Do companions have an affiliation?

By turkishvancat, in Imperial Assault Rules Questions

Is the junk droid considered a scum/mercenary figure so that Jabba can focus it? Similarly Salacious crumb?

The companion takes on the affiliation of the group it activates with. It is also considered a figure, so yes you can do that to a Junk Droid.

There's no point to focus Salacious Crumb, because he doesn't have an attack pool.

5 hours ago, brettpkelly said:

There's no point to focus Salacious Crumb, because he doesn't have an attack pool.

Once SBC gets focused then his attack pool should become one green die. He doesn't have the "Non-Combatant" keyword like C-3P0.

However, since there is no melee or ranged attack icon next to the attack pool, that does leave other questions to be asked.

Does this answer the other question?

Each attack uses an attack type (Melee: melee or Ranged: ranged), attack dice, and surge (surge) abilities. For a hero, this information is found on his weapon Item card. For any other figure, this information is found on its Deployment card.

Attack has to be either melee or ranged. If there is no attack type, you can't perform an attack.

(To me Non-Combatant is more of a clarification of the non-existing attack, and there is no space on Crumb's companion card for it.)

I've had this come up, and just to point it out here... If you have Crumb on a Rebel figure, SBC is Rebel and cannot have opportunistic move him.