Will guidance chips work with this upgrade?

No. You can't modify the attack dice from them with ANYTHING other than a Focus token spent in the normal way.

10 minutes ago, Browncoat50 said:

Will guidance chips work with this upgrade?

Let me answer your question with another question:

Are Guidance Chips the same as spending a Focus token in the regular way?

No they are not. They dont even come close, since GC allows you to change (any) one die result of a Missile or Torpedo Attack to a hit (or even a crit if primary attack value is 3 or higher) once per round.

So this far, there is no focus (token spending) involved.

UR specificaly states that your attack dice can be modified only by spending a focus token for its standard effect. Which is turning focus dice results into hits.

Additionally UR are pretty much immune against countermeassures.

2 minutes ago, SOLAR FLARE said:

No they are not. They dont even come close, since GC allows you to change (any) one die result of a Missile or Torpedo Attack to a hit (or even a crit if primary attack value is 3 or higher) once per round.

So this far, there is no focus (token spending) involved.

And therefore, they don't work, because the only way UR can be modified is with a focus token's default effect.

Literally the only things you can do with UR that is outside the usual, are:

- Hux's Fanatical Devotion to make one die unblockable. The effects of FD aren't dice mods.

- Effects like Ruthlessness that do something on a hit/after attacking, that isn't modifying dice.

You can also:

• roll extra dice - Opportunist, for example, works on secondary weapons.
• modify the defender's dice - so stuff like Crack Shot or outmanouvre.

Missed opportunity here FFG. I wish Unguided Rockets said: You cannot use a TL to re-roll dice during this attack.

That would give CPT Jonus a reason to exist.

He already does. Massed cluster missiles squads are generally his bag in standard games, but he's most terrifying in Epic - give him Swarm Tactics, Systems Officer, and fly him next to a Raider-Class Corvette with Ordnance Tubes. it's a beast.

1 hour ago, Jo Jo said:

Missed opportunity here FFG. I wish Unguided Rockets said: You cannot use a TL to re-roll dice during this attack.

That would give CPT Jonus a reason to exist.

TLT Aggressors would like to have a word with you.

1 hour ago, Magnus Grendel said:

He already does. Massed cluster missiles squads are generally his bag in standard games, but he's most terrifying in Epic - give him Swarm Tactics, Systems Officer, and fly him next to a Raider-Class Corvette with Ordnance Tubes. it's a beast.

Epic, da **** is that?

The same format where Corran Horn is generally rubbished for not being Etahn A'Baht, rather than the other way around.

It does turn a lot of meta assumptions on their head.

I guess I'm just lucky that we do play it regularly around here; 1 week per month is epic games & mission games.

17 hours ago, Jo Jo said:

Epic, da **** is that?

X-Wing game scale gets epic when huge ships are used in a game. Meaning corvettes, frigates and the likes. Then its 300 pts right?

4 hours ago, SOLAR FLARE said:

X-Wing game scale gets epic when huge ships are used in a game. Meaning corvettes, frigates and the likes. Then its 300 pts right?

Sarcasm just doesn't work in plain text sometimes.

I've been playing X-wing since 2014 and I've played exactly two epic matches. Its just not a popular format here. Truthfully I didn't really enjoy it much either. X-wing to me is one of those games that you get diminishing returns the bigger it gets.

16 hours ago, Jo Jo said:

I've been playing X-wing since 2014 and I've played exactly two epic matches. Its just not a popular format here. Truthfully I didn't really enjoy it much either. X-wing to me is one of those games that you get diminishing returns the bigger it gets.

I agree. For me, it's all about starfighter dogfights. And the inclusion of frigates and corvettes weren't really warranted. Even the influx of more large ships into the game is becoming tiresome.