Ride by attack mandatory or optional?

[Valenae]

What meaning of "may" in text Ride-by-Attack.
It is you MAY PIVOT
Or you MAY do special action in place of normal one.

Ride-by-attack CHANGE unit action to special "March" action.
OR
Ride-by-attack ALLOWS unit to make special "March" action

One of case that it affect is TAUNT for example

If enemy unit makes Taunt order after your Ride-by-Attack card you must Charge it or you should do Ride-by-Attack as you don't aviable to do Charge action?

 

[Dean Rothwell]

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?69694-quot-Ride-by-Attack

 

[Valenae]

It is not case that I ask
But anyway It helps to solve Taunt interaction.

Taunt before Ride by Attack. And you cannot use it.

It is not answers mandatory Ride by or not after you use card, but I dont think it affect something.

 

[Alliser Thorne]

It is not case that I ask
But anyway It helps to solve Taunt interaction.

Taunt before Ride by Attack. And you cannot use it.

It is not answers mandatory Ride by or not after you use card, but I dont think it affect something.

Ride-by Attack is just giving you an additional Action that you can select (Maneuver, March, Charge, etc). There is nothing forcing you to select that action any more than you would be forced to any other action.

 

[SupremeLeaderTywin]

I'm not sure I understand the question here.

Taunt happens when the unit activates and forces a charge, which counts as the unit's action for the turn.

Ride-By Attack happens when the cavalry unit would have selected its action for the turn (which is quite a bit later, since there's a free maneuver to consider with a cavalry activation).

If taunt lands, Ride-By Attack never comes out of the Stark player's hand, because the Stark player never gets to "select its action."

Never just "do" an action when you activate a unit. Say "this unit activates." Your opponent might want to play something. You might want to play something. Activations are separate from actions, and quite a number of abilities trigger on them. Don't shorthand this part of the game.

The turn should look like this:
Stark: "I activate this cavalry unit"
Lannister: "This Sentinel Enforcer spends its order token to taunt that unengaged cavalry unit that just activated at short range."


The turn proceeds from there, depending on a number of possible outcomes, but if the morale check fails, Ride-By Attack never reaches its trigger, since the activation's action is forced, not selected.

All of that is a bit academic, however, since the cavalry maneuver triggers on the activation, and has priority according to the simultaneous actions rule... so unless the cavalry commander is sleepy, (or has made some serious positional errors) he's moving his unit out of range of Taunt in the first place.

It's possible, however, even if rare, that the maneuver doesn't happen, in which case you'd proceed as above.