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A friend uses the relic "armor of leman russ" but can not use 2pc for counter offensive for fight? he charged with two unit

bananaslot wrote:
A friend uses the relic "armor of leman russ" but can not use 2pc for counter offensive for fight? he charged with two unit

A stratagem is not "an ability", so you can use the Counter Attack stratagem just fine even with the Armour of Russ in effect. The Armour of Russ would have to say "the ability" in order to prevent the Stratagem from working.

Edit: I misread the question, you're asking about charging units. AFAIK we have two contradictory statements for a unit that charged and is selected by the Armour of Russ to fight last, so we need an FAQ to fix it. I am guessing the "If the target unit has an ability that allows it to fight first in the Fight phase, it instead fights as if it didn’t have that ability" is meant to affect charging units, but RaW it does not because it says "an ability", not "the ability".

"An ability" in this case is equivalents to "any" ability, as it is unrestricted. Chsrging units have "an" ability to fight first so are affected.

thank i know but my friend don t believe me

I agree with BaconCatBug's interpretation. I think there is an important distinction between the meaning of "an" ability and "the" ability. I disagree that charging units gain "an" ability to fight first, but rather, that they have "the" ability to fight first, due to the standard mechanic of the game. It seems to me that the intention of the relic is to counteract "special abilities" rather than either ordinary mechanics or stratagems.