Can I Resolve Blinded Pilot While Cloaked?

By AdmiralThrawn, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Blinded pilot reads:

You cannot perform attacks.

After your next opportunity to attack (even if there was no target for an attack), flip this card facedown.

If I am a Cloaked phantom do I have an opportunity its to attack even when cloaking prevents attacking? I guess this question applies to weapons disabled tokens too.

I would think I can't resolve the card while Cloaked but just checking.

Blinded pilot reads:

You cannot perform attacks.

After your next opportunity to attack (even if there was no target for an attack), flip this card facedown.

If I am a Cloaked phantom do I have an opportunity its to attack even when cloaking prevents attacking? I guess this question applies to weapons disabled tokens too.

I would think I can't resolve the card while Cloaked but just checking.

No, you can't. Because it states "opportunity to attack". When you are cloaked you don't have that opportunity. Also, you don't have an opportunity to attack if you are on an asteroid, or if you have used the "slam" action and have the weapons disabled token. Also, Corran, on the turn AFTER he double tapped, has no opportunity to attack.

I would tend to agree that you can't while cloaked but there are a lot of things that just don't make sense. Spending focus tokens when not rolling any eyes for example.

I would tend to agree that you can't while cloaked but there are a lot of things that just don't make sense. Spending focus tokens when not rolling any eyes for example.

There's more than a few things in this game that don't make a lot of sense. There's quite possibly some logic behind them somewhere, but a lot of us have yet to discover it.

:)

Well the logic behind using a focus when you rolled no <focus> results is that zero is a valid number. That's why TL's and 3PO work as well.

in the old damage deck, blinded pilot actually says you resolve it "The next time you attack". I assume, if you have no target, you do not get to attack.

in the old damage deck, blinded pilot actually says you resolve it "The next time you attack". I assume, if you have no target, you do not get to attack.

If you're using the old damage deck, then you need to have a valid target to attack in order to flip the damage card face down. If you're being chased around the play area and can't get a target into arc in order to make an attack, then you keep that card faceup and it remains in effect. The Blinded Pilot card in the new damage deck is a little more forgiving. You just need an "opportunity to attack" and not an actual target.

Edited by Parravon

Huh. I would think you would need a target to have an "opportunity to attack."

Huh. I would think you would need a target to have an "opportunity to attack."

That is nevertheless how it works. Read the entirety of that critical effect if still in doubt: After your next opportunity to attack (even if there was no target for an attack), flip this card facedown.

As a sidenote, while the new version of this critical for most purposes is milder, it is worse on ships with Gunner, Twin-Laser-Turret, Luke (Crew), Vader (Crew), Fire-Control, System, IG-88B, TIE/D, Wes Janson, Advanced Cloaking Device, Airen Cracked - and whatever other effect I forgot that can trigger of attacking - than the critical in the old version.