I was teaching my father how to play over the weekend and he posed a question that made me think
: if a black die rolls a hit crit against a squadron - does it do 2 damage?
The Basis for this is an anti ship attack. If i roll a hit crit against a ship it does 2 damage and the critical effect is applied or contained after.
is this the same for squadrons? Can you point me to the right section of rules to support your take on it?
Squadrons ignore crit results both attacking and defending unless there is an ability in play that causes the crit result to add to the damage total (Darth Vader TIE Advanced Squadron attacking a squadron, or a Bomber squadron attacking a ship, for example).
RRG, Page 2:
5. Resolve Damage: The attacker can resolve one of its critical effects. Then the attacker determines the total damage amount. Then the defending squadron or hull zone suffers that total damage, one point at a time.
◊ If the attacker or defender is a squadron, the damage is the sum of all [hit] icons.
◊ If the attacker and defender are ships, the damage is the sum of all [hit] and [crit] icons.
◊ Each ship has the following standard critical effect: “[crit]: If the defender is dealt at least one damage card by this attack, deal the first damage card faceup.”
Learn To Play Guide, Page 15:
Squadron DamageWhen a squadron suffers damage, the player reduces its remaining hull points by the damage amount. He rotates the squadron’s disk so that the pointer on the squadron base points to the remaining hull points.If a squadron ever has zero or fewer hull points, it is destroyed; remove the model from the play area along with any tokens and other associated components.Squadrons suffer damage equal to the number of [hit] icons only; they ignore [crit] icons.
The reason Black Dice make good anti-squadron dice is because there are 6 faces out of 8 possible faces with [hit] icons, versus the Blue Dice, which have only 4 out of 8 possible faces with [hit] icons.
Edited by daveddogot it - that was the way i had been playing, but i couldnt find the rules that said so - thanks