[RPG] Does the Echo Knight fighter’s Unleash Incarnation feature add another attack to the additional Attack action from the Haste spell

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The Echo Knight fighter's Unleash Incarnation feature says (EGtW, p. 183):

Whenever you take the Attack action, you can make one additional melee attack from the echo’s position.

If the haste spell is cast on an Echo Knight, can they use their additional Attack action from haste to trigger an Unleash Incarnation attack?

The wording on the feature makes me think it's additive ("additional melee attack") and triggers after the Attack action, which is not limited by the number of attacks you can do in an action.

If this works, does it mean a hasted Echo Knight can make an additional 3 attacks, for a total of 8 attacks in 1 turn at 5th level?
(Attack action (2 attacks) + UI + hasted Attack action (1 attack) + UI + Action Surge Attack action (2 attacks) + UI)

Best Answer

Unleash Incarnation cannot exceed haste's limit

Haste states that the target

gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

Haste does not set a baseline of one attack to which you can add more. Rather, haste sets a limit on the number of weapon attacks you can make with its Attack action. Hence, you cannot make both the normal attack and the Unleash Incarnation attack when you take the haste's Attack action, because that would exceed the limit of one weapon attack.

Moreover, the Unleash Incarnation attack is not some attack that occurs after the Attack action, nor is it separate from that Attack action. Rather, the Unleash Incarnation attack is part of the Attack action, so it's subject to the limits that haste imposes on the Attack action.

The above is the exact same reason why Extra Attack also can't exceed haste's limit. As a matter of fact, the relevant wording of Unleash Incarnation and Extra Attack are the same:

Whenever you take the Attack action, you can make one additional melee attack from the echo's position.

and

you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.