In the recent rules reference, it now says that you gain a stress token when you "attempt" a red action. (pg 3). On page 11, it says that after you fail a red action, you gain a stress. Does this mean that failing a red action gives you two stress tokens, one from attempting the action and one from failing it?

If not, where is that explained?

The p11 reference is a clarification that you get the stress even if you fail, not in addition to the one from trying in the first place.

29 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

The p11 reference is a clarification that you get the stress even if you fail, not in addition to the one from trying in the first place.

There's no reason to clarify that you get a stress token "after the red action fails" since you already have the stress token that you got from when you attempted the action in the first place.

I don't know why they changed it since the line that was removed was crystal clear as to what happened and when.

2 hours ago, Hedgehobbit said:

I don't  know why they changed it since the line that was removed was crystal clear as to what happened and when.

Before said update failing a red action did not give you stress at all - condition for getting stressed out of a red action was for the action to resolve correctly.

3 hours ago, Ryfterek said:

Before said update failing a red action did not give you stress at all - condition for getting stressed out of a red action was for the action to resolve correctly.

In version 1.02 it said, "After a ship performs or fails a red action, it gains one stress token." So, this was fixed already. It just don't understand why FFG made the change from gaining a stress after performing the action to before the action is attempted.

Probably to fix any timing issues because a lot of stuff can happen after an action, like linking another action.