In reference to the picture below, are these templates below legal in tournament play. Specifically are the little lines on the straight maneuvers templates going to be an issue? Can't see why they would be but I wanted to check.

These are Applied Perceptive X-Wing Movement Templates – V2.0

I would recommend ordering them without the lines. It's an option that costs $2 more. I can't see most people complaining (fly casual after all), but it does give you information you're not supposed to have. For example, if you did a 5k, you could use the templates to know that next turn you can do a 2 straight or whatever before you hit something for sure. Not saying it's a serious advantage, but the "advantage" does exist when it's not supposed to.

If you already have them, I wouldn't worry about it. If someone complains, then per the tourney rules, you can share a single set of templates, namely your opponent's who is complaining.

If I were the TO those would not be legal templates as they contain additional distance markings not on the stock templates.

If I were the TO those would not be legal templates as they contain additional distance markings not on the stock templates.

The tournament rules don't address additional markings on templates. They also clearly call out that the remedy to someone objecting to their opponents' templates is that the two players must share a single set of templates with the TO only becoming involved in the event that the two players cannot agree on which templates to use. Players can object to any set of templates for any reason.

If players couldn't agree on which templates to use, the TO picking the one without additional markings is as legitimate a way to decide the matter as any other. Unless there is an issue that gets escalated to a TO, you shouldn't even be making a ruling.

Range Rulers, Tokens, and Maneuver Templates

Minor variations in the printing process and the existence of third-party

products may cause slight disparities in the measurements of some rulers

and templates. Before a tournament match begins, any player may request

that a single range ruler and/or set of maneuver templates be shared for

the duration of the match. Both players must agree on the set of maneuver

templates to be used, as well as which side of the range ruler to use. The TO

will have the final say in any decision. Third-party tokens may also be used,

provided they are clearly recognizable and both players agree to their use.

I play with templates like those, and on one occasion (out of dozens of games) I found that it did give me a little information I might not otherwise have had that I could use to my advantage. I explained to my opponent exactly what I thought that advantage was. Sharing the information neutralized it, and the game went on without a hiccup.

I've played many games since then with those templates without an issue, and generally ignore the markings anyway, just as I ignore the background image on the gaming mat. All I see are the ship and obstacle positions and the edges of the play area anyway, and I perform my maneuvers quickly enough that I don't really give myself time to study the markings on the templates.

So it's not a big deal if you're playing for the right reasons and respect your opponent (which I think you should).

That said, I would not order those templates again and would get them without those markings.

If you choose to ignore the extra markings that's all well and good - but that doesn't change that the markings, and the potential for additional information from them, is there. Sadly, we don't generally make rules based on what honorable players do.

The extra markings aren't explicitly called out, but I think that adding information to the template is pretty clearly not OK. If I walked into a tournament with a line drawn across my templates to mark a range band, is that OK? I doubt many players would consider it acceptable. Honestly, it's even somewhat debatable whether they are strictly tournament legal - whether it has hand-drawn lines or etching from the manufacturer, I'd consider it a modification to the component and therefore unacceptable.

Better to get ones without the divisions.