Hello All - I’ve only been playing the game for a week, so please go easy.

I read in the rules that when a ship is stressed, you have to give your maneuver dial to your opponent and he or she selects a non green manuever for you to execute. Apparently, that has changed.

I know you can’t take an action or free action while stressed and only a green maneuver can remove a stress token. I’m good with that.

What I’m hazy about it where it says on the fandom, “If a ship is stressed, the ship executes a white 2 forward instead. Does this happen subsequently after the stress manuever is executed?

Thanks in advance!

44 minutes ago, 0_Ultrashiver_0 said:

Hello All - I’ve only been playing the game for a week, so please go easy.

I read in the rules that when a ship is stressed, you have to give your maneuver dial to your opponent and he or she selects a non green manuever for you to execute. Apparently, that has changed.

I know you can’t take an action or free action while stressed and only a green maneuver can remove a stress token. I’m good with that.

What I’m hazy about it where it says on the fandom, “If a ship is stressed, the ship executes a white 2 forward instead. Does this happen subsequently after the stress manuever is executed?

Thanks in advance!

If you’re stressed you still choose and execute the maneuver you plan (Clearing 1 stress if its green, in which case you can take actions if that removes your last stress).

The old ‘giving your opponent your dial’ and the new ‘white 2-straight’ -only- happen if you try and reveal a Red maneuver while already stressed.

Yup. You're missing the key point here that you only fail to do what's on your dial, if that's not a legal manoeuvre.

So, dialing a red if you're stressed is not legal, so you have to do something else, in this case, a white 2 straight.

Another case would be, e.g. dialling a straight manoeuvre when you have the Shaken Pilot crit - if you did that, your opponent would get to choose a legal (i.e. non-straight) move for you.

Understood and thanks!

-Ultra

9 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

Yup. You're missing the key point here that you only fail to do what's on your dial, if that's not a legal manoeuvre.

So, dialing a red if you're stressed is not legal, so you have to do something else, in this case, a white 2 straight.

Another case would be, e.g. dialling a straight manoeuvre when you have the Shaken Pilot crit - if you did that, your opponent would get to choose a legal (i.e. non-straight) move for you.

(puts on his "that guy" hat)

To be extremely nitpicky here, dialing and/or revealing a red maneuver while stressed is no longer considered to be "illegal." Rather, it's handled under the aforementioned rules, forcing your maneuver to become two-straight. This can actually be exploited in certain edge cases, where you may want to retain a stress token (for Ezra Pilot, using Wired, etc), rather than clear your stress. These are highly uncommon cases, though. (The reason this was changed was due to the increasing number of ways an enemy could assign stress during the activation phase - after your dial was set, but before you actually moved).

On the other hand, setting a straight maneuver while you have Shaken Pilot, or assigning an incorrect dial to a ship with a maneuver the ship can't normally perform (like accidentally using a T-70 X-Wing dial, and assigning a Talon Roll to your T-65 X-Wing ship), IS an illegal maneuver. In those cases, your opponent will assign your dial instead - at which point, they may fly you off the board, or onto an obstacle, or right into their "killbox."