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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 4879904" data-attributes="member: 7006">So if I'm understanding your posts... all three of you are agreeing that you can split your round's actions in half.Use a Move action to get up next to an enemy and/or a Minor action as needed.Use a Standard action to Ready an attack, the trigger being when an ally moves into a flanking position.If/when the ally does move into a flank on their turn, you get to take your Immediate Reaction to attack the enemy with flank/combat advantage.  However, you are unable to take any actions after that, since you can Ready only a single action, which in this case was the attack.If by some chance none of your allies are able to move into a flanking position before your turn comes up in the order again, you lose your action altogether.**********Now here's my next question about this... which might very well change the answers I'll get.  Looking at the rules for Readying an Action, the examples all describe readying actions in response to ENEMY action... not ally action.  (I.E. from the Compendium:  "As soon as the troll walks out from behind the corner, I’ll use my pinning strike and interrupt its movement" or something like, "If the goblin attacks, I’ll react with a crushing blow.")  And the further examples again, all use enemy actions as the triggering responses.Now the fact that the Ready An Action rule starts with When you ready an action, you prepare to react to a creature’s action or an event. Readying an action is a way of saying, “As soon as x happens, I’ll do y.”, it would seem therefore that it does not have to be just an enemy action that is the trigger... an ally action (like moving into flank) could be one too (since it specifically says 'a creature's action').  And yet, all examples are from the enemy action point of view.Anyone have an opinion/personal ruling on this?  I haven't bothered sending a query to CustServ because quite frankly it's never been a big enough deal to me to bother to do so... but I'm just curious what others feelings were on the matter.Thanx for all previous responses and all potential responses upcoming!</blockquote>

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