Sure, if by "sadly" you mean "happily, with a soupçon of relief." It would go Godzilla on the metagame if it were legal on any old ship. ATC phantom or ATC HLC B-Wing No - just no Sounds like fun for Farlander with opportunist and a HLC, shooting after Wes Janson. Maybe put Jan Ors also in for a 7 dice shot!

When the events have the same timing the active player can decide in which order they are resolved. You can first change the speed and then the direction or the other way around. Even if Juno has MK2 it will stay red. I think it's answered in the FAQs.

Yes, if you defeat two heroes, this will work. If you use Fire Breath (Shadow Dragon, Hybrid Sentinel), Blast (Crypt Dragon), Pincer Attack (Arachyura) or Flail (Merriod) you can achieve that. Hard but possible.

I am not sure but i think you have to shuffle your overlord deck, when you draw the last card. Maybe it is to prevent such scenarios like yours.

I was speaking from the heroes perspective. And i don't think that FFG had the idea of the Rat swarm mechanics in their mind at the time they designed the base game.

You will always roll a blue die when you are attacking, even with bare hands. So they could have stated, that you always roll the blue die and only print the additional die/dice on the weapon cards. That would also work. But now they have 2 different systems, so i understand ND Jones confusion.

Additional.

Just played a quest where this rule may have ruined any chance to win Encounter1. Was playing Cardinal's Plight, E1. Shadow Dragons as an open group. Merrick Failed about 4 times. Yet he escaped with all 4 zombies. Now I get that one of the biggest moves the OL made was to Dark Charm Ashrian into the middle of a group of monsters ( all out of range of her ability) and they just beat her senseless and kept her off the field for a couple of solid turns. Bad enough that is takes forever to kill Shadow Dragons. Unfortunately when one of the Dragons came in as a Rienforcement, there was actually no legal spot to place him on except in the small pathway in front of the heroes. Yeah... On the plus side, still playing E2 and the Cardinal seems to be holding his own. When the Overlord chooses Shadow Dragons as the open group, you should not have any problems. He can't place them in the setup to block your path to the caravan. Put 2 high willpower heroes in the way to block the dragon movements into the small way. Then deal with the Flesh Moulders and go to Merick. If some hero is separated from the other in the first encounter, you have to evaluate if it's worth to get him/her or finish the encounter. Their is a free standup action at the start of the second encounter.

I played with proxies Vader + Predator, Title, ATC Maarek Stele + Predator, Title, ATC Vessery with VI It's very good and a brute force approach. Most of the time you make 2-3 damage. VI on Vessery to strip the shields for Maarek.

We've done that once- the two most tightly scheduled members shared a hero, so if one couldn't make it for a quest, the other took over- when they both played, they managed their hero and the parties ally (it was LoR.) However, this would be less optimal for a regular group of 6. Yeah. That's also our case.

I don't know a solution for a single quest. But in our campaign atm the hero players take turns in playing the heroes in the quests.

If they can cure the condition before this hero has to take his turn, then it's avoidable.

Thank you.