SHIELDS
Shields allow a ship to suffer damage without the risk of being dealt faceup Damage cards. The blue number on a Ship card is the ship’s shield value, indicating how many shield tokens to place on the Ship card during setup.
• A ship cannot have more shield tokens than its shield value. If a ship has a number of shield tokens equal to its shield value, it cannot recover shields.

Shields only block face up damage cards. Not regular hits.

Say what?!

That's from the wiki. That's not how damage is explained on page 9 of the FTA core rules reference.

It was enough to make me go look, though!

Well, duh. When you take a shield hit, you discard the shield token by turning it face down. The number of shield tokens never changes.

Pg 17 rule book. ??????

Sounds like you all have come to the conclusion that shields can neither be created, nor destroyed, only changed to different forms.

That's all well and good for you, but now you've stolen all of my agency.

Anyone else think that this game isn't fun at all anymore and that we should meme as hard as we can at FFG until they return shields to their rightful canonical state?

16 minutes ago, RebelProfundity said:

Sounds like you all have come to the conclusion that shields can neither be created, nor destroyed, only changed to different forms.

That's all well and good for you, but now you've stolen all of my agency.

Anyone else think that this game isn't fun at all anymore and that we should meme as hard as we can at FFG until they return shields to their rightful canonical state?

This is true and backed by the law of conversation of energy.

What is going on here? Don't shields basically cancel out damage cards that aren't critical?

Shields never cancel anything, they are more like an enhancement of your inner self.

5 minutes ago, Hannes Solo said:

This is true and backed by the law of conversation of energy.

Conver... Conv... Con serv ation?

Just now, Steelgunner said:

Conver... Conv... Con serv ation?

NO, conversation you read right!

1 minute ago, Hannes Solo said:

NO, conversation you read right!

7 minutes ago, Hannes Solo said:

NO, conversation you read right!

So, a shield token walks into a cantina, and it says. . .

..."I'll take a crit. Shaken, not stirred."

2 hours ago, Fuzzywookie said:

Shields allow a ship to suffer damage without the risk of being dealt faceup Damage cards.

So Hull allows ships to suffer damage with the risk of being dealt face up cards? I guess.

Well, GONK the everloving GONK out of me then!

This makes sense, I mean the tie fighters over Deathstar one were shredding through y wings and x wings as if they didn't have shields... maybe the x wing fix will be to revert the shields to their proper state.

1 hour ago, Hannes Solo said:

NO, conversation you read right!

1 hour ago, Darth Meanie said:

So, a shield token walks into a cantina, and it says. . .

1 hour ago, Hannes Solo said:

..."I'll take a crit. Shaken, not stirred."

34 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

So Hull allows

Your Hull Tokens will have to wait outside. We don't serve their kind here!

What’s happening right now?

2 minutes ago, Pooleman said:

What’s happening right now?

Yeah, lets make it so shields only stop crits! *entire rebel faction crumbles to the ground*

8 minutes ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

Yeah, lets make it so shields only stop crits! *entire rebel faction crumbles to the ground*

Babies. I've been flying without shields for years!!

No Shields, All Guts! Empire to the core!

*TIE Defender goes racing by, fully shielded*

14 minutes ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

*TIE Defender goes racing by, fully shielded*

It's just for weekends and holidays.