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I am a tad lost on this one as well.
After any thunderbirds attack (successfully or not, I presume) a lighting of 9 occurs against the same stack (if they survived).
Is this a single attack?  Or can my opponent choose to "swat" with that lighting attack?

In other words, lets say I have a stack of wolves, 10 deep.
My wife attacks with her 2 thunderbirds.  She swats at 5 wolves, hits, killing 5 of them after rolling a 5 on her die.
Now the lightning goes off.  Does it simply automatically kill 1 and only 1 more wolf?  Or can she say, my lightning is going to swat 4 more wolves?  and then roll to see if successful?

Also, if those Thunderbirds attacked from the ranged line (due to flying)  my wolves could NOT retaliate, correct?

Thanks..sorry to be so confused, I just want to be sure and need clarification here!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Justin

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I am a tad lost on this one as well.
After any thunderbirds attack (successfully or not, I presume) a lighting of 9 occurs against the same stack (if they survived).
Is this a single attack?  Or can my opponent choose to "swat" with that lighting attack?

In other words, lets say I have a stack of wolves, 10 deep.
My wife attacks with her 2 thunderbirds.  She swats at 5 wolves, hits, killing 5 of them after rolling a 5 on her die.
Now the lightning goes off.  Does it simply automatically kill 1 and only 1 more wolf?  Or can she say, my lightning is going to swat 4 more wolves?  and then roll to see if successful?

Also, if those Thunderbirds attacked from the ranged line (due to flying)  my wolves could NOT retaliate, correct?

Thanks..sorry to be so confused, I just want to be sure and need clarification here!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Justin

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I only have a partial answer, so I was waiting to let Startune cover it.

1) You can swat any number you choose on the Thunderbird Lightning attack. What I am unsure about is if it involves another roll, but I think it does.

2)A flying attack still moves up to the melee line after it attacks from the ranged line (except for certain creatures like Harpies who say otherwise), and where the attack is from has nothing to do with whether or not you can retaliate. If you attack with melee, which is what the Thunderbirds do, a target with a melee attack can retaliate. The only time you can't is if the trigger attacker says "no retaliation", or if you cannot respond in kind, i.e. ranged attack against a stack with no range or a spell.

Hope that clears up most of it, but hopefully Startune can help with whether or not you roll for the lightning.  

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However, don't be confuesd by throwing in a spell attack.  A spell attack is not a ranged attack and can not retaliate against a ranged attack.

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However, don't be confuesd by throwing in a spell attack.  A spell attack is not a ranged attack and can not retaliate against a ranged attack.

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Yes, my wording was a little wierd. I was trying to say that a Spell cannot be retaliated against by either melee or ranged or even another spell.

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