Calculation EPT

By X Wing Nut, in X-Wing

Friend of mine sent me a pic of the card. Dont know how to post it yet but you can find it here

Sorry if its been posted already

Huh, that actually looks like a decent 1pt.

(no, this is first time it's been spoiled)

If that's correct, looking forward to Ten Numb + Calculating Calculation + Ion

Edited by IvlerIin

If that's correct, looking forward to Ten Numb + Calculating Calculation + Ion

Ion can't make a crit.

I wonder if you can spend one focus token to turn one eye to crit, and second token to make all other eyes to hits?

Edited by bernh

If that's correct, looking forward to Ten Numb + Calculating Calculation + Ion

Ion can't make a crit.

I wonder if you can spend one focus token to turn one eye to crit, and second token to make all other eyes to hit?

Both Ten and Calc deal with results. Ion only needs to "hit" so if your dice roll wasn't avoided the Ion effect occurs. Ion Token + 1 Face-down Damage.

The way that's worded I would say yes, spend one to trigger calc. spend another (or keyan's stress) to flip the rest. You're not modifying a die more than once, so you should be good.

As far as Ten goes I think he means because the crit can't be dodged his ion would always hit with this, provided he rolls at least one eye

Edited by Nyxen

Well that just dropped the stock of Etahn and the mangler cannon lol. Will stick it on imperial scarlet :)

If that's correct, looking forward to Ten Numb + Calculating Calculation + Ion

Ion can't make a crit.

I wonder if you can spend one focus token to turn one eye to crit, and second token to make all other eyes to hit?

Both Ten and Calc deal with results. Ion only needs to "hit" so if your dice roll wasn't avoided the Ion effect occurs. Ion Token + 1 Face-down Damage.

Hm, makes sense. So about 75% chance to make unavoidable ion attack.

Edited by bernh

This makes HLC a tiny bit nastier. It's also a much better version of Marksmanship than we've had before.

Well that just dropped the stock of Etahn and the mangler cannon lol. Will stick it on imperial scarlet :)

I really don't think so. Any time you've got more than one eyeball, you're going to be giving up damage to use it. Any time your opponent has shields, it's going to be equal to a focus, at best. There's a reason it's only 1 point.

Not that it might not prove useful at that cost, but there's a reason nobody sees Winged Gundark around.

If that's correct, looking forward to Ten Numb + Calculating Calculation + Ion

Ion can't make a crit.

I wonder if you can spend one focus token to turn one eye to crit, and second token to make all other eyes to hit?

Both Ten and Calc deal with results. Ion only needs to "hit" so if your dice roll wasn't avoided the Ion effect occurs. Ion Token + 1 Face-down Damage.

Hm, makes sense.

So Ten with ion and this would mean that your crit cannot be canceled, thus the ion hits and the defender gets a token and suffers a damage. Easy. The results only get canceled AFTER the attack hits.

Ten Numb + Calculation + Ion Cannon + Tactician

Its the first time I would hope to roll a focus

This makes HLC a tiny bit nastier. It's also a much better version of Marksmanship than we've had before.

What? No. Just... no.

More dice means more eyeballs, means greater chances you'll have multiples. The odds of rolling exactly one eyeball is 10% - that means that 90% of the time it either does nothing, or you'll be better off spending the focus normally, or won't have any reason to spend it at all. At 3 dice, it'll be relevant 15% of the time. 2 dice, 18%. And that doesn't even consider the times that one hit would splash on a shield. Honestly, it may possibly be overpriced at 1 point.

You really can't compare it to Marksmanship, which changes all eyeballs, and has the main purpose of doing so for multiple attacks.

Honestly, even with Ten I think Marksmanship is better unless you absolutely cannot spare the 2 additional points. Yes, Calculating and Ion Cannon will be cheaper, but it's also taking a 35-point ship and guaranteeing it'll only ever do a single point of damage. Far better to spend the extra two points and be able to apply it to general attacks as well in a way that will actually increase your damage.

This makes HLC a tiny bit nastier. It's also a much better version of Marksmanship than we've had before.

What? No. Just... no.

More dice means more eyeballs, means greater chances you'll have multiples. The odds of rolling exactly one eyeball is 10% - that means that 90% of the time it either does nothing, or you'll be better off spending the focus normally, or won't have any reason to spend it at all. At 3 dice, it'll be relevant 15% of the time. 2 dice, 18%. And that doesn't even consider the times that one hit would splash on a shield. Honestly, it may possibly be overpriced at 1 point.

You really can't compare it to Marksmanship, which changes all eyeballs, and has the main purpose of doing so for multiple attacks.

Unless you are Corran or have Gunner, this is better than Markmanship since this + Focus action gives the same results (if you have only 1 attack) for 2 less points.

Unless you are Corran or have Gunner, this is better than Markmanship since this + Focus action gives the same results (if you have only 1 attack) for 2 less points.

No, it doesn't. Read the card - it changes one eyeball to a crit. If you roll two eyeballs on that one attack, it's only going to change one of them. So if you roll zero eyeballs, it's going to do nothing. If you roll 2 or more eyeballs, you'll be giving up damage to get that crit. I laid out the odds above - the best it gets is just under 20% of the time for a 2-dice attack.

Would you do this

Jake Farrell (24)
Predator (3)
Chardaan Refit (-2)
Calculction (1)
Autothrusters (2)
A-Wing Test Pilot (0)

Total: 28

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not in squad builder I modified my post

Can someone post a pic of the card, No facebook at work

Unless you are Corran or have Gunner, this is better than Markmanship since this + Focus action gives the same results (if you have only 1 attack) for 2 less points.

No, it doesn't. Read the card - it changes one eyeball to a crit. If you roll two eyeballs on that one attack, it's only going to change one of them. So if you roll zero eyeballs, it's going to do nothing. If you roll 2 or more eyeballs, you'll be giving up damage to get that crit. I laid out the odds above - the best it gets is just under 20% of the time for a 2-dice attack.

My bad.

Would you do this

Jake Farrell (24)

You know that agonizing moment you have whenever you roll one eyeball, and you have to decide if you're going to spend your focus to get that one (potential) hit, or save it for defense?

That's what this thing is. Every time.

Personally, I'd expect that a majority of the time you'd save your focus token for defense on an A-wing.

Can someone post a pic of the card, No facebook at work

I can't copy the link on my iPad but it reads

Calculation

1 point

When attacking you may spend a focus token to change one of your (eyeball) results into a (crit) result.

At 3 dice, it'll be relevant 15% of the time. 2 dice, 18%.

The probability of obtaining exactly one eyeball result from three dice = 27/64 = 42.1875%

The probability of obtaining exactly one eyeball result from two dice = 3/8 = 37.5%

Can someone post a pic of the card, No facebook at work

I can't copy the link on my iPad but it reads

Calculation

1 point

When attacking you may spend a focus token to change one of your (eyeball) results into a (crit) result.

if some one could tell me if there is a way to post from FB I would be more then happy to

*nosebleeds *covers

This is a really useful EPT....

*drips blood everywhere.

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So is this real or not?