Hi all; A couple of things: 1) I finally realized that BRACE does nothing when you only have one H.P. left - half of even 1 damage (rounded up) is 1 - you're dead. This leads to my questions involving an interesting situation. First I must say that anything I've read about accuracy and defense tokens has never made a distinction between Readied or Exhausted tokens! [so] 2) The simple way of asking the question is "Can you stop the enemy from using an exhausted token with accuracy as well?"
Ah - now for the situation! It's the bottom of the 6th, with a second attack against Howlrunner, with no others in range. Howlrunner has 1 H.P. left, with a Ready Brace, and an Exhuasted Scatter, and a Rebel squadron just rolled 1 hit and one accuracy. If the Rebel can negate the (exhausted) Scatter, then the Brace does nothing and they're dead - 16 Rebel V.P.s! But if you can't use accuracy against exhausted Def. tokens, then Howlrunner uses Scatter and Discards it (doesn't matter at this point) and survives - NO Rebel V.P.s!
I hope I presented the situation clearly enough (on my end) so you guys will understand what and why I'm asking about this. Depending on the answer, and/or how you look at this, the question may be less about rules and possibly more about a weird kind of strategy issue [?] Sure looking forward to some input on this one! Steiner