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One of the changes I have noted from 5th to 6th is the absence of the rule preventing you from trying to seize the initiative from someone who has already seized it from you.

Thoughts?

Find permission to seize the initiative a second time.

I'm not. I'm seizing it for the first time. Find a rule that says permission to seize is limited to one roll.

You dont have permission

"Next, the person who deployed his army first starts the first turn unless his opponent can Seize the Initiative"

If you were going first you have no permssion to ever StI.

Now you have to prove you do, when the rule explicitly only gives permisison to one player.

"If a player who is due to go second wishes to seize the initiative, he can roll a D6..."

If you follow the definition of the rule, it says that the player who is "due to go second" which has nothing to do with who deployed first.

"Next, the person who deployed his army first starts the first turn unless his opponent can Seize the Initiative"

"If a player who is due to go second wishes to seize the initiative..."

Conclusion, the person who deployed first has no option to Seize the Initiative, as only that persons opponent is given the allowance to Seize the Initiative.

You can not look at one sentence in a vacuum. You have to take all of the rules into account and look at the context of the section.

What DR & nos 1001 said. It's a Permissive ruleset, Kitzz. If the rules don't say you can do it, then you can't. There is no 'rule' by omission. That's pretty much *all* games from soccer to M:tG.

Yer easteregg hunting.

BTW: have you tried this on an opponent?

Kitzz wrote:"If a player who is due to go second wishes to seize the initiative, he can roll a D6..."

If you follow the definition of the rule, it says that the player who is "due to go second" which has nothing to do with who deployed first.

"Next, the person who deployed his army first starts the first turn unless his opponent can Seize the Initiative"

That's all it says. The only time we even look at the Seize sidebar is for the person who didn't deploy first.

If you deployed first and they seized, there's nothing that says you can seize in return... you're not the opponent of the person who deployed first.

Kitzz wrote:"If a player who is due to go second wishes to seize the initiative, he can roll a D6..."

If you follow the definition of the rule, it says that the player who is "due to go second" which has nothing to do with who deployed first.

So you're ignoring the rule that allows you to Seize the Initiative?

Why are you doing that?

I gave you the definition of the rule, in bold, that allows you to find out with StI actually does. It gives no allowance for the person who went first to ever, ever, seize.

Not only easter egg hunting, but blatantly ignoring a rule to do so.