If someone has this ship with crew of recon specialist. They perform their action of focus and therefore get a free focus.

At the start of the combat phase would they be considered a friendly ship of themselves so they could spend one of their focus tokens to barrel roll or evade?

1 minute ago, HRCBlade said:

If someone has this ship with crew of recon specialist. They perform their action of focus and therefore get a free focus.

At the start of the combat phase would they be considered a friendly ship of themselves so they could spend one of their focus tokens to barrel roll or evade?

Correct.

Thanks

Another question with the same fitting.

Can Asoka, with her 2 focus, use twice her abilities with 2 allies ? (one focus for each)

The card say : Spend one focus to give one free action.

But it doesn't say "once per turn".

So.... ?

Does the limit of one token par abitlity/action count ?

No. Each ability can only be used once per opportunity - in this case the opportunity is the start of the combat phase.

OK thanks

If it was not the case, I can imagine Manaroo with mindlink I give a focus, the get one back, I give another focus, then get it back again.... It'll be overpowered combo unlimited focus

I got a bit more complex question that turned up during last games:

What happens if ashoka gives action friendly ship and it is unable to perform it?

a) her ability does not resolve - she can use it again

b) her ability is resolved so ship is designed - it can do another action as normal

Probably the former, based on past precedent, but it's a good question.

EDITED

On second thought, is barrel roll a precedent here? You may not be able to roll to the exact location you wanted, but you must still barrel roll left/right as you chose if it is physically possible.

I don't know if there's an established precedent for this regarding Arien Cracken, and I would assume there probably is, but there is wiggle room to say you only walk the choices back as far as you absolutely need to. But again, I doubt that is actually the case.

It's an interesting question, but there;s precedent with Advanced Sensors and Squad Leader as well - and the precedent seems to be 'if it doesn't work, you csn roll back to before you made the decision whether to use it at all and start again from there.

It's an important question not just for Ahsoka, but also for Co-ordinate as well - if you give someone a free action of their choice and that action fails, do you roll back to before you gave them the action, or do you roll back to having given them the action and they have to choose another one - i.e. if you try to give someone a TL with Ahsoka, do they then have to take a focus if they couldn't do the TL, or can you give the action to someone else entirely?

Yes. You're right. That nails it down nicely.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure the answer is the latter, but it's probably worth asking to the rules line.

Same with Push. Once you brought it up, I realised we've all probably pushed for a target lock and then backtracked without another action when the target is out of range (without taking a stress).

After rereading Ahsokas card:

" choose a friendly ship at Range 1. It may perform 1 free action. "

Her ability is to designate a ship. It then has a free action - so if no TL target or no legal boost/br you still have to stick to that designated ship.

3 hours ago, Vitalis said:

After rereading Ahsokas card:

" choose a friendly ship at Range 1. It may perform 1 free action. "

Her ability is to designate a ship. It then has a free action - so if no TL target or no legal boost/br you still have to stick to that designated ship.

I agree that's the most conservative reading of the wording of her ability, but Airen Cracken's ability is worded the same and the FAQ is clear on him:

FAQ 4.2.3 p8 "Airen Cracken":

If Airen Cracken chooses a friendly ship to perform an action (such as target lock), but that ship cannot perform that action (because the enemy ship is out of range, for example), that ship may choose a different action or Airen Cracken may choose a new friendly ship at Range 1 to perform a free action.

I knew there had to be proper precedent somewhere. Seems like that question is pretty much answered.

Yeap all clear now

Not gonna lie. I was too lazy to look it up.

Hi guys, this i the most related topic to my question that I found. At a game the following happend:

A ship ends up on an asteroid. Ahsoka is in range 1 with a focus.

Can Ahsoka use her focus to give the ship an action (possibly a barrel roll or boost) to move off the asteroid? This would maybe even give the latter ship the opportunity to attack, since the rules only say you cannot attack while on an asteroid.

I think the above is right since the rules only state that a ship landing on an asteroid skips its perform an action step. But the action triggered by Ahsoka should be another action, or is it?

Ahsoka can allow someone to boost or BR off an asteroid using her pilot ability, yes. Asteroids don't inhibit free actions, only the ship concerned's Perform Action step.

Note though that you can only boost/BR them off the rock as long as the template for the boost/BR doesn't touch the rock. If it does, you can't do it, unless they're equipped with Collision Detector.

42 minutes ago, c3lb said:

Hi guys, this i the most related topic to my question that I found. At a game the following happend:

A ship ends up on an asteroid. Ahsoka is in range 1 with a focus.

Can Ahsoka use her focus to give the ship an action (possibly a barrel roll or boost) to move off the asteroid? This would maybe even give the latter ship the opportunity to attack, since the rules only say you cannot attack while on an asteroid.

I think the above is right since the rules only state that a ship landing on an asteroid skips its perform an action step. But the action triggered by Ahsoka should be another action, or is it?

On a related note, if you use a seismic torpedo to destroy the asteroid, the ship regains it's attack. Of course you risk damaging the ship.

Just now, xbeaker said:

On a related note, if you use a seismic charge to destroy the asteroid, the ship regains it's attack. Of course you risk damaging the ship.

Seismic Torpedo, but yes. I'd never thought of that before. Could be a hilarious thing to do with Dash.

41 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Seismic Torpedo, but yes. I'd never thought of that before. Could be a hilarious thing to do with Dash.

To continue the thread drift:

Note that the damage from Seismic Torpedo is an effect of that card, not of the obstacle, so Dash is not immune to it.

So boosting / barrel rolling off a rock will not make me roll a red dice to check for damage since i can only do it if the template doesn't overlap the rock?

Correct.