I have a question regarding Excess Damage and KOs in SMF2. Apologies if this is in the rulebook and I just missed it.
If a character takes more damage than it has boxes remaining, is the excess damage lost, or is it an auto-KO?
According to the rules the KO check is made when (paraphrasing) damage forces one to mark off the last Body or Psyche box on the track. Any further damage on the same track results in an automatic KO with no dice roll.
In my current battle, one of my heroes just slammed into the villainous frog alien doing 9 Body (!!). The villain only has a 5 Body track. So since the damage comes from a single source, does it all count as "marking off the last box", resulting in the bad guy getting a KO check? Or do the 4 excess damage points count as "further damage" and result in an auto KO?
Thanks!