Grand Moff Tarkin allow friendlies to acquire a lock on a ship that GMT's ship has locked.

Does that mean ships without the lock action (like lots of TIEs) can acquire a lock? I believe it would in 1.0 but I am unsure in 2.0.

Look at Tarkin's requirements...

That is the case in 1.0 and I haven't seen anything to make me thing it would be any different in 2.0. It's always possibly since AFAIK nobody has seen the rules for 2.0 yet, but I would be very surprised if it required a ship to have the lock action in order to acquire a lock.

4 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Look at Tarkin's requirements...

OK, so I now actually understand the question...

I don't think we'll know how this works until we see the rules. If there's no general rule about it, I'd expect it to work as in 1e, but there might be a general rule, in one way or the other.

6 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Look at Tarkin's requirements...

I was assuming that Tarkin was place legally on a ship with the Lock action. I was asking about the other ships affected by his ability.

'Acquire a lock' is the same as 'assign a focus token' - it's a mechanical definition of 'put the appropriate token into play'.

A Target Lock action is one (of several) triggers that can cause you to do that, but you don't have to have the latter to achieve the former, because other things than the action can cause you to acquire a lock.

ST-321 is probably the best example to prove this. In 2.0, the Lambda does not have the target lock action, and yet ST-321 allows it to acquire a Target Lock when it performs a Co-ordinate action.

Is there an update to this? Can Tarkin let a tie/ln with no targeting capacity acquire a TL?

(Each acquiree must have valid R0-3 range)

Please @ me.

This works fine. Acquiring a lock is a separate thing from performing a lock action, and one which every ship in the game currently is able to do.

Even if it said every ship performed a lock action, that'd still be fine.

You can perform an action without having it on your action bar (see afterburners granting you a boost action)

Yup. Big difference is that "Acquiring a Lock" is something you can do even if stressed ^^