They need FAQ clarification for Bossk already.

They don't need one for Bossk until he's legal for tournament play. Even if they have advanced copies of Wave 7 for sale at GenCon that doesn't mean they're legal for tournament play. That's how it worked with wave 5 IIRC.

I'm still confused: what about Bossk needs any clarification? He's really, really straightforward.

My guess is crew Bossk, to be absolutely certain whether he can trigger or not when already stressed.

"After you perform an attack that does not hit, if you are not stressed, you must receive 1 stress token. Then assign 1 focus token to your ship and acquire a target lock on the defender."

He triggers after every missed attack, stress or not, and you receive a stress if you don't already have one. Resolve those conditions and you get a focus and target lock.

Exactly my interpretation of it, but its the only possible Bossk clarity I could think of. Well, outside the Nashta Pup but that's not Bossk exclusive.

Actually, it would be pretty welcome. 3 stress at R2-3? Bye bye Chirpy Soontir build.

Also, there is some precedent for multi-attacks skipping some step...

Can you actually fire at a different target with TLT? I didn't think you could. but if we go by your "must declare attack for each attack" logic, then yes we can.

Seems like we currently declare target, then do multi-attacks.

Well, there's a slight precedent: Gunner. We already know you can choose a different target for Gunner, but let's take a look at the verbage between the two.

After you perform an attack that does not hit, you may immediately perform a primary weapon attack. You cannot perform another attack this round.

Attack: Perform this attack twice (even against a ship outside your firing arc). Each time this attack hits, the defender suffers 1 damage. Then cancel all dice results. Attack: 3. Range: 2-3.

So, Gunner says perform an attack. Then perform another attack. TLT says Perform this attack twice. So RAW, both of them would go through steps 1-7 twice. But I'm wondering if that's the intent. Heck, if we look at Cluster missiles, there is no valid target for the second round.

Attack [Target Lock]: Spend your Target Lock and discard this card to perform this attack twice. Attack value: 3. Range: 1-2.

The declare target happens in step 1, but the weapon choice in step 2. So the first time around, you Declare the target, then you declare the weapon (which in and of itself contradicts non-PWT turrets btw), spend the TL and the card, complete the first attack, but then you don't have cluster missiles to perform the second attack. Plus, even if you did, you would not have a TL to attack again.

And of course, weapons engineer brings up a second issue with cluster missiles - can you attack a different target if you have a TL on him as well?

Cluster Missiles should read something more along the lines of "Attack [Target Lock]: Spend your Target Lock to perform this attack. Then perform this attack against the same target again. Then discard this card. Attack value 3. Range 1-2."

So, now CM requires you to have a TL, it requires you to spend the TL on the first attack, it then allows you to perform the attack again. It then tells you to discard the card. Therefore, the text now aligns with how the card operates. Though do we have a ruling on whether or not Tactician triggers twice with Clusters? We know Airen triggers twice, and Tactician has the same wording. Therefore, I would think that it's all but confirmed that TLT would trigger Tactician twice. R3-A2 is still up to the developers whether they want to follow the rules (which clearly show it would trigger twice) or not.

I think you spent a whole post explaining why it can't trigger twice then concluded that it would be able to...

Additionally the card says 'perform THIS attack twice' which could easily be read as skipping all steps which could make these attacks different, including choosing weapon and targets.

What if Bossk has a TL on a ship other than the one he's attacking? Is he then required to to change his TL to the player he's attacking?

What if Bossk has a TL on a ship other than the one he's attacking? Is he then required to to change his TL to the player he's attacking?

History suggests they might faq it to say may, but it could just as easily be an intended cost of having him on your ship. Trandoshan gets angry and stressed. Focuses on this one enemy above all others.

I wonder if a rule change in the way we play is about to happen (perhaps changing something with big turrets is what I suspect).

Making sure the rule change is balanced and the correct choice is the only delay I can think of. FFG usually released all FAQ/tourny rules at the same time, and current xwing rules dont need a ton updating

A TLT Stresshog is going to be awesome being able to double stress a target at range 3. If you can triple stress a target, its going to be absurd.

Anyone who wants to tripple stress themselves with a Y-Wing dial is more than welcome to.

A TLT Stresshog is going to be awesome being able to double stress a target at range 3. If you can triple stress a target, its going to be absurd.

Anyone who wants to tripple stress themselves with a Y-Wing dial is more than welcome to.

It's actually terrifying with just BTL. They just give up actions and murder you by ignoring greens. I thought it wouldn't be that bad once before fighting it for the first time and it's really quite nasty and the ywing just accrues 5-10 stress without caring.