Stormcall Lightning

[PB_Zephyr]

Wow a rules question.
My question is reguarding the ability of the Cygnar Stormsmiths and how many times the ability can be used. The card reads as follows: "As a special action, the stormsmith may call down one of the following lightning strikes." Now remember the stormsmith is a solo, and the card says the stormsmith so that leads me to believe that EACH stromsmith my use one of the lightning strikes. Now it's a no brainer for single strike, but surge and triangulation require one or two other stormsmiths within 20". The question is this: does an attack such as triangulation, that needs two other stormsmiths within 20" of the, lets call him, "sorce" stormsmith, take those other 2 stormsmiths' attacks as well? Basically, if I want to use triangulation on an enemy unit, is it only one triangulation attack, or can I make three, for each of the three stormsmiths. The card has this to say on trianglation: "A Stormsmith [note the singular] may make a triangulation special action if he and two other friendly Stormsmiths are within 20" of eachother. The Stormsmith may target..." and so on. The card sticks with the singular tense. I'm also gonna quote CeltKhan (a pressganger) from the PP forums: "I see them[stormsmiths] as being more useful in a melee army than anything else. When it's all mixed thoroughly in a mass melee and ranged troops are all but useless... call down 9 lightning bolts on their butts." He says 9 lightning bolts meaning triangulation 3 times.
So what are your thoughts? Right now I'm thinking each stromsmith may chose any one of the lightning strikes to use as a special action, it just needs the other ones in range to... amplify him or something. But you could make an argument either way, that's why I posted it heh.

[PG_FavoriteChoirBoy]

I think Triangulation, and the other one, with the two, is one big attack, for however many stormsmiths are involved.

1: it requires all the Stormsmiths to perform the action
(A little like combined Melee. One guy makes the actual attack, the others just help, not everyone gets to make that powerful an attack)

2: 3 Triangulations...borken...beyond..belief..


Just my thoughts..

[PB_Zephyr]

Hey, triangulation is hard to pull off. Getting one DEF 13 ARM 11 model past enemy lines? I mean when I played them in my game yesterday I only could do single strikes because it was too dificult to get them into position. So unless you sat there and waited for the enemy to come to you (you nancyboy) it's tough to accomplish.

[DaemonBooger]

Each smith definately gets to call down their own of each special action (not all in the same turn, naturally). Also, getting one of the smiths into the enemy lines shouldnt be too difficult either. However, this would require the use of terrain like Cygnar never thought possible. Or, you could just gaurd the one with a jack or even have a Cryx player on your side and get them to cast Goreshade's stealth spell on the smith.

[PG_Hevy Phyzx]

The consistant rulings that I have seen on this at the PP forum have been that each stormsmith in a Triangulation gets to make three "attacks", so that would add up to nine total uses of the ability. And remember since this is an ability, it can "target" stealthed units (i.e. banes, Denny, etc)