Ascension mission

[Rogue]

Hello

 

In the victory conditions for the Ascension mission (CA2017), characters effectively gain super-objective-secured, and more importantly, gain bonus victory points each turn for holding an objective over several consecutive turns.

 

Those victory points are scored at the end of your own player turn.

 

Here's the situation that arose, and then the question. My opponent went first, and took control of the objective with troops; 1 point to him. I then moved a character onto the objective, trumping his troops; 1 point to me. Turn two, he moves his own character to contest the objective; the characters still trump the troops, but then cancel each other out; no points for anyone. I then kill his character, leaving my character in control of the objective again. How many points do I score?

 

The obvious answer is 1. The enemy character contested the objective for a while, resetting the scoring clock. Turn two represents a new possession of the objective, so scores 1 point.

 

But the (potentially overly-legalistic) other reading of the victory conditions is that you only check to see whether or not you have control of the objective at the end of the player turn. In which case, I controlled the objective at the end of my turn one, and I still controlled it next time I checked at the end of my turn two. That makes two consecutive turns, and 2 points.

 

The victory conditions do specify that a player only needs to control the objective for 'more than one of their turns consecutively' (my emphasis) to score the extra points, so whatever happens in his turn or, and this is the crux of it, any time before the end of my turn when control is assessed, doesn't matter.

 

Or to look at it in a more bare bones way:

Was my Warlord in control of the objective at the end of turn one? Yes.

Was my Warlord in control of the objective at the end of turn two? Yes. So two consecutive turns.

 

So I'd be interested to see what anyone else might think either way.

[BluejayJunior]

I would say you get 2 points. It doesn't say anything about losing control of the objective during the opponents turn.

 

 

 

Or to look at it in a more bare bones way:

Was my Warlord in control of the objective at the end of turn one? Yes.

Was my Warlord in control of the objective at the end of turn two? Yes. So two consecutive turns.

 

This is all that matters. You have a character that controlled it on 2 consecutive your turns. 

[Rogue]

Thanks Bluejay. I was hopeful that someone might chip in with a definitive FAQ or similar, but it's still nice to know that someone else reads it as literally as I do.