Subject: Playing Cards Without Available Units

Q: Can you play a card on an area (flank) when there are no units there to be ordered (whether or not you have other playable cards in hand)? Basically, can you play an "unplayable" card?

A -- Yes. A player may play any card from his hand. In our original rules we wrote... "It is possible that a player may hold cards that will not be an effective card to play." Example: A player holds a "Bombard" card but has no artillery units. Or he has no units on this left flank but holds a Probe Left (order 2 units) card. In either case the player may play the card, and do nothing. The intent of this section was to explain that not all cards you hold will always activate units. It was never our intent to have players only play cards that could activate units.

Richard Borg
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