Scenario last night in a game we weren't sure of the order of operations for. In turn 1 a hacker managed to land Immobilize-1 on Ajax In Ajax's next ACTIVE turn he attempts to use reset to remove the status. The hacker is still within ZoC so they declare a hacking attack as their ARO The question: Since Ajax is not attacking the hacker is this two normal roles or a face to face? Both scenarios presented questions we were not sure how to answer. Two Normal: Ajax is taking the action on himself as a normal action (as it is his turn, and as stated in the rules for reset that is a normal action in the active turn). Then the hackers attack is resolved again (and Ajax would get his BTS save if the attack was successful). So there are several outcomes here Ajax successfully resets and then the hacker succeeds on a new attack and Ajax fails his BTS (thus refreshing the turn counter on Imm-1) Ajax successfully resets and the hacker fails Ajax successfully resets and the hacker succeeds but Ajax makes his BTS save. Ajax fails his reset and the original Imm-1 is still in play Ajax fails his reset and the hacker lands the new attacks, and thus Imm-1 duration is refreshed? Face to Face: Ajax roles off against the hacker, and if he loses does the new attack land or does the old one just stay? Does the turn counter on immobilize refresh, or does it just negate the reset attempt? If he succeeds, does the original go, and then a new one potentially lands? Thus also refreshing the duration?
It will be a FtF Roll. If Ajax wins he will both cancel the IMM-1 state and stop the incoming Hacking Attack. See the FAQ on http://infinitythewiki.com/en/Reset
That's actually what confused us, because in that scenario Ajax is not resetting the second attack, but taking the action on himself. So does that also apply to heals / console interacts etc? i.e. if Ajax had been say, applying a med-pack (I know he doesn't have one, but if he did, because there are MI and HI that have them), the hacking attack would also have been FtF? Or is this special because Reset is a 'hacking' action?
but he is not? He declared reset as a normal action in his active turn. The attack that effected him was in the previous game round. The new hacking action is the ARO against that normal action.
The order declared doesn't matter, Ajax is resetting and a Hacker is attacking him, so the roll will be face to face.
Ah, you may be getting mixed up with timing. As long as a trooper declares Reset and a Hacker hacks them in the same Order, it's a Face to Face Roll. It doesn't matter who declares which Skill first, they're all resolved at the same time.
