Hi guys.

I'm new to X-wing and have a question regarding Ion. Where is says cancel all dice it reads like you roll attack dice and if you get a hit the target suffers the effects without defence dice.

That seems quite powerful and a nagging felling tells me the defender does get to roll defence dice. Can some one clarify please?

I figure I've answered my own question as it does not say they are denied the defence dice but being new to the system would like to make sure.

Thanks.

You roll attack dice and defense dice and modify them as needed. If a hit (or crit) gets through (After Evade tokens/etc) it counts as being "Hit with an Ion weapon" The defender recieves 1 Ion token and suffers 1 (regular) Damage (1 card or 1 damage to shields if it has shields) then you cancel all other dice results.

So on a successful Ion hit, the defender gets 1 Ion token and 1 damage then cancel all dice results.

If it is a Large ship, it requires 2 Ion tokens to be ionized. - if a Large ship gets hit by one ion weapon, it keeps it's 1 token until it dies/is removed from play or a 2nd one is applied then it suffers the ionize effect, remove all tokens and it's next movement is a 1 white forward.

Huge ships, such as Transport/Corvette do not suffer from Ion tokens, they still take a damage but instead of taking an ion token they instead lose 1 energy.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

The definition of "hit" is on page 12 of the rulebook in the compare results section.

Although it is common practice to call the explosion symbols hits or crits, they do not actually have those names. Being hit has a very specific meaning under the rules and a lot of things depend on that definition.

I'll echo Forgottenlore. We may use the terms "hit" and "crit" to describe die rolls but that's just because we have nothing better to the explosion symbols on the dice and on other things. Except for Blout once the Z-95s come out to actually "hit" a target you need to have an uncancelled [hit] or [crit] left after the attack roll has been cancelled out by [evade] results and tokens.

The definition of "hit" is on page 12 of the rulebook in the compare results section.

Although it is common practice to call the explosion symbols hits or crits, they do not actually have those names. Being hit has a very specific meaning under the rules and a lot of things depend on that definition.

As a heads up, here's a link to a previous discussion on names for the dice results. They do have names : "Hit", "Critical Hit", "Focus", "Blank" and "Evade." Posted the question to and reply from FFG.