Timing of K4 vs a Debris Field?

By Sergovan, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Your scum Kath goes over a debris token by a hair, but your maneuver was green so K4 should kick in to allow you a free TL. Does the stress from the debris token get applied before you get your TL action or after?

I forgot to check if K4 is acquire TL or a TL action so this may be moot.

K4 is acquire not perform a free action. So yes - you get your target lock. However you wouldn't be able to PtL when acquiring the lock. Interestingly this means K4 is a way to fire ordnance against a chosen target when Captain Kagi is around, you get the free lock on Kagi and then Action for the choice of target!

I'd like to point you here. This is one of those questions that just keeps coming up.

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/136482-common-wave-6-questions-look-here-first/

I posted it in there but wasn't getting any feedback so I made it its own thread. I was looking for a discussion on how it resolves.

It's there. Most recent update was an hour before this thread was posted. And as you were the first poster, I'm fairly certain I updated it with your questions last night.

:/

Edited by UnfairBanana

However you wouldn't be able to PtL when acquiring the lock.

Well yeah, you can never trigger PtL off of "acquiring a TL" from an ability because PtL can only trigger from doing an action. Since the TL acquired by K4 is not an action, it doesn't trigger PtL.