Rule Clarification Question Regarding Attacks in Skirmish

By Xero Anarian, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

I don't have the cards in front of me atm, so forgive me if I get some names wrong.

So it says that in Skirmish, you can only use one of your actions to attack, period, even if they have an ability like Vader's brutality.

So basically we would ignore Brutality during a skirmish.

But what about the ability Hair Trigger?

Hair Trigger : At the start of a hostile figure's activation, you may interrupt to perform an attack that targets that figure. Limit once per round.

Do you still get to use that?

And I know IG-88 will come with the card "Overdrive" which gives a droid another action. This wouldn't allow you to attack twice, though?

I realize that the confusion comes from the fact that certain abilities are meant for Campaign only... I think they should have just labelled certain abilities that way.

Edited by Xero Anarian

Thinking I may have actually misunderstood what it meant, now that I'm rereading the pdf...

So I think Vader can still use brutality, he just can't attack, THEN use brutality, or the other way around.

Is that what it means? That would make more sense, rather than having an ability on the card completely removed.

If an ability gives you two attacks, then you can use both, but cannot make any further attacks. So brutality, the Pummel Command card, etc. all work.

Jyn Odan's ability does not contradict the rules since she makes the attack outside her own activation. So you can use her ability and then activate/attack with her later or vice-versa.

Oh and IG-88 cannot use the additional action to attack again, unless of course he is using some ability that allows him to make multiple attacks per activation.

If an ability gives you two attacks, then you can use both, but cannot make any further attacks. So brutality, the Pummel Command card, etc. all work.

Jyn Odan's ability does not contradict the rules since she makes the attack outside her own activation. So you can use her ability and then activate/attack with her later or vice-versa.

Yep, here's the actual text from the RRG in case you need to show it:

"If an ability allows a figure to perform an attack outside of its activation, this attack does not count toward the limit of one attack per activation" (Page 6, RRG).

Alright, that makes much more sense.

Not sure why I thought it was the other way.

I feel bad, I played Skirmish last night against one of the teens in my monthly Tabletop Game Night at work (I work at a library) and I was thinking that the rules meant he couldn't use Brutality against me. @.@ Oh well, he still won. :P

Thanks!

It is worth noting, though, that Vader CAN attack/brutality and then Force Choke as well, since Choke is not an attack (well, not per the rules anyway) :P .

Edited by Hida77