Unguided Rockets doubts

By Arma Quattro, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Okay well, it's clearly not one of the most well designed cards that the devs got, but anyway.

So well, the doubts we have here regard the eventual interactions of such card and the A Score To Settle EPT.

The card says that attack dice can be modified only by spending a focus token for it standard effects, while ASTS converts one eye to a CRIT.

Doesn't look like it could work for me but I have been told otherwise.

What do you think about it?

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Changing a <eye> to a <kaboom> is modifying dice. And dice "can be modified only by spending a focus token for its standard effect." I don't understand any other interpretation.

Neither do I, but what I've been told is that it has been used at the American National, a player was using Kestal with TLT and A Score to Settle.
I suppose that it has been a ruling made by the TO.

Why would TLT + AStS be an issue?

The rules are utterly unambiguous in this case. AStS has no effect on Unguided Rockets. Ever. If any TO ruled otherwise it would reflect extremely badly on them.

Nope. It wouldn't work. Changing a <focus> to a <kaboom> is a modification, something not permitted with UR.

Sorry I forgot to mention that he also had rockets on that ship. My bad.

Okay, but that still has no effect on attacks other than Unguided Rockets. The effects on secondary weapons do not affect other attacks. If an Aggressor has TLT, UR, and AStS, it can modify TLT shots with AStS but not UR shots.

I'm not entirely sure any modifications from any sources can actually change your dice beyond that focus. UR would seem to prevent any effect modifying your dice, which trumps effects that state you may modify results. So effects like Sensor Jammer and Palpatine might not actually do anything either.

Edited by Jimbawa
9 hours ago, Jimbawa said:

I'm not entirely sure any modifications from any sources can actually change your dice beyond that focus. UR would seem to prevent any effect modifying your dice, which trumps effects that state you may modify results. So effects like Sensor Jammer and Palpatine might not actually do anything either.

Sensor Jammer or Palp or M9-Shamalan can not modify the Rockets. If they could, then it would read "You cannot modify..." (like Snap Shot) instead of "Cannot be modified..." like it reads.

This is one of the most clearly-written cards in the game.

Do what the card says.

"Your attack dice cannot be modified"

Now of course that only applies when you are using the rockets but beyond that it's hard to see how it could be more clear.