If your primary weapon is 3 or higher, and lets say you fire missile at Backdraft, but Quickdraw has Draw Their Fire. You want to use chips, but can you change it to a hit instead of a crit to stop Quickdraw from DTF and using ability? Or because your primary weapon is 3 or higher, you have to change it to a crit or leave it as it is?

Those parenthesis confuse me and kind of make it sound like primary 3 or higher has to change it to a crit.

You can choose to change a result or not, but if your primary weapon value is 3 or higher, then it's going to become a crit. I don't think you can downgrade your crit result by choice.

Well, it's written as an or. Assuming that you weapon value is 3 or more, the effective ability text would be 'you may change 1 die result to a [Hit] result or a [Crit] result.

It it was a forced change, I would expect the caveat to say instead. So yeah, I would say you can choose in the case of 3+.

The logical "or" implies you can change the die to a hit "or" a crit provided you meet the condition.

I second our language expert InquisitorM, it would have needed an instead somewhere to replace it in case of 3 attacks:

"you may change 1 die result to a BOOM result (or a KABOOM result instead if your primary weapon value is "3" or higher).

I agree with InquisitorM - based on the wording changing a dice to a hit is a given for all ships and if you have a primary weapon of 3 or more then you can choose a hit or a crit.

I have never thought about it before. Most ships I use it with have a primary 2, but if I ever used it with primary 3, I defaulted to a Crit.

If there was a seperate sentence that stated primary 3 changes to a crit - then I would would say crit is mandatory.

There is so little reason to think that anyone would choose a hit over a crit that I'm not surprised it hasn't been considered before. Nor would I assume that the creators even considered the distinction a necessary one. It's far from clear and neither logic nor linguistic accuracy hold half as much sway as I'd want them to

TO here... yes you can. It does not matter your Primary Weapon value in your situation because the card reads, "....you may change 1 die result to a hit result," so you basically can change a single die, no matter what you rolled, to a HIT result. The "or" part added latter, is if your Primary Weapon value is 3 or higher, you have the option of going to a CRIT result as well.

On 6/1/2017 at 9:58 AM, InquisitorM said:

There is so little reason to think that anyone would choose a hit over a crit that I'm not surprised it hasn't been considered before. Nor would I assume that the creators even considered the distinction a necessary one. It's far from clear and neither logic nor linguistic accuracy hold half as much sway as I'd want them to

If you are shooting at a ship with Draw Their Fire you wouldn't want the crit.