Came up in a game I had last night.

When you attack a squadron with Counter X, can you spend a defence token to avoid damage from the Counter attack?

Yes.

Counter attacks are, for all intents and purposes, attacks .

Which means you follow the Flowchart for Attack rules, which includes the use of Defense Tokens

Wow a one min response time. That was my opinion too but I thought I would ask anyway

Which, also means all of those things that apply "while Attacking" such as Toryn Farr, Howlrunner, etc, will apply to a Counter Attack.

Which, also means all of those things that apply "while Attacking" such as Toryn Farr, Howlrunner, etc, will apply to a Counter Attack.

That was my understanding as well. Apparently people here didn't know that either