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Unit Abilities
Hearthkyn Warriors, Hernkyn Pioneers
- Does successfully obtaining any CP from the Ruthless Efficiency detachment rule (“If, at the start of any of your Command phases, any of those [enemy units that are selected to have two judgement tokens] units have been destroyed, you gain a number of CP depending on how early in the battle you destroyed it, as shown on the right [you can only gain CP in this way once per battle, and CP gained in this way are an exemption to the Core Rules that limit the maximum number of CP you can gain per battleround to 1.]”) prohibit a player from accumulating another CP in the same battle round from another source, such as from rolling a 5+ via the Comms Array ability?
The Verdict: Yes. Ruthless Efficiency detachment ability itself specifies that CP gained in “this way” (i.e. as a result of Ruthless Efficiency) are exempt from the 1CP limit. It does not state that further CP generation may also occur. The Rules Commentary (Version 1.2, p.4) also now countermands the wording of the ability and it does count against the additional CP stipulations The Core Rules state that “Outside of the CP players gain at the start of the Command phase, each player can only gain a total of 1CP per battle round, regardless of the source” (CR, 10). If the CP generated via Ruthless Efficiency are not supposed to count towards 1CP cap, a further rule would have to be added stating that they themselves are exempt (as they are now) and that they do not “count towards” the 1CP cap. No such rule exists and therefore the Ruthless Efficiency CP prevent other CP being farmed through other means.
No other commentaries seem to have addressed this as of 03/2024.
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