes from that Area. You could Recruit, Summon, Awaken, or Capture a Unit in that Area. In a multi-Area situation, such as using Mother Hydra’s Zygote Action, then at least one Recruited Cultist must be placed in that Area. If it is not tied to a Map Area, then you may do it (such as one of Sleeper’s Spellbook requirements that is an Action). You could even do Lethargy if you wanted, but that really wouldn’t make much sense from a strategic standpoint.

A. Yes. This results in an immediate Battle with you as the Attacker, which would be followed by the already-declared Battle, between whatever Units remain. You can only do 2 total Battles in a row (i.e., you cannot use Energy Nexus to “chain” Battles together into an infinite loop). However, you could use Energy Nexus to perform a non-Battle Action before the Energy Nexus Battle, which will happen before the Battle that was originally declared.

A. Energy Nexus simply requires a Battle to be declared in the same Area as your Wizard. For example, if two other Factions Battled in an Area containing your Wizard, Sleeper could immediately Recruit a Cultist. If all the Units involved in the Battle were Killed and/or Pained, then Sleeper could take Control of an abandoned Gate on his turn without having to use his next turn’s Action to Recruit a Cultist there!

A. You may Abandon and/or Control a Gate in addition to your 1 Action, but may not do Unlimited Battle (one regular Battle is okay).

A. Although Energy Nexus takes place prior to Pre-Battle, follow the same rule as to what happens when all Units of a side are removed during Pre-Battle. The Battle ends, no dice are rolled, and no abilities (including Pre-Battle!) can be used. The Power is paid to initiate the Battle, but no Battle actually takes place!

A. No, it only protects against Kill results.

A. No. So long as Tsathoggua is in play, Demand Sacrifice applies to all Battles against Sleeper’s Units.

A. No. The Gate and Cultist under Cursed Slumber are immune to Enemy abilities.

A. Yes, but he doesn’t have to even if it is the only Cultist he has left (since it is protected from all enemy abilities). If he DOES choose to lose it, the Gate becomes Abandoned and now provides Power to all Factions. It can still later be returned to the Map by Sleeper for 1 Power.

A. Yes. The Gate becomes Abandoned, as described in the previous answer.

A. Since they cost 2 Power, they are 2-cost Monsters. You will only receive 1 Ghast per spawning, so it is usually preferable to get some other Monster with Death from Below.

A. Yes, it lowers the count. A Gate on Sleeper’s Faction Card is not on the Map.

A. No. Burrow gives you a refund based on spending 2 or more Power during a Move Action, not on Moving 2 or more Units. In this situation, you would have to pay to Move at least one more Unit to benefit from Burrow.

A: No. The effects of Ancient Sorcery last until the end of the Doom Phase. This means that during Sleeper’s Doom Phase turn, they would be unable to perform a Ritual. If Sleeper tasted the forbidden fruit of unlimited Power they must pay the price. High Priests, Dark Demon, and Brain Cylinders

A. Soulless makes the base reward 0 Power. Gla’aki’s Green Decay modifies that reward to be an Elder Sign (meaning that it overrides Soulless, by changing its reward from Power to an Elder Sign). The Yithian’s Possession adds to whatever the base reward is (whether 1, 0, or an Elder Sign). Thus, a Yithian who Captured a Soulless Tcho-Tcho still provides at least 1 Power.

A. Place the High Priest anywhere on the Map where you have Units. If you don’t have Units, place it anywhere on the Map. You’re probably going to lose this game.

A. Yep.

A. Of course not. He is not your Controlled Gate.

A. No. They must be two separate removals. One per Spellbook.

A. No. Martyrdom only takes effect if the High Priest is actually Killed.

A. If the Tcho-Tcho have this Spellbook and perform a Ritual of Annihilation, then they MUST Eliminate all of their High Priests, even those who do not qualify for Elder Signs. Their only element of choice in the matter is whether or not they perform the Ritual. They could sacrifice their High Priests for the Power reward, and then do the Ritual.

A. No. All Proto-Shoggoths must “vibrate” in the same way, so if you have 4 in an Area, you can either roll 8 dice, OR roll 4 dice and subtract 4 from the enemy dice total; no Mister In-Between. (and if the enemy’s reduction goes to below 0, he still just rolls 0. No negative Combat ratings!)

A. Yes to all—the Unique High Priest acts as your other two “regular” High Priests in every way, EXCEPT that it cannot use the normal Unspeakable Oath ability. High Priests can only use the abilities on their own Loyalty Cards.

A. Because the Tcho-Tcho Sycophancy unique ability applies to the entire Doom Phase, Sleeper can use Ancient Sorcery to gain its benefit throughout that Phase. In such a case, return the Serpent Man to the Map at the very end of the Doom Phase, rather then when it is Sleeper’s turn to perform a Ritual, which is normally when you use abilities in the Doom Phase.

A. No, that is not the intent. It reads “Faction Spellbooks.” Otherwise it would be too gross.

A. Windwalker gets to choose the Gate that is destroyed in the Area (the normal Gate or the Lord’s Shadow). If the choice is between Yog-Sothoth and a Lord’s Shadow, then they must destroy the Lord’s Shadow instead of Yog.

A: Yes. Just rest assured that Baphomet is extracting this toll from someone else, in another part of the universe, tenfold. You still get the Elder Sign(s). If your opponents had you down to just Baphomet in play (it happens), they should have finished the job and Killed him too.

A: You cannot spend real and the “virtual” Power that Eternal Servitude provides in the same Action Phase unless some effect gives them real Power after they use their “virtual” Power from Eternal Servitude. The “check” for Eternal Servitude is at the beginning of your turn, before you can take Actions. Therefore, being at 1 Power is usually worse (but not always) than being at 0 Power.

A: Yes. And if Baphomet is Pained into another Area (provided you have 6 Spellbooks), you may attack again, and again, by paying 1 Doom per Battle per normal Unlimited Combat Rules.

A: In this case, “active” refers to a player that isn’t Hibernating or has more than 0 Power. This always means that The Invasion get the “second-to-last word” of any Action Phase, since the last player who takes the last Action will prevent you from being able to trigger Eternal Servitude again.

A: No. If you are at 0 Power and do not have Baphomet in play, then you’re just like any other Faction when they are at 0 Power, and cannot take any Actions during your turn, even if those Actions cost 0 Power. Killing Baphomet when The Invasion is at 0 Power is an effective way to cripple them.

A: No. If nobody but Sleeper has Power, Sleeper may not continue to use Lethargy, as per the Final Onslaught Rulebook FAQ.

A: Yes, but not the other way around. He couldn’t have 2 (or more) Power and then use Eternal Servitude Power in the same Action Phase. The “check” for getting to access Eternal Servitude’s “virtual” Power is at the beginning of your turn, before you do—or can do—any specific Actions (of any kind).

A: No. Even though you are doing Actions as if you had 2 Power with Eternal Servitude, you never actually had Power during your turn. Hibernate would do you nothing here.

A: Yes and no. If Sleeper is Attacking, then he would have spent 1 “virtual” Power to Attack, and therefore would have another “virtual” Power available via Eternal Servitude. However, if he was defending, he wouldn’t have access to Eternal Servitude’s benefits (because it’s not his turn).

A: No, you are at 0 Power. You have no Power to give. Eternal Servitude doesn’t give you Power; it just allows you to conduct Actions as if you had 2 Power, and only during your turn, anyway.

A: No, as no Power was actually spent. However, Catnapping against The Invasion is still incredibly good; if they “trickle” their Units back onto the board from the Moon, they are likely to be easily picked apart by everyone.

A: No. Upon an agreed “deal,” Blood Offering discards the Elder Sign, giving the deal-making player Doom equal to their total value. The Elder Sign itself never goes into their hands, nor is it even touched by that player.

A: No. Infernolatreia only triggers when you earn Elder Signs. There is no way to give Elder Signs to anyone involved using Blood Offering—you are looking at them to potentially give the Doom value to your opponents.

A: Yes.

A: No. One Elder Sign’s value must be exchanged, and one Cultist be exchanged, to strike a deal.

A: No. Treat them as if they were Captured normally; Torment already has an exception for this as well as Transference.

A: If an effect gives you 2 Elder Signs at one time (like Sacrament of Flesh does when you have 6 Spellbooks), then you’d look at 4 Elder Signs (if you had 3 Lord’s Shadows) and keep 2 of them.

A: It means that it cannot be responded to by abilities like Unspeakable Oath (if playing with High Priests) or Great Cthulhu’s Devolve. Additionally, it means that it doesn’t transfer Baphomet’s Fury more than once per Scavenge activation. If you Killed or were Killed by multiple enemies at the end of any use of Scavenge, then choose which eligible player would receive it.

A: No.

A: You aren’t declaring Battle/Capture with Baphomet, and he’s not in the Combat, so you don’t pay 1 Doom. It’s technically not disabling or deactivating the ability, since Baphomet is not involved.

A: Yes. And you can do so when you’re at 0 Power with Eternal Servitude + Unquenchable Thirst, as the total cost of those Actions is 2 Power and 1 Doom.

A: Yes. Even if the result of that would bring them below 30 Doom, the endgame still triggered, so whoever had the most Doom at the end of the phase would still win. This may lead to ties slightly more often if the players in the lead can’t (or won’t) pay the 4 Power per Fiend-Controlled Gate.

A: No. The Lord’s Shadow is always either Controlled by you, or by another player if THEY have a Controlled Gate in the Area. Since another player does not have a Controlled Gate in the Area, you are Controlling it by default (without a Controlling Unit). You still get to trigger Entropy Siphon once in this situation, though (for the normal Gate).

A: You choose the order of how they trigger. Best to optimize the order of these for maximum damage.

A: Each instance of Entropy Siphon triggers separately. The end effect is that your Doom can never be lowered below what The Invasion’s Doom is, regardless if there are 1 or even 4 Fiend-Controlled Gates.

A: No. He is not “Unit-Controlled” as Eclipse specifies.

A: No. Eclipse only targets Gates with a Controlling Unit.

A: If the agreement amongst players that have Power to contribute to Thousand Forms is not a consensus, then Crawling Chaos gets the Power rolled. This is a situation that only ever would happen if Invasion was in the game, so we included it here. Baphomet’s Combat

A: You can reveal Elder Signs at any time during the game—between, before, or during any Action or during any phase. This means you can reveal Elder Signs after being Attacked, and even after Pre-Battle to boost Baphomet’s Combat value. This has weird interactions as well, like if fighting Ithaqua, you’ll be boosting him too (but only by half ) when you’re revealing Elder Signs.

A: Just because you spent Doom from those Elder Signs doesn’t mean that you didn’t earn it. It’s “gross” Doom, not “net” Doom. We recommend just leaving these near your Faction Card for the remainder of the Action Phase until they no longer have any further effect.

A: If Great Cthulhu had Baphomet’s Fury and faux “Killed” a Unit, but it remained in play (as per Torment) then he wouldn’t receive his “Kill/Devour a Unit in Battle” Spellbook(s), as no Unit was actually Killed or Devoured.
A: If Opener had Units “Killed” via Torment, they would be able to “upgrade” with Million Favored Ones. A: If Crawling Chaos had Baphomet’s Fury and was to Kill an enemy Great Old One, it wouldn’t trigger Harbinger, as that Unit never was Killed or Eliminated because of the replacement effect of Torment.
A: Any Unit Killed/Eliminated pre-battle, like being Devoured by Cthulhu while Great Cthulhu has the Baphomet’s Fury, would stay in play for the rest of the Battle (provided that the Power could be afforded during Pre-Battle to keep that Unit alive). Keep in mind that you calculate/resolve Torment whenever an effect happens, not at the end of an Action. This means that Units could be “spared” during Pre-Battle only to be later lost during Combat resolution if they don’t have the Power to cover those costs. In this way as well, Units can somewhat absorb multiple “Deaths” during a Battle, as those are prevented by Torment (provided those are caused by Pre-Battle abilities). Torment does not change that Units (other than Starspawn) can only absorb 1 Combat result.
A: Windwalker’s Cannibalism wouldn’t trigger if Torment prevented the Kills in an Area.
A: Torment is not a Battle ability and also affects things like Ghroth and Dread Curse. This is not always a penalty and can be used in clever ways to degrade your opponents.

A: Dark Demon: When Dark Demon is triggered by someone else, you will permanently lose a Larvae, although you won’t receive a Dark Demon. If you purchase Dark Demon, everyone else follows the instructions for Dark Demon and you get nothing in return. Seeing as Dark Demons are rather annoying to be cursed with, this is actually a decent exchange for you.
A: High Priests: When opponents sacrifice a High Priest via Unspeakable Oath, it is in turn-order response to whatever Action just occurred. Often times, this means that The Invasion player will get yet another use of Eternal Servitude when High Priests are in use, if they are between the player who performed the last Action and whoever is now “reinstated” into the Action Phase with 2 power. This is important and means The Invasion benefits from High Priests immensely, even though they themselves cannot have one.
A: Brain Cylinders: The Invasion has no Brain Cylinders and therefore gets no benefit for Controlling the Lab, other than preventing other players from being able to trigger Surgery. Don’t worry though; Brain Cylinders are typically easy to capture and are great targets via Scavenge, so you’ll have more “food” for Baphomet in those situations. Also, other players will typically have more Power, so that’s even more opportunity to use Eternal Servitude.

A. Despite the fact that Windwalker is not an active Faction when Hibernating, he does participate in the negotiations for how much Power is lost, and he may choose to lose Power due to Thousand Forms.

A. You gain the Power, but remain under the effects of Hibernation and may take no Actions. You may only spend Power when given the option via Spellbooks or abilities. For example, Rhan Tegoth’s Eternal ability can keep him from being Killed or Pained.

A. If no Gnoph-Kehs are on the Map, Summoning one costs 4 Power. With one on the Map (and three in the Pool), the cost is 3. With two each in the Pool and on the Map, the third will cost 2, and the final Gnoph-Keh will only cost 1. Remember that a Gnoph-Keh Captured by Tsathoggua is not in the Pool, and thus decreases the cost for future Summons!

A. Yes. Obnoxious, eh? It also works with Cultists.

A. No, because that particular Acolyte or Wendigo did not participate in the Battle.

A. Rhan Tegoth’s Eternal ability only cancels the effect of a Kill or Pain on Rhan Tegoth itself, not the effect such a result has on other abilities and Spellbooks. In other words, Nyarlathotep can gain Power or Elder Signs and Cthulhu can earn a Spellbook when the result is assigned to Rhan Tegoth, even when Eternal is used to cancel the effect.

A. No, Eternal takes precedence—if Windwalker chooses to remove the Kill or Pain from Rhan Tegoth, Cthugha cannot spare him.

A. This describes any Actions involving Units that finish their turn in the Area, or that do something to the Area itself. For example, Units can Move OUT of the Area for no extra cost. But moving INTO the Area costs an additional Power (not per Unit, just for the entire Move Action). For other examples, if Yellow Sign tried to Desecrate the Area, it would cost one additional Power. If Cthulhu emerged from Submerge in the Ice Age Area, he would pay one additional Power (but not if he left the Area via Submerge). Great Cthulhu’s Devolve is not an Action, so it is still free, though using Dreams would cost him three Power. Black Goat’s Avatar would cost one additional Power as at least one Unit will be ending that Action in that Area (even if the Unit ending up in that Area is not a Black Goat Unit). Opener of the Way’s Units can Promote after Battle and Sleeper can use Death From Below in the Ice Age Area free of cost, as these are not Actions. If Sleeper declares Lethargy while Tsathoggua is in the Ice Age Area, it costs one Power. If you use a multiple-Area Action, such as if you used Mother Hydra’s Zygote, and placed at least one Recruited Cultist there, it would cost an additional Power.

A. No. These are the only two Actions (Controlling a Gate and Abandoning a Gate) exempted from Ice Age’s Power tax. Unlimited Battle still costs +1 Power to initiate.

A. Yes. They are not ending their Action in that Area!

A. If Yog-Sothoth is the only Gate in the Area, then yes. If there is another available Gate, then you must replace THAT Gate with Ithaqua instead.

A. The victim decides which Unit is Retreated, and to which adjacent Area it goes.

A. No. It may retreat to an Area containing Units, because Howl does not inflict a Pain.Windwalker’s

A. No, they do not participate in the rest of the Battle, and so cannot use their Abilities.

A. Although Howl works on any Unit, rather than the typical specification of a Monster or Cultist, it does not work on the larger Map enemies such as the Bhole, Watcher, Librarian or Custodian. It would, however, work on Zoogs and uncontrolled Slimes. (In the former case, it Eliminates it but does not reflect a Pain back, and in the latter, you choose where the Slime is sent).

A. No. Howl is a Retreat, not a Pain.

A. No. Brain Cylinders turn off their sensors, so they don’t hear the Howl.

A. Yes. The Ghoul did not participate in the Battle.

A. Yes. Treat this Spellbook requirement similar to the way in which every player may reveal Elder Signs at the moment the game ends. This means that Windwalker could also immediately turn in all the Elder Signs he might receive from fulfilling that Spellbook requirement. No one said Windwalker played fair!

A. A Gnoph-Keh on Sleeper’s Faction Card is not considered to be in your Unit Pool. For example, if you had one Gnoph-Keh in play and one on Sleeper’s Faction Card, then the next Gnoph-Keh would cost 2 Power to Summon, because 2 are currently in your Unit Pool.

A. Yes.

A: Windwalker can use Eternal to ignore the effect of the Kill by paying 1 Power. If they don’t, they pay 3 Power instead to ignore the Kill via Torment. If they have insufficient Power at that point, then Rhan would be Killed normally.

A: Windwalker CAN choose to trigger Eternal by paying 1 Power OR they can choose to not trigger Eternal and allow Torment to trigger (provided they can pay for it). Here, Windwalker has an interesting decision: pay less Power but allow Harbinger to trigger, or pay more Power and prevent Harbinger from triggering by allowing Torment to take effect. It’s up to them. The general rule is that Torment is similar to Rhan-Tegoth’s Eternal ability; however, while Eternal ignores the effect of the Kill, Torment instead is a replacement effect that replaces Kills or Eliminations with Power loss (if they are able to pay).

A: You cannot enter an Area with Ice Age via Scavenge unless you are willing to pay 1 more Power, making it impossible once you are on “virtual” Power via Eternal Servitude. If at 0 Power and using Eternal Servitude, you cannot move any Gryllusses into any Area with the Ice Age marker via Scavenge.
A: Using Hellgate to enter an Ice Age Area would cost 1 more, so it likewise can’t be done with Eternal Servitude’s “virtual” Power.
A: Attacking or Capturing with Baphomet would cost 1 Power (in addition to one Doom via Unquenchable Thirst).
A: If an Ice Age is on an Area with a Lord’s Shadow, the cost is +1 to Portend. However, there are multiple costs for Portend. Whatever cost you would pay in any situation, just add +1 to it. For example, if they had 3 Demon Larvae in an Area and they were adding the third Portent in that Area, it would regularly cost 0. However, Ice Age makes it cost 1 more (so 1 total). If those same 3 Demon Larvae were trying to add a 4th Portent to the Area, it natively would cost 4 and Ice Age would make it cost 5 total.