Hey all

I saw this on one of the Facebook groups im on and wondered what the consensus might be as it seems eeeeeeevillll

This is the question asked on Facebook (well 2 but similar)

"Say if your opponent has previously been dealt a structural damage card, they've taken the extra damage and the card gets flipped over. Could you then flip the same structural damage card over again using boarding engineers, resulting in the opponent taking another damage card?"

"Other question on this, could the same 'structural damage' card be flipped over multiple times for the same Boarding Engineers action? As the card says flip then face up 'one at a time'
I.e. Resolve one fully before moving into next card"

With Structural damage, as soon as its resolved it flips over as a normal damage and if Boarding Engineers resolves each one at a time and then goes to the next one, that needs a FAQ

Consensus is It does not.

There is only one window which allows you to "look at cards".

That is at the start, when you first resolve Boarding Engineers.

You don't get to look at other face down cards, including ones that are generated by the results of the other cards. This stops you from choosing the one card multiple times, or even choosing the cards that are generated..

If I were to mix in other gaming terms to demonstrate intention , you say "I pick up all of your face up cards and put them into my Hand... From my hand, I may Choose one and resolve it. As I resolve it, it is placed on the table. Then I choose another card from my hand. I continue to choose cards from my hand to resolve until I reach my engineering value.

The "one at a time" is to prevent any funny interactions between Critical Damage Cards... You could, for example, have two cards to resolve - Projector Misaligned, and Shield Failure... If all of the Shields are *even*, then resolving Projector Misaligned allows the defender to choose which of the tied highest zones loses its shields... but , if you resolve Shield Failure first, you, as the "opponent", gets to choose which two zones loses a single shield - which could then allow you to effectivle "choose" which zone Projector Misaligned will go with...

Which is a lot less clunky than going "You've got Shield Failure and Projector misaligned, so which one goes first?"

13 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

If I were to mix in other gaming terms to demonstrate intention , you say "I pick up all of your face up cards and put them into my Hand... From my hand, I may Choose one and resolve it. As I resolve it, it is placed on the table. Then I choose another card from my hand. I continue to choose cards from my hand to resolve until I reach my engineering value.

This is the most elegant way of answering this question.

That's great, thanks

What about the first part of the question, can you use Boarding Engineers to flip over a structural damage? Follow on, you should be able to flip that same Structural Damage over AGAIN with a second ship that also has boarding engineers, correct?

32 minutes ago, Stovrose38 said:

What about the first part of the question, can you use Boarding Engineers to flip over a structural damage? Follow on, you should be able to flip that same Structural Damage over AGAIN with a second ship that also has boarding engineers, correct?

Yes, you can.

Its even more brutal and setup when you use a Dodonna powered Garel's Honour to put the first Structural Damage there in the first place.

21 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

Yes, you can.

Its even more brutal and setup when you use a Dodonna powered Garel's Honour to put the first Structural Damage there in the first place.

At this point, I think we're running low on ship.