How Is Free Action defined?

Is it actions from upgrade cards, pilot abilities, damage cards, and missions? Are those the "Free Actions?"

How Is Free Action defined?

Is it actions from upgrade cards, pilot abilities, damage cards, and missions? Are those the "Free Actions?"

No.

"Free Action" is a keyword that allows you to take an additional action outside of your normal Action Step.

How Is Free Action defined?

Is it actions from upgrade cards, pilot abilities, damage cards, and missions? Are those the "Free Actions?"

No.

"Free Action" is a keyword that allows you to take an additional action outside of your normal Action Step.

Can you give me an example?

Lando's pilot ability, Squad Leader.

Turr Phennir's ability, Push the Limit

You can only perform one action in your 'perform action' step. However, free actions don't count for that limit... Thus, In your perform action step, you can perform 1 'normal' action, and any number of free actions.

Essentially, the difference between 'normal' and 'free' actions, only matters in the perform action step.

Also, you still can't perform the same action twice even if it is a "free action". If you have focused, and then get a free action, you can't focus again, you'd have to do another action available to you.

There are a few "exceptions" to that, but they don't involve doing actions. Garven can pass a focus token to a player that has already done a focus action, giving that ship 2 focus tokens. If Garven passed a free focus action to another ship, that ship couldn't perform a focus action if he had already performed a focus action.

Another good one is Turr. He gets a free boost or barrell roll action after he attacks. But, if he has already barrel rolled during his perform action step, the barrel roll action is unavailable to him after he attacks. He'd only be able to boost after attacking.

Bottom line, you can't perform any action twice in the same turn, under the current rules, ever.

Fantastic. So Luke's marksman upgrade card is a regular action or free?

Fantastic. So Luke's marksman upgrade card is a regular action or free?

The marksmanship card gives you one more action to choose from in addition to those in your action bar. If you are allowed to perform an action you may choose the action from the marksmanship card instead of any other action. The card does not allow you to perform an additional action. You are still limited to the one action in your perform action step.

How Is Free Action defined?

Is it actions from upgrade cards, pilot abilities, damage cards, and missions? Are those the "Free Actions?"

A free action is any action that says "free [whatever] action," nothing more or less.

Turr can perform a 'free boost or barrel roll' action after he attacks. Attacking happens after the complete actions step - Turr more than likely used his action during that step, so if his granted action wasn't free, he'd almost never be able to use it.

Same with Push the Limit. "Once per round, after you perform an action, you may perform 1 free action shown in your action bar." You can only perform one action a round, so PTL has to specify that it grants you a "free" action to sidestep that restriction.

If the thing in question does not say "free" action, it's a regular action; it's that simple. Free actions are always simply a way to sidestep the 'one action per turn' restriction in some fashion, while respecting the rule that you cannot perform the same action twice on a given turn.

The same goes with damage cards, as an Action you make attempt to flip this card face down or just flip it depending on what critical it is. That counts as your action for the turn.

Quick question, does the marksman card require a focus token?

Quick question, does the marksman card require a focus token?

No. Marksmanship is its own action, completely independent from focus.

You can only perform one action in your 'perform action' step. However, free actions don't count for that limit... Thus, In your perform action step, you can perform 1 'normal' action, and any number of free actions.

Essentially, the difference between 'normal' and 'free' actions, only matters in the perform action step.

Sort of?

1 action at end of movement.

Free action = extra action not all ready done.

I wish instead of FREE ACTION it would be called EXTRA ACTION. If you think of it as an extra action it makes more sense.

Honestly, I have no idea why they feel the need to make a distinction at all. There are no rules which make a distinction based on normal/free action. It really seems like one of those things they thought they might use at some point, but it never really developed.