Coms Net timing questions...

By That Cat Ruger, in Star Wars: Armada Rules Questions

Given: Coms Net on a Gozanti or GR75 (command value 1).

The card says, “After the Reveal Command Dial step, ...”.

Coms Net can obviously be activated following the completion of the command dial step to pass a token, before anything else happens. But the card does not say “immediately after.”

Can a token be passed later in the flotilla’s activation? After it performs an attack? More importantly, after it performs a maeuver to get within 1-5 of a friendly ship previously out of range?

How about when it has already activated and completed its turn in a round? Could a friendly ship within 1-5 or one moving into that range get a token through Coms Net even though the flotilla has completed its turn that round?

Is it even round dependent? Can a friendly ship in range, or arriving in range, receive a token banked by the flotilla in a previous round even though the flotilla has not activated yet in the current round?

In all of the above questions, the flotilla has completed a command dial step to bank a token. The question is whether there is an outside restriction on the timing of Coms Net.

I’m not seeing one.

Page 5. Rules Reference.

An“after”effect occurs immediately after the specified event and cannot occur again for that instance of the event.

That clears it up nicely, thanks.