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Putting an Ion cannon on a ship that has Ruthless as well. Would a successful Ion shot also be applied to the additional ship at range 1? Or simply be an additional use/method of whittling down hit points/shields only?

Ruthless states the ship suffers one damage. The Ion terminology states that "if this attack hits the target ship, ...." As Ruthless requires choosing a ship at range one, would this be constituted as a valid recipient of an ion token?

I'm not sure I follow you?

Both Ion weapons and Ruthlessness trigger when an attack hits. In other words once the defender has rolled defense dice and cancelled as many booms and kabooms as he can and there is still a (ka)boom left, then the attack has hit and both the ion effect and ruthlessness trigger.

The ion effect causes 1 damage and an ion token to the defender (the ship that was targeted) and ruthlessness has you select a different ship (at range 1 of the defender) to take a point of damage in addition to the attack.

Other than both triggering on the same condition, the two cards don't really interact in any way.

Ok, nothing comes up after searching of this type of topic.

Putting an Ion cannon on a ship that has Ruthless as well. Would a successful Ion shot also be applied to the additional ship at range 1? Or simply be an additional use/method of whittling down hit points/shields only?

Ruthless states the ship suffers one damage. The Ion terminology states that "if this attack hits the target ship, ...." As Ruthless requires choosing a ship at range one, would this be constituted as a valid recipient of an ion token?

The biggest piece of advice I can give you for this game is to read the cards very carefully, and do not add any interpretations/assumptions to any ability, and do not paraphrase. "Do what the cards say and don't do what the cards don't say." Ion cannon/turret only applies to the defender of the attack, and ruthlessness only applies to another ship at range one of the defender. What they do to those ships does not interact at all.

Thanks Cptnjhalfbeard.