Lando (crew) + C3-PO

By DallinPear, in X-Wing Rules Questions

With the Lando (crew) and C3-PO cards paired, can you use 3-PO to guess during Lando's "Action"?

For example:

Action: use Lando (crew) to roll 2 defense dice.
Before rolling the dice use 3-PO to guess "0" evades.
Roll the 2 defense dice RESULT: 2 focus.
Can you then add 1 evade die to your result (from 3-PO) to assign 2 focus tokens and 1 evade token to the ship?

Edit:

The thought is to use this on Han with the following

Han

-Lando

-C3-PO

-MF title

-Exp Int

Possibly giving the ship several Evades and Foci each round.

Edited by DallinPear

Yes, this does indeed work.

Keep in mind though, your best chances for activating C-3PO happen when you roll 1 evade die. So if your choice is between using it on the Lando roll or when rolling 1 defense die from an attack (if this were on a falcon for instance) save it for the attack.

Edit: actually, I think the only (non-epic) ship with 2 crew on it for rebels is the falcon, so yeah - save it for being attacked unless by some chance you're only being attacked by ships with outmaneuver or wedge that drops your agility to 0.

Edited by Cptnhalfbeard

With the Lando (crew) and C3-PO cards paired, can you use 3-PO to guess during Lando's "Action"?

For example:

Action: use Lando (crew) to roll 2 defense dice.

Before rolling the dice use 3-PO to guess "0" evades.

Roll the 2 defense dice RESULT: 2 focus.

Can you then add 1 evade die to your result (from 3-PO) to assign 2 focus tokens and 1 evade token to the ship?

Yes, this works. It doesn't really gain you much, though. An evade token can be spent on any Attack, but so can Threepio's ability. And as Capthalfbeard says,my our chances of using Threepio to generate an extra success are highest when you roll only one die.

With the Lando (crew) and C3-PO cards paired, can you use 3-PO to guess during Lando's "Action"?

For example:

Action: use Lando (crew) to roll 2 defense dice.

Before rolling the dice use 3-PO to guess "0" evades.

Roll the 2 defense dice RESULT: 2 focus.

Can you then add 1 evade die to your result (from 3-PO) to assign 2 focus tokens and 1 evade token to the ship?

Yes, this works. It doesn't really gain you much, though. An evade token can be spent on any Attack, but so can Threepio's ability. And as Capthalfbeard says,my our chances of using Threepio to generate an extra success are highest when you roll only one die.

Threepio's ability has to bee used before you roll your die. The evade token can be spent afterwards.

It's the difference between +5/8 of an evade, and +1 of an evade.

Still, when using the combo, you want to guess 1 evade. That crops up 30/64 of the time, as opposed to 25/64 of none and 9/64 of two.