Hi all,

If I run ACM to make things simple - roll 1 black die and get a Hit/Crit to the front hull zone of the defending ship, following the steps sounds like this:

• Defender decides which defensive tokens to spend - he chooses to spend brace and redirect
• Resolve Critical Effects - I choose to use my crit icon for ACM
• Total Damage
• Defender resolves defensive tokens and suffers damage if needed

In this example I am now doing 2 damage to the front and 1 to each adjacent hull zone. Does the adjacent hull zone damage get resolved when I resolve ACM as a critical effect during that step, or does it get added to the total damage and can be braced/redirected down? I believe it would be resolved during the critical effect - you take the step and resolve the action.

My understanding is this doesn't add to the total damage of my dice, so it can't be braced down - I'm not now doing 4 damage, I'm doing 2 damage to the front hull and resolving a critical effect that does ``1 damage to each adjacent hull zone - these happen seperatly. The front hull zone damage can be redirected and braced, however.

My questions is, is this the correct way to play ACM?

tl;dr: Basically I am using my ACM crit effect to AOE my opponents ship, and he cant do much about it without DCO+Contain or Evade.

Acm damage is separate from total damage and can't be affected by brace.

It's in the faq.

The damage from ACM is done when you resolve the critical effect (as it says to do the damage).

This happens before you total up the damage, and before brace and redirect defense tokens have their effect .

Crits are resolved after scatter and evade, at the same time as contain, and before brace and redirect. The only reason the default crit appears to work differently (after brace and redirect) is because it has its effect some time after it is resolved - if/when the first damage card is dealt.