Star Destroyer has 3 shields up on port side. I roll 2 hits and 1 crit. Does the crit go through and cause a face up damage card, or do the shields still take it? Assume no defense tokens can be used. I'm confused by this somewhat, and I don't know why. The way some people talk, it sounds like it goes through.

Star Destroyer has 3 shields up on port side. I roll 2 hits and 1 crit. Does the crit go through and cause a face up damage card, or do the shields still take it? Assume no defense tokens can be used. I'm confused by this somewhat, and I don't know why. The way some people talk, it sounds like it goes through.

How the group I play with does it, in your example shields would take it all. No damage would be done to the ship.

All a crit means is that the attack can resolve a single "crit effect."

The standard crit effect is that the first damage card that is dealt (if any) is dealt face up.

2 damage + 1 crit face = 3 damage total. If there are 3 shields, then the defender will draw 0 damage cards, and thus, none are dealt face up.

Ok, change scenario. 1 Shield left to Port side. Roll 1 damage 2 crits. 1 damage eats the shield, 2 crits go through. Is both damage face up or just 1 damage face up?

Only one card is dealt face up, because you can only resolve one critical effect per attack. Doesn't matter how many die faces show crits.

Note that if you had an upgrade card that said like... "[Crit] Black Die," you would have to choose between one face up damage car, or the effect on the card.

gotcha. Thanks for the clarification, so it's not like Xwing