The issue is this: If you teleport using Farmer Maggot while facing an auto-attack, and you end up at a different site that also has an auto-attack (e.g., weathertop), what happens (assuming you want to do stuff at weathertop)? There seem to be three options:
(1) You may play stuff immediately. You've already faced your auto-attacks for the turn, so there's no need to face more.
(2) You must face the Weathertop auto-attacks, since you have not dealt with the auto-attacks at your current site.
(3) You may do nothing. You had your one chance at entering a site, and you took it, but the ability to play stuff during the site phase depends on the site that you actually enter. Since you didn't enter Weather top (and it's too late for that now), you cannot do anything.
Note that if we go with (3), it will not matter whether the site teleported has an auto-attack. You will not be able to do anything no matter what.
I'm pretty sure (1) is wrong. Here's why:
Also from MELE: "the company must face any automatic-attacks located at the same site before [an ally, item, or faction] can be played."MELE Rules wrote:Before a company can attempt to play an item, ally, faction, or other card that is “playable” at its current site, it must face the site’s automatic-attacks. The company need not defeat the attacks, it merely needs to resolve the attacks normally (such attacks can be canceled).
Now the question is whether (2) or (3) is right. There's not much help to be found here....
Any thoughts?MELE Full Player Turn Summary -- site phase wrote:In the order you decide (i.e., you decide which goes first, second, etc.), each of your companies may:
• do nothing or
• follow this procedure:
1) Enter its site.
2) If the site has an automatic-attack, it attacks the company. The attack is resolved normally.
3)If the site is untapped, a character in the company may attempt to play an item, ally, or faction that is “playable” at that site. Tap the character and the site. Certain resource cards other than items, allies, and factions are playable during the site phase and state the conditions under which they may be played. Such a card only requires an untapped site if it states that the site taps when played. If a tapped site should become untapped, an additional resource may be played that taps the site. Anytime a resource card is played that taps the site, one additional character may tap to play a minor item.