On 1/22/2018 at 4:42 AM, MrParsons said:

Not having something isn't the same has having 0 of something. If you don't have something you can't pick 0 of it. If you have something you can pick 0 of it.

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My head hurts thinking about this. I'm just gonna save the points and fly the generics. Crisis averted.

18 hours ago, digitalbusker said:

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That's the whole point. In x-wing when a ship has an absence of focus tokens it is considered to have 0 focus tokens rather than not having any focus tokens. You are therefore able to discard 0.

This isn't always the case in x-wing. When you have ion tokens you don't reveal 0 movement dials, you instead do not have a movement dial to reveal.

If you have X of a thing you can discard Y where Y <= X. In x-wing X is allowed a value of 0 for some things. For other things it isn't.

If you don't have X of a thing you can't discard Y as you haven't got anything to discard.

Torani's ability is actually not a case of "choose 0"

Torani's ability gives you a choice:

A - take 1 damage

B - Remove all focus end evades

nothing prevents the choosing of either choice through restrictions - so you can choose B even if you have none, NOT because you have none.

On 1/18/2018 at 10:42 AM, shaunmerritt said:

Greeting,

We had this debate last night! So here is my point, and I believe someone said the same... Reload says... "To reload, choose any number of the ship's equipped, discarded Torpedo or Missile Upgrade cards and flip them face-up, then assign the ship a weapons disabled token." If you do not have any equipped, discarded cards, then you should not be able to complete the action.

This is the point. You have two requirements on the use of the Reload Action. The first is EQUIPPED and the second, DISCARDED. A naked Starwing shouldn't be allowed to use the Reload action because it failed the first requirement. If the Starwing has a face up missile or torpedo upgrade, it still should not be allowed to perform the Reload action. While it meets the first restriction it fails to meet the second.

Now, if that Starwing had two missile upgrades equipped and both were turned face down, your options for reloading would be 0, 1 or 2. Both requirements for performing have been fulfilled and 0 (zero) becomes a viable number.

I think sometimes people confuse a "Null" result for "Zero".