Arkadius feat choice timing

[solkan]

In another thread, http://privateerpressforums.com/show...93#post1482093 , it was discovered that the frenzy activation interrupt Dr. Arkadius's activation when his feat is used.

Answer is: Arkadius' activation is interrupted while you resolve the activation of the frenzying beasts, and resumes afterward.

A related question for which I'm not certain of the answer is: The frenzy activations interrupt Dr. Arkadius's activation. Does Dr. Arkadius's player declare declare the use of the feat and then declare all of the beasts that will frenzy at once, and then activate each warbeast in turn?

Dr. Arkadius has five warbeasts, A through E.

Scenario #1:
Dr. Arkadius activates and then uses his feat. Warbeasts A, B, and C are nominated to frenzy. Arkadius's player then chooses one of those warbeasts to activate, resolves the frenzy; chooses again and resolves again; and then resolves the remaining frenzy. Then Arkadius's activation continues.

Scenario #2:
Dr. Arkadius activates and then uses his feat. Arkadius's player chooses a warbeast, it frenzies, and the frenzy is resolved. Arkadius's activation then continues, and resolution of the feat continues. If Arkadius's player wishes, another beast is chosen, and that beast frenzies, again interrupting Dr. Arkadius. When Arkadius's activation resumes, Arkadius's player decides that this is enough, and ends the resolution of the feat.

Scenario #2 seems nicer since it avoids stacking up any pending activations, but the whole situation is a bit unusual.

[Gamingdevil]

I would think option 1 to be the correct one. Much like you would declare a Thresher attack and then resolve them sequentially, even though they are technically simultaneous.

[tuttleboy]

Looks to me like it's 2 if the OP in the other thread has the wording correct. If you can do something you can choose when and at what time it happens so long as you meet any timing conditions. In this case warbeasts can frenzy, not must, not choose/select x warbeasts and then they frenzy.

[poeticruse]

Name a model who can frenzy, resolve that model. Repeat until you decide you don't want to resolve the others. (scenario 2)

[solkan]

Neat.

Thanks.

[MikeC103]

I have been playing Arkadius a lot lately. Here is his Feat "Warbeasts in Arkadius' battlegroup can IMMEDIATELY frenzy. A model can frenzy even if it has already activated this turn and does not effect whether it can activate later this turn."
I think the key word there is immediately. So the way I have been playing it is as this:
During Arkadius' activation I declare the use of my Feat. Then I choose a warbeast and activate the Frenzy. Once that is resolved, I chose the next pig to go crazy, and so on. Once I've Frenzied all the beasts I want to, I return to Arkadius' activation.

[solkan]

MikeC103, you'll find no disagreement here. Especially after an Infernal saying the same thing as the way to play it.