Hi there, just playing a run through game and I want to know if this is allowable.

Let's say I'm on Floe A and it's got a broken edge in the direction I'm going.
Floe B may or may not have a broken edge too, but since I don't have any rope, it's a moot point.

Can I jump into the water from an adjacent unbroken edge on "A", discard my fish, then jump up to the closest unbroken edge of "B", thus side stepping (or side swimming) my problem?

-----------------------Sea--------------------
------Unbroken.-----Sea-----.Unbroken-------
--------------Broken.-.Broken-------------------

Hello Mike,

That's a good example of how the simple rules of ICE FLOW throw up interesting scenarios. I think what you are describing is this:



If you have no rope in this situation, you should absolutely use fish to swim around the pack ice obstacle (A to B), especially in this situation where 1 fish replaces 2 rope. Or indeed you could swim to the unmarked floe in the picture. As long as you traverse just ONE open sea hex. If your movement would require a swim across two open sea spaces, that's not allowed. Too darn cold for that!

In ICE FLOW, each object has two uses. The best player is going to be the one who keeps all options available, and uses these best within the rules. Don't forget: using your fish here to swim around that pack ice means that you don't have it available to fend off polar bears later!

D.