Adv Sens - Darth Vader

By KingJenko, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Can Darth Vader use his ability and spend force points to do multiple actions before he manoeuvres?

Relevant card text

Advanced Sensors: After you reveal your dial, you may perform 1 action. If you do, you cannot perform another action during your activation.

Darth Vader: After you perform an action, you may spend 1 [icon]force[/icon] to perform an action.

Since Advanced Sensors does not allow you to perform another action during your activation, you cannot use Darth Vader's ability to chain multiple actions off of it. You could however use Supernatural Reflexes to take a boost or barrel roll action and then use Vader's ability to take additional actions since that card does not have the same restriction.

Supernatural Reflexes: Before you activate, you may spend 1 [icon]force[/icon] to perform a barrel roll or boost action. Then if you performed an action you do not have on your action bar, suffer 1 [icon]hit[/icon] damage.

Note that nothing stops you using supernatural reflexes to boost or barrel roll (which happens before you activate) plus any number of free actions from Vader's ability, THEN doing a free action (that you haven't already performed) with advanced sensors, then executing the manoeuvre.

It seems a bit of an extravagance in points compared to 'just' supernatural reflexes, though, especially since that combination locks out Fire Control System.

Oh it's a terrible idea. I was just pointing out it works in theory.

6 hours ago, joeshmoe554 said:

Relevant card text

Advanced Sensors: After you reveal your dial, you may perform 1 action. If you do, you cannot perform another action during your activation.

Darth Vader: After you perform an action, you may spend 1 [icon]force[/icon] to perform an action.

Since Advanced Sensors does not allow you to perform another action during your activation, you cannot use Darth Vader's ability to chain multiple actions off of it. You could however use Supernatural Reflexes to take a boost or barrel roll action and then use Vader's ability to take additional actions since that card does not have the same restriction.

Supernatural Reflexes: Before you activate, you may spend 1 [icon]force[/icon] to perform a barrel roll or boost action. Then if you performed an action you do not have on your action bar, suffer 1 [icon]hit[/icon] damage.

Ok thank you

17 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

Oh it's a terrible idea. I was just pointing out it works in theory.

The list of things that statement covers is depressingly long.

Advanced Sensors: After you reveal your dial, you may perform 1 action. If you do, you cannot perform another action during your activation.

Don't think you can.