Ok can you tell me how I do this Please. Say I have a scum Han Falcon with Qi'ra and Trick shot. I take it I have to lock the asteroid before I land on it/ near it? Which would announce where I'm planning to go to my opponent. If somebody could put a step by step guide I'd be grateful.
Thanks for any help.
Step by step guide to what exactly?
To How it works. I'm assuming I can't land on an astroid then Target lock it. So If I target lock an astroid my opponent will know what I'm doing and get out the way. Or do people just roll up to an astroid and use the action to target lock it. I guess what I want to know is do people just dial in the manoeuvre then TL the astroid or do they TL it first.
the perform action step comes after executing a maneuver. you could use advanced sensors or pattern analyzer (in case you're doing a red maneuver) to lock an obstacle during the same activation you overlap or move through it.
in general, you'll need to have the obstacle locked from a previous round.
if you'd like to know the rules for how activation works or how a round is played, i suggest reading the rule book, or if you really want to know the details, the rules reference.
Thanks for the reply, You kind of answered what I wanted to know. That I'll probably have to telegraph where I'm going by target locking the previous round.
This is not a rule answer but more like a tactic recommendation, but what i've seen a very good player in our area do is have Han Solo + Trick shot + Qi'ra crew, and an escape shuttle docked. When he wanted to pass trough an asteroid, he would undock the escape craft and use coordinate to let han take the target lock. It can make the move a little bit less predictable, even if it's hard to do it often (docking and then undocking again).
Thanks DarthSempai.
Also, keep in mind.. Qi'ra also works for attacks. So Locking an asteroid doesn't necessarily mean you want to *move* through it. It may also indicate you want to *shoot* though it. Because she allows you to shoot though it and not give the defender the obstructed die bonus. Given you have trick shot as well, this is a more likely conclusion by your opponent.
Cheers.
Has it ever been officially clarified whether Qi’ra lets you shoot while at range 0 of a locked Asteroid? I’ve read through pages and pages of posts going back and forth on it and still haven’t seen anything official. Personally my reading is that RAW she doesn’t allow it, but I’ve seen posts saying it’s been ruled at major tournaments that she does allow it, so I’d like to know what to expect.
Is this one still in the state of “Ask the TO when you show up”?
I’m specifically not interested in arguments of why it is or isn’t RAW (seen plenty of those already), I’d just like to know if it’s being consistently ruled one way or the other at tournaments.
@kerbarian - no consistent official ruling yet. it's the same for jamming and how which tokens are discarded or locks broken is chosen, among a few other things.
all tournaments should clarify how they'll rule these things well ahead of the event.
Edited by meffo5 hours ago, kerbarian said:Has it ever been officially clarified whether Qi’ra lets you shoot while at range 0 of a locked Asteroid?
I dont follow. Does it need to be?
QuoteWhile you move and perform attacks , you ignore obstacles that you are locking.
While performing attacks, you ignore locked obstacles. If your sitting on an asteroid you have locked, you are ignoring its effects, including "The ship cannot perform attacks." effect.
So i guess im confused as to why this was in question.
That's a long story but the short version is qira says 'while attacking and if you can't start attacking you can't trigger her.
It's not remotely an argument I support but it does exist and it probably doesn't need relitigating itt.
There’s an unofficial rulings doc that seems to have a lot of work put into it:
Even that doesn’t directly address Qi’ra shooting on a rock, though it implies it’s allowed by giving the example that if her lock is removed, she’s unable to shoot on a rock:
“ If a ship equipped with Qi'ra crew is overlapping an obstacle that it is locking, and that ship removes that lock (by locking another object, as a result of being jammed, etc.), the ship only suffers the effects of being at range 0 of the obstacle (example: it cannot perform attacks if the obstacle is an asteroid).”
Hum.. This feels like its fairly obvious what her intent is in how she should work, but there are a few people who are trying to loophole hunt to make her not work on attacks because they dont want to deal with lists that have her.