Question: Do you assign damage cards beyond the hull value of the destroyed ship?

Answer: I think no (even though we have been playing our Store level tournaments with chucking damage cards beyond the hull points of a ship)

Am asking this question as I believe you do in X-Wing. After playing a game (Thrawn: Cymoon 1, Kuat, Gladiator & Gozanti vs Motti: Cymoon 1, Kuat & 2 Raiders) we found that the Motti fleet had only 6-8 damage cards available at the end of the game with no discard pile.

Mathematically it could cause a problem, a 4 damaged Motti Raider could potentially take a perfect hit from a Cymoon Spinal Armament ISD, being assigned 15 damage and 1 accuracy (to nullify the brace) taking the damage cards (were they to be issued) to 19. In such a Thrawn vs Motti match, there would be no more damage cards to issue.

However, on the UK Armada Facebook page, the answer to this question is split, some do assign damage cards beyond the hull points, some do not. Also some of us who played in the UK Nationals stated the same, some players assigned excess damage cards, some did not.

So what's the answer?

RRG pg 4 DAMAGE

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• When a ship suffers damage, it suffers that damage one point at a time . For each point, reduce the shields in the defending hull zone by one. If the defending hull zone has no shields to lose, deal a facedown damage card to the ship instead.

• When a ship has damage cards equal to its hull value, it is immediately destroyed .

You deal as many cards as it takes to destroy the ship, no more.*

*Rieekan is the exception, because his ships are not immediately destroyed. I think my record is 22 damage cards on a CR90B.

1 hour ago, Ardaedhel said:

RRG pg 4 DAMAGE

You deal as many cards as it takes to destroy the ship, no more.*

*Rieekan is the exception, because his ships are not immediately destroyed. I think my record is 22 damage cards on a CR90B.

Da crap.

How many ISDs were pointed at it?!?!

5 minutes ago, DrakonLord said:

Da crap.

How many ISDs were pointed at it?!?!

Truthfully, I do not recall the circumstances at all. It's probably one of those fish tales where the number has grown in my head as time has passed, but for whatever reason 22 is what's stuck in my head.

I've tried reconstructing the scenario from memory, and the only thing I can figure is that it must have involved either Precision Strike or Superior Positions incentivizing shots on that poor doomed ship even after it was zombified.