Grappling Struts and Ion

By Kreen, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Sorry if this has been asked or clarified already, but what is the interaction between Ion and Grappling Struts? You can't set your dial to a 2 straight, so you can't leave the asteroid...but you also skip your perform maneuver step, since you didn't reveal a 2 straight.

Are you just stuck on the asteroid, in the same orientation, forever? Can you take a calculate, because you didn't perform the ion maneuver?

Thanks in advance.

You don't reveal a dial when you're ionized, so the conditions for skipping your execute maneuver step are not met.

And the 1 straight ion maneuver counts as executing a maneuver, so the struts then flip back to closed.

Grappling struts says "After you reveal your dial." When you are ionised, there is no dial to reveal. Therefore, you will execute a 1-straight ion maneuver, and then flip your struts to the closed side (because you have executed a maneuver).

Perfect! I don't know how I missed that "reveal dial" clause.