Was playing with the YV-666 after opening it finally. My previous build was okay, but now I am looking at running only two ships, so I want to upgrade the pilot of YV-666 to be Bossk. I want to run the following combination, but wanted to make sure it was legal.

I find myself at Range 1 of enemy ships (in my meta) quite often while flying the bus, so I wanted to equip Fearlessness as my elite pilot ability. That also led me to seeing how Mangler Autocannon was a good pick for Bossk as well, since you can turn a hit into a crit, and then he can turn that crit into two hits.

Since I am new, I wasn't sure if I could turn my "free" hit from Fearlessness into a crit with Mangler Autocannon, and then modify again to turn into two regular hits. Aren't you only able to modify a result once?

You absolutely can use the Mangler cannon to turn the hit from fearlessness into a crit.

You are only allowed to reroll each die once, but you can modify that die as many times as you like as long as those modifications are not re-rolls. That is why a target lock + focus is a powerful combination for an attack since you can reroll your blanks and then use the focus to change the results of all of your dice, including the ones you re-rolled. Since Fearlessness and Mangler Cannon both act at the same time (during the attacker modifies attack dice step), you can choose the order in which they occur and definitely use Fearlessness to add a hit, then use Mangler Cannon to change that hit into a crit.

@joeshmoe554 is absolutely correct.

I would also like to point out that Bossk's ability doesn't trigger at the same time as Fearlessness and Mangler Cannon. Bossk's pilot ability triggers AFTER the enemy has rolled defense dice and modified them, and only if the enemy did not get enough evade results to cancel your crit. You don't get to convert the crit to two hits unless the attack would have hit anyway.

6 hours ago, Superstrength79 said:

I find myself at Range 1 of enemy ships (in my meta) quite often while flying the bus, so I wanted to equip Fearlessness as my elite pilot ability. That also led me to seeing how Mangler Autocannon was a good pick for Bossk as well, since you can turn a hit into a crit, and then he can turn that crit into two hits.

Another important note: although Fearlessness applies to all arcs -- which is the full 180° on the YV-666 -- you can only fire the Mangler Cannon into your standard arc. That's the general rule for all Upgrade weapons. Your auxiliary arcs on the sides are for your built-in gun only.

(If you want to shoot a cannon out the entire front, you can use Moralo Eval, but then you don't get Fearlessness or Bossk's crit-splitting.)

Thanks for all of the responses! I look forward to using the new pilot. I'll try the mangler cannon out soon as well. For the time being, I was using Latts Razzi and a Flechette Cannon for some survivability. My new list includes Asajj, so I can get some additional stress on enemy ships. The current list will look like this:

Bossk (YV-666), Fearlessness, Flechette Cannon, Jabba the Hutt, Latts Razzi, Burnout SLAM, Engine Upgrade - 50 pts

Asajj Ventress (Lancer), Push the Limit, K4 Security Droud, Glitterstim, Inertial Dampeners, Engine Upgrade - 50 pts