War Chest
When does the Pikeman remove a coin from its attacker?
The designer answered this directly in 2018, consistent with the rulebook.
- War Chest rulebook · Rulebook · Pikeman
- Skirmish_Tactics · Designer · 2018-10-13
- morganp · Community · 2022-05-01
- lukesheeley · Community · 2018-10-23
Whenever an adjacent unit attacks it, at the same time as the attack and whatever the result. That covers tactic attacks that end adjacent (Cavalry, Lancer) and a Knight attacker, even if the Pikeman has a single coin. Ranged attackers two or more spaces away (Archer, a non-adjacent Crossbowman) lose nothing. The coin goes to the box, and the Pikeman's effect is not itself an attack.