Is there a limitation on the number of objective tokens a single unit can claim?

This cropped up in a game earlier today where I was 2-1 down on objectives claimed and Darth Vader was close enough to two tokens that he'd be able to move + claim one turn and move + claim the second turn to potentially win 3-2. If not the best result would have been a 2-2 draw. As it happened, it was immaterial as a bit of concentrated fire blasted Vader away on the last round.

I didn't see anything under the objective token rules that would prohibit claiming more than one and the card doesn't suggest there's a limit?

Also, is it correct that claim is a card action so it takes up one of your two actions to claim a token you're leader is in base contact with? That's how we played it but want to double check.

As long as it is the correct unit type a unit may claim more than one objective token. Yes, claim is a card action using one of the two actions. Though I don't understand yet how Vader would be able to claim two objectives in one round. Only way to do that is if in base contact with both, using both actions to claim both up.

4 hours ago, Tokous said:

As long as it is the correct unit type a unit may claim more than one objective token. Yes, claim is a card action using one of the two actions. Though I don't understand yet how Vader would be able to claim two objectives in one round. Only way to do that is if in base contact with both, using both actions to claim both up.

You could only do the claim action once per activation. The only action you can perform more than once is a move action.

5 hours ago, mini78 said:

You could only do the claim action once per activation. The only action you can perform more than once is a move action.

That's what I'm talking about, what you are failing to understand is the per activation part. Vader if using Implacable will have two activations in the same round but the second one with only one action... like I said, only way to do it is if in base contact with both. Misunderstood from the typo where actions should be activations. However, going back to the original question. Yes, you also could claim one in one turn and another in the next too.

On 3/23/2019 at 5:38 PM, Tokous said:

As long as it is the correct unit type a unit may claim more than one objective token. Yes, claim is a card action using one of the two actions. Though I don't understand yet how Vader would be able to claim two objectives in one round. Only way to do that is if in base contact with both, using both actions to claim both up.

We had two rounds left in the game so he could move/claim and then move/claim.

With implacable, if you were in base contact with one, I guess you could claim/move, then on your next activation claim again, however in our game that wasn't the case. He needed to move to each.

As mentioned though, it didn't matter as Vader died before he was able to activate in round 6. Ironically it came down to a single wound and earlier in the game he'd taken a wound to get another activation that in the end didn't pay off. You take your chances and sometimes they don't pay out

Thanks for clearing it up though, just in case this crops up again as I expect Boba Fett in a future game will run into this..

How were the two objective tokens close enough for him to be able to get from one to the other with a speed 1 move?

6 hours ago, arnoldrew said:

How were the two objective tokens close enough for him to be able to get from one to the other with a speed 1 move?

Probably got dropped by a panicked/defeated unit leader