Ruptured Engine x2 - Ship - after you execute a manuever, if your speed on your speed dial is >1, suffer 1 damage
The card does not specify that the damaged ship suffer a damage card . Therefore, the crit appears to allow the damaged ship to suffer shield damage so long as it has intact shields, yes?
Yes, if you are instructed to deal a damage to a ship and it doesn't specify a hull zone you can pick which one to assign the damage too. If that hull zone still has shields then it would reduce the shield value by one.
I would still interpret the intent though that a damage card was dealt
"Suffer 1 damage" is used in ACMs as well and that damage goes through shields first if there are any before going into hull damage and thus dealing a damage card.
Just so there's no confusion... page 4 of the rules reference
DamageShips and squadrons can suffer damage from attacks,obstacles, and other game effects.• When a ship suffers damage, it suffers that damage onepoint at a time. For each point, reduce the shields in thedefending hull zone by one. If the defending hull zonehas no shields to lose, deal a facedown damage card tothe ship instead.• When a ship suffers damage and a hull zone isn’tspecified, the ship’s owner chooses which hull zonesuffers all of that damage.
Now I have to go through every critical and read them all to make sure some say damage card. . .
It doesn't say "damage card" but rather "damage."
I think it's only really Luke that deals a damage card straight away, but that's more of his "treat the defender as having no shields" line. Is there any other upgrade or card that deals a damage card straight away instead of going through shields as usual?
Not an upgrade or card per se, but Overlapping deals a damage card straight away and it says so clearly: "Then deal one facedown damage card...." (Overlapping, p.8 RRG)
Dodonna's Pride also specefies a card, rather than damage.
Asteroid overlapping also specifies a damage card.
Asteroid overlapping also specifies a damage card.
Whereas Debris Field is simply 2 Damage, to be a bit of an opposite...
Yeah, asteroids and Dodona's Pride deals one faceup damage card! Yikes!! That's a crit!!
Ships in the debris field "suffers two damage one any one hull zone" so this goes through shields first, plus you get to pick which hull zone gets the damage.
Any other cards?
Crew Panic and Thruster Fissure deal damage, Damaged Controls and Structural Damage deal face down damage
That's good to know. When you get those extra damage from those crits like crew panic and thruster fissure can be put on shields, like the ones opposite the side you're taking damage on that would otherwise not see action or allow you to redirect to.