Obviously timing on APTs has been done to death, however a particular situation where the timing was exceptionally relevant cropped up this evening...

My MC30's APTs hit with a crit, so a face-up was dealt immediately... which allowed me to reduce his speed 1 to speed 0 (cant remember the exact name of the card). There was a still 4 damage after this to apply - being reduced to speed 0 at the APT stage, is he now prevented from using his defence tokens in this attack?

We played it as no (I thought the APT damage should apply before defence tokens in this case, but as we couldn't decide and I had a double arc anyway, we agreed he could use his defence tokens), but would be interested to hear the forums thoughts.

Attacker rolls dice

Attacker modifies dice

Defender chooses defence tokens and resolves evade, lando scatter immediately

Attacker chooses crit effect

Damage resolved

So no. Defender can still use the defence tokens they already declared.

Gotcha. I was placing the "immediate" side of APT as immediately before the third bit. Cheers!