If you put Advanced Homing Missiles on Blount and he misses, does the face damage still go into affect? His ability as written " when attacking, the defender is hit by your attack, even if he does not suffer any damage". If his ability does work with adv homies I would also fly Roark Garnet's HWK to make sure Blount shoots 1st. Even if he dies later that round he has done his job, putting a face up damage on a high valued target.

Basically you roll your attack dice, the defender rolls theirs, and after the compare results step, if there are any uncanceled hits or crits, you've hit the target, and you deal a faceup damage card. The dice results are then cancelled.

With Lt Blount, you go through the same process, but if your opponent manages to cancel all your hits and crits, the attack still hits (due to his ability) and you deal a faceup damage card. The dice results are then cancelled.

So in effect, with Blount it's 3 points for a faceup damage card on the defender that he can't avoid. Shields will not stop it. The only drawback is it's a Range 2 only attack, so you've got to get the distance just right.

Blount can't ever miss with any attack. He hits even if he has the Blinded Pilot* crit. He might not do any damage, but he can't miss.

Anything that has an on hit effect always goes off for him and ones with on miss effects never do.

He always strips Steath Device, Laetin never gets an Evade token off him, and if Z-95s could take a crew Gunner would be a waste of 5 points.

* Blinded Pilot from the original damage deck.

I prefer to use Ion Pulse Missiles on him over the new homing missile. So give that a try and use some control in your next list.

As is Munitions Failsafe.

I prefer to use Ion Pulse Missiles on him over the new homing missile. So give that a try and use some control in your next list.

Hell, against anything with only 2 hull points (E-Wing, Phantom, etc) he can potentially one-shot kill them without getting through the shields first. Really screw up someone's day.

Hell, against anything with only 2 hull points (E-Wing, Phantom, etc) he can potentially one-shot kill them without getting through the shields first. Really screw up someone's day.

I've lost many an E-Wing to proton bombs with untouched shields