Why did they include the words against an enemy ship? As far as I know there isn't a possibility of performing an attack against a friendly ship.

Vader attacks incompetent crew members all the time. Haven't you watched the movies?

Why did they include the words against an enemy ship?

Preparation for future releases?

As far as I know there isn't a possibility of performing an attack against a friendly ship.

And there is none. Not yet.

I would assume that it is because the rules templating has been pretty erratic, especially during the early waves.

You're probably reading too much into it.

The part "cause that ship to suffer 1 critical damage" would be confusing unless it specifies what that ship is, so they couldn't just say "after you perform an attack, you may...". They most likely added the word enemy to reinforce the rule in people's minds that you can't attack friendly ships. If they just said "After you perform an attack against a ship", it would cause people to think it was possible to attack your own ships, which it is not.

Having redundancy between your card text and the rules of the game is not a bad thing and is often times very helpful in reminding players about the rules.

This is why:

This is why:

Things like Dead Man's Switch, Assault Missiles and Ruthlessness do not count as attacks, so they will never actually interact with the Darth Vader crew card.

This is why:

Things like Dead Man's Switch, Assault Missiles and Ruthlessness do not count as attacks, so they will never actually interact with the Darth Vader crew card.

You missed it....

If you could use Vader to kill your own friendly ship, then things like Dead Man's Switch could be set off without an opponent ever firing on the ship equipped with it.

This is why:

Things like Dead Man's Switch, Assault Missiles and Ruthlessness do not count as attacks, so they will never actually interact with the Darth Vader crew card.

You missed it....

If you could use Vader to kill your own friendly ship, then things like Dead Man's Switch could be set off without an opponent ever firing on the ship equipped with it.

But you cannot attack friendly ships anyway. So Vader can only be used against enemy ships anyway, even if the card would not spell it out.

This is why:

Things like Dead Man's Switch, Assault Missiles and Ruthlessness do not count as attacks, so they will never actually interact with the Darth Vader crew card.

You missed it....

If you could use Vader to kill your own friendly ship, then things like Dead Man's Switch could be set off without an opponent ever firing on the ship equipped with it.

But you cannot attack friendly ships anyway. So Vader can only be used against enemy ships anyway, even if the card would not spell it out.

Not being able to attack friendly ships is part of the rules of the game (the FAQ is a rules document), you can't do it no matter what the wording is on any upgrade card, unless that wording is something like "you may attack friendly ships".

So yeah, don't read too much into how Vader crew is worded, it doesn't change the actual rules of the game.

I wasn't look for any loophole or BS like that. I was just curious as to why they felt the need to include that wording. seems a bit superfluous.

Vader attacks incompetent crew members all the time. Haven't you watched the movies?

And competent ones, Needa & Motti are only really guilty of being the man in charge at the time and being a sarcastic ass respectively.

I wasn't look for any loophole or BS like that. I was just curious as to why they felt the need to include that wording. seems a bit superfluous.

Sometimes it's okay to be a bit superfluous (one word in this case) if it means avoiding confusing players. It would be more confusing to more players if Vader didn't specify enemy ships in the text because then they'd think they could pull shenanigans like Stone37 was talking about if they didn't go online and look at the FAQ.