I've tried searching for an answer to this one (it may be such a simple answer that nobody thought to post the question before) but this was a scenario that happened at my LGS yesterday on the table next to me:

Player 1 has Biggs, Tarn, and some other ships.

Player 2 has a swarm of TIE's.

Player 2, with Howlrunner, (forgetting Biggs was a thing) declared Tarn to be the target of attack. Player 1 rightly said that Biggs had to be target of the attack as per Biggs pilot ability. Player 1 reads the card, acknowledges his mistake, but points out that he still could declare Tarn as the target and thus trigger his pilot ability.

It was a friendly, and I believe they ruled it that Tarn got his free lock (they were giddy to try him out, lol!)

Was this correct? Can Tarn be declared as a target, only to have it switched to Biggs (like the sponge that he is), or must Biggs be the only declare-able target?

Biggs pilot ability blocks choosing another ship as a target before you targeting Biggs. You could not target Tarn and then switch to Biggs as Tarn is not a legal target to choose with Biggs in play.

This is what came up; they cannot be targeted but can they be declared?

I may be reading too much into it, but I was curious as to the outcome as I may run a similar list soon...

My take on " cannot be targeted by attacks" is to mean that you can't even declare tham as a target or even try to start the declare/targeting process.

It all has to be on Biggs.

Excellent. Nice to hear it from other forum-ers!

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