Question for everyone.

Tie defender is attacking a ship that has been target locked by the same defender and has Predator upgrade.

Can you blow the target lock to re roll dice then roll again for the predator upgrade?

Follow up question. Tie defender has heavy laser cannons so crits are reduced to hits. What about the re rolled dice?

Thanks all.

You can never reroll a dice more then once. So no on rerolling for both TL and Predator.

Rerolled crits are not affected by the HLC canceling. That only acures for the initial roll, not rerolls. It's in the FAQ some where.

From the rulebook, page 12:

Modifying Dice Results

When players roll dice during combat, these dice are rolled into a common area. The faceup side of each die is considered its reSult.

Dice in this common area may be modified in a variety of ways, and their final results determine how much damage the target ship suffers (if any).

add: Some effects add a specific result to the combat. To resolve this, the player places a token or unused die displaying this result into the common area.

change: Some effects change one die result to a different result. To resolve this, the player physically picks up the die from the common area and rotates the die so that its faceup side displays the new result.

reroll: Some effects allow players to reroll certain dice. To resolve this, the player picks up the appropriate number of dice from the common area and rolls those dice again.

important: When a die is changed or rerolled, ignore its original result and apply only the new result. This new result may be modified by other effects; however, a die that has already been rerolled cannot be rerolled again during this attack.

So you could use predator to reroll one die, then spend the target lock to reroll the other two, or you could spend the target lock to reroll all three, but you can't apply both to the same die.

As to the second part; the text of the HLC tells you to immediately change all crits into hits. This resolves only once, immediately after rolling attack dice & before any modifiers are applied, so other effects such as rerolls, marksmanship, etc can alter the results afterwards to provide one or more crits, those crits will stand.

Hope this helps!

My goodness. You guys are great thank you so much. Hate looking like a newb and not knowing this stuff. Thank you!

Although it is confusing Predator and Target Lock can both Re-roll dice from an attack. The catch is simply that they can NOT re-roll the same dice.

Han Solo's ability interacts the same way. If you gave Han Predator and he had a TL he could:

1. Reroll any number of dice with TL OR re-roll dice with Predator.

2. Re-roll previously un-rerolled dice with Predator OR TL.

3. Re-roll ALL previously un-rerolled dice using his pilot ability.

Definitely can be confusing but remember you can only re-roll a die once although you can make any number of other modifications to it.