So after looking over some of cards i was wondering if you could use bohdi ability to TL a friendly ship out of range three as bohdi's ability only states enemy ships

I think you've answered your own question....

If Bohdi's card specifically says 'enemy ships', then enemy ships it is. Now, a FAQ/Errata might change that down the track, but for now, do what the card says.

I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

"When you acquire a target lock, you can lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship."

"When a ship you have locked is attacking, you may choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll that die.

You can acquire target locks on other friendly ships."

There is no interaction between these two cards.

I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

"When you acquire a target lock, you can lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship."

"When a ship you have locked is attacking, you may choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll that die.

You can acquire target locks on other friendly ships."

There is no interaction between these two cards.

So you're say that Bodhi's text " lock onto an enemy ship... " cannot be overruled by M9-G8's ability to lock onto friendly ships?

I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

"When you acquire a target lock, you can lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship."

"When a ship you have locked is attacking, you may choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll that die.

You can acquire target locks on other friendly ships."

There is no interaction between these two cards.

So you're say that Bodhi's text " lock onto an enemy ship... " cannot be overruled by M9-G8's ability to lock onto friendly ships?

Yes.

There is no interaction between these two cards.

So you're say that Bodhi's text " lock onto an enemy ship... " cannot be overruled by M9-G8's ability to lock onto friendly ships?

M9-G8 permits acquiring target locks on friendly ships.

Bodhi alters the range rules for target locks, but specifies enemy ships.

Together you may:

- target lock an enemy ship at range 1-3 of your self (normal)

- target lock an enemy ship at range 1-3 of any friendly (thanks Bodhi)

- target lock a friendly ship at range 1-3 of yourself (thanks M9-G8)

Bodhi specifies enemy. Other target lock related card abilities do not specify, because no locks on friendlies is the norm. M9-G8 does create an exception to the norm. It does not explicitly create an exception to Bodhi; therefore no exception exists. Bodhi and M9-G8 cannot collaborate to lock a friendly ship beyond range 3 of the ship equipped with M9-G8.

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I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

"When you acquire a target lock, you can lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship."

"When a ship you have locked is attacking, you may choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll that die.

You can acquire target locks on other friendly ships."

There is no interaction between these two cards.

So you're say that Bodhi's text " lock onto an enemy ship... " cannot be overruled by M9-G8's ability to lock onto friendly ships?

Yes.

So M9-G8 can overrule the general rule for acquiring a target lock, but not Bodhi's card. Why not?

So M9-G8 can overrule the general rule for acquiring a target lock, but not Bodhi's card. Why not?

It's not that it can't , it's that it doesn't .

If Bodhi said "You may acquire Target Locks on ships at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship," then there would be no question. But it doesn't; it reiterates the enemy ship requirement, in a way that Long Range Scanners does not. It may be that they would have included "enemy" on LRS too, if they had more room (the other card that manipulates the legal range of Target Lock acquisition, Sensor Team, does specify "enemy ships"). But as written, it doesn't look like M9-G8 overrides Bodhi.

Right now this looks like a set of target acquisition schemes.

At the base level, you've got the rules from the Rules Reference. You can Target Lock enemy ships at Range 1-3.

M9-G8 modifies the base level.

Bodhi Rook adds a level. And if it didn't specify "enemy", I'd assume that it just inherited from the base level, complete with M9-G8's modifications. But it does specify enemy, so it looks like it works alongside M9-G8 and does exactly what it says.

It may be that this gets FAQ'd with an FFG-special "Bro, do you even casual? You're overthinking this."* I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

*: To which the only possible response is "Bro, do you even rules? You're underthinking this."

To be honest, I'd hate to have to rule on this one, as I can see either argument has its merits. I suppose I'd go 51% in favour of Bodhi, as his text does specify "enemy ship".

I hope somebody's already put in a rules question on this.

It would actually be interesting to see which way they'd go on this.

I think the OP was looking at the interaction between Bodhi Rook and M9-G8.

Bodhi acquires a target lock as normal, but uses any other friendly ship as the starting point for measuring the range (he can use his own ship, but then it's just a normal target lock).

M9-G8 allows the active ship to acquire a target lock on friendly ships, so the ship with Bodhi and M9-G8 equipped, should be able to target lock any ship, enemy or friendly, at Range 1-3 of any other friendly ship.

But they must both be on the same ship for this to work.

"When you acquire a target lock, you can lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-3 of any friendly ship."

"When a ship you have locked is attacking, you may choose 1 attack die. The attacker must reroll that die.

You can acquire target locks on other friendly ships."

There is no interaction between these two cards.

So you're say that Bodhi's text " lock onto an enemy ship... " cannot be overruled by M9-G8's ability to lock onto friendly ships?

Yes.

So M9-G8 can overrule the general rule for acquiring a target lock, but not Bodhi's card. Why not?

If Bodhi said 'you may acquire target locks on ships within range 1-3 of any friendly ship', it would work with M9G8's ability to lock friendlies. But it specifically says 'enemy ships'...