Focus and secondary weapons

By guntermarx, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Have a B-wing that has a target lock on a Tie from a previous turn and uses its action this turn to focus. Instead of firing his primary weapons, he elects to fire a proton torpedo at the Tie, and spends the target lock. Because he used the target lock to perform the attack, can he re-roll any dice from the attack as he would with his primary attack/target lock?

Continuing in this example, having rolled his proton torpedo attack, he still has his focus action. I know the proton torpedo card states that you can convert 1 focus result to a crit. But can you also use his focus action on the Proton torpedo attack to change other focus results to hits? Or does the secondary attack eliminate all attack and defense modifiers other than what's printed on the card?

Bottom line, I know secondary weapons ignore range modifiers for attack and defense dice I'm just not sure about target lock and focus effects. Please advise.

Have a B-wing that has a target lock on a Tie from a previous turn and uses its action this turn to focus. Instead of firing his primary weapons, he elects to fire a proton torpedo at the Tie, and spends the target lock. Because he used the target lock to perform the attack, can he re-roll any dice from the attack as he would with his primary attack/target lock?

Continuing in this example, having rolled his proton torpedo attack, he still has his focus action. I know the proton torpedo card states that you can convert 1 focus result to a crit. But can you also use his focus action on the Proton torpedo attack to change other focus results to hits? Or does the secondary attack eliminate all attack and defense modifiers other than what's printed on the card?

Bottom line, I know secondary weapons ignore range modifiers for attack and defense dice I'm just not sure about target lock and focus effects. Please advise.

Focus tokens and Target Locks don't care if your attack is from a primary or secondary weapon.

For the first question, no. The target Lock is spent solely for the purposes of activating the torpedo, so is no longer available to modify dice results later. As a further example, the card 'Homing missile' requires you to have a target lock on the target, but does not require you to spent it to activate the card... so you keep the target lock, and it is available to modify dice results later in the attack roll.

For the second question, you can accumulate the effects from a focus token with another ability that also modify 'eyes' results. Thus, in your example, the torpedo's ability would change an eye into a [crit] by default, and you can use a focus token on top to convert the remaining eyes into hits.

Edited by Jehan Menasis

Thanks, that's the direction I was leaning. I haven't used all the different upgrade/secondary cards yet so hadn't made that distinction, but it 'felt' like the target lock was spent on the torpedo attack and thus unavailable to modify attack dice. The focus rules didn't say you could use it on secondary weapons but it didn't say you couldn't so...anyway, thanks for the clarification.

Make sure you carefully read ordnance cards. While they all require a TL or Focus to fire there are a few of them that don't require you to spend the token which leaves it available to modify dice on the attack roll.

For those new reading. Notice the question was Focus action and the answers were Focus Token. You use the action to gain the token. ( fyi there are other ways to get a token). The token is what is spent to modify dice.

Or does the secondary attack eliminate all attack and defense modifiers other than what's printed on the card?

You know...that might be the ordnance fix we're all looking for. "Against missile and torpedo weapons, defenders cannot modify dice". Hmm...