Hiya folks. Once again I have a question and hoping the folks here could help.

So My buddy has a list which consists of Biggs with r2 and The card that gives+1 shield. He runs Ten Nub with Marksman. Arien Cracken With swarm tactics and a bandit pilot. I am having one hell of a time with this list. it is so good and Has no downfalls from what I am seeing. When his turn starts he chooses The bandit pilot or biggs to be PS8 (very beginning of his turn on shooting) Then Arien's card ability to allow s ship within 1 to have a free action.He normal has Ten use Marksmen when he activates Ten (although I think the ship getting the free action has to do it right then and there,not when it wants to) My question is the following after this block of text lol Can Arien do 2 abilities in a row. AND..If a ship is stressed They can still do abilities because Abilities are not actions correct? And...If someone wants to shoot me some advice to beat this that would be great lmao Thanks in advance for any help given folks!

Hiya folks. Once again I have a question and hoping the folks here could help.

So My buddy has a list which consists of Biggs with r2 and The card that gives+1 shield. He runs Ten Nub with Marksman. Arien Cracken With swarm tactics and a bandit pilot. I am having one hell of a time with this list. it is so good and Has no downfalls from what I am seeing. When his turn starts he chooses The bandit pilot or biggs to be PS8 (very beginning of his turn on shooting) Then Arien's card ability to allow s ship within 1 to have a free action.He normal has Ten use Marksmen when he activates Ten (although I think the ship getting the free action has to do it right then and there,not when it wants to) My question is the following after this block of text lol Can Arien do 2 abilities in a row. AND..If a ship is stressed They can still do abilities because Abilities are not actions correct? And...If someone wants to shoot me some advice to beat this that would be great lmao Thanks in advance for any help given folks!

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking so I'm tossing out some answers that I think will help you.

Using Swarm Tactics doesn't interfere with Airen being able to grant an action when he attacks. Neither of these abilities take an action to activate.

You can't take actions when stress no matter what the source of the action.

If you have already used an action on a ship anything that grants you an action does not let you take the same action a second time in a round.

When stressed, a ship cannot: reveal a red maneuver, or perform actions (like target lock, focus, marksmanship etc..). Abilities like Cracken's ability to give an action is not an action.

The ship that receives that free action from Cracken must do so immediately. The main limitation to that is a ship is only allowed to do an action once per round..... so you couldn't do a focus action during the activation phase, then do another focus action from Cracken. But focus, then marks is valid.

It is a fairly strong list. Most of it focuses around requiring to shoot Biggs instead of the fragile z's. It's main vulnerability is the fact that it has to stay together to be most effective. That means it can't easily defend against a flanker like Soontir.... as long as there is something else for the XBZZ hammer to fly into.

A doomshuttle would probably work pretty well. It can soak up a lot of dice for cheap, giving your other craft time to start dismantling the squad.

The only way Cracken can give 2 free actions is when he uses Cluster mIssiles which gives him 2 attacks. So after each cluster attack, he can give a free action. Of course the team mate has to be stress free and use an action that wasn't used already during the round.