I'm unsure whether MC affects the final hit result for TLT.

Twin laser turret reads, "Each time this attack hits, the defender suffers 1 damage. Then cancel all dice results."

Mercenary copilot reads, "When attacking at Range 3, you may change 1 of your hit results to a critical result."

Reading it out I take it that you roll your dice for TLT, modify your dice results with MC, then cancel all dice results and deal 1 damage.

I have my hopes up that it changes the final hit result and I could fly around and deal crits at range 3.

If someone could inform me of the correct procedure that'd be great, thanks.

You are right, Mercenary Copilot's crit gets cancelled by the TLT, which then deals one normal damage.

I think the simple answer to this is that the Mercenary Copilot (MC) affects the dice results in the "Modify Attack Dice" step of the Combat Phase.

TLT final damage takes effect during the "Compare Results" and "Deal Damage" steps.

So MC would be cancelled out when TLT deals a normal damage to your opponent.

All you're doing with MC is changing a result from something that needs to be evaded before being cancelled, into something else that needs to be evaded before being cancelled. So to end result is neither here nor there. The dice roll is merely establishing whether you hit or not.

TLT damage has nothing to do with which hit icons are showing on your dice.

As long as an icon that corresponds to damage is uncancelled then 1 damage is dealt to the defender. There's no way to make that damage a critical damage since it doesn't relate to the icons on the dice but rather relates to the wording on the TLT card.

Twin Laser Turrets use the same mechanic as Ion Cannons, Ion Cannon Turrets, Ion Pulse Missiles and Ion Cannon Batteries.The dice roll is just to see if you hit. After that, the results are cancelled and meaningless, as the damage is pre-determined by the card instead of the dice. Merc Co-pilot would be equally redundant on all these weapons. He may sound like a good option, but there's some things he's just not useful with.

Only way to get a crit with the TLT is to use Greedo crew.

Cheers everyone. I Appreciate all your replies.

Regarding markcsoul's suggestion using Greedo, it's a shame I don't own any scum. Rebel all the way!

Cheers everyone. I Appreciate all your replies.

Regarding markcsoul's suggestion using Greedo, it's a shame I don't own any scum. Rebel all the way!

So you own a lot of rebel scum?