Skirmish - Mos Eisley Outskirts (Get to the Ship)

By robertpolson, in Imperial Assault Skirmish

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The skirmish card instructs


"A figure can interact with a launch panel to flip the toke coloured side up or gray side up. Each player can flip a maximum of 1 token per round"


I don't get it, in which situation would a player turn the token back from its coloured side up to its gray side up?


Also, I assume that to maintain VP points, a player has to have one figure adjacent to a token without any enemy figures being adjacent to it. Once the player's adjacent figure is defeated, and he no longer has nay other figures controlling the token, he loses his 2VP for gray or 5 VP for colour token. Correct?

Edited by robertpolson
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If you control the token, and I don't want to leave my figure standing there, I can run over, flip the token, and run back to safety until backup arrives. Also, even if I leave a figure there, if it's a stormtrooper and you wipe it out, then the token is still all yours, but I've flipped it.

Either way you only get 2 points instead of 5.

Edited by Lifer4700
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You accumulate the VPs from round to round. The VP you have already earned don't go away if you loose control of a token, you just don't get to accumulate any more.

Therefore, you might want to flip a token back to grey because you know your not going to be able to hold it any longer, for example, your lobe stormtrooper with 1 hp remaining is about to get attacked by vader, vader will kill your trooper and then be in control of the token, if you flip it down he will only score 2 VP that round, instead of 5.

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Just to clarify.

1. Player 1 gets to the token by the end of the round and there are not hostile figures adjacent to the token. Player 1 gets 2 VP. Can player one flip the same token(s) by the end of the next round to get 5VP instead of 2 VP or this had to by done in the same round as P1 got to the token? Or once something is claimed nothing can be done with it in the next round?
2. If P1 and P2 figures both get to the token(s) and are both adjacent to the token(s) then no one gets VP until one of the figures moves away or is defeated?
3. Once any player gets the VP for being adjacent to the terminal, can these points be taken away? For example, if the player's figure is no longer located adjacent to the the VP claimed token(s)? This could happen if the player moves away his figure or if the player's figure is defeated? In other words, does what a player claims at the start of a round stays with the player for the rest of the game or is it lost if the player loses control of the token?
Edited by robertpolson
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Just to clarify.

1. Player 1 gets to the token by the end of the round and there are not hostile figures adjacent to the token. Player 1 gets 2 VP. Can player one flip the same token(s) by the end of the next round to get 5VP instead of 2 VP or this had to by done in the same round as P1 got to the token? Or once something is claimed nothing can be done with it in the next round?
2. If P1 and P2 figures both get to the token(s) and are both adjacent to the token(s) then no one gets VP until one of the figures moves away or is defeated?
3. Once any player gets the VP for being adjacent to the terminal, can these points be taken away? For example, if the player's figure is no longer located adjacent to the the VP claimed token(s)? This could happen if the player moves away his figure or if the player's figure is defeated? In other words, does what a player claims at the start of a round stays with the player for the rest of the game or is it lost if the player loses control of the token?

  1. At the end of round 1 they'd get 2 VP. If the token gets flipped in round 2 and they're still in control they'd get 5 VP at the end of the round. If they still have control at the end of round 3, they get another 5 VP. If they no longer have control at the end of round 4, they get nothing. An so on.
  2. Yes. (see below)
  3. I have never seen any process by which VP are taken away. Gaining or losing control of a token during the round is irrelevant, since the VP are only awarded to the player in control at the end of each round.

Basically, if you manage to maintain control of 2 flipped tokens, you're gaining 10 VP each turn, and you'll win the game in 4 turns, even if you never kill an enemy figure.

Edited by Lifer4700
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Thank you. This finally makes sense.

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Once any player gets the VP for being adjacent to the terminal,

You mean launch panel, not terminal here, right? I don't remember the terminals in that mission providing VP.

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Yes, launch panel.

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EDIT: DELETED

(That quote wasn't my text, it was robertpolson's. He already responded.)

Edited by Lifer4700
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There is a big difference between claiming a token and controlling a token. Check the RRG for both definitions and then reread the mission.