Connor Net vs Advanced Sensors

By DR4CO, in X-Wing Rules Questions

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I'm 99% sure this works, but just to check that I'm not missing something:


Let's say you're playing a ship with Advanced Sensors, and an opposing ship of lower PS flies up to you before you activate and drops a Connor Net on your head. This means you are going to skip your Perform Action step.


Now, per the rules for the Connor Net, you still reveal the dial that you had set this turn. Immediately before you reveal the dial, Advanced Sensors triggers and you take a free action. Then you reveal your dial, perform your maneuver, and skip your "Perform Action" step as dictated by both the Net and your own Sensors.


Is there anything to prevent getting around the Connor Net effect like this?

Edited by DR4CO
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Seems like a sneaky way around the 'skip your Perform Action step', but I'm having a hard time seeing a problem with it. It's rather cunning actually.

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Nothing wrong with that. You skip you action, if you manage to pull your action before you stuck into conners your fine.

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This works. The rule is that you're skipping your Perform Action Step from Conner Net. Advanced Sensors also causes you to skip your Perform Action step because you're getting your action before movement.

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I had asked this very same question to Frank Brooks, and was told exactly what davedoo said.

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I had asked this very same question to Frank Brooks, and was told exactly what davedoo said.

That's just the thing. It's quite sneaky if you ask me, but still perfectly legal. It wouldn't work if Advanced Sensors was worded differently and referred to executing your maneuver after the Perform Action step. But because it's a free action and you skip the Perform Action step, it's all perfectly kosher.

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Really no different that using Advanced Sensors on the turn you are going to do a red maneuver or run over an asteroid or even about to run over a conner net.

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Avoiding losing your action is what Advanced Sensors is for. That, and premaneuver barrel and boost.

The Net will still damage you and leave you adrift next turn though.

Edited by Blue Five
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I guess it's possibly because I haven't used Advanced Sensors much myself. I know what it does, but I guess I don't really appreciate how powerful it can be when used properly. Must give it another go sometime...