So Epic Ships can use the Co-ordinate action to give actions to "a friendly ship" at Range 1-2 (I'm assuming this means that Epic Ships can both give each other actions...) but can Epic Ships gain the benefit of abilities from Small and Large ships?

Examples being, but not limited to-

• Dutch Vander giving a Target Lock to a friendly Blockade Runner
• Lando giving an action to a ship he passes by
• The upcoming Z-95 pilot Airen Cracken giving an action after he fires
• Jan Ors giving an additional attack die
• Biggs Darklighter taking the fire instead of a friendly Epic ship

The epic play rules cover that Biggs' ability only protects friendly small and large ships, other than that, baring special rules to the contrary, I don't see a reason those other abilities wouldn't work on them.

Good question. Since small and large ships all activate before the huge ships, this will come up. As it sits now I don't see why you couldn't toss a free action to a "friendly" huge ship with, as you say, Lando or Squad Leader. This seems pretty powerful, for example allowing Lando to give a huge ship the Reinforce or Jam actions, and then the huge ship gets to take its own action when the turn comes around. There are a lot of possibilities here...

The epic play rules cover that Biggs' ability only protects friendly small and large ships, other than that, baring special rules to the contrary, I don't see a reason those other abilities wouldn't work on them.

Thanks guys. Hopefully things will be completely clear soon, because I'm thinking that Airen Cracken with Epic Ships is going to be pretty danged useful, especially if they're upgraded with special actions like Slicer Tools and Toryn Farr's ability. :3

Huge ship rules page 4:

Free Actions
Huge ships cannot perform free actions.

So Lando, Cracken and Squad Leader do not work. Dutch and Jan do.

Edit:

Cards like expert handling, PTL, AS and R7-T1 would not work for the same reason. Assuming the ship had the corresponding upgrade slots.

Huge ship rules page 4:

Free Actions

Huge ships cannot perform free actions.

So Lando, Cracken and Squad Leader do not work. Dutch and Jan do.

Edit:

Cards like expert handling, PTL, AS and R7-T1 would not work for the same reason. Assuming the ship had the corresponding upgrade slots.

Ha. Totally missed that.

Me too, seems I need to read over the huge ship rules about 3-4 more times...

Gah, oh man, that's disappointing! That means that Epic Ships can't use Co-Ordinate with each other since they also count as free actions! They'll have to act as completely independent units... this presents an interesting dilemma since now it becomes even more pressing how much energy they have to make use of each turn.