Today a situation came up where Echo got the "Injured Pilot" critical hit card. Besides getting rid of EPT card, what does it mean to get rid of her ability?

Does that mean:

1. She becomes a regular Phantom with the 2-bank

2. She loses the cloaking ability

I'm guessing #1, but couldn't find any clarifications anywhere. Thanks!

If I am remembering injured pilot correctly, you would treat him as if the space for special abilities was blank and he didn't have any EPT. So the cloak action would still be in his action bar, but he would decloak like a normal phantom, using the 2 straight template, instead of the bank template specified by his special ability.

Neither.

If you get injured pilot, you lose your specific pilot ability. You still have your action bar, and any special abilities granted by modifications or titles, so she can still cloak and bounce in and out of cloak.

However, she will ignore her pilot text - so will use the normal rules for cloaking and decloaking, and use the '2' straight, the same as any other phantom.

And yes, that does mean she now can do a manouvre she couldn't do before. But she loses the much more powerful banked decloak.

This isn't a unique situation - compare with a Chaardan Refit A-wing suffering a munitions failure:

BLAM!

"What the *%%!? Someone just fired a set of missile tubes into my ship!"

Agree with the above, Echo just acts like a normal Phantom, using the 2 straight for decloaking.

This isn't a unique situation - compare with a Chaardan Refit A-wing suffering a munitions failure:

BLAM!

"What the *%%!? Someone just fired a set of missile tubes into my ship!"

While the thought it funny, it is incorrect. Munitions Failure causes you to discard a secondary weapon Upgrade card. Secondary weapon Upgrade cards are noted with the header "Attack:" which Chaardan Refit does not have.

Thanks for the clarification and confirmation!

Wow, the Chaardan Refit issue is definitely interesting. Is there a place that says specifically that "secondary weapon upgrade" cards must have "attack" in it?

Page 19:

Secondary weapon cards show the header “Attack:” as a reminder...

ahh, thank you!