Allies treated as Characters for combat

[the JabberwocK]

On Sunday, April 9, 2017, user the Jabberwock wrote:

If my company which includes an ally (or allies) faces an attack from a Watcher in the Water, the ally (or allies) would still have to face a strike from the Watcher because they are treated as characters for the purposes of combat, correct?

Even though Watcher in the Watcher specifies that "each character" in the company faces one strike.

Conversely, a card like A Friend or Three which states "for every character in the influencing character's company"... this means characters only, not allies.

The distinction of "character" meaning characters only and not allies is due to the fact that combat is not taking place.

Do I have this right?

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[the JabberwocK]

On Sunday, April 9, 2017, user Konrad Klar wrote:

If my company which includes an ally (or allies) faces an attack from a Watcher in the Water, the ally (or allies) would still have to face a strike from the Watcher because they are treated as characters for the purposes of combat, correct?

Even though Watcher in the Watcher specifies that "each character" in the company faces one strike.

Conversely, a card like A Friend or Three which states "for every character in the influencing character's company"... this means characters only, not allies.

Correct.
Just because this is a sense of "being X for purposes of Y".
A, B, C that count as X (only) for purposes of Y, do not count as X otherwise.

This post has been re-created due to lost data and was originally posted by the author quoted above.

[the JabberwocK]

On Sunday, April 9, 2017, user the Jabberwock wrote:

If my company which includes an ally (or allies) faces an attack from a Watcher in the Water, the ally (or allies) would still have to face a strike from the Watcher because they are treated as characters for the purposes of combat, correct?

Even though Watcher in the Watcher specifies that "each character" in the company faces one strike.

Conversely, a card like A Friend or Three which states "for every character in the influencing character's company"... this means characters only, not allies.

Correct.
Just because this is a sense of "being X for purposes of Y".
A, B, C that count as X (only) for purposes of Y, do not count as X otherwise.

Thank you for the confirmation. =)

This post has been re-created due to lost data and was originally posted by the author quoted above.