Can a ship use a friend's Targeting Synchronizer Target Lock to fire Homing Missiles (Homing Missile doesn't say "Spend Target Lock")?

Yes

4 minutes ago, DeathstarII said:

Yes

Would you care to elaborate?

The Homing Missile card doesn't instruct you to spend a target lock, so why can I use it?

Just now, Veldrin said:

Would you care to elaborate?

The Homing Missile card doesn't instruct you to spend a target lock, so why can I use it?

Because of the first half of the card

When a friendly ship at Range 1-2 is attacking a ship you have locked, the friendly ship treats the ' ATTACK (TARGET LOCK): ' header as ' ATTACK: '

1 minute ago, DeathstarII said:

Because of the first half of the card

When a friendly ship at Range 1-2 is attacking a ship you have locked, the friendly ship treats the ' ATTACK (TARGET LOCK): ' header as ' ATTACK: '

OK. I read it as you had to have an effect that required you to spend the lock.

Thank you!

1 minute ago, Veldrin said:

OK. I read it as you had to have an effect that required you to spend the lock.

Note the if, the if means exactly that, if instructed to spend a target lock by a game effect, you may spend the targeting synchronizer' lock

The text on the TS card deals with any situation involving a requirement to spend a Target Lock, after requiring an Attack (TL): to Attack: event to occur. The Homing Missile card instructs you to have a TL to attack, but does not specify that the TL needs to be spent.

This is one of the cases of doing what the card (not the squad builder software) says to do, and not doing what it doesn't say to do.

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Targeting Synchronizer
When a friendly ship at Range 1-2 is attacking a ship you have locked, the friendly ship treats the " Attack (target lock): header as " Attack: ." If a game effect instructs that ship to spend a target lock, it may spend your target lock instead.

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Homing Missile
Attack (target lock): Discard this card to perform this attack.