Hi I'm still new to the game and I've gotten several different answers to this question, none of which had any rules reference cited to them. So I figured the greater community will have all the answers. So the problem is this: can Darth Vader use new ways to motivate them and chose to eliminate a medical droid on a stromtrooper unit as the sacrifice model? The idea was use up the medic and then sac them for the extra action. I've been told yes that's okay since its you choosing the model to sack and I've been told no medic droids need to be the last model alive except for the commander. So which is it and why does it work like that in the rules? Thank you!

26 minutes ago, PikminToo said:

Hi I'm still new to the game and I've gotten several different answers to this question, none of which had any rules reference cited to them. So I figured the greater community will have all the answers. So the problem is this: can Darth Vader use new ways to motivate them and chose to eliminate a medical droid on a stromtrooper unit as the sacrifice model? The idea was use up the medic and then sac them for the extra action. I've been told yes that's okay since its you choosing the model to sack and I've been told no medic droids need to be the last model alive except for the commander. So which is it and why does it work like that in the rules? Thank you!

You cannot assign the wound from "New ways to motivate them" to the medical droid. The answer is under "Noncombatant" on the RRG:

"If an upgrade that adds a miniature to a unit has the noncombatant keyword, the mini added by that upgrade cannot use any weapons and wounds must be assigned to other non-unit leader minis first. "

The only case where you can assign a wound to a noncombatant before any other non-leader mini of the unit, is if they are defending and the noncombatant mini is the only mini seen by the attacker.

I don't think you can choose the medial droid due to the way it's worded on the card. It says that you "may suffer 1 wound" which sounds just like if the unit was taking damage and doesn't specify a mini in the same way that force choke, which does allow you to select a specific mini, does. I could be wrong though.

Okay awesome thank you for the answer and clearing that up!