Cannot Get Your Ship Out! August Articles!

By geek19, in Star Wars: Armada

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9 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

You said nice things about a Non Yavaris Neb.

who do I report such blasphemy to? 😁

I'm PLAYING non-Yav Nebs, so clearly some sort of Interventionary Board.

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Just now, geek19 said:

I'm PLAYING non-Yav Nebs, so clearly some sort of Interventionary Board.

Can I just talk to your dealer instead?

I could do with some of ... whatever this is...

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A Ruthless Neb-B Escort with Toryn around is... yuck.

Also with Vanguard you can finally get a ship with both Fighter Coordination Team and Flight Controllers on it that doesn't mind doing that, which is fairly rare.

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The new Rebel aces?

Assault: Suprise Attack
Defense: Fighter Ambush
Navigation: Superior Positions

Nebulon-B Escort Frigate (57)
• Captain Rex (5)
• Auxiliary Shields Team (3)
• Vanguard (4)
• Flight Controllers (6)
= 75 Points

Nebulon-B Escort Frigate (57)
• Yavaris (5)
= 62 Points

CR90 Corvette B (39)
• General Rieekan (30)
• Liberator (2)
• All fighters, Follow Me! (5)
= 76 Points

GR-75 Medium Transports (18)
• Toryn Farr (7)
• Bomber Command Center (8)
• Bright Hope (2)
= 35 Points

GR-75 Medium Transports (18)
• Comms Net (2)
= 20 Points

Squadrons:
• Ten Numb (19)
• Gold Squadron (12)
• Norra Wexley (17)
• Keyan Farlander (20)
• Biggs Darklighter (19)
• Jan Ors (19)
• 2 x X-wing Squadron (26)
= 132 Points

Total Points: 400

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Do we have confirmation that Lando's reroll ability is prevented by accuracies? The ability occurs "while defending," but not necessarily during the spend defense tokens step, because you aren't spending a defense token in the standard way. So unless I'm missing something, it's dependent on who's the first player.

Edit: and as a result, Sloane could then reroll into an accuracy and spend your other brace?

Edited by The Jabbawookie
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6 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

Do we have confirmation that Lando's reroll ability is prevented by accuracies? The ability occurs "while defending," but not necessarily during the spend defense tokens step, because you aren't spending a defense token in the standard way. So unless I'm missing something, it's dependent on who's the first player.

Edit: and as a result, Sloane could then reroll into an accuracy and spend your other brace?

You're still spending a token to use this new effect, so...... No? Sloane's ability to spend is while attacking, so she's definitely lost all ability to spend her accuracies during my defending stage.

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9 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

Do we have confirmation that Lando's reroll ability is prevented by accuracies? The ability occurs "while defending," but not necessarily during the spend defense tokens step, because you aren't spending a defense token in the standard way. So unless I'm missing something, it's dependent on who's the first player.

Edit: and as a result, Sloane could then reroll into an accuracy and spend your other brace?

From the Rules Reference Guide:
Spend Accuracy (G) Icons: The attacker can spend
one or more of its G icons to choose the same
number of the defender’s defense tokens. The chosen
tokens cannot be spent during this attack.

It doesn't matter how the tokens are being spent, they can't be spent during that attack. So it does shut down Lando's reroll ability. The only window during the timing chain that the defender has to spend defense tokens is the Spend Defense Tokens step (unless a card says otherwise). Lando can't suddenly interrupt the attacker after they've rolled their initial attack but before they get to the Modify Dice step (where accuracy icons are spent).

By the time Lando spends his defense tokens to reroll a dice, any accuracy icons produced are at that point around too late for Sloane to spend them again.

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2 hours ago, Snipafist said:

It doesn't matter how the tokens are being spent, they can't be spent during that attack. So it does shut down Lando's reroll ability. The only window during the timing chain that the defender has to spend defense tokens is the Spend Defense Tokens step (unless a card says otherwise). Lando can't suddenly interrupt the attacker after they've rolled their initial attack but before they get to the Modify Dice step (where accuracy icons are spent).

But shouldn’t Lando function in the same way commander Darth Vader does (i.e. spending a token outside the normal window to do so?) You aren’t specifically spending your defense tokens in the spend defense tokens step, you are spending them “while defending.” This is different wording than Brunson or Officer Lando, which specify the spend defense tokens step as their window.

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3 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

But shouldn’t Lando function in the same way commander Darth Vader does (i.e. spending a token outside the normal window to do so?) You aren’t specifically spending your defense tokens in the spend defense tokens step, you are spending them “while defending.” This is different wording than Brunson or Officer Lando, which specify the spend defense tokens step as their window.

There's no window for defender decisions until the spend defense tokens step. If they work whenever you want, then you get into some very confusing timing windows compared to attacker decisions in the earlier windows that's similar to pre-FAQ G8 Projectors where the mushy timing window created a lot of confusion.

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3 hours ago, The Jabbawookie said:

But shouldn’t Lando function in the same way commander Darth Vader does (i.e. spending a token outside the normal window to do so?) You aren’t specifically spending your defense tokens in the spend defense tokens step, you are spending them “while defending.” This is different wording than Brunson or Officer Lando, which specify the spend defense tokens step as their window.

Sure, but when during the attack are you assuming you spend it, if not spend Defense tokens?

if it’s “attacker modifies dice”, then, with that assumption, AT BEST, you’d only be able to use the ability in light of a rolled ACC result, if you were first player.

as snip just ninjas in, that would be exceptionally “mushy”.

Spend defense tokens in spend defense tokens... 😁

Edited by Drasnighta
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4 hours ago, Snipafist said:

There's no window for defender decisions until the spend defense tokens step. If they work whenever you want, then you get into some very confusing timing windows compared to attacker decisions in the earlier windows that's similar to pre-FAQ G8 Projectors where the mushy timing window created a lot of confusion.

The problem I have with this is card effects trump base rules, including the attack sequence. Which is probably why all defensive dice modifications, special uses of defense tokens and die cancellation effects include an explicit point where they occur, such as during the "spend defense tokens" step (Admo, Brunson, Officer Lando, Expert Shield Tech*, Targeting Scrambler), "before suffering damage from an attack" (Bright Hope, Derlin), or "while suffering damage from an attack" (TFA.)

As far as I can tell, there are two exceptions to this: ECM, and Lando. ECM requires a defense token that your opponent has targeted with an accuracy, which effectively limits it to the spend defense tokens step. It has also been specifically FAQ'd to prohibit any otherwise abnormal spending of an accuracied token. Lando has no such restriction, and an occasional incentive to reroll accuracies.

4 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

Sure, but when during the attack are you assuming you spend it, if not spend Defense tokens?

if it’s “attacker modifies dice”, then, with that assumption, AT BEST, you’d only be able to use the ability in light of a rolled ACC result, if you were first player.

as snip just ninjas in, that would be exceptionally “mushy”.

Spend defense tokens in spend defense tokens... 😁

At any point during the attack. So the end of the "roll attack dice" step would be the earliest point at which using the ability would be reasonable.

And yes, it is irritatingly mushy. I'm not being a prescriptive PITA, I'm being a descriptive PITA. And what I see is a poorly worded card effect that overrules base rules and makes a mess.

*Which is included in the same expansion, also allows a new effect for a specific defense token, and includes a specific timing window Lando doesn't have. If Lando is implied to only function during the "spend defense tokens step," the difference in wording seems illogical.

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1 hour ago, The Jabbawookie said:

the difference in wording seems illogical.

For better or worse - CAN IT be explained by lack of space on the card?

Because “during the spend defense tokens step” ends up being a surprising amount of real estate.

Edited by Drasnighta
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10 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

For better or worse - CAN IT be explained by lack of space on the card?

Because “during the spend defense tokens step” ends up being a surprising amount of real estate.

It can be... in an FAQ. Not, I believe, from the rules and precedents we have at our disposal now, which lead to a messier conclusion.

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38 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:

It can be... in an FAQ. Not, I believe, from the rules and precedents we have at our disposal now, which lead to a messier conclusion.

Well, its not like you should be using the card at the moment, anyway, right? So the discussion is purely Academic.

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Isn't it like that: a card effect overrules standard rules.

The Lando card says : "...you can spend 1 of your defense tokens..." That overrules acuracy effect (standard)

If the wording would be: "if you spend a defense token ..." Acuracy would block it.

Edit: Now thinking about it, you also should be able to use Lando right after "Rolling Attack Dice" before Accuracy results are spent in "Modify Dice" step.

Edited by Triangular
Nobody ever thought Lando was easy to understand.
Posted at
8 hours ago, Triangular said:

Isn't it like that: a card effect overrules standard rules.

The Lando card says : "...you can spend 1 of your defense tokens..." That overrules acuracy effect (standard)

If the wording would be: "if you spend a defense token ..." Acuracy would block it.

Edit: Now thinking about it, you also should be able to use Lando right after "Rolling Attack Dice" before Accuracy results are spent in "Modify Dice" step.

No.

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Interesting , the argument that landos effect steps out of the standard pathway and is not triggered in the spend defence token step, is possible. for me he’s spending a defence token, which is done in the spend defence token step.

Also if he could step out and ignore accuracies he’s effectively got built in ECM that could be used 4 times per round, that’s a powerful ability on top of the standard Ace brace pack and a reasonable set of upgrades and ability’s....that’s lots of points.....