Not sure if this has been covered yet (did a bloke search of the site to check).

If you had the Falcon with Chewie piloting and R2D2 for the crew, could you effectively gain 1 shield back at the end of each end phase and due to Chewie's ability not bother about the damage cards becoming crits.

The way i figure it, if you roll a hit you would flip over a damage card only to keep flipping it because you cant Crit the walking carpet.

I guess the question is which rule takes precedence, I'm sure there was something about the negative one always wins out...

Thoughts?

Cewbacca flips a damage card he is dealt . R2-D2 does not deal a damage card. The critical damage takes effect.

thought it was too good to be true...

Is R2D2 a crew?

Is R2D2 a crew?

That card is not released yet. link

There is a crew version of R2-D2 in the Tantive IV expansion.

Edit: Ninjaed

R2D2 may not be the best crew for Chewbacca. If Chewbacca is dealt a face up damage card it gets flipped down. If you have no Shields left R2D2 will give you one BUT it also flips a damage card if there is one. At issue, Chewbacca's ability does NOT care about cards that get flipped face-up so when R2D2 is fixing the shields he's also stirring up criticals (face up cards) that Chewbacca may have turned face down.

With that R2, what if you don't have any damage? Can you not use him or if you get a negative result, you get damaged and its a crit? He seems like too much of a gamble, but if you don't have damage he would be very useful...if you don't incur damage.

On the other hand, Chewie may be the perfect pilot for R2 because that is a ship that is going to gave the fewest face up cards.

Which is better in a 2 YT list? Han with 6 face up cards and Chewie with none, or both Han and Chewie with 3?

With that R2, what if you don't have any damage? Can you not use him or if you get a negative result, you get damaged and its a crit? He seems like too much of a gamble, but if you don't have damage he would be very useful...if you don't incur damage.

Also, silver lining, if all of your damage cards are already face up, he gas no penalty either.

With that R2, what if you don't have any damage? Can you not use him or if you get a negative result, you get damaged and its a crit? He seems like too much of a gamble, but if you don't have damage he would be very useful...if you don't incur damage.

You can still recharge a Shield if you don't have any. Then you flip a damage card on the ship face up; not have a card to flip up isn't R2D2's fault. IF you could stay at this "I don't have any shields but I also don't have any damage cards" state you could easily get a shield from R2D2 every turn but it is not a situation that is likely to last.

On the other hand, Chewie may be the perfect pilot for R2 because that is a ship that is going to gave the fewest face up cards.

Which is better in a 2 YT list? Han with 6 face up cards and Chewie with none, or both Han and Chewie with 3?

The problem I see with that scenario is that if Chewie has 3 Han will still have his 6. If you put R2D2 on Chewbacca you have in many in some ways removed my reason for NOT shooting him as R2D2 gets to turn up Crits on Chewie I may not otherwise have gotten.

I guess I'm curious how you are kitting out those two YTs. It maybe my opinion but if both Han and Chewie have been dealt six damage cards then something is going wrong and your opponent is really screwing things up by letting one of them still be alive. If Chewie has 6 cards because DtF has pulled that may criticals from Han but R2D2 has turned up 6 face-down cards, and granted 6 shields, then I think I actually prefer that scenario.

Perhaps running R2D2 on Chewbacca isn't the worst thing as it still avoids being dealt the big face-up card but it will still face them once R2D2 starts changing Shields.

The problem I see with that scenario is that if Chewie has 3 Han will still have his 6.

The assumption is that R2 is going on one of them,but your right, 6 damage on both is probably a little unrealistic, so...

Both have been dealt 3 damage cards, one of which was a crit. You can have put R2 on one of the ships and in the process of fixing shields he has flipped 1 face down damage card face up, is it better to have Han with 2 face up cards and Chewie with none, or for both of them to have 1 face up and 2 face down cards?

That was the point I was trying to make. If you put R2 on Chewie, then by the time the Falcon has taken a lot of damage, Chewie will only have a number of face up cards similar to other ships in the same circumstance, whereas if R2 is on another ship, it may have almost all of its damage cards face up, some dealt that way and some flipped by R2. Which is better, to spread the face up cards out, or cluster them all on one ship?

Part of the reaction is because R2D2 is the opposite of Chewbacca. Many people take Chewie to avoid the face-up cards so when R2 is putting turning them up it feels like cheating. You could expect to see crits on most big ships but not on Chewie.

Yeah, but my point was that the gut reaction may not be the correct one.